- 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.
Answer for question 4290.
Protected: Answer for question 4258.
The Thrilling Adventure Hour at SF Sketchfest
Had a great time this past weekend, starting with the Rifftrax: Night of the Shorts 5 on Thursday. I got to the Castro Ttheatre about twenty minutes early, had to park about six blocks up the hill, and found a seat just before the show started. Great show, lots of fun. My favorite short was definitely "Live and Learn", a 50's era PSA about childhood accidents. After the show I got Paul F Tompkins’ signature in my Thrilling Adventure Hour graphic novel, and then I had to walk six blocks back up the hill to get to the car. That last block was a killer.
Answer for question 4230.
Yeah, I think we’d move there if the opportunity presented itself.
My tweets
- Sun, 11:43: Really incredible @ThrillingAdv show last night as part of @SFSketchfest! So glad I got to see the live show again!
- Sun, 11:44: Found a parking spot almost in front of the theater and showed up nearly an hour early for the late show.
- Sun, 11:48: Said hi to @hallublin in the lobby and got to meet the awesome @ThrillingAdv merch crew. Got Hal’s signature in the graphic novel.
- Sun, 11:59: After the show I got to meet @MarcEvanJackson & @bnacker and @BenBlacker. Got pictures with Marc & Hal and got the Bens’ autographs as well.
- Sun, 11:59: RT @donttrythis: Backstage at @ThrillingAdv. Another great time! @SFSketchfest @JasonRitter http://t.co/PavYrWPD0d
- Sun, 13:20: RT @ThrillingAdv: http://t.co/P6N0D3on4P
- Sun, 13:22: RT @ThrillingAdv: #TAHnks to everyone who came out to support us @SFSketchfest last night. Five years here! TAHnks to SFSF for being the be…
My tweets
- Fri, 11:40: Awesome @RiffTrax show last night @SFSketchfest Thanks @janetvarney @colestratton @hodgman @toddbarry @clastowka @TheThomason
- Fri, 11:41: And a huge thanks to @PFTompkins who signed my @ThrillingAdv graphic novel after the show!