Apparently I can’t access Google Groups. Which sucks. I have several different Gmail accounts and I can’t use any of them with Google Groups. As a result, I can only read what’s going on in the Google Groups on my RSS feed – and not respond to anything.
Google, this may not be evil… But it is just plain mean. Cut this out, please, and restore access to Google Groups to Gmail users.
Default Series TitleMy wife started a blog about knitting. :)
If you showed up for Botacon, you actually got to see some of our work during my presentation. She’s designed some napkin holders and knited bangles. 1
… and that’s how I knew I found true love. 1
Okay, I get the girl in the video doesn’t like Firefly. But, why did she tear up a picture of Tony Buser @ 1:57?
… the other day and how he liked natural solutions and remedies. I asked him if he knew what homeopathy is. He thought about it and said, “You know, natural stuff.” I told him that homeopathy is the belief that exposing yourself to very small doses, parts per million, of a harmful or toxic substance will in some way provide you with a resistance against such compounds.
Astonishingly to me, this did not appear to phase him at all.
I just don’t get it. How in the world is a small shark bite supposed to protect you from a big shark bite?
…then don’t go to Disney On Ice.
It’s hard to say which would be worse. I’m not sure if I hate clowns because I fear them so, or because I fear them because of my deep and abiding hatred for them. 1 On the other hand, Disney On Ice is miserable, miserable, miserable.
Woot! My post over at MakerBot entitled “Clockwork Variations” was picked up by both Make: Online and BoingBoing!
This little project has been a ton of fun and I’m really glad others seem to enjoy it as well.
Just because I didn’t label the Clockwork Spider on Thingiverse as a “work in progress,” don’t think I’ve given up on it. It exists now as an actual physically printed object and I’m very happy about that. However, the legs are just a stand-in1 for nice spidery looking legs I’ve already designed. There’s no point in printing the real legs up until I’ve gotten a mechanism that will make them work.
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I’m so freaking happy with the design, print, and assembly.
You can assemble the entire thing by hand in just a minute or two with no tools or hardware. Turn the center wheel to make it walk. Right now the gears are a little rough – but I have an idea on how to fix that in the next revision. But, if the gears turned even slightly better, I think this design is almost ready for the big time.
I cannot wait to have a printed wind up rubber band powered clockwork spider skittering across my desk at work.
*skritch* *skritch* *skritch* “Oh, don’t mind leggy. She can smell fear.”
Pandora just suggested this band and I heard their song “Handlebars.” It sounds like CAKE making sweet sweet love to Beck.
Oh, and the name of the band is Flobots?! I love robots!
I’m sold.
Update: They also are reminiscent of Maroon 5, Fugees… but mostly CAKE. Seriously, it’s like accidentally finding a CAKE album I didn’t know existed. Yay for horns!
