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What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly, because I can’t any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone’s sake the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I do, then I’m cursed and cursed again. I’ll only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too.
If you don’t like reading, check out the movie.
As I write this, I am watching “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie” and let me tell you, it’s extremely distracting. I think the movie would be much better if the garbage pail kids weren’t in it. The link between the main character, Dodger, and his love interest, Tangerine, is enough for the movie to keep my attention.
The following fight scene from the movie really showcases their chemistry… It begins with Dodger giving Tangerine a giant bead from his grandfather’s store… then her boyfriend “Juice” shows up…
But like I said, the problem with this movie is the Garbage Pail Kids. Compare that fight scene to this one…
See what I mean? It’s a better movie without them.
I rather like products made by a company called “Honest Tea” – Their teas are not too sweet and they actually taste like tea. They seem to keep popping up in my food pictures…
Well, here’s the latest 24 hour Sonipa clock – I called it the “Ellwood” because I made it for my dad’s birthday and that’s his middle name.
Thanks for naming after your dear old dad…that means a lot to him.
Regards,
Dad
I’ve finally finished designing and making my first 24 hour clock. At the top of the clock is a full sun representing noon and at the bottom is a group of stars representing midnight. It is framed in chrome. I call it Sonipa Red Time. It’s real and it works!
Like a regular clock, the small hand shows you the hour and the large hand shows the minute. Only instead of only having 12 hours there are 24 displayed (left side is AM, right side is PM). You no longer have to be confined to seeing half of your day… You can click on the images to view a larger version.
holy cow thats awesome! i love everything about it…especially that it will confuse the crap out of little kids that are trying to learn to read the ‘normal’ clock.
Yeah, I would recommend putting it in classrooms in elementary schools to begin with .. teachers will love something like this ..
WOW! the chrome looks so real. Lightwave is awesome.
That is sweet! I want one… but I want one with PM and AM added… it takes too much thought to remember which is which.
no but really. You should patent your design Dave. Where did you get the movement? I want a wrist watch like this.
Hey dave! I go my movement from a clock store in Wisconsin. It’s a converted military time movement. Converted in the sense that it had to be modified to use regular hands …. Modified in the sense that I jammed a screwdriver in it.
Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying.
I just finished my first clock design. It’s based on a Russian pocketwatch that Craig wants to get. It’s not a 24 hour clock because I still haven’t recieved that movement in the mail yet. This is my first practice clock… I call it “The Garrison Clock Zero”…
Well. Today they came. The giant bouncy balls from California. In the picture below, you can see one of them next to what I USED to consider a giant… see it there… sulking in the shadow of its replacement.
This ball is made of solid rubber bouncy ball material. It’s quite heavy. When I bounce it, people outside my office can hear it hit the floor through the walls.
Special thanks to Hana for helping us find them!
Hurray, you got them! And that one is marvelous – WOW! Congratulations, happy giant-bouncy-ball owner!
We couldna’ found it without your help!
Hey,
I need to get one of those…can you give me a website so I can buy one. How much did it cost?
Thanks,
EMily
Where can I buy one of these online?? does anyone know? I’ve been looking for over a year!! please help!!
Where can I order one? Everyone here is out of them! Thanks.
When I look at my watch I want to see the whole day. At one glance I want to see:
I want to see the whole day all at once. But for some reason most watches & clocks aren’t made that way. Oddly enough, they split the day in half! Some do not make this mistake, like this Russian watch:
Once I saw this I thought, “At Last!” But now I need a clock for my wall. To make it easier for people in the U.S., I thought, “What if the time was converted to AM/PM instead of military time?” Now that’s the way I want to see my day. If I make this clock, I’ll post a picture of it.
Update: I did make this clock. Click Here
You make that clock, and i’ll definetly hang one on my wall!
soon.. soon… waiting for parts and the will…
Ever since I saw these pictures:
I realized that I wanted a giant bouncy ball of my own. I found one on ebay but the picture was really blurry. I couldn’t tell how big it was so I asked the seller – here is a screenshot of our entire conversation.
So – we’ll see. A solid rubber ball with a 4 inch diameter isn’t bad. The item is still not mine so don’t steal it away from me ….
David, that is so cool… currently I am doing a “special project” for Physics. My partner and I are trying to assess the question “what factors affect the bounce of a ball?” We are using a solid rubber ball, but it definitely is not as cool as your prospective eBay ball…
Katy! For your project – If you want to use one with a 1.7″ diameter – they have them at Los Favoritos for 50 cents. It may make the project more fun if you have a bigger ball?
That’s hilarious that you know the exact diameter of the Los Fav toys 
I’ll keep that in mind, indeed. And incidently, what the heck were you doing up at 3:45am?!? Were you still celebrating St. Pat’s day ? 
Hallo! You MySpace-messaged me a while ago about this bouncy ball, and (1) did you end up getting one? and (2) I like your blog and photos a lot (esp. the lomo ones) okay goodbye!
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craig 8:53 pm on June 26th Permalink | Log in to Reply
i love honest tea
i wish it was free
it tastes good to me
and i’m gonna drink some tomorrow.