Posts from July 2009

Here I posit a question: Are the best movies necessarily the most watchable movies? Or are “favorite” movies and those movies that can be watched again and again of two distinct categories? I will now investigate to see what the answer is. Come with me, won’t you?

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He may have retired as Pleaseeasaur, but J.P. Hasson continues on as J.P. Inc.!

Crap Factory

Common Scents

The Internet

A robot hobbyist has developed an application that lets the iPhone 3GS function as the brain and face of a miniature humanoid robot.

The body of the robot — named “Robochan” — consists of a Kondo KHR-2HV humanoid. The iPhone head, which attaches to the body via the dock connector, displays various facial expressions while functioning as the controller. Using Robochan’s iPhone interface, the user can program it to function as an alarm clock, dance to music, and perform other moves based on user interaction.

(via Pink Tentacle)

Optimus, the Last of the Primes

This movie was horrifically vilified when it came out. Reviewers were saying it was the worst movie ever made. It got less than either Wolverine or Terminator Salvation on the Tomatometer. Is it really that bad? No, of course not. It is, unfortunately, not terribly good, either.[Read my full review]

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Here is some pretty excellent footage of the recent total solar eclipse that happened over parts of India, China, Japan, and the Pacific. Just look at how dark it gets! The camera they used was pretty impressive; at one point you can actually see solar flares leaping out from behind the moon.

This weekend whilst Carrie was out of town (to canada with Missa’s annual family vacation) I went ahead and hauled out all of my etched glassware and took photos of about 90% of it. I then took those photos and used them to post the items on our Etsy Store!

I’d actually made a 40-cent version of one of those really expensive “light boxes.” I took a cardboard box, flipped it on its side so that the open flaps were now the front of the box. Then I cut out the roof and the two sides, leaving the back. I taped white tissue paper to the cut-out parts and then taped a piece of plain white wrapping paper to the back and floor.

Problem was, the etchings were way too subtle to show up on the plain white background. Like taking a picture of a snowball in a blizzard. I discovered they work much better with natural lighting and a darker background, like, say, my backyard:

See? Clear as can be!

So I posted about half a dozen glasses on the Etsy store and am going to post many more as the week goes on. I also added a little widget to my blog here. Look at the bottom of the right-hand column there →

See? It shows a couple of things from our Etsy site! Well, I think it’s pretty neat at any rate. Now I just have to sit Carrie down and have her post more than the one necklace she has up there, and we’ll be cooking with gas.

Anyhoo, go check out the newly improved:

ThirstyRobots.com