Wandered around for a couple of hours with badger on saturday.
Readers Corner, the Habitat For Humanity Reuse Center (Walmart is
to thrift store as Home Depot is to the Reuse Center). Saw a few interesting
things, prett good prices. Also picked up a used 4track at the Greenhouse
Art Gallery yard sale.

Played for an hour or so over at badger‘s place. I meandered
a bit on the first bit (seems to be a habit of mine…), then some fun
processing a loop and the handsonic with the rack of electrix gear.
Second bit mostly played trebly repeating figures to set a pulse.

Then wandered over to King’s for the (fake) mexican wrestling
extravaganza. Missed Renelvis’s
set, but caught Corn mo.

The highlight of the evening was the (fake) mexican wrestling of course. Quite
entertaining. Nothing quite like seeing one of your coworkers dressed up
in a giant burrito outfit decending from the ceiling on a chain. And that
was just the intro. I highly recomended it.

Ran into some folks I didn’t expect to see including several coworkers,
some of whom I would of assumed I would of never ran into at King’s
in my lifetime. Including one manager type from Germany. I wonder
if mexican wrestling is popular in Germany.

So, been thinking about what it would take to do some very large doodles. The
largest ones I’ve done so far are in the 18×24 inch range. But been thinking
more along the lines of the 8×8 foot range.

Now, the problem is, at the density I like to draw at with ball point pens,
a square foot takes about 16 hours. With bolder gel pens, maybe 6-8
hours. With a paint marker, maybe 2-3 hours. With brushes and acrylics,
maybe an hour. But then, I’m not very fond of the results with brushes
(total lack of brush technique, etc)

So figured I’d poke around some to see what kind of paint markers
were available, since I’ve only tried out one type. So off to
google we go.

Turns out three types of people are the primary users of
paint markers. “scrapbookers”, plastic model builders,
and “taggers”.

Which made something else apprent. Graphiti is
an industry.

For example, Bombing Science
Graphiti Shop, UrbanDesignz,
ShopGraffiti.com, etc. It’s
even international. See Free Style Graphiti,
etc.

And something heartwearming about there being a newsgroup (complete with
FAQ) about graffiti. Somewhere, there are a bunch of grafitti geeks sitting
around having a religous argument about what type of paint markers are the best.

And while stumbling around for that info, I stumbled onto a web page for
AMC Pacers. From a quick
browse of the links page, there seem to be alot of them.

Started poking around the Recomendo
section of the web page of Kevin Kelly

Amongst other things, it has reviews of some cool maps. For
example,
The Rand McNally Histomap or this one

Nice site.

For the food geeks.

The Cooking Show.
Oct 18, Raleigh Convention Center.

Featuring Alton Brown
as the celebrity guest.

And for those with Red Hat ties, the
staff of the company putting it on may look familar.

Biological Control of Kudzu Using Goats on Centennial Campus

Goats. Eating kudzu. On
centennial campus. Sponsored by the BAE
department at NCSU (where I used to work as a sysadmin).

I seem to have made it into this weeks Lather Weekly (raleigh area free paper).

Went to a listening party and got a few quotes in. And even a pic. Unfortunately
they spelled both parts of my name wrong. Adrien Atkins? Anyone know that
guy? ;->

chopperbikes
Scul Armada
How to build a bike

Starting to get evil ideas for a project.

Atomic Zombie

Cool site about building stuff.

The cdrack, freshly painted. Now sitting in my living room.

Now, what to build next… Suggestions?

Thou Shall Not Steal

Oh, that article gives me hope. But then, I’m a jaded bastard.