Mad Scientist Pumpkin Build

October 22nd, 2013

I recently volunteered to make a craft pumpkin (not an actual gourd with guts) for our daughter’s 3rd grade class. Each class is making a pumpkin, and all the pumpkins will be raffled off at the school’s Fall Festival this weekend. The best pumpkin will win a prize for the class. Claire’s class picked the theme “Mad Scientist”.

I had originally thought I’d be able to spend a little time over the course of several days planning and building things out. But as often happens in our hectic lives, other priorities kept coming up, and this ended up being an 11th-hour dash. The pumpkin was due to be delivered to the class on Monday morning, and I basically did the build between 8:00 p.m. and midnight on Sunday.

I managed to take a few pictures to document my progress, so I thought I’d share them here.

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By your command

October 7th, 2013

Just got my Easy-Macro lens for my iPhone. Fastest Kickstarter reward delivery I’ve seen!

Chicken and Rice Casserole Recipe | Simply Recipes

October 1st, 2013

I cooked this for dinner tonight, but instead of sherry, I substituted some Sam Adams Octoberfest beer. It was yummeh. Our kids liked it, too!

Chicken and Rice Casserole Recipe | Simply Recipes

Pumpkin spice latte

September 29th, 2013

Homemade pumpkin spice latte.

S’mores time

September 28th, 2013

Making s’mores in the back yard

Au Naturale

September 25th, 2013

Loving this cool rainy weather.

Geese

September 24th, 2013

Geese don’t mind the rain.

Easy 6502 by skilldrick

September 23rd, 2013

Blast from the past. I was more into the 6809 processor in my Radio Shack Color Computer. It was like the 6502’s big brother, a sort of 8/16-bit hybrid.

Easy 6502 by skilldrick

The World in 1K

September 23rd, 2013

Mind. Blown. (view source)

The World in 1K

explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their help text

September 23rd, 2013

Confused about what a Linux command actually does? Paste it into explainshell, and it will break it down for for you.

explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their help text