Not Blogging, More Playing
May 12, 2008 by Lemur King
Man, whatever happened to just lighting farts? In the same breath I say “Poor kid” and “Geez that was stupid”.
Wisconsin Teen Suffers Severe Burns in ‘Blowtorch Game’
Monday, May 12, 2008
MANITOWOC, Wis. — A 14-year-old boy suffered burns to more than a quarter of his body after playing what authorities describe as a blowtorch game.
Manitowoc Fire Captain Mark Rusboldt says the boy and another teen were using spray cans as blowtorches. The 14-year-old was burned on his back, head, face, arms and hands. The other teen was not injured.
The burned boy was hospitalized Saturday at Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee.
(source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355063,00.html)
Speaking of severe burns, see the next entry below.
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Go have some fun over at the PopSci Maker Faire 2008 photo gallery
The funnest one I saw was this, a mobile propane flamethrower based off of a golf cart chassis. Here it is shown in “Low Flying Bird Defense” mode. I prefer to think of it as an air-rotisserie, flame-kissed.
Maker Faire 2008
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Don’t ask me why I suddenly got a bug up my butt about Art Deco but I did. Might play with a few things for a while along these lines. Think of this as an artistic study. For whatever reason, I find that Art Deco is one of those things that when you see it you automatically say “Yep, that’s Deco” but when you try to do it, it becomes very elusive and not at all intuitive (to me).
(click for large version)
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Oh yes, if you have followed any postings lately, I mentioned different grits of toilet paper for work purposes… Here’s a picture that is either:
- The biggest inducement to “hold it” until you get home -OR-
- Get more fiber or something because… dude..!
The toilet paper roll reminds me of the time Salvador Dali sent Harpo Marx a harp strung with barbed wire. Harpo sent back a picture of himself seated at the harp with bandages on all his fingers.
Man, WordPress / Askimet is totally h8in’ on me today.
I left a comment here, but wordpress hates it when I do that from work anymore.
There are some times when I like Art Deco, and then there are times when I do not. Your piece is good, but I want some rounded forms too.
Thanks! Actually, I’m working on an art deco version of an underwood typewriter that applies to MoronBloggers. I’m having fun with it but it is time consuming, going between Inkscape (poor man’s vector graphics) and PS-Elements (very poor man’s photoshop that’s not really photoshop).
Things were much cheaper before kids…
Art deco can either make me go WOW or GROSS. Generally I like it yet I detest anything Frank Lloyd Wright ever touched or thought of. Yes, that probably can send you to hell for saying but it’s true.
I’ve never been a big FLW fan either. I never really could see what the fuss was all about.
I posted a comment about the grater paper but Akismet went OM NOM NOM!
Anyway, I wrote that it reminded me of the time Salvador Dali sent Harpo Marx a full sized harp strung with barbed wire. Harpo sent him back a picture of himself seated at the harp with bandages on all of his fingers.
If that is true, that is hilarious. I gotta check it out.
I will see if Akismet nailed you - what is it with you folks lately? All over Weas’ site you’re dropping like flies.