Diary of a Madman

Yet another Guitarsenal player widget

2009-06-21T01:26:03Z

Guitarsenal

2009-06-15T09:42:50Z

Here is a player that is all loaded up with a bunch of my tunes. Enjoy!

Bad-Ass Burning Man Housing!

2009-04-08T23:27:41Z

This is an awesome concept:

http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/03/06/open-house/

Bogey the Cat: Master of all he surveys!

2009-02-18T06:43:24Z

Taken with my crappy cell phone camera, believe it or not!

Beaver!

2009-01-10T20:16:55Z

100 Faces

2009-01-08T00:47:12Z

Table of Awesome!

2008-12-24T20:42:36Z

Bacon Dance

2008-12-02T16:57:52Z

ENERGY!!!

2008-10-15T08:15:38Z

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Independent Front Suspension

2008-10-11T04:39:08Z

Best product ad EVER!

Playing Frisbee with Barkley

2008-10-06T13:42:09Z

Wipeout!

First digital 3D camera?

2008-09-23T05:13:16Z

Oh, I desire a digital 3D camera in the worst way. Film is killing me. I have got to get out of scanning negatives, and this would get me there.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08092209fujifilm3D.asp

Please make this thing for me, Fuji!

PetPics

2008-09-22T22:07:57Z

Recent cell phone camera captures:

Barkley sneaking into the forbidden bed.

Bogey's new favorite hangout

3D Man Crotch Shot!

2008-09-22T07:15:48Z

Red/Cyan anaglyph image (use your old-school 3D glasses!)

Cross-eyed stereo pair.

Way more here: http://worldsbest3d.com/BurningMan.htm

WTF is this thing?!

2008-09-21T08:56:16Z

Bogey the cat just brought this scary-looking bug into the house:

WTF is it? It looks like something out of Dune. The hair is not the bugs. That just got scooped up when I took the bug away from the cat. The freaking awesome horn in it's rear end is part of the bug, though. Holy crap, it's ready for a knife fight!

I have him in a film can now. I think it is safe in the house again.

Is this thing going to metamorphose into a dragon or something...

Picture Meme

2008-09-18T18:12:48Z

* Take a picture of yourself right now.
* Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
* Post that picture with NO editing.
* Post these instructions with your picture.

Taken at 11:05 in my cubicle. Sleepy... So sleepy...

Surviving being chained to a bunkbed with a velociraptor

2008-09-16T08:04:19Z

1 minute, 13 seconds

Created by Bunk Beds Pedia

Dust Flashback

2008-09-09T01:17:13Z

It was a little hot in my studio tonight, so I found the fan I had used at Burning Man to cool the Hexayurt and plugged it in, turned it on...

And a big puff of Playa dust blew in my face.

And I smiled.

Hexayurt Thoughts

2008-09-05T18:40:43Z

This was my 2nd year camping in a hexayurt at Burning Man. I have gone very basic with my yurt and have cut no holes in it other than the door, and I have only a tarp and a sheet on the floor.

I had no trouble sleeping in the yurt at any time of day. Did it feel air conditioned? No. The real question is: Is it better than the alternatives, and the answer to that is a resounding "YES!" Short of camping in an air conditioned RV there is no beating hexayurt living on the Playa.

Last year my yurt was the only one I saw on the Playa other than the demo yurt at the Man. This year I saw maybe 50 hexayurts. Next year I expect to see hundreds. It's viral!

I was a little worried that we would see yurt failures. The yurts I looked at were set up with various levels of competence, especially in how they were tied down. One guy was only using bungee cords to hold his yurt down. After every dust storm I expected to go out and see that yurt was gone, but it held in there. We also had a couple of hexayurts in our camp with tall doors that did not have classic tension rings to hold them together, and I worried about those untested designs, but they did fine. I saw no destroyed yurts this year.

The only modification I made to my yurt from last year was to add a wood-framed door to allow the door to be nearly four feet tall. This was a great mod that made getting in and out of the yurt much easier, but did lead to a few knots on heads banging into that hard wooden frame top.

I'm not sure how many times you can build a yurt using the Tuff-R / R Max panels. Taking off the tape takes off the silver lining - especially for the R-Max. I hope to get at least one more use out of my hexayurt, but it may be too beat up after that. We will see...

ZAP!!!!

2008-08-08T06:10:04Z

Amazing slo-mo video of a lightening strike:

Always use hearing protection!

2008-07-21T05:47:22Z

What happens if you mix hydrogen and oxygen in a big bag and light it off?

Watchmen Movie!

2008-07-19T01:01:28Z

I have been waiting for this for a long, long time!

Behold! http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

Plush Love!

2008-07-04T15:26:53Z

Do the Spin

2008-06-27T03:36:24Z

Like this:

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The American Dream

2008-06-23T07:45:35Z

George Carlin talking about the American Dream:

See ya, George.