Halloween costume too [10/27/2010]

[Just a bit of Halloween silliness.  In recent years my go-to Halloween costume has been “mad scientist” since I can wear a comfortable white lab coat and LED goggles over my regular clothes.]

In all likelihood, I’ll probably wear the same costume I’ve worn for the last several years.  It consists of two small horns I sculpted out of modeling clay and painted to look like bone.  I use spirit gum to affix them to my forehead and try to slightly obscure them with my hair.  I then print off a page long contract that starts off at 20pt font and gradually shrinks to 4pt font, entitled, “Contract for the Sale of Intangible Goods.”  The contract has a large blank space in the middle where the person can specify anything they want and a spot at the bottom for them to sign.  I dress in a suit and carry a small black satchel with a red pen¹ , a stack of those contracts, some candy, some play money, some stickers and other minor knickknacks.  When someone asks me who I am, I insist that I’m a broker for a party that wishes to remain anonymous but who is nonetheless still interested in purchasing any spare intangible goods they may have.  When they ask about the horns I simply say that they’re a birth defect I’m very self-conscious about and politely change topic.  When they ask about the nature of the intangible goods, I assure them that it’s nothing required for their day-to-day existence and that most people get along quite happily without such baggage.

1. The Lost Blog Posts
2. Plastruder! [Draft 12/25/2009]
3. UNTITLED [Draft 12/25/2009]
4. Preparing to print [Draft 12/27/2009]
5. More prints [Draft 01/04/2010]
6. Prototype Pricing [Draft 01/19/2010]
7. MakerBot tuning [Draft 01/20/2010]
8. Plastic Screw Anchor [Draft 02/02/2010]
9. Magic [Draft 02/03/2010]
10. How are you printing with PLA? [Draft 02/16/2010]
11. Rebuilding my extruder [Draft 02/16/2010]
12. MY robot [Draft 02/18/2010]
13. more things i learned [Draft 02/20/2010]
14. First commissioned piece! [Draft 02/22/2010]
15. MakerBot: Toy or Tool? [02/25/2010]
16. Idea for Skeinforge settings… [Draft 03/27/2010]
17. RepRap and MakerBot alternatives [Draft 04/05/2010]
18. RepRap Parts for Sale [Draft 04/07/2010]
19. Where is the Othercutter? [Draft 06/08/2015]
20. Mendel Parts – Printed, Cast, CNC’d, Lasercut or Injection Molded? [Draft 04/12/2010]
21. MakerBot Operator’s Manual [06/04/20210]
22. MakerBot on CBS! [07/07/2010]
23. New Print: Soft-Pawed Albino Stoat of South Wales Cookie Cutter [07/07/2010]
24. House calls [07/11/2010]
25. Digital assistant? [08/05/2010]
26. MakerBot + Junk = Stuff! [08/06/2010]
27. Design choices in RepRap, Goals of RepRap [08/14/2010]
28. Upgrades and obsolescence [08/25/2010]
29. Dear Anonymous [08/25/2010]
30. The ultimate in customer service [08/26/2010]
31. Open Source Makes You Smarter [08/27/2010]
32. Getting my Plastruder MK5 running [09/06/2010]
33. Weird new kind of spam [09/19/2010]
34. An open letter to Ms. Word [10/18/2010]
35. Printing with PLA again! [10/18/2010]
36. Halloween costume too [10/27/2010]
37. Dream jobs [10/29/2010]
38. The nuances of time travel [10/31/2010]

1. Blood?  No, of course not.  That’s just silly.  Red just shows up better on my photocopier.  It’s more of a symbolic thing anyhow. [↩]