Or perhaps bagpipes -- Behold the balloon organ...

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(NSFW if you have the sound turned up...)

Kimi Raikonnen!

It was fascinating to see him on the podium with the two people who gave him the opportunity to take it:

His teammate, Felipe Massa, and his chief rival's teammate, Fernando Alonso ( Read more... )

After last year's debacle with the Mechanical Engineering Department's UAV group, I wanted to form my own group, and run it out of the Aerospace Engineering department. Although we'd be building an organization from scratch, we'd be building up an organization from scratch ( Read more... )

First day of the new semester. Calculus at 8 am. Whee!

I've also broken the record, by more than double what I have previously ever spent on a single book. $325, on the "Virtual Environments Handbook", for my simulation systems class. I suppose that price may make sense if they're selling by weight, but really, I'd rather have the PDF. I don't ( Read more... )

Could someone explain to me why, exactly, when all I want to do is replace the blade on the mower, I instead have to replace everything back to the engine shaft? Is there really any difference between the 14 current blade interfaces and the (simple, obsolete, unavailable) one I already have ( Read more... )

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That's right folks, it's a Hello Kitty Exhaust Pipe!

Someone put excerpts from Disney's "Mars and Beyond" up on YouTube, including the intro with Garco the Robot.

Although I could have pulled the images from the DVD (I still have fond memories of the "Man in Space" series from my youth), I instead pulled a few frames from the online vid, and with a little help from The Gimp, Garco lives!

Yesterday, I had plenty of tasks to accomplish. Instead, I went to Kennedy Point Park to see Atlantis launch on its mission to the ISS. I got there about 2:30 in the afternoon (which was later than I'd planned), and lucked into the last free spot available in the park. It was a beautiful day, with a gentle seabreeze and scattered clouds ( Read more... )

Overpriced tone generator -- purchased ( Read more... )