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killing time.

yea, so if you want to kill some time, go here.

hangin harry

hangin harry is here to show you life could be worse.  just add harry to any pull switch in the house and harry will show you the light.

chop stick gun.

i was surfing instructables again and admit this picture intrigued me.  i wanted to know what kinda gun was designed here.  although the picture shown here isn’t providing the most obvious answer, we can see the guy on the left is shooting the guy on the right with a chopstick rubber band gun. 

this will have to be tried here in the office.  i know a couple of guys who could use some rubberband pelting.

barbie doll electric chair project

i’ve seen some funny shit, but this ranks up there with the operation paris bit. 

great idea by jessyratfink.  drafted as a middle school science fair project, this was meant to illustrate how the electric chair works.

i can’t wait to try it out.  if anything i can at least get some damn funny ass pics. 

 

*satire alert* – fine work under the cynical eye

surfing the web.

found a blog post on ‘Great Photographers on the Internet’. 

i thought it was great.  i think everyone should check it out.

and i hope those who do realize it’s meant as a satire….

bigger is better – wall prints

i wanted bigger pics.  i went to see what options there are. 

because bigger is better.   especially when its free…

so i was straightening up my smugmug account and decided to see what ‘goodies’ they had for the pro users.  i came across ‘wallhogs’, a print really big picture/poster site that can provide an image up to something like 7′ x 4′ on various mediums.  they offer prints on vinyl, canvas, and poster paper stuff.

the process seems pretty easy too.  pick your photo, upload and send to wallhog.  then in 3 days they claim to have your item in the mail ready to go.  pricing on this seems ok i guess.  it depends on the material you choose to print.  i haven’t had a chance to check it out, but i decided to keep on searching.

i came across one guy’s post about making a cool wallpaper from a photo for his son’s bedroom. 

 

the idea was that you pick your photo, find a printer offering the service (wallpaper installation) and provide them with their spec requirements – in this case 150dpi at full res.  cost was approx $5 per square foot. 

based on the above image, looks really cool – but a bit steep for my cheap ass.  i’ll keep searching. 

finally i came across block posters.  same idea, different layout, & cheaper.  lets try FREE.  so basically its the same thing.  you pick the photo you want to use, upload to their site, and adjust the size you want.  but instead of waiting 3-5 business days you get an instant .pdf file of your image ready to go.

basically the image you upload is sliced into individual pages that you can use to ‘paste’ together.  i decided to try it with my recent simpsonized picture (which is way cool too, so check that out while your at it.) 

this is a snapshot of the final product from block posters  —->

since i was at work and fortunate enough to have a color printer available, i went ahead and printed it out.  once it printed, i taped them all together and i have to admit the final product is pretty darn nifty. 

 i now have the yellow simpson version of me hanging in my cubicle.  it’s awesome.  my pick of the bunch runs with block posters…..

boom – hand grenade oil lamps

 

looking for a way to decorate the pad without getting all foo-fooey?  here’s the perfect way to set the mood with some really awesome lighting.  custom hand grenade oil lamps are made from actual US Army surplus grenades.  price is a little steep – but this aint something you’re going to find at wally world…

fourth gen f-bodies – market it right..

so after killing the f-body, GM decided to give the Camaro a fresh face for 2009.  i owned a 69′ Camaro and still own my 95′ Z28.  i couldn’t help but wonder if GM will fall on it’s face with the release of the new Camaro.  i think that sales went down for 4th gen Camaro’s and TA’s because of lack of promotion.  you’d see trucks & 4 banger car commercials from GM all day long – but nothing on it’s other V8 beasts they had. 

then i remembered the only 2 commercials GM released.  both of them i remember specifically enough to find on youtube…  here’s what they need to do – start making some descent commercials for their damn cars again!

the one they had for the TA:

the one they had for the Camaro:

flight of the conchords is like crack

i can’t get enough of them.  absolute brilliance.  thought i’d share…