Projects

Projects that I’m doing

The Table goes online.

Projects, Stuff and Things

Overhead shot 1

Overhead shot 1

I hadn’t posted any pictures of the table online since we’d been building it. I’d always planned on a) finishing the table and b) making some kind of cool website for it. I did throw together a small wordpress blog and gallery for it, but that was way too much work for little reward. So I decided to throw it out on flickr. I might try and upload some of the pictures to bpong.com and other dedicated table pages tonight. I’ll have to find the right descriptions and captions for the pictures. but most likely I’ll just watch Prison Break and eat dinner.

Later!

UPDATE – www.thetable.swalrus.org

New Things all around!

Projects, websites

New year, New Friends, New Blog!

All that’s left is to get the gallery back up and functioning and this thing will be ready to go. I was thinking of moving the site to a better URL, Hopefully that just means linking the other wordpress installation to the same database. But I really just want to get back to writing, I feel better when I write down the things I think of. But it’s late now and I have to make up sleep that I missed last night.

See you around,  Internet!

Moving Swalri

Projects, websites

So I’m moving the blog. For technical reasons this website has much better hosting and WordPress has much more to offer than Blosxom. It’s not like Bloxsom is a bad program, I just think that it’s development has stalled and It’s too hard to configure. This one should be easier to work with and it’s database driven so searching is much easier. I’m still trying to get all the plugins to work and I don’t feel like messing with perl scripts anymore so I’m copying the old entries one by one and changing the dates, which should take a while. But I think it’s worth it.

*UPDATE*

I finally finished!

Project Skully Completed.

Projects, Stuff and Things

So over the weekend I finished the “Skull Door Knocker” that I’d been working on for a while. I guess I’m going to pass it off as a halloween project… then just keep it up for the rest of the year. I threw together a picture of it for my Laptop Background in between deploying the application at work today. I cant stop looking at it actually, it’s got this HDR quality about it. I really did very little to the picture, just adusted the curves a little. I had to photoshop together some pieces of the door though. I think it came out really well.

Later!

Projects progressing niceley

Projects, Stuff and Things

On recovery monday we did some nice work on a few projects that we have around the house. I made major progress on the skull door knocker, finally attaching the knocker piece. Without which it wouldn’t be much of a knocker. It looks sturdy enough to be actually used, but this is the B version of the design. I had to go back to the drawing board after I kept breaking off the knocker. So really all that’s left not is to glue on the skull and paint the thing. I’ll get started on that tonight, since there’s nothing good on TV.

Jesse continued work on the beerpong table 2.0 installing 60 out of 90 blue LEDs ( he would have more but he forgot to order them!)

But the ones that were there looked sweet!

A minor incident happened when he was showing me how bright they were. They started flickering on and off in weird patterns, I heard him say “wow, I wonder why that’s happening?” and then we saw smoke coming from the board. turns out it was just a short circuit and the driver chips are OK. But one LED was reduced to a smoking crater.

check this link for progress pics

Later!

Workdoodle 003-006

Art, Projects

WD WD WD WD
I was going back through the blogs today and besides noticing that I get comment spam for World of Warcraft Goldfarmers I realized that I wanted to start posting the little doodles that I do at work. I’ve started keeping my sketchbook handy so during those 2 minute long deployment processes I can sketch something small. But I think they’re starting to look at me when I brought out the colored pencils.

Later!