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Friday Fabulous Fifty

It's Friday, so it's time to play the Fifty Question Meme as seen at Voenix Rising.

1. You have 10 dollars and need to buy snacks at a gas station. What do you get?
Mmm, gas station food! I guess I'd get some honey-roasted cashews, maybe some of the yellow Hostess cupcakes (or the orange ones, if they have them) and a Slurpee.
2. If you were reincarnated as a sea creature, what would you want to be?
The leviathan.
3. Who’s your favorite redhead?
Well, it's not Clay Aiken I'll tell you that much.
4. What do you order when you’re at IHOP?
Some honey-roasted cashews, maybe some Hostess cupcakes... Oh, wait, IHOP...? Uhm, pancakes, then?
5. Last book you read?
Wetware.
6. Describe your mood.
Grouchy.
7. Describe the last time you were injured.
I bonked my head on the corner of a fusebox. Hence the grouchiness.
8. Of all your friends, who would you want to be stuck in a well with?
Someone with really excellent cell coverage.
9. Rock concert or symphony?
I've been to rock concerts. I'd like to give the symphony a shot.
10. What is the wallpaper of your cell phone?
The plain, boring blue gradient that came standard.
11. Favorite soda?
Ginger Beer
12. What type of shirt are you wearing?
A tee shirt.
13. If you could only use one form of transportation?
Levitiation, that is to say, self-powered flight.
14. Most recent movie you have watched in theater?
Get Smart.
15. Name an actor/actress/singer you have had the hots for.
Well, it's not Clay Aiken, I'll tell you that much.
16. What’s your favorite kind of cake?
Yellow, with chocolate frosting. And not that nasty fake frosting that comes on grocery store birthday cakes, if you please.
17. What did you have for dinner last night?
Burgers. Burgers and barbecue beans.
18. Look to your left, what do you see?
A number of doors.
19. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Depends on the shoes.
20. Favorite toy as a child?
LEGO, of course.
21. Do you buy your own groceries?
Since I'm not a subsistence farmer, yes.
22. Do you think people talk about you behind your back?
Yes. They also talk about me in front of my back.
23. When was the last time you had gummy worms?
Do they still make those?
24. What’s your favorite fruit?
I happen to be fond of nectarines about now.
25. Do you have a picture of yourself doing a cartwheel?
That is Photoshopped, I swear.
26. Do you like running long distances?
Walk? Sure. Briskly, even. Run? Not so much.
27. Have you ever eaten snow?
Yes. Apparently people like to put maple syrup on it or something like that. Some kind of tradition or something.
28. What color are your bedsheets?
I think I'm using the gray zigzagged ones right now.
29. What’s your favorite flower?
The artichoke.
30. Do you do ballet?
Oh, that would be quite a sight.
31. Do you listen to classical music?
Yes.
32. What is the first TV Theme song that pops in your head?
I wish it was UFO, but instead...
33. Do you watch Sponge Bob?
Uh, no. Sorry.
34. What temperature is it outside right now?
I would have to say..."nice."
35. Do people consider you smart?
Yes, but people also consider me stupid.
36. How many piercings do you have?
None.
37. Are you signed on [to] AIM?
No.
38. Have you ever tried gluing your fingers together?
What, on purpose? Why?
39. How do you feel about your family
They're nice. Really.
40. Do you have an iPod?
No.
41. What time do you go to bed?
Oh, right about now.
42. What CD is currently in your CD player?
In my car, it's "Monster Surf."
43. What movie do you know every line to?
Star Treks II-IV, Robocop and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This was my family's entire film collection for quite some time.
44. What is your favorite salad dressing?
A big steaming dollop of taco filling.
45. What do you want for Christmas this year?
Dear Santa, I want a MORBITEK ZOMBIFICATION RAY MK I, and a fortress, either an EVIL CASTLE LAIR, or a ORBITAL SPACE STATION, and plexiglass visors for my Legions of Terror, and a ROBOTIC AYN RAND, and, oh yes, a PONY! Don't forget the pony!
46. What family member/friend lives the farthest from you?
That would be my grandmother, who lives on a remote tropical island somewhere in the Pacific.
47. Do you like hugs?
No, and I also do not like kittens, sunshine, laughter, and campfire sing-a-longs.
48. Last time you had butterflies in your stomach?
I think they serve deep-fried butterflies at the Del Mar Fair.
49. What’s the way people most often mispronounce any part of your name?
They don't.
It's a very easy name.
But, they'll spell it wrong almost every time.
50. Last person you hugged?
Well, it's not Clay Aiken, I'll tell you that much.

Attention Clay Aiken fans: It's nothing personal. The only other readhead I could think of was Conan O'Brien.

Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 at 1:04 AM
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Geek-Out

Though I risk of sounding like the Biggest Geek In The World, I hereby present a D&D flavored Link-o-Rama.

First is the list of Worst D&D Monsters of All Time. Oddly enough, or perhaps not so oddly, I was familiar with most of them (Gas Spore, check. Flumph, check. Stench Kow, check) but I had never before heard of the Worst Monster Of All Time, which had me literally howling in my chair.

Next is The DM Of The Rings, a photocomic that tells the story of Lord of the Rings as though it were a D&D campaign. While not exactly new, it's still quite amusing, telling the tale of a story-bound DM and the player characters unlucky enough to be railroaded though his elaborate campaign setting.

I believe I've saved the best for last. Inspired by the previous comic, Darths and Droids tells the story of The Phantom Menace in the form of an RPG. This comic is just brilliant, and I was compelled to read it start to finish in one sitting. Unlike the characters in the previous comic, the ones in this strip seem to actually be having fun, and loads of it.

Anyone up for a game night? I think I still have all my old books in a box somewhere— no? Sigh...

Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Edited on: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:45 PM
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On the Evolution of Robotkind

Dear Readers,

And now for something completely slightly different.


Robot Evolution - For more amazing video clips, click here

As impressive as the rise of the robot has been, in the spirit of Earth Day, I pose the question: are robots bad for the environment? I am afraid that the answer is currently yes. They combine the toxic chemicals and heavy metals found in computers with the oil and pollution found in automobiles. Even though a few robots are powered by internal combustion engines, most robots draw power from the electrical grid, much of which is still generated by coal and oil.

We should think now about how future robots could be made more environmentally friendly, rather than (as with the automobile) after it's too late. I suggest that mass-produced robots of the future be made from recycled and recyclable materials, such as steel and aluminum. We shouldn't use any material that has to be thrown into a landfill at the end of its life, although something that could be thrown into a compost heap— like cork— would be acceptable.

Big batteries are full of nasty chemicals, and are also heavy and take loads of energy to cart around. However, if we rule out internal combustion, what sort of power source is left? Nuclear?

Well, a nuclear-powered humanoid robot wouldn't need a whole lot of fuel to run— but, no, that would be rather dangerous. Even though it would last for a long time— but no.

That leaves a couple of other options. One option may be to design some sort of food-powered robot. But a better option may be to use a fuel cell to generate power from hydrogen, or more likely, ethanol or alcohol.

There would still be the issue of robot emissions, but as long as the fuel was derived from plants, there shouldn't be a net increase in greenhouse gases, unless of course, the plants were being converted into ethanol or alcohol faster than they were replenished.

Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Edited on: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:10 AM
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The Postdown

TroyBoy at Pheasantly Fascinating asks,

Which is your current all time-favorite blog entry? And no, you can't select one of your own! Post about it and let me know in my comments.

I don't think I can select just one! My true blogroll is a just a wee bit longer than the one displayed in the sidebar. I've read a lot of blog entries, and many of them are amusing and memorable, and each of the bloggers behind them is brilliant in unique ways. It's not really fair or possible to create one set of criteria with which each of them should be judged. (There's also the the fact that everyone who wasn't picked will be least a tiny bit offended. Honestly, you will be, just admit it.) So instead, I'll do a top five type of thing.

5. Surrogate Samurai at Radioactive Jam.
Why do managers get the best equipment? All I got was a Splintered Sharpened Stick.
4. How To Piss Me Off With Your Blog at dyers.org
I mentioned this one a while back. Even though the rise of OpenId may have made one or two of the annoyances less common, the rest are no less true. (And I'm sure I'm guilty of at least one of those, myself.)
3. Execution In The Kingdom Of Nouns at Steve Yegge's Blog Rants
An allegory (in the style of the Thing King ) about the shortcomings of the Java programming language, it's written in an entertaining but informative style that makes a dry subject interesting and easy to digest.
2. My Weekend at Nice To See Stevie B
A seemingly mundane "moving day" story takes a macabre twist. If I were in that situation, I probably would have jumped to the same conclusion about the crock pot.
1. Personality Disorders at Digital Heath
It's a pet peeve of mine that people occasionally make remarks about OCD that show that they don't understand it. For example, someone may blog that they deep-cleaned their home in anticipation of the in-laws' visit, and remark that OCD compelled them to clean the oven, polish all the brass, iron the curtains, and zshoosh all the magazines.
Sorry, but unless you're convinced that your mother in law will kill you for having a tchotchkie out of place, and you've cleaned the oven several times consecutively— just in case it's gotten cooties in the few minutes since you last cleaned it— then in my humble opinon, you're just a perfectionist.
The author of the above post knows the difference, too, and delivers (also in my humble opinion) a fairly accurate description of OCD. (He doesn't mention numerological obsessions, but that would be a whole blog post blog in itself.)

How about you, dear reader? What are some of your all-time favorite posts?

Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 10:50 PM
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Link-O-Rama

The cybernetic arm I linked to a while back could become irrelevant as a prosthetic if Star Trek-style regeneration becomes a reality. A substance called an extracellular matrix can signal the body's own cells to begin regrowing tissue. It has apparently worked for one man who lost a fingertip in a freak model airplane accident. Has the matrix given him super powers and the desire to take over the world? No— at least, not yet.

Now, burn victims can recieve an experimental version of the treatment in which they are basically spray painted with their own skin cells. The cells continue growing and can eventually repair the damage.

However, there's one thing that an extracellular matrix can't knit together, and that's a lampshade. Sleeping Beauty, a robotic lamp shown at the Design Academy Exhibit, knits a stocking-like shade for itself whenever its bulb is lit.

Perhaps knitting isn't entertaining enough for you? Check out the Yellow Drum Machine. This little drummer robot drives around a room looking for objects with interesting accoustic properties. When a sufficiently interesting object is located, the robot bangs out an improvised solo.

Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Edited on: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:08 PM
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Link-O-Rama

Welcome to this week's Link-O-Rama!

The first item for consideration is a robot which pantomimes the dreams of the human interfaced with it. It has been trained to recognize patterns of brainwaves which represent "flying," "scared," "moonwalking," etc.

Next, some Dutch scientists think they've figured a way to use roads as solar panels. The energy-absorbing properties of asphalt can be used to generate power for cooling buildings in the summer, and the network of tubing can be used to de-ice roads in winter. The only catch is that a source of cold water is required in summer and a source of hot water is required in winter.

Finally, we have something which some of you have probably seen before. However, it so delights my sense of the absurd that I'm posting it anyway. A woman ordered a wedding cake made in her likeness. Somehow, I don't think the bride thought this completely through, as I'm sure the bizarre symbolism present in the serving of the life-sized pâtisserie proved unsettling to all present.

Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 10:23 PM
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Link-o-Rama

Let's start this week's Link-O-Rama with a video of “The Luke,” an amazing new prosthetic arm. The Luke's “test pilot” reported that, with the device, he can now do many things he hadn't been able to do for twenty-six years. It's designed to be controlled by whatever method is most applicable, whether that's by foot switch or nervous interface.

Cobra Commander is on the move, according to Thai authorities. He seems only to be in the bank robbery phase of his insane scheme for now, but taking over the world can't be too far off.

A New York museum is featuring a Wall of Condoms as part of a new exhibit. “No one really has time to look at condoms as design objects, so we placed them on internally lighted, um, ‘members’ to show off their ‘inner beauty,’” explains James Biber, designer of the exhibit.

Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 12:21 AM
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Link-O-Rama

There is now a robot designed to help lost shoppers. If Robovie determines that you are in a "wandering" state, it will approach and offer to give you directions. If you don't want directions, it will then suggest you visit various nearby businesses.

Interesting idea, but I imagine it won't be long until someone decides to create a robot barker by programming a similiar robot to demographically categorize shoppers and then automatically advertise the appropriate businesses.

If you want to be reminded of when the Borg were scary, then check out these Unusual Venitian Masks:


Originally Uploaded by kaibara87

Finally, Science!

Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 11:07 PM
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Link-O-Rama

So, you've got yourself the latest pentuple-core processor, a bluetooth gyro-mouse, noise-canceling bone-conduction headphones, and a wafer-thin OLED display. But your keyboard, despite the fancy multimedia buttons and the neon backlight, is basically stuck in a ten-year time warp. Well, that may change soon. This keyboard is straight out of Star Trek.

Here are some tips on recycling food and on organizing LEGO blocks.

Finally, here's what I can only describe as a recreation chair which is decidedly not work-safe... but I really don't think it's meant for office use anyway.

Posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 at 11:10 PM
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Link-O-Rama

Pink Tentacle brings us the 2007 Robot of the Year. The winner is a food-safe pick-and-place robot that can handle up to 120 bon-bons per minute. Lucy, you're fired.

Although the medical runners-up are performing noble work, I'm intrigued by the Miuro, which is essentially a rolling boombox. Could it, I wonder, be programmed to barge into my room early in the morning and begin a specially crafted playlist designed to wake me up gently? Could it also be programmed to evade my inevitable groggy attempts to capture it? If it can do that, the surely it can also begin playing a "Time to Go" song at just the right moment to urge me out the front door on time.

It just wouldn't be a proper Link-O-Rama if I were to cover only one subject. So here's a musical teacup:


Theremug from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo
Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Edited on: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:05 PM
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Look, a robot!

Toyota recently unveiled its robotic violinist. Like many commercial Japanese robots, the violinist is designed to be clean and friendly in appearance, the better to project the image of a helper and friend.

Had this robot been built in the United States, it might have looked a bit more like this.

Robot Devil

On the other end of the complexity (but perhaps not evilness) scale is Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories' latest creation, the Bristlebot!

Isn't that cute? Kind of reminds me of one of these.

Scrubbing Bubble

When I was little, I begged my parents to buy Dow Bathroom Cleaner so that I could capture a Scrubbing Bubble and keep it as a pet. One day, my parents bought a can of Dow and let me spray it into the bathtub. I watched the resulting pile of foam and waited for the first Scrubbing Bubble to emerge. But, of course, nothing of the sort happened. I angrily demanded to know where the Scrubbing Bubbles were. I was patiently told that I was looking at them. My bubble was, if you'll excuse the pun, burst.

Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 11:21 PM
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Link-o-Rama

First up is a collection of retrofuturisitic artwork from Eastern Bloc popular science magazines. Even though I don't believe I've seen any of these pieces before, many of them seem strangely familiar. The sensor antenna or weapon aimed at a distant galaxy, the tree within a bubble within a frozen waste, the astronaut with the raygun.

Next, we have a cartoon that I think about now and then. I first encountered a slightly different version of in an old computer science textbook. (How old? It had a few pages on core memory.) Some of the artist's embellishments are good additions, particularly the easy chair suspended from the tree, and some I agree with a bit less (perhaps I'd switch "as documented" and "as supported".) But the lesson remains the same: the customer wants a tire swing. She wants to go forward, backward, left, right, and around in circles. She does not want to hold the swing and run back and forth, no matter how many seats it has. And while a stationary seat beneath a moving tree may be a clever solution and an impressive engineering feat, it's kind of like a whistling dog story. Like a whistling dog, it's astonishing that the thing can whistle -- but it doesn't actually whistle very well.

And speaking of which, Toyota has unveiled a violin-playing robot. Does it, I wonder, have a MIDI interface?

Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 at 11:50 PM
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WARNING! YOU GET VIRUS! CLICKY NOW!

I've been thinking a bit about "viral marketing" lately in the course of my work. There have been some pretty subtle, successful examples of this that could be worth emulating, and there have been some egregious, obnoxious examples.

I've mentioned Flixster in the past. If you've never used it, think IMDB meets MySpace. I believe the enrollment strategy is for folks to encourage their friends to take a movie compatibility quiz, who in turn will encourage other friends to take the quiz as well. That's step one. In step two, the users rate movies in order to get the computer to recommend a movie they may like. This seems to be the current model of the Internet: trick users into doing all the work, and make them feel like they're having fun doing it. After all, what does this company get out of this arrangement besides advertising revenue? Well, they actually get a giant sliceable, diceable demographic database showing exactly what sorts of movies interest exactly what sorts of people. Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against demographics when not used for evil. And by "not used for evil," I mean "result in products or services that might actually be of interest to me."

If you couldn't tell, Flixster was the "good" example. Now, something a bit... less good... is World of Quizzes. They, too, propagate through quizzes (if you couldn't have guessed.) In one user's experience, the "fun" began when he submitted his answers for scoring. First, he was instructed to register. That's something of a fact of life nowadays, and that's why we have disposable e-mail addresses. After registering, the site displayed an endless parade of "special offers" to be opted out of. It's not clear how many offers would have been displayed, for this user eventually forgot what quiz he had taken in the first place and wandered off to do something else. A later examination of the disposable e-mail account revealed that it had received about twenty junk messages a day since being used for registration.

Fine, but are there any interesting viral marketing methods that don't involve quizzes or spam? As it turns out, I've just observed what may be a new or old variation on a theme. Remember the old e-mail hoax that beseeched one to mail a chain letter to 25 friends in order to win a free taco, a dinner at Outback, or $100 from Bill Gates himself? Well, now that people have public blogs, this idea has made a comeback for real. For example, by posting a graphical link to the originating site, one can enter a contest to win a bag of maternity goodies. That's not something I'd need myself, but I do have some expecting friends who'd probably find it useful. I'd much rather win the supposedly invulnerable laptop being offered in this drawing. I'd be tempted to join it with a Laptop Robot Kit and find out just how rugged it was. Is it robot fighting time?

Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 11:23 PM
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Link-o-Rama

Welcome to the Day After Thanksgiving Link-o-Rama!

The Friday after Thanksgiving is sometimes called Black Friday, due to the hordes of shoppers that traditionally descend upon retail establishments on that day. It marks the official beginning of the year's orgy of consumerism. The day can also be called Buy Nothing Day, as a day of protest against consumerism, and it can be observed simply by staying home and eating leftovers. Guess how I spent my day? Did I mention that my favorite part of Thanksgiving is having pie for breakfast the next day? Mmm, pie...

Perhaps it's no longer true than an urban area cannot be an agricultural area. The basement of a former bank in Japan has been converted into an underground farm, producing organic tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries, rice, and other fruits and vegetables. This could become a lucrative adventure, as I undertand such commodies are somewhat costly in Japan.

I had no idea that the CoCo3 supposedly had a 256-color mode. Greatest untold secret or wistful fantasy? We may never know. Sometimes, I miss the days when computers were so much simpler, and users had such control over their every move. But then, I realize that they're still here, if you know where to look.

Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 7:38 PM
Edited on: Friday, November 23, 2007 7:40 PM
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Super Heroes Cause Apathy

A friend just sent me a link to the latest Cloverfield trailer. We've traded speculations in the past as to what it might be. An obvious choice might be Godzilla, considering the claw marks in the Statue of Liberty. I, naturally, am hoping it's a Giant Space Robot, and I actually think the chances of that are pretty good, since movies tend to come out in pairs. For example, Deep Impact and Armageddon, Volcano and Dante's Peak, The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor, etc. ad nausaeum. We had Transformers last summer, yet there has been no "other" Giant Space Robot movie, nor has there been a Retro Action Figure Series movie... yet. One could kill two tropes with one stone and update something like, oh, I don't know, Ultraman.

But back to the topic of this post. (I know, the horror!) As awesome as it would be, I somehow don't think we'll be seeing a forty meter tall silver man pop up to save New York. I think that rather we'll see the amateur videographers attempting to merely survive on their own. Their fates cannot be served up to them on a 35,000 ton platter, or they'll just expect the same service again next the next time a Giant Space Robot wanders across the city limits. No, the message of the day is to do it for yourself, and not expect someone to do it for you. Once you can save yourselves, then maybe we'll talk again about saving the world.

Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 11:46 PM
Edited on: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:57 PM
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Link-o-Rama

Hack-a-Day has a great guide on where to find parts for your projects. Be sure you check out the comments as well.

Where better to advertise than the shopping cart?

And finally, here's the tabletop gaming terrain to end all tabletop gaming terrain. I wonder what would happen if someone showed up to game night wearing a Godzilla suit...

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 at 10:57 PM
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Link-o-Rama already?

I remembered the Fifth of November, but all I got you was this lousy Link-o-Rama.

Put those rarely used HTML tags back to work.

It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. Future of America

Here's a servo kit based on the Atmel microcontroller.

And here's Will's Mini Mill.

Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Edited on: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:30 PM
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NABLOPOMO 07

Here's some exciting news. Next month is National Blog Posting Month, or NABLOPOMO for short. The idea behind NABLOPOMO is to encourage all bloggers to post to their blogs at least once per day throughout the month of November.

There's an official site at nablopomo.ning.com for those of you who'd like to make a true challenge of it, and possibly win some fabulous prizes and new readers. I played along last year, and try as I might, I missed at least two days and thus wasn't eligible to enter the drawing for the fabulous prizes. But I did gain, literally, a couple of readers, and I certainly expanded my personal blogroll through use of the randomizer. And, of course, I had a good time doing it. That's why I'll be doing it again this year, and you should too!

Posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 at 11:10 PM
Edited on: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:18 PM
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Super Fighting Robot...

...Mega Man!
Zeno the Robot Pinocchio
Well, not quite. This is Zeno, and he can see, hear, speak, and act when wirelessly networked with his control computer. Check out this video of him in action. He also has a blog.

Doctor Wily's apparently been busy also. The little propellor dudes...

...are now apparently available in kit form for the spying upon of neighbors. Two thoughts: one, get automatic blinds, and, two, what about the little helmet dudes?

How About Them Mets?

Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 11:42 PM
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Link-O-Rama

As amusing as it would have been, Mechanical Package was not a song sung to the tune of Detachable Penis. It was actually magazine that ran from 1931-1932. Each of its four issues included a kit to build something such an an electric motor. The first issue, available online, included the article, "A Modernistic Den for Bachelors:"

The Editors of the Mechanical Package Magazine frankly admire the new style of contemporary interior decorating, and have kindly commissioned me to design a series of men's rooms which the man who has the creative ability can build for himself at a very low cost.

If you run MyBlog under Joomla and you experience symptoms such as the JavaScript error, "tinyMCE is not defined" or your Save buttons don't work, you may wish to reinstall the TinyMCE Compressor as described in this forum post.

And from the I-didn't-know-that-had-a-name department, here's the TV Tropes Wiki.

Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Edited on: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:41 PM
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