Steam Airship ... Awesome.

(ok ok so it's a steam balloon. still awesome)

heh this little RC robot thing is damn cute. It brings Labyrinth to mind :)

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Man Fortran (at least Fortran 77) is annoying! If you declare a variable name starting with letters I-N it makes it an integer! In addition, if you were trying to increment said variable by oh say 0.25 it doesn't warn you that you're operating on an integer. Curses!

check it out, stop motion tron, done in cardboard.

Oh yeah check out a disintegrating danish wind turbine. Apparently the breaks failed in high wind and there was nothing the engineers could do but film it destroy itself.

check out steampunk magazine. It's pretty cool, so far they have 4 steampunk magazines and the steampunk's guide to the apocalypse, you can buy or download them for free as pdf. They are pretty good, for instance vol 4 has some simple hat making and plating copper with brass which looks cool ( Read more... )

While I wait for some code to run, I thought I might briefly update :)
Last night I finally got round to watching Stardust. Totally awesome. I deeply regret not seeing it sooner :) Also the Prestige, awesome but reminds me of many a philosophical discussion about the horrors of star trek :P

Last night on a whim I played the free game Battleships ( Read more... )

Oh man

If you check out dappled sunlight during an eclipse (go find some trees) the little spots of light will be images of the eclipse!
check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IMG_1650_zonsverduistering_Malta.JPG

Hey all ( Read more... )

Lets see, since I last updated much has happend. I walked up two volcanos and looked inside it was cool. (They were quite small but still volcanos, took me about 45-and hour up one and mabey 20 min up the other :) Theyt both had frozen crater lakes at the top, it was neat. Got some clear views out onto the main land, many of the mountains you ( Read more... )