Old TV panel transforms kid’s bed into awesome spaceship

What could be more fun for a little kid than getting to drift off to sleep in your own amazing spaceship? That’s the feeling five year old Finn must get each night, ever since his dad used some old discarded TV broadcast gear to create this fantastic spaceship bed.

The panel is a Grass Valley video switcher, which a friend of Finn’s dad had fished out of a dumpster behind a local TV station. It probably cost the TV station more than the price of a house when it was new, but today it’s apparently worth nothing. Don’t tell that to Jeremiah Gorman, who used the switcher to make the spaceship control panel.

I totally want this, just not as the master bed — I’d never get a wink of sleep.

#wheee

Don’t judge people based on what you would do.

#protip

Darn comic bookstore closes at 7pm on Friday night. What the what is wrong with people?

#comics

“My left ball could build a typewriter that my right ball could use to write a better article than this.”

“A comment so inspiring that somebody dropped by to illustrate it.”

#funnies

Holy Crap, Someone Made a Real-Life Pixar Desk Lamp

Great news for anyone who’s ever dreamed of their boring desk lamp coming to life as their lovable sidekick. Inspired by the animated Luxo lamp that greets moviegoers at the start of every Pixar film, Adam Ben-Dror, Shanshan Zhou, and Joss Doggett created the Pinokio lamp which moves and reacts to its environment with what appears to be genuine emotions.

It’s similar the Pixar’s Luxo Junior but with more awesome.

#awesomeness

If you’re not getting what you need from someone, stop needing it.

#justice

The craziest Craigslist posts of 2012—now with more dragon

Each year, Craigslist users across the country flag their favorite classified ads for inclusion in the “best of” category. The bar to inclusion is high, but somehow each year America comes through with memorable postings that remind us just why we went ahead with this whole Web 2.0 thing.

This year was no exception.

If you don’t browse the best of craigslist, you’re hilarity is not ensuing.

#craigslist

Cat, don’t say a fucking word.

#axetogrind

And it has been since early December that I know of. This doesn’t bid well for Google’s flagship tablet. I may have clicked “Buy” on a whim with my Christmas dollars if I could have.

Note to Google — the iPad isn’t out of stock and I doubt if Apple would let it be during the holiday season, let alone for the whole month.

#hardware

Audio (MP3): 20121226 - When the scales of criticism

I’m sure I’ve said this out loud before but I’ll write it for those who haven’t had the pleasure.

I’m as emotionally stable as the next emotionally stable person when it comes to the negative variety of criticism. I can take a harsh word and a lash of the tongue without a flinch. Fine, good, whatever.. Let it roll on by after a review.

With the caveat being that when the scales of criticism sway to the pessimistic polarity and hang indefinitely, I tend to flip the monocle back on to the contributor.

News should/needs to be tempered with both good and bad seasonings lest one overdoses on salt.

#relationships #diariespodcast