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| Ben claims there are eight robots on that cart. |
Friday, February 17, 2012
What Ben does at work all day
The life of a roboticist is glamorous indeed.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
More robots!
Last weekend Ben and I volunteered at the FIRST Lego League Championships at Penn. Like last year, Ben was the head ref and therefore special:
Also like last year, I was a regular ref:
As always, it was a ton of fun. I think my favorite team was a girl scout troop, who all wore denim shirts and red head kerchiefs (à la Rosie the Riveter) and were called the "tough cookies." Gotta love getting girls excited about engineering!
Also like last year, I was a regular ref:
As always, it was a ton of fun. I think my favorite team was a girl scout troop, who all wore denim shirts and red head kerchiefs (à la Rosie the Riveter) and were called the "tough cookies." Gotta love getting girls excited about engineering!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Long time, no blog
I've been pretty hosed with my new job (which I love!), hence the long hiatus from doing anything interesting enough to write about here. It may be depriving me of cross-stitching for now, but it did give me a cool new mug:
Unfortunately, I don't drink coffee... but it is a nice place to keep my pens!
Unfortunately, I don't drink coffee... but it is a nice place to keep my pens!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
New Toy
We got a new rice cooker! My favorite part so far is the instruction book, which has nice anthropomorphized illustrations of the correct and incorrect ways to use your rice cooker:
Now I really want to wash the rice in the inner pan, just to see if it really makes that face.
Now I really want to wash the rice in the inner pan, just to see if it really makes that face.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Pen Pals
A while ago, we got this in the mail:
After careful deliberation, we sent this postcard in response:
Check out that fine craftsmanship:
The following week we received a package in return, containing a laser-engraved wooden placard:
That's a still frame from the video illustrated in ASCII, with the url at the bottom:
So, we escalated by creating and sending this:
It has been a few months now and we've heard nothing back, so I think at this point we are victorious. It's too bad, though, because we had a few other cool ideas we were planning to send... perhaps we will continue this correspondence one-sidedly.
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After careful deliberation, we sent this postcard in response:
Check out that fine craftsmanship:
The following week we received a package in return, containing a laser-engraved wooden placard:
That's a still frame from the video illustrated in ASCII, with the url at the bottom:
So, we escalated by creating and sending this:
It has been a few months now and we've heard nothing back, so I think at this point we are victorious. It's too bad, though, because we had a few other cool ideas we were planning to send... perhaps we will continue this correspondence one-sidedly.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
A Productive Break
One of the perks of working for a school-based organization is that you get the same winter break as the schools do. So for the past week I've been able to get quite a lot done, from the kind-of-important (wedding planning, catching up on emails) to the not-at-all-important-but-still-wanted-to-do-it (reading a long book, watching all of Dr. Who*).
Most importantly, I finally got to make the new Steotch sampler! I don't know anyone getting married in the next month or so, so instead I made it as a 1.57th anniversary present for some friends:
It was really fun, although this was the first time I've worked with metallic thread (for the crown and the sword), and it was kind of a pain. I sort of want to make a stack of blank ones now, so as friends get married in the coming years I can just add the names and dates and be all set!
*Just the 6 seasons of the new version, not the 26 seasons of the original. Yet.
Most importantly, I finally got to make the new Steotch sampler! I don't know anyone getting married in the next month or so, so instead I made it as a 1.57th anniversary present for some friends:
It was really fun, although this was the first time I've worked with metallic thread (for the crown and the sword), and it was kind of a pain. I sort of want to make a stack of blank ones now, so as friends get married in the coming years I can just add the names and dates and be all set!
*Just the 6 seasons of the new version, not the 26 seasons of the original. Yet.
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