Station in the Mentos
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.
Category: ramblings
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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 I could make myself:
- iPhone speaker horn
- QLOCKTWO (with the addition of some lexan, some LEDs and a tiny bit of code on an Arduino)
- Mario-inspired Pipe Mug
- Bear Paw Meat Handler Forks
What would you print with a 3D printer?
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Eclair-related Childhood Trauma
MoreI 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. […]
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Technical eBooks
MoreI 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 […]
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Hit Me with Your Best Shot: An Experiment for SCIENCE!
MoreAn 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 […]
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Star Wars Blu-rays
MoreSo, 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. […]
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NPR’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Survey
MoreNPR 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:
I decided to look through and see what I’m missing. Surprisingly, I’ve read very few of these. I suspect that’s because the vast majority of my sci-fi ingestion […]
Mark Boszko
