Under my “nom de musique”, The Drunk Kitty Project, I just released an EP of a few of my older tunes on BandCamp.com. All five tracks are only $1.99 — check it out there, on on FaceBook, if you prefer. Station in the Mentos by The Drunk Kitty Project
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
Things on ThisIsWhyImBroke.com that I bet I could 3D print.
I recently ordered a kit to build a Prusa Mendel RepRap FDM 3D printer, so of course, waiting for the kit to arrive, now I’m seeing the entire world through the lenses of “what can I print when it gets here?” Here’s a few cool things that cost extravagant amounts of money that I bet…
Eclair-related Childhood Trauma
I was visiting my great grandmother (Nennie) in Portsmouth, NH, and my Uncle Jon was there, and he and I went out to the local bakery and brought half a dozen eclairs back for dessert. I was maybe 8 or 10 at the time. Somewhere in there. And I had one, and it was delicious….
Technical eBooks
I love, love, love Kindle books and the iPad. Two great tastes that taste great together. However, the does seem to be a trend I’ve noticed with screenshot images in technical books. To be fair, this seems to be an issue from the publisher side of things, and not an endemic Kindle issue, as the…
Hit Me with Your Best Shot: An Experiment for SCIENCE!
An experimental analysis of the song “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” by Pat Benatar, digitized from a 45 RPM vinyl single. This experiment was entered into to find if sampling the vinyl disc at a higher rate (by slowing down the input to a digitizer at the same sample rate) and then resampling would…
Star Wars Blu-rays
So, you may have heard the Star Wars Blu-rays are coming out in a couple of weeks. After the last of the prequels came out, I was annoyed at Lucas’ clumsy storytelling, and… well, with those and the Special Editions, it felt like a cheapening of some great movies that I loved from my childhood….
NPR’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Survey
NPR just did an exhaustive survey of their readership to form a list of their readers’ top 100 science fiction and fantasy books of all time: More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR’s Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are…