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I worked with Tara and Ralph in Flameworking to build this rather fun carnival attraction! They did the most work with the moving board, the case, the decorations, bells and signage. I snazzed it up with electronics: each hole triggers an effect!
It is running at The Crucible’s “Inferno: A Fire Circus” Thursday thru tonight!
Eoin Ryan is the force behind the comic strip Space Avalanche. Each one takes a while to digest and that’s part of the fun. Follow his strip!
This one is no exception. If it takes you less than 30 seconds to get it, then milk isn’t coming out your nose!
As his site requests, I bought him a well deserved beer.
I love this partially because this upcoming Crucible event will be cool, partially because of the awesome graphic:
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Help us set Twitter on fire about Inferno: A Fire Circus for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the show!
Each day this week (July 11-15, 2011) we will look to see who has tweeted about Inferno using the hashtag #firecircus and randomly choose a winner. The more you tweet, the better chance we have of seeing you. And while on Twitter, make sure you follow us to keep up with all our fiery antics.
PDFCreator lets you create PDFs by simply printing to the “PDFCreator” printer. Lately, PDFCreator has held some optional adware, and just today… well, here is the comment I put on Sourceforge, where PDFCreator is hosted:
PDFCreator should be removed from Sourceforge. Today PDFCreator tried to install adware on my computer several MONTHS after I installed it; when installing, I chose to not receive the adware. This adware includes searchsettings.exe, applicationupdater.exe, and pdfforgetoolbar.exe, among other detrius.
What is a good replacement for PDFCreator for Windows?
My greatest strength and my greatest weakness: I’ll do anything with a friend; I’ll do nothing on my own.
The last space shuttle launched yesterday, July 8th, 2011. I watched the launch on UStream. It’s rather amazing that I watched a live video feed from low earth orbit on my computer.
I had a big Space Shuttle poster over my bed when I was a kid, I saw the Challenger disaster in high school, felt and saw motions moving away from the Shuttle. And experienced the mind boggling Hubble Deep Field and Hubble Ultra Deep Field which was made possible, in part, by the Space Shuttle. I look forward to continued space discovery by mankind!
Hubble Deep Field
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Everyone knows about the very real dangers to astronauts and satellites that come from the Van Allen Radiation Belt, so I don’t need to talk about that.
While watching the Space Shuttle launch yesterday, and surfing, I came across this plan to clear the Van Allen Belt of dangerous high energy electrons and protons! “…Preliminary analyses indicate that a HiVOLT System can reduce the MeV particle flux in the inner electron belt to 1% of its natural levels within about two months….”
Talk about terraforming! Right here on Terra!
RIP Van Allen Belt, 3.5 billion BC – 2050AD
This weekend I spent some time studying math with Schuyler. Highlights included
This Thursday night, world famous Matt will be in Oakland!
Let’s dance!
PLACE: Inside the Gazebo in Lake Merritt Park
DATE: Thursday, July 7th
Time: 7pm
Here’s a Google map of the location:
http://tinyurl.com/6c48yao
Facebook invite:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184616298258481
The photo at the bottom of this email shows exactly where to meet. You
can also view the image here:
http://tinypic.com/r/2ylvdol/7
more deets:
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weeks ago graffiti scumbags tagged our street. Some of it got cleaned up, some not. So I went to the gas station across the street to ask if they could clean up the graffiti urine stains on their property. I spoke with the attendant for a little while, showed him where the new tags were. This is not a new problem. He pointed to the alley behind the station and said how they had just painted over the whole alley, covered in graffiti. I had to say it looked nice.
A lot of the new graffiti was on the backside of this small billboard. We exchanged many pleasantries, “I totally understand that it’s a never ending battle with those jerks…” So yesterday I looked out my window and the billboard was being taken down! The attendant told me, “I talked to the boss. He gets paid to have that billboard up, but he called and had it removed anyway. It’s better for the neighborhood that way.”
+1 for the the 76 Gas Station on the corner of 24th & Valencia (1298 Valencia)
Unsurprisingly, I don’t have any photos of the now removed billboard. Here is a bad artist’s rendering:
And here’s a “before” picture from Google Maps, Thanks Steven
