Category: Random Nonsense

Sometimes I just feel compelled to share nonsense, random thoughts, and sometimes just stuff I want to save

A friend of mine was talking about homeopathy…

… 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?

@giseburt, if you hated the circus…

…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.

  1. That said, I like balloon animals.  And red noses.  Face paint?  Not so much. [↩]

Flobots?!! Heck yes!

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!

Still got it

I just helped my wife start her own blog.  She wanted to include a license for some of things she’ll be publishing, so I whipped up a little WordPress plugin that will insert some creative commons license language with a small shortcode.  Although I haven’t tinkered with one of my plugins for a while now (five or six months?) I uploaded the plugin, activated it, and it “just worked.”  That’s a good feeling – writing a piece of code and having it work straight off with no bugs.

I wish I could say the same for my 3D design skills. 1

  1. Wakka wakka! [↩]

Yay for March!

So, yesterday someone who works for one of my competitors told my boss that I was a “feisty one.”

This made my day for two reasons.

  1. This guy is a jerk and it really came across in his letters.  I ignored every single one of his snarky and caustic comments and never responded to a thing he did.  Instead, I just got to work.  It’s nice to know my efforts made an impression.
  2. If he thought I was feisty before, now I’m going to double my efforts.  Seriously.  I’m totally bringing it now, baby.

February Recap

  1. It sucked.
  2. I uploaded 25 things to Thingiverse, but not even close to the “thing-a-day” schedule.
  3. I think there was a day in there where I uploaded five or six things.
  4. There were two items in particular where I started working on a mashup within an hour of the original thing being uploaded.  One was the Stargate Iris Box and the other was the Thomas track bridge kit adapter.
  5. I uploaded a practical joke to Thingiverse.
  6. I worked/played with my Unicorn pen plotter, reinstalled the optoendstops in my Cupcake, and wrote some autohoming code for the same Cupcake.

March!  My old friend!  I bid you welcome!  It has been far too long!  Come!  Let us go and leave the dust of February but a faded memory!1

  1. And use excessive exclamation marks! [↩]

Another glorious day in February

Not.  This has been a miserable month.  On top of everything else today I started to feel a little off, and then sick, until…  I’ll spare you the details.

In looking for the silver lining, I would note that after I’ve been sick and I’m on the mend, I feel like a million dollars.  I feel young, strong, energetic, and healthy.  But, that day seems like a whisper of a possibility in my current state.

So, um, in other good news – my fingers obviously work since I’m typing here!  So, yeah, that’s good, right?

My roommate in grad school hated February – saying something bad always happened to him.

Anyhow.  Onwards and upwards!

I’ve gotten e-mails from people asking how I’m doing – the frequency of posting here1 has suffered along with me this month.  So, thank you for inquiring!  I am by nature a reasonably optimistic2 guy and I think that despite 2011’s crappy track record3 good great wonderful amazing and awesome things are around the corner.

Thingiverse has been a happening and hopping place of late.

It’s late and I need to sleep. 4 5

P.S.6

  1. And, to be quite frank, elsewhere as well [↩]
  2. And, not without cause, I believe [↩]
  3. 1 for 2, if you’re keeping score [↩]
  4. Perchance to dream. [↩]
  5. Aye, there’s the rub. [↩]
  6. P.S. I actually have some half dozen posts I started over this last month, but never got around to actually finalizing.  I’m hoping to publish them, even if they turn out to be woefully irrelevant. [↩]