Hurrah! Ten bucks online got me two of these:
Basically, owl hairballs containing everything the they can't turn into nutrients--fur and bones, mostly.
Half an hour's work got me these:
Hopefully, Rosencrantz and Juliet are Dead, as my brain insists on labeling this show (even though straight Romeo and Juliet is easier to say) will be staged on August 6th at the Piccolo Theatre. Not only is this less than a mile from by day job, but they also have 48 beautiful brand new source fours for us to use--half ERSs, half Par / Parnels.
So I've been making a digital maquette of the place, in Blender. ... more->
Wow, it came out really well! Cool to see something I designed on a computer transformed into the real world, at large scale.
The CogSci program is having a recruitment table in the cafeteria, just like the Marines. We need a new poster, though--our last one is a bit beat up, and also doesn't actually have the words "Cognitive Science" on it (well, it does, but they're pretty small and on the bottom).
Anyway, I thought I had more time, and I was going to ask my awesome graphic designer friends (and professional comic artists who can fake graphic design) for some tips... but there is on time. I just sent it off to get ... more->
Ironic Sans isn't always my favorite 'blog, but when it's good it's really good. Such is the case with this post, collecting some of his Brilliant Ideas from 2009 that weren't quite Brilliant enough for there own post. Ideas like number five:
A mashup of "Back to the Future" and "Speed""You built a Time Machine? Out of a city bus?"
It seemed like a good i... more->
For Christmas this year, among other wonderful things, I received a Nikon N90s. Not just any camera, this was the camera that my father (who is not dead, mind you, but is hopefully transitioning to digital) carried for the last several years. It's got scuff marks on the back from the back trails of Alaska, and the strap is from the community college where he taught photography back in 1984.
In addition, he gave me a very quick g... more->