my new favorite machine!

is the inchworm! it lasted the whole show despite abuse (well mark said to be aggressive). it was a longish show and so we were able to get a few of our moves in there. i was able to pick up a cockroach bot and toss it, get some 17 ft arcs off the tesla coil (but had to move away after a few seconds to preserve my electronics), do a headstand on the bombloader and ripped its side off and sparked its battery as i backed off of it.

the 'after-party' er cleanup was hilarious as well...

fire fights back

Bob and I fucking around while Mark is trying to lift this heavy Moriseiki CNC lathe by himself. (i was useless anyway wearing heels and all popping in after work). Trying to blow spiders out the other side with fire from our metal pipe collection and trying to do the propane fire organ thing, Bob gets some feedback to the face:

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celebrating an american patriotic holiday with nazi tech

much fun was had by all. mark taught me and liisa how to operate the inchworm (for the show in august) and we also got to run the v1 which is a replica of the first guided missile -a buzz bomb engine the germans built for wwII

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the sound is from the valve bank inside at the other end of the barrel. the low frequency vibrations give you an internal organ massage if you stand alongside it. if you stand diagonally in front of it, your eyeballs and tonsils will oscillate.

neuticles: never looking at jellybeans

the same way again after looking at the size and pricing chart www.neuticles.com/webpages/cost_tab.html for neuticles (neuticles.com/ ) testicular implants for pets:

"help your pet maintain his natural look after neutering!" i just hope people aren't sick enougn to get cat balls for their dog or vice versa. or upgrade the size of their pets balls by getting them an XL implant.

they even sell them as keychains!

should this be an ad against the use of m-80s?

teehee i just found this old image of me and mark.

tamale mon

Tamale Lady's got competition. Tamale Man came around 111 Minna the other day selling 2 tamales for $5. They were good tamales. more 'gourmet' than Tamale Lady's and slightly bigger. He had black bean, cheese, and nopales, chicken mole, and roast pork tamales. He left 2 sauces at our table and he comes back when you're done eating to take away the tamale wrappings! He said you have to pronounce his name 'Tamale Mon' and that he was trying to sell better tamales than the Tamale Lady.

So I ran into the Tamale Lady at Zeitgeist and asked about him. She says he gets his tamales from trader joe's and he reported her to the car smog authorities which caused her to be fined $400!

Let the tamale wars begin!

hack the wine robot

vino venue is the wine automat on 3rd and mission. you go in there and give them a min of $10 and they give you a smart card. intead of bartenders they have these wine vending machines with the price of a taste displayed on top. you stick your card in, pick your wine, and it will debit your card and dispense the very stingy squirt (looks like less than a shot!) of wine into your glass. the wines seemed to range in price from about $3 to $16. you cannot get drunk here even if you tried (if you had the money you probably wouldnt even be here).

it pissed us off that instead of taking wine notes we spent the entire time thinking of how we could hack the system.

btw if you have money left on your card but not enough for another teeny drop, you can take it home and use it again some other time. so take it home and if you have a card reader, it might be a fun excercise left to the reader to find out something and report back :) it's definately writeable or the cashier wouldnt be able to enter the amount you purchased.

in the meantime, if you look at this picture, you can see the bottles are pneumatically clamped in place. there is a switch next to the dispenser that you can flip to release the bottle and give yourself a more reasonable pour. i actually did this (but didnt top up my glass) and it didnt attract anyone, but it does make that air release sound which is loud enough to act as a bird call for distrought staff. so if you try this, be careful!

maybe these are hard to find wines, who knows but i had a $6.50 1/2 a shot of 2003 pahlmeyer which was unimpressive. (or you can't tell from that drop they give you) and i also had a good austrian tokai but it wasnt "$7.40-for-2-drops-good"! for $14 i could've gotten an ok bottle or at least 2 full glasses of decent wine elswhere with better ambience!

betty butterfield

this reminds me of so many people it's not even funny. well it is funny. i can't stop watching this blog. like a train wreck in slow motion it is. the mindless blog er blathering of america... mmmhellloooo.

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this one particularly: bettybutterfield.textamerica.com/ and bettybutterfield.textamerica.com/