The coldest winter I ever spent
Archive for April 2007
Charlotte, Karen, Aerin, Marlise, Baba, Jess and I took 2 feathers from the pieces of the Angel of the Apocalypse to the opening of “Arts on Fire”, a show at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica.
We had a blast. It was a kid-friendly event and the Angel proved to be very kid friendly. As we were getting ready, the kids lined up, gazing at the flaming feathers. They screamed every time someone shot it off. After 3 hours, their screams were pretty half-hearted ;-)
I got this compliment about my website recently from a new friend:
I’ve been checking out Lee,org’s site, and it’s quite extensive. That’s one reason it’s taken this long to get this note off. I go to the site, am immediately intrigued/diverted/meander a while, and then run out’a time, or lose focus.
(darn it, I missed a party at my ex-housemate Scott’s house last night. I get tooo much email to sort through it all… [frowny face])
This was part of the party invite and it sounds right-on. That creepy old shack is…. creepy!
“Scott, what’s in that dilapidated wooden shed in the back of our elaborately landscaped but forebodingly overgrown backyard?”
“Oh, ha, that! I’m not sure what’s in there, how about we check it out together and I’ll show you?”
“What are these.. tiny skulls?”
“Looks like, looks like, yeah, I’m not sure what kind of animal would make a skull like that!”
“These look like ISO-standard necromancer candles, and I think someone’s gotten some use out of them.”
“Yeah, I guess those have probably been chilling out here for a while.”
“And what’s in these jars? It’s sort of chunky? Was someone doing some canning?”
“Oh ha ha, hard to say, hard to say.. it does look organic, in fact!”
I posted this to the FLG Lipstick list today :-)
First some good news:
SWARM, an offshoot project of FLG is a funded project for Burning Man 2007. The project is coming along very nicely.
http://orbswarm.com http://blog.orbswarm.com—————-
Terrific news:
The Serpent Mother will be going to the Fire Arts Festival in Oakland in July!
http://www.thecrucible.org/fireartsfestival/index.html—————-
Super amazing terrific news!
The Serpent Mother will be travelling across two oceans to Robodock in September
http://www.robodock.org/ !!!—————-
Read more on our blog http://flaminglotus.wordpress.com/
I’m thinking of volunteering to go to Robodock.
This week is Bay Area Dance Week. Lots of free dancing.
Charlotte and I went contra dancing Saturday (my muscles are still gloriously sore)
(Saturday morning I went to the yearly SF NERT drill)
Intimate Embrace Tango Sunday
Temple of Poi spinning instruction Monday night (I loved it… very centering… with the possibility of dangerous fire after I get good enough :-)
And darn it, we missed the Bohemian Carnival at DNA Lounge. Lost Vegas was postponed due to rain. Missed Nerd Pride night at Instructables (Charlotte has never seen Real Genius! A horror that will soon be remedied)
And I’ve been spending time on SWARM! The SWARM wiki will soon be publicly available.
Just go to Maker Faire. You won’t regret it (unless you are killed by an errant robot… and admit it, even that would be pretty cool in retrospect)
Everybody knows that the AR-15 isn’t legal to own in California because it’s a scary “assault rifle”. Well, California Rifles has a redesign that makes it legal for all us California tree huggers to shoot this beautiful rifle again.
Previously, the only way to get around this problem was to make an AR-15 with a non-removable (10 round) magazine. That’s just stup^H^H^H^Hsilly, opening up the rifle and reloading the magazine from the inside.
Of course, most of the major brands of AR-15 lower receivers are specifically blacklisted. But there are many brands of lower receiver that aren’t on the blacklist.
The upshot is: the only things the “assault weapons ban” has done for California is to
And in any case, the Kel-Tec SU-16CA is a fine gun. It’s California legal right out of the box, fires the same 5.56mm round and has a techy-cool look to it. (though it bothers me that the 2 magazines in the stock are held in with a poor friction-fit; he could have designed something more reliable)
I welcome you to read the many good comments below on the subject. Some offer other very good solutions to the California assault rifle problem.
I just set up a blog for the project I’ve been pouring my summer into. Check out the blog.
(yes, that’s a recently finished prototype orb drinking a beer)
Text Message Breakup from Liam
I like it! (thanks for the link Melis)
“Brain and Brain! What is Brain?!”
click to play this informative video
Long version
(keywords: Star Trek ST:TOS, Brains) (video via)