Hey, why didn't someone tell me that salad spinners are so much fun?
A centrifuge for wet vegetables! It's like a last wish amusement park
ride for criminal leafy greens condemned to die.
Project of the Moment
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the walking
robot |
--Sample animations from the instruction booklet for
the "Etch-a-Sketch Animator".
It was a cool toy of the 80s that let you create up
to 12 frames of 40x30 animation and play them back in longer sequences.
Last year I e-bay'd up
this favorite childhood toy of mine
and made some art
with it. (Well, mostly I laboriously transferred some
small gif cinema onto
the device.)
In my decluttering frenzy I was about to get rid of the
booklet, but I realized the animations were all pretty cool...
I think I might make a special wing of small gif cinema for
these.
I started with the cat animation (which is really great,
but the Breakdancing Skeleton is no slouch--trés 80s)
but then decided to do them all as animated gifs. Some were
easier than others.
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rabbit
in hat |
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the nosy
spider |
the spaceship
invader |
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birthday
cake |
the creeping
caterpillar |
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face |
| the train |
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the
submarine |
| the cat |
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the horse |
| baseball |
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halloween |
the breakdancing
skeleton |
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Boston Geek News of the Moment
Huh...I hadn't realized that SoftPro Books had moved--from Burlington to about 5 minutes away from my house in Waltham. (SoftPro is the Boston area's geek's favorite place for technical books...I like supporting a local, specialized merchant who has some neat speakers and other programs.)
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