Klutz

I'm still at my parents house in California (until my 6 am flight tomorrow) and I found an old Klutz book sitting on my shelf. (Specifically a Klutz Aerobe book)

After reading it through, and completely loving it, I decided to hit up Klutz's website to read up a bit more on the company.

On the bottom of the about us page I saw this line "For those of you who collect corporate mission statements, here's the Klutz credo: "

Collect corporate mission statements? I've never heard such a thing. But really, they tend to be modern day equivalents of Confucian doctrine, so it's a neat idea (there I go using the word neat again.).

I'm going to begin my collection with Klutz: Create wonderful things, be good, have fun.

I'm down in the Bay Area

I'm down in the Bay Area and the internet was down for the last 4 hours. But that's ok. I'm on vacation.

Note to self: always double check ratios when ording gears.

I'm a little irritated with myself. I ordered some servos, servo gears, shafting, and plain bore gears last night, and while doodling up schematics today, I realized that I reversed the ratio in my order. Seriously lame.

I went back and ordered the propper ratio (4:1 not 1:4). What irritates me is that if I'd gotten it right the first time, I would have saved a buck, this way I spent an extra twenty-three.

Lesson learned.

Amazing Feat of Makeup and Lighting

This is pretty amazing. The women pictured above are all the same woman, made up and lit to look like she's 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years old.

She's actually 20.

...I'm not sure why she's topless at 10 and 20 though...

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Lesson Learned

Wind sprints are for out doors, or at least, not for 3 am when Dom is asleep down stairs.

...sorry.

Pastry Experiments

Wednesday night I made a double batch of chocolate chip cookies, and brought them with me to school on Thursday.

Baked goods have a strange socializing ability. They spark conversation. Questions, comments, anecdotes, and eating. They're pretty much the ultimate ice breaker.

Last night I made a(nother) cheesecake, and brought it to school to share. I feel like I've stumbled upon something. Now I just need to figure out how to go forward with it.

...I'm thinking lemon bars.

My First Instructable!

One of my socks gave out yesterday, giving me all the material I need to make a slick little electronics sleeve, so I decided to document the process and put it up on instructables.



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