Follow the instructions, and you too can have your home invaded by a small flash-based monster. With a tie.

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I often find great quotations from folks email sigfiles, or just in my daily life. I’ve been saving these in a file and realized I should just go ahead and post them here. So here they are:

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“If God had meant us to be a spacefaring race,
He would have given us a moon” — Krafft Ehricke

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
-General George Patton

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“Any idiot can be complex, it takes real genius to be simple”
-Al Einstein

“I do not agree with what you have to say. but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
-Voltaire

“The rocket boosters have been attached to the pig called IPv6″.
-Paul Vixie

“Our main goal for a long time [developing the V2] was to make it more dangerous to be in the target area than to be part of the test crew.”
-Wernher von Braun

“Imagination is more important than Knowledge”
-Al Einstein

“Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die.”
-Carmen Boyle (Olympic Luge Gold Medal winner – 1996)

“The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”
-Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
-Thomas Paine

“But this is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.”
Euripides – (480-406 B.C.) – Source: The Phoenician Women, 411-409 B.C.

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
-Howard Zinn

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
-Walt Disney

“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
-Woody Allen

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
- Rick Cook

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.”
-Thomas Edison

“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
-Richard Dawkins

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
-Pablo Picasso

“Going to church does not make us Christians any more than stepping into our garage makes us a car.”
-Rev R. Neville

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
-Alan Moore
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Found via the Make Blog, as so much fun stuff is, this is a time-lapse shift focus film. It looks miniature due to the use of a “shift focus” lens, which I may have to experiment with someday, but it’s the real world. Awesome!

The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Got the Independent Lens Video Widget over there to the right, for continually updated video awesomeness from the respectively awesome Independent Lens documentary series.

In a turnabout-is-fair-play sort of mode, my sneaky wife has collaborated with my folks and arrainged a surprise party here in NOLA. Apparently everybody except me knew, as evidenced by my slack experession when they all yelled surprise!

I am eating well despite this, it is New Orleans after all.

Nice job all, I was totally suckered.

So I wake up this fine am expecting to have a reasonably good day at work.

I am then informed by my beautiful bride that instead, we’re going someplace else.

I’m now having to turn this off as the cabin door is closing…

Okay, now I’m in houston but still dunno what the plan is. Life is good.

I did this instructable a while back. I’m remided of it now by Lois’s assistant who asked if I had seen instructables.com, which does indeed rock. Check out my instructable, and of course the rest of the site here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Hot-Rod-your-old-Dustbuster/

It’s just now needed a recharge, a full 10 months after I charged it last. Awesome.