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When We Build - I’ve been watching and re-watching this video of a talk given by Wilson Miner (currently of rdio) over and over this past week.

Speaking of comics - meet Guy Gardner, currently the home screen background on my iPad. Click to download a larger version.

Speaking of comics - meet Guy Gardner, currently the home screen background on my iPad. Click to download a larger version.

Spiderman’s metal fingers. \m/

Spiderman’s metal fingers. \m/

Metal Spiderman

  • Ferris: "Dad, read me a book about Spiderman. How does he have webs?"
  • Me: "Well, the bite of a radioactive spider gives him the power to shoot webs just like spiders do!"
  • ferris spends a few minutes staring at a picture of Spiderman shooting webs and says:
  • Ferris: "So - he throws up the horns and the webs come out?"
  • Me: "Yes, he totally throws up the horns and webs come out."
I made this: Comic: Public Relations in Skyrim

I made this: Comic: Public Relations in Skyrim

Minifig collection!
Trying to keep our collection organized. So far: 3 days in and we still have all the little pieces!

Minifig collection!

Trying to keep our collection organized. So far: 3 days in and we still have all the little pieces!

I built a TARDIS.

Adidas skates Montreal.

Mogee musical interfaces. From ExtremeTech:

A European researcher, depending on your point of view, has either created the cacaphonic spiritual successor of the 1920s etherphone/theremin, or the sci-fi touch interface of the future.

Studio 8H where SNL is filmed is not connected to the GE Building (NBC Studios) at Rockefeller Center, but is suspended by wires from the next floor. Arturo Toscanini, the director of the NBC orchestra, performed on radio from studio 8H and did not want the vibrations from the New York City subway to disturb his radio broadcasts so his studio was isolated from the rest of the building. - TIL: IMDB on SNL