Paranoid about androids.

Enter the Shadow Walker. Star Wars eat your heart out.

Glaringly unfathomable technical mechanics aside…they’re trying to build a robot that can walk up and down stairs.

By they I mean London’s Shadow Robot Company.  Yeah, “Shadow Robot” is what I said.  I know. Their website is here.

I found them on this coolio site called Android World. Scope.

What we always suspected about our shadows.

Shadows is people!

Found this on Tuberoo (itself a cool discovery). Resolution is pretty bad.

I, like the audience, am especially mesmerized by the first few steps and the dribbling.

Everybody’s so excited at the end!

Felt-O-Mation begins!

With a show-stopping dance number:

Last night, a few painstaking hours past bedtime, the creative team of moxie (of we are all angry fame), Paul, and generalspecific, a.k.a. the Association of Animations, choreographed a full 20 seconds of puppet madness in Felt-O-Mation.

No, no need for applause. You are too kind!

Things that put me to sleep during the day (1)

Do you have trouble staying awake?

Do you like to sit and listen to music and have energy to go out a little later in the evening?

Then do not buy this chair:

Or for that matter any recliner that is remotely comfortable.

They are the insomniac’s nightmare.

Things that keep me from going to bed (1)

There is no better documentary to watch during election season than Joseph Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man.

I will admit that he talks at a snail’s pace. Do not begrudge him this, he will get to the point. If you think Barak Obama is inspiring, just wait until you hear Bronowski talk about the significance of Arabic mathematician Alhazen and his contributions to perspective. Riveting.

I’m serious.

Don’t begrudge Bronowski.

Top 5 Reasons to Take out the Garbage

1. It smells

2. It just moved.

3. It is all you have left in your kitchen.

4. It just moved, twice.

5. All the dishes are done.

Important Notices! (1)

I found this the other day in my pile of random stuff I picked up who knows where (I have a few of these kinds of piles in my basement):

“Advisory on Releasing Organisms

…as a general policy, we do not advocate the release of organisms into the environment. In most states, it is illegal to release organisms, even indigenous species, without a permit.

Extra Organisms

Every precaution was taken with your organisms during handling and packing to assure healthy living specimens. As live organisms are difficult to ship, extra specimens may have been added to this order to compensate for any that might be lost in transit.”