Benjamin likes to bounce.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 Posted in Critter, fun stuff, media | No Comments »>In which we discover that a “squirrel proof” feeder is not, in fact, “raccoon proof”
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010this morning, we awoke to discover that our squirrel proof bird feeder was lying on the porch, on its side, empty.
this feeder: http://squirrelproofbirdfeeder.com/products/e100.html – which has, so far, survived the combined efforts of several highly trained suburban assault squirrels. with some difficulty, they are able to extract one seed at a time, with their tongues. eventually, they give up and leave the sunflower seeds to the birds.
when we saw the state of the feeder, we were somewhat perplexed. there had been no strong winds. none of the hardware had failed. and there had been seeds in it as of last night.
then i took a look at the CritterCam footage from the incident.
after examining the footage, we’ve decided this is what happened:
shortly after image 1 was taken, the raccoons were able to lift the feeder off its hook and it dropped onto the porch (see image 2). the drop ejected some of the sunflower seeds.
the raccoons then proceeded for several minutes, according to the subsequent images, to roll the feeder around the porch between them, freeing the remaining seeds.
Posted in fun stuff, random stuff | No Comments »>Apple’s new iCrotchshot
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Apple has done it again. Not only have they come up with a really nice looking glass rectangle that does pretty much what all the other big glass rectangles out there do, only… you know… better…
…they’ve also created a whole new way to get strangers to stare at your crotch.
why my birdseed bill is so high
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
captured with my new motion-detecting “critter cam”
Posted in fun stuff | No Comments »>Conficker probably not a threat to Apple II users
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009from A2Central.com:
Conficker probably not a threat to Apple II users. this from their call to Symantec:
Posted in fun stuff, mac stuff | No Comments »>“you are probably safe though I really don’t know what an Apple II is.”
hey! i’m on Engadget!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009my Disk II Mac mod made it to Engadget. sweet.
[update] and gizmodo!
Posted in fun stuff, mac stuff | No Comments »>your kid sucks at piano.
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in fun stuff, media | No Comments »>my latest hardware project
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
in the same vein as the G4 Mac Plus, i recently finished up a quick little hack that combines a Mac Mini and a Disk II floppy drive, ca. 1978.
Posted in fun stuff, mac stuff | 2 Comments »>looks like Linus still has the same sense of humor
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009according to Red Hat’s bugzilla reports for Fedora 9, Linus Torvalds still has the same sense of humor he had when writing Linux kernel 0.1
youtube no workee – fedora 9 not usable for wife
you can see more of the wit and wisdom of the (much younger) Linus here:
Comments from Linux Kernel v0.1
my 3:37 of fame
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009That’s me on Letterman in March of 2006, performing a post-it portrait of Biff Henderson.
This, of course, the ultimate result of the Elvis mosaic.
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