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Category: x-personal
Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..
R.I.P Frederick von Frogenstein
August 2013 – June 16, 2015
He was fine this afternoon when I gave him lunch, and when I came back this evening from running errands he was belly up at the bottom of the tank.
In the last year I’ve joked a lot about how his tendency to float motionless at the top of the tank used to scare me every time. I’d think he was dead, I’d lift the lid of the tank to check on him, and he’d scurry off to some other part of the tank.
At least he died at home and not after we moved him to his new home here in California.
Protected: We’re moving
My tweets
- Tue, 13:15: Now @fly2midway. Two hours ’till next flight, might as well go exploring.
- Tue, 14:10: Found a small corridor @fly2midway with only two unused gates. Lots of seating, not a lot of people.
- Tue, 14:48: @kellysue, saw this @ Southwest counter today. What do you think; Jr. member of the Carol Corps or only four crayons? http://t.co/JXfRyKFVQ7
My tweets
- Tue, 10:23: @whichwich at Buffalo Niagara International Airport still serve the best real ice cream milkshakes I’ve ever had while traveling.
Delicious Links for 2015-05-24
- THIS IS NOT MY CAT! (24 pics) | Pleated-Jeans.com
Thanks to James Nicoll. The one with the kittens is exactly how we got our cat when I was a kid.
Delicious Links for 2015-05-13
- Lego: can this most analogue of toys really be a modern urban planning tool? | Cities | The Guardian
Spoiler: yes, it can.
- Fracture | Glass Photos
I saw this advertised on Hulu a little while back – your photographs printed directly onto a pane of glass. No frame, no inserts. Depending on the lightfastness of the printing there might be some neat theatrical applications for this.
- Altered Halloween Books Tutorial, new and improved!
Neat tutorial on how to make spooky prop books for Halloween.
- An Iceberg Flipped Over, and Its Underside Is Breathtaking | Science | Smithsonian
These photos are beautiful. The underside of this iceberg looks like sculpted glass.
- America Has a Tiger Problem And No One’s Sure How to Solve It | Science | Smithsonian
Not only are there more tigers captive in the US than wild in the world, nobody knows how many there really are. How did we get into this situation?
- For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II | History | Smithsonian
I don’t think even the most committed off the grid survivalist in these modern times would isolate themselves as much as this family did.
- Sex redefined : Nature News & Comment
Brief exploration of the current understanding of the gender not-quite-binary.
- Medusa hat
With a bit of patience, skill with a knitting needle, and several skeins of yarn you too can look like a gorgon while shoveling the sidewalk this winter.
- New Artificial Lighting Tricks Human Brain into Seeing Sunlight | Urbanist
This is exciting; a new type of light that uses LEDs to produce light and a new type of filter to simulate daylight scattering. I wonder if this would be helpful for those wit SAD.
- Why Fahrenheit is Better than Celsius • see things differently
In short: Kelvin is good at measuring for physics, Celsius is fine for measuring water, and Fahrenheit is tuned for the living range of the human body.
- “Spooky” Quantum Entanglement Reveals Invisible Objects
Quantum entanglement allows for a laser to create an image of an object it never touched. It’s probably a few years off, but I wonder if someday this will lead to the creation of the mythical “actor-shaped gobo.”
- This new type of 3D printing was inspired by Terminator 2 – YouTube
This is pretty neat – printing each layer of a 3d object all at once instead of tracing it out. Way faster and way cooler to watch as well.
- ▶ What if Man of Steel was IN COLOR? – YouTube
Funny commentary on the washed-out palette of “Man of Steel.”
- Stage Weights Dropped On Things for Fun | Jim On Light
One thing you never want to do in theatre is drop a stage weight from the fly gallery. Unless you’re the Kansas City Repertory Theatre and want to see how many bricks it takes to destroy a bunch of old scenery and props.
- Mini-doll figure – Brickipedia, the LEGO Wiki
The Lego mini-doll, used in the newer Friends, Princess, and Elves lines of models. I don’t think the presence of clearly modeled figures (predominantly female, but some male) is especially problematic, but the lack of compatibility with prior figures is an issue.
- compatibility – Are the LEGO Friends Mini-dolls compatible with Minifigures? – LEGO® Answers
Some notes and observations about the compatibility of mini-dolls and mini-figures. You can’t really give a mini-doll a scuba tank from a mini-fig, nor can you take a mini-doll head to create a more customized min-fig.
- Q2Q Comics | A Webcomic About Theatre Tech. Updated Mon Wed Fri. It’s Tech Week Somewhere
A webcomic about life behind the scenes in theatre. So accurate some of the strips aren’t funny but painful.
- C64yourself(beta)
Drag and drop any JPG or PNG image to see how it would’ve been rendered by a Commodore 64.
- Avengers Throwbacks: The Superheroes Then & Now – Shirts Blog
Slide your mouse back and forth to compare how the Avengers look in the latest movie to what they looked like when they made their first appearance.
- Spiders sprayed with graphene or carbon nanotubes spin super silk – life – 05 May 2015 – New Scientist
So all you need to do to create spider silk six times stronger than the natural stuff is spritz water that has a suspension of carbon nanotubes onto a spider. This is kind of cool and kind of scary at the same time.
Delicious Links for 2015-03-25
- Long-Forgotten: Armor Gettin’
More fun history behind the design of the Haunted Mansion.