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How many eggs does a dinner need?

How many eggs does a dinner need?

The price of eggs has become the new ‘Thanks Obama’ rating system for an administration. Interesting question – how many eggs does the average greasy-spoon diner go through in a week?

Make a guess? I think it would be an interesting interview question.

For an answer, it turns out we have some data. Tom’s Pancake House talked to local reporters on how the rising egg prices has affected them. According to the owner, they go through more than 9,000 eggs a week.

When a case of 180 eggs skyrocketed from $45 to $140, that means their weekly egg purchases went from $2,250 to $7,000. Definitely something you would see on the bottom line.

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AI Snow White better than the remake?

AI Snow White better than the remake?

The very controversial and firebrand issues/actors behind the Snow White remake has turned into a box office disaster and resulted in an apocalyptical round of firing at Disney (and rightly so).

It should tell you something when a decades old IP powerhouse like Disney and all their marketing efforts could only generate 18M views in 4 months on it’s official trailer, and an AI generated parody done by a likely single person YouTube channel gets 1.4M views in 12 days. And the AI content is honestly better.

Personally, I think Wicked AI‘s live version of the Little Mermaid with Danny DeVito is even funnier

Take a dip in the world’s largest gold tub

Take a dip in the world’s largest gold tub

If you’re ever in Sasebo, Japan (outside Nagasaki), you might want to stop into Huis Ten Bosch theme park for a unique experience. (1-1 Huis Ten Bosch Machi, Sasebo, Nagasaki 859-3243, Japan)

Besides enjoying the strangely anachronistic Dutch themed amusement park, for about $50 you can spend an hour in the world’s largest solid gold tub.

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Animating characters 100x faster with AI

Animating characters 100x faster with AI

Game development is currently on a race to the bottom. It’s an industry of brutal competition – which creates some of the most innovative ways to bring ideas to the market faster and cheaper.

A new method of using low-poly meshes to generate higher quality facial and character animation is looking to replace standard character modelers and animators.

Free RV camping with utilities in Portland

Free RV camping with utilities in Portland

City of Portland just announced the opening of it’s 10th alternative shelter site – this one provides free parking for RV/campers. It’s located at 10505 N Portland Road. It has 90 tiny home pods and 70 RV parking spaces for individuals living in their RV/campers. It provides free onsite laundry, showers, and food.

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Survival Research Laboratories

Survival Research Laboratories

Before Battlebots, in the 80’s, there was a group called Survival Research Laboratories (wiki). I remember seeing a video clip of them back in the 80’s on an episode of Ripley’s Believe It or Not hosted by Jack Palance (long before YouTube kids). It showed clips of frightening, dangerous machines that destroyed and ambled around with the most disturbing movements.

The mechanical creations made horrendously loud noises, shot things, exploded, emitted huge flame plumes, electricity, and projectiles. They played disturbing music with screams and dialog from horror movies. The machines had huge metal arms, gears, and blades that smashed and sliced everything as they destroyed each other and everything in their paths.

It was kind of like watching the mechanical version of death metal – or Einstürzende Neubauten. None of it looked safe for the bystanders. Many onlookers appeared to be genuinely afraid. Injuries to the crew and bystanders did occur.

This group was (and is) called Survival Research Laboratories – a mechanical performance art group. They have a YouTube channel and still seem to be doing shows.

Here’s a pseudo-documentary about the group:

Turns out – they’re not gone. I just recently saw this video from Greg E. Leyh at Lightning on Demand who resurrected his old Plasma Cannon.