Bwah ha ha! Hello Kitty bicycle tire

So this is the latest little project I have done: Temperature Monitoring in my house

Built it all from the component level using this guide.

Sweet song. Re Your Brains

In case you've ever been curious and want a quick overview: String Theory in Two Minutes

Because I blog it, does it mean I am a lexiphanes?

From Rowling herself: Dumbledore is gay
Sweet!

Totally sweet internet meme. Im in ur ___, ___ing ur ___z.

Totally sweet. Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

This is a really interesting video: A New Marriage of Brain and Computer
It's talking about a link between quantum effects and consciousness.
Here's the guy's website: http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/
Pretty interesting stuff if you are interested in the roots of consciousness or the complexity of human cognition.

So I was just sitting there watching the Colbert Report and enjoying my La Maitresse du Moine Dark Strong Ale from the Midnight Sun Brewing Company, when this came on: The Craziest F#?king Thing Stephen Colbert Has Ever Heard
I was laughing so hard I had trouble breathing. I could have been the Ale... But seriously, it was funny.

MAKE is always pretty cool, but this caught me. Foxhole Radio
In this digital age, all our devices are complicated PCBs and ICs. It's nice to see a VERY simple circuit that performs a useful task. It sparks something visceral when something simple like this can create a bridge between the evanescent world of invisible radio waves and our senses in the tangible world.

Cute Overload: Make a dog sweater from a sock

This is totally me and John shopping. http://xkcd.com/309/

For those of you who I have not told directly, here is a happy announcement. I recently asked my girlfriend of nearly three years, Sarah "Rah" Rolland, to marry me and she said yes. We have not set a date, but probably next summer in Anchorage, AK. WWWOOOOWOOWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

NYC Maker makes 1775 submarine - gets cited by US Coast Guard
and
Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

It's rare that a webcomic makes me laugh every time I look at it. This one does. (This is an edit of a previous post that pointed to a totally UN-hilarious comic. Sorreh.)

Bwah ha ha! The Onion is hilarious. The Internet Crash of 2007!

toys

toys
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Here are some of our toys! Yay!

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I went camping this last weekend. WEeeeeEEE!!!111oneoneone

My new license plate
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My new license plate. I finally got 'em! That's a zero BTW.