Tekken
Turns out my neighbor’s sister is the voice actress for Tekken’s Nina Williams. Who knew?
SquareOne TV and Mathnet
When I was a kid, I remember SquareOne TV very fondly. I even got the weekly activity books (which nobody seems to remember or mention besides myself) and remember being so excited when they came. It really turned me on to math and eventually computers.
Here’s one of the better resource collections for SquareOne. But if you want to check out some episodes, you can see some of them on YouTube:
RubberBandit’s Horse Outside
Country music in Europe is a little different than in the US…
Peanuts Roundabout
Garren Lazar’s latest edit has the gang tackling the 1971 Yes track Roundabout, and it’s quite perfectly synced up with the prog-rock masterpiece.
A touching love story
“And that’s when I fell in love with the 12 foot skeleton from Home Depot”
More Polybius
Polybius is a great urban legend that got its start in Portland. There’s lots of fodder thrown around about it, but The Polybius Conspiracy appeared to be a real investigation on the subject. They even have a lot of interviews from local people. It turns out, it was COMPLETELY FALSE and their main character was an actor.
None of that was disclosed. It is one more reason you should be very weary of documentaries as information sources. Evidence shows you should NOT be putting faith in documentaries any more than an editorial opinion piece.
If you want a little better coverage, this is also a good video about the urban legend:
Visual Studio in a browser?
Next question: can you do development to deployment completely online. I’m having flashbacks to 1970’s era dumb terminals again…
Find Halloween in your Hood
Finding cool Halloween displays and house decorations in your area can be trial/error driving around or word of mouth. These folks at Northwest Haunters Association have an interactive map where people can share their setups for others to enjoy.
Hop on over there an start touring some great Halloween displays
Screw With No (visible) Slot
Clever way to make screws that have no visible screw-head utilizing the tolerances possible with EDM machine tools.
Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) tools are capable of machining part with tolerances of 40 millionths of an inch ( 0.00004″) (. 001 mm) and some up to 10 millionths of an inch (0.00001″). Effectively making seems between pieces practically invisible.
Shibuya Halloween 2021 is Virtual
Shibuya is trying something interesting to deal with the annual gathering of Halloween revelers during COVID. They’re making the event, concerts, fan groups, color pages, and lots of other activities free online.
You can attend events for free online and even attend the festivities in VR:
Japan has never traditionally celebrated Halloween. During the 1990’s, a bunch of Halloween loving foreigners started wearing costumes and riding the ring trains around Tokyo. Unfortunately, drunken behavior cause the police to ask the riders to disembark (please don’t be one of these ugly tourists – I don’t care how cool you think you are. It’s rude to go to another country and act like that).
Revelers soon started gathering in the neighborhoods around the train stations and the street parties grew and grew. Shibuya soon became one of the major stops for these festivities – and has grown to be the focal point. Unfortunately large amounts of trash, drunken disturbances and destruction have become all too common. Which is really unfortunate since it could be such a good chance for people to have fun and share some cross-cultural exchange.
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