Monthly Archives: April 2009

Auto-Tune the News

This is great. The Gregory Brothers have edited together clips from the news and have used Auto-Tune to make the newscasters and pundits sing their news, interviews and discussions along with the background music. They have also done political debates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Their youtube channel is [...]

okwow

Flying robot penguins. Smart walls. Moduluar cube robots. Superbad. edit: There’s more! http://www.festo.com/cms/en-us_us/4981.htm

Almost a box

I now have cabinet carcasses. You could set a book on one if you wanted but it would look a little silly. I still need to stick the back boards on the boxes but I’ll hold off on that until I’ve painted the box. Bill was kind enough to loan me his paint spray gun. [...]

Signs of life

It’s been a busy day around the house today. I found the touch up paint that was provided with my house and went around cleaning up all the little scuffs and marks the walls have accumulated over the years. I also painted the recessed ceiling in the front entry way. I think some nice small [...]

Garden

The garden is finished and planted. I didn’t get any potatoes or sweet potatoes planted because it is a bit late in the year for that and I didn’t see any “seed potatoes” at any of the nurseries I visted. I do have cucumbers, yellow summer squash, acorn squash, onions (so many more than I [...]