comedy gold

B (five years old): shake your bonbon shake your bonbon shake your bonbonnnnn

Me and his mom sing along: don’t say no oh shake it my way oh

B to his mom: mommy why does he call his bum bum a candy?

how i feel when i see someone with flawless makeup on

of being lucky

you know how I always seem to win things? that awesome stb prize in 2007, the armani watches in 2008, the champagne brunch and that free night’s stay at place vendome’s hyatt in 2009? :) prize one for 2012: $100 voucher at Ri Stationers! Woot! :p

joshbyard: State of the 3D Printing Union, Per The Telegraph You might not know anyone with a 3D printer yet, but, says Neil Gershenfeld, head of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “digital personal fabrication has been growing exponentially, and the ways these exponentials work is that there’s a kind of barrier to perception. You may think nothing’s happening and then suddenly there’s a revolution.” Brooklyn-based MakerBot has sold around 6,000 machines, to tech-savvy early adopters like the aforementioned eggcup maker, Brendan Dawes. But we don’t know how many 3D printers there are out there – some, like the RepRap, can make their own parts and reproduce themselves. Bowyer designed them to be “evolutionarily stable”: RepRaps offer people goods so that people will build them, just as flowers offer bees nectar so that they’ll carry their pollen. Another problem with the perception of desktop 3D printers is that the things people are making at home right now don’t look that exciting. Take the Thingiverse, a website where people upload photographs and design files of things they’ve designed and made themselves. There are plastic kittens. Plastic door stops. Plastic plant pots. Plastic toy planes. Plastic widgets and encoder wheels and screw isolators and servo wheels, individual parts to improve your printer but not much else. But just when your inner cynic starts to kick in, because homemade plastic tchotchkes don’t look much more appealing than ones made in Taiwan, someone will tell you a cautionary tale. Gershenfeld invokes the name of Ken Olsen. The head of a company called the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in 1977 Olsen made a famous pronouncement: “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” As Gershenfeld says today, “Now DEC is bankrupt, and you have a computer at home.” Underestimating the potential for new technologies to adapt, evolve and thrive can make you look stupid. (via Make your own: the 3D printing revolution - Telegraph) (ht BigThink.com) plastic food for thought!

joshbyard:

State of the 3D Printing Union, Per The Telegraph

You might not know anyone with a 3D printer yet, but, says Neil Gershenfeld, head of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “digital personal fabrication has been growing exponentially, and the ways these exponentials work is that there’s a kind of barrier to perception. You may think nothing’s happening and then suddenly there’s a revolution.” Brooklyn-based MakerBot has sold around 6,000 machines, to tech-savvy early adopters like the aforementioned eggcup maker, Brendan Dawes.

But we don’t know how many 3D printers there are out there – some, like the RepRap, can make their own parts and reproduce themselves. Bowyer designed them to be “evolutionarily stable”: RepRaps offer people goods so that people will build them, just as flowers offer bees nectar so that they’ll carry their pollen.

Another problem with the perception of desktop 3D printers is that the things people are making at home right now don’t look that exciting. Take the Thingiverse, a website where people upload photographs and design files of things they’ve designed and made themselves. There are plastic kittens. Plastic door stops. Plastic plant pots. Plastic toy planes. Plastic widgets and encoder wheels and screw isolators and servo wheels, individual parts to improve your printer but not much else.

But just when your inner cynic starts to kick in, because homemade plastic tchotchkes don’t look much more appealing than ones made in Taiwan, someone will tell you a cautionary tale. Gershenfeld invokes the name of Ken Olsen. The head of a company called the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in 1977 Olsen made a famous pronouncement: “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” As Gershenfeld says today, “Now DEC is bankrupt, and you have a computer at home.” Underestimating the potential for new technologies to adapt, evolve and thrive can make you look stupid.

(via Make your own: the 3D printing revolution - Telegraph)

(ht BigThink.com)

plastic food for thought!

(via emergentfutures)

of eating too much

H: I’m thinking we should share a steak.
C: I don’t understand the words that are coming out of your mouth.

Love Love Me Do- a hand-stitched greeting card - by peggytakesmanhattan on madeit

not a difficult concept, but neatly and sweetly done.

I. Want. My. Own. Space.

A tiny studio apartment proves that the more (artfully arranged) stuff you put in a room, the bigger it seems.

I resolve to….

1) quit snacking needlessly
2) take up a part-time music course to help myself with my goal of recording something :)

life is worth living if there’s something to work towards :)

where it all began :)

where it all began :)

Unfinished, raw kitchen. :p

Unfinished, raw kitchen. :p