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[local] Play on aerial dance equipment!
I went to the last one of these, and it's very much worth checking out.
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Dear Friend,
We are hosting a Play Date and Costume Sale! The one we had in March was so much fun, we decided to make it a habit. Come play on our structures, try on our costumes, put things on your head! You'll regret missing it...
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Startup Name Change
We are thinking of changing our startup name from 3dcapture.it to MatterPort. Motivation: we are looking for something a little more flexible (in case our product changes) and evocative as opposed to super-literal. It sounds fun to say too. Any feedback?
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NotEphemerisle Proposed City Plan
I put together a proposal for the NotEphemerisle city plan. Urban planning is a lot of fun, especially when you can reconfigure your city in a matter of hours.
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Reflections on Maker Faire, 3D scanning, and life stories
The 3D scanning software we built now allows for live reconstruction of the images as we scan them. We wrote this UI in the few days before Maker Faire, and got to show it off all weekend. It was very well received, but it also had a significance that goes back several years:
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In 2003 I took over 500 pictures of my room with the hope that ( Read more... ) -
Floating Tilting Game Platform finished!
The Floating Tilting Game Platform is a lot of fun. It's also very good exercise. In the only time we took video, Adam managed to quickly score one against me:
Kate painted the game balls and made them look awesome:
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NotEphemerisle 2011 -- Built the floating tilty game board today
Kate helped me build the floating tilty game board for NotEphemerisle today. We learned that routers and hole saws are awesome.
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Onion article (sort of) comes true
I received a notice in the mail from the SF Planning Commission informing me that a medical marijuana dispensary is opening up around the corner from me. They are soliciting my opinion on whether they should be granted a permit.
Reminds me of this Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/tonys-law-would-require-marijuana-users-to-inform, ( Read more... ) -
Wide-brimmed condoms?
There's plenty of research out there claiming that condoms not effective at preventing the spread of STDs that can be transmitted through genital-to-genital contact. HPV, herpes, and others are on this list ( Read more... ) -
Tour of the SF Armory (slightly NSFW)
There is a forbiddingly high, incongruous, block-sized Scottish castle a few blocks from my house. It used to be a city armory back in the day, but has been abandoned and disused from the 1950s. Abandoned, that is, until recently. In an effort to raise money, the city decided to look for potential buyers to purchase the abandoned armory building ( Read more... )
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