This is a clip from Eurovision, it is Fuerzabruta. I saw this group perform in NYC in October. Amazing. Imagine seeign these things happen right in front of you. That is the power of theatre.

Now the latest pictures from the white house are online. Check out Their Flickr photos. If you are using an RSS reader this is their RSS feed

…make some Rube Goldberg Machines with my kids.

or like this:

THat is assuming that they want to.

More Doonesbury here.

At the blog Dinosaurs & Robots is a funny list of describing the true nature of specific tools:

DRILL PRESS:
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings objects across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.

WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench at the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, ‘Oh sh*t’

The rest are here

Cool stop motion movie:

I wish I had that much time on my hands.

Book Returned to Washington and Lee Library Only 52,858 Days Late:

What qualifies as perhaps the longest overdue library book in history found its way back to Washington and Lee University’s Leyburn Library in February, when the first volume of W.F.P. Napier’s four-volume set, History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, was returned to the shelves after an absence of 52,858 days.

I have finished my Obama Linocut

Over the next couple of weeks I will be using a friends equipment to make a bunch of prints. Want one?

Here is an original sketch done by my students. They are beginning a sketch comedy troupe. I think they have some potential. Let me know what you think.