I'm not sure of the exact date but sometime in this spring is ten years from when I found out about SG and started checking out the site.

I was talking to someone calling herself Kaylah Harper on a chat site and they said they did modeling for a website out of Portland called Suicide Girls. Being 2002 the picture she sent me was 'the picture' the one in all the ____ made me join threads,




And with that I had to check out the site, and maybe you did too. I found Al's comments on the boards and Voltaire's blog asking her 3 questions at the end and started checking out the site often.

I couldn't get a membership as I didn't have a credit card to pay for it at the time. But did in 2003 under an other name for a year.

more later



Irational thing I want to build of the moment (or month in blog time apparently): A mech.

Part of the reason is from watching mass effect 3 walk threws I'm on my second one now with renegade femshep, Starcraft II has them in the Viking and Thor, and there was a cool one in sucker punch too. From a quick search on replica prop forum ( Adam Savage again) and google image search no-one seams to have made a realistic one full size. There was one fourteen footer made by a special effects shop but it was built into a wall. I admit making one walk, turn and not fall over would be very difficult but free standing or poseable wouldn't be that bad.

I did spend a bunch of friday at work thinking about the walking aspect of it.

Work isn't fulfilling my desires to build cool stuff at the moment. There's a bunch of cool guns and clothing in mass effect 3 and the railings on the mars base looked interesting too. I'm still watching the walk threw videos of it on youtube, it is a bit of a counter point to the starcraft 2 games I watch as the guy doing those is good and well spoken. And he posts losses as well. He played someone he knew was great and the next week was the top ranked player in north america, it was fun seeing him panic and still do ok. but I digress.


A while ago Adam Savage posted a link to Bone Clones a company that does resin and bronze castings of bones, he wanted to buy most of their catalog. I want to build things like some of it.

early humans skeletons, sabertooth cat skulls... this past week I found this up for sale.




Megalodon Shark jaw.

'Jaws' was a baby




So now I want to make a copy in painted sheet metal with nice polished alumiumin teeth, 1/4" plate water jet cut to shape, edges radiused, and polished, 2 machine screws to hold it in place.



Being a shark it has row after row of new teeth forming, curling into place for when the front ones get battered off. Forty six teeth times five rows; 230, seven inch teeth, 460 screws to hold them in place. Does explain why Bone Clones wants $27,000.00 for it. Plus shipping and let me tell you the UPS guy (or Girl) will not be happy walking up the driveway with that under their arm.

might be interesting stuck on a wall in my condo too.

I'll got with the futurama speach start off,

...And so I did end up returning the digital box to my cable provider and cancelling my cable. It was a pretty good time to mack the cut as the last bock of new episodes had ended. I got to see that Lisa finished the season of IRT: deadliest roads. I did miss the end of project runway allstars and Youtube had blocked the epi when I looked. The new Deadliest Catch season hadn't started so I didn't have the 'I've got to see what comes up in those pots' in next weeks ep issuse. It also turns out you get a fair number of channels free, 2-23 and HGTV and some others. House of Bryan is on sometime tonight.

I've also been watching a walk threw of Mass Effect 3, I was debating buying the game but watching it made me realize not to. No offence to the artists involved, the landscapes are great, I like the look of and want to make a lot of the guns and clothing. The squad based action sort of bothers me, and either the enemies are too strong or the guns not powerful enough. Also I think it does the same damage weather you are shooting them in the foot or head. Maybe it's just been too long since I've played first (or third) person shooters. The romance different people on the ship is an interesting addition, and that communication officer is a cutie. I want to make her vest but I have a lot of other stuff ahead of it in line, and haven't had a good shot to sketch off of. And someone still needs to send me measurements.



As for new years resolutions:
#1 still waiting on warm enough to paint weather, there's still some nights where it's down near 0c (32f).
#3 is still a possiblity, I'm ten days or so behind on front page sets.
#7 I guess is done. I took a table to 'studio 201', their purchaser wasn't there but I had it looked at and they seamed to like it. Then the part where someone had to throw down a number didn't go my way, I came in way over. Far enough that they wouldn't say what they would want to pay for it or sell it for.
#6 not so much, but the ladies at the grocery store seam to not hate me so maybe.

Happy Mayan Apocalypse everybody.


So the cable thing happened. I haven't been able to check if I can rig it wall cable box left on channel 3 or something, DVD recorder, TV. and use my DVD remote to change channels. Why you ask because my cable isn't working. It's not even all my cable I still get HGTV and some other channels I don't watch just none of the ones like discovery, fox, space... it just show the number of the channel and ' this channel will be available in a few moments, ever since 6 pm yesterday. No cable makes bender something something. I'll try to hunt down an answer after work today.

I was hoping to have a youtube video of Tom Petty's last DJ to start this blog off with, but it looks like it's only live or covers.

I'm not a fan of new things that aren't as good as the ones they are replacing. The thing that's got me on this kick (this time) is a message that my cable provider keeps screening over shows, about needing a digital box starting march 20th. From briefly using one earlier I think that means my DVD recorder won't be able to record things any more. It also means that when I change channel I will need to use their remote and two extra buttons, 37 and 'enter' 45 and 'enter' and a menu with flash up telling me what I'm watching and cover a third of the screen. Then end to clear the menu off the screen. On top of that they changed the packages of channel around so rather than having 'classic cable' with all the channels you've had for years you get some random collection of a quarter to a third of the channels you want in a package and if you want that one with the car shows you have to buy another $10/$20 package and get the food and outdoor life networks as well. I know they are in the business of making money, but still.


It just refires the debate on cutting my cable. It's not like I have a lack of things to keep busy with. I've got some DVD sets for some shows I like and 150+ movies. On top of that I wouldn't mind putting more time in playing Starcraft 2.


I'm not saying I'm against new things: instant hot water taps, microwaves, saw stop table saws, DVD players/recorders are great things. Voice mail, well you can leave a message for someone who's on the phone, but it is nice to have a flashing light, and press one button to hear your messages on an answering machine, please enter your password... to save this message press 4, delete button.

I took a first aid course on saturday, just a one day one. I passed it for the third or fourth time. It was interesting looking back at how much the course has changed, last time I watched a video on how to use an AED this time they had practice one that you could stick paddles on the CPR dummies and they would tell you stuff. Also the CPR dummies had red, yellow and green lights that stayed on if you had the depth and minium speed right. On the other hand I don't think they said the word amputation, we didn't check a pulse all day.

I found a part in the book that badly needed a comma:

I've got a ruler handy and at best my mid forearm is 3.5" across, how big is this guy? and almost regardless of how big he is I don't think I'd call that a laceration, that what you call something that needs some stiches they've almost cut there fucking arm off.


The other thing being the next day I was in a medical clinic and an 90+ year old woman was brought in by her daughter barely breathing. Really, The first aid course said if the patient (victim, whatever)'s partialy blocked airway doesn't clear in 10 minutes, call an ambulance and let the hospitals figure it out. Instead the nursing home called the daughter, who arrived, took her mother to a clinic, where she waited as the sectary/ nurse person did paper work, handled other people. The other people in the waiting room banded together and got her bumped to top spot. I was waiting for her to get slightly worse before I grabbed the desk phone from the nurse and call an ambulance. The doctor get there seven second decison , paramedics are there in 90 seconds. Nothing like that debate of are medical people higher up the first aider chain than level one and a bit of SEP.

Hope the old girl is still with us and feeling better.

Arrrrrrgggg over a month again.



Just keeps sending shivers down my spine.

There was bunch of interesting things in last months Top Gear magazine I wanted to post. I'll start with the bit from the last page as I can link a video. It has an article on Allan McNish's crash at the 2011 24 hour of le mans, I posted a video that has since been taken off youtube in silliness back in june.


The drivers reaction was:

The injuries to the driver totaled a graze on the shin from catching the door frame on the getting out of the car.
The car broke in (apparently) 12,431 pieces of body work, damaged all 4 tyres and the engine, and took 362 hours to rebuild.


Ralph Lauren has a collection of 17 of his cars on display in the Louvre. Any thoughts what cars?

thinking

Last chance

1930's to 1960's race cars, with one exception, and as you would expect some very beautiful cars. He drives them all too, the paint on one is wearing threw from being cleaned after driving to often.


Bently Blower (1929) Raced at le mans, DNF
Ferrari Testa Rosa (1958) the' Red Head' if you don't speak Italian
Ferrari 250 GT short wheel base (1960) hard top version of the car from ferris buelers day off
Ferrari 250 LM
Ferrari 250 GTO (1962) number 21 of 36 made
Jaguar D-type long nose (1955)
Bugatti type 57 S(C) Atlantic (1938) 4th of 4 made
Bugatti type 59 Grand Prix (1933) race by Tazio Nuvolari
Jaguar XKSS
Mclaren F1 LM (1995)
Mercedes SSK (1930)
Jaguar XK120 Roadster (1950)
Mercedes 300SL (1955) the gullwing
Porsche 550 Spyder (1955)

Quiet a list, and some interesting cars stayed home too.


There's a 'new' Porsche 911 coming out. It is still an example of Porsche's evolution not revolution design theory. Rear wheel moved back 70mm, 30-40 kg lighter, and more horsepower. One of the designers on the team was Bernd Kahnau, 42 years working at Porsche, the son of a Porsche factory production chief, as a baby he came home from the hospital, in a Porsche. Now I just wonder if he has children.


Going to write about the new 2.2 liter Jag diesel

Going to write about a GEM electric truck

Going to go buy groceries...