Following Jason Kottke’s example here is my year in cities for 2008 (at least as far as I can remember offhand):
Seriously this guy is amazing, scientist, inventor, all around awesome.
Didn’t we see this technology in the original star wars when they rebuilt Luke’s hand?
Well it’s not strictly code related but it happened at SxSw so I figured it warranted a mention.
During the rocking Frog party at the Mexican Cultural Center we had some awesome fire dancers (Sage & Zarah) who were mesmerizing the crowd. They were kind enough to let me jump in for a quick spin at the end of their set. It had been some time since my last burn so I was definitely rusty, but I didn’t hit myself which is always good.
The D.J. had to kill the music (because you can’t have outdoor music after 10:00PM!!) so I was left to spin music-less, the crowd helped by clapping a beat.
Fire!
Since my dogs ate my last couch, I needed a solution to make sure they didn’t eat the new one. A quick install of Skype and a cheap webcam in the living room now allow me to check in on them and if I see any couch eating I can yell at them to stop. The sound is piped through the home theater system left at an appropriately loud volume.
Here they are doing what they do best, sleeping.
The trick to this setup is to just leave Skype set to auto answer in video mode.
My friend Sean says it best here
To Recap:
If you want to know what’s going on with me, it’s best to follow this link: My Twitter Stream.
I can’t friggen wait!
Someone’s building a human size version of the old board game mousetrap:
Note: The above picture is a giant nose picker, not mousetrap
And robots. Hopefully robotic dogs too, I love those.
I wanted to let everyone know about a new website I’ve created called NoirSects.com
The site features noir style photographs of insects. The first 3 pictures up there are mine, but the site is open to all interested photographers. To get your photos shown on noirsects.com all you need to do is join the flickr group and add your photos to the group. They’ll show up automatically on the webpage.
Thanks to Lucas J. Shuman for creating fjs a Javascript library for displaying flickr photos. Open source is great, I can go from thinking about something like NoirSects.com to having a working version in very short time, thanks to people who publish their code for re-use.
