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The Hive13 Hackerspace

matt — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:59:49 +0000

I am proud to say I’m a member of the Hive13 Hackerspace and this video should clue you in as to why. Tinkering with hardware is a ton of fun, and even without any real active projects going the Hive is a great resource for minds, ideas, and a great space to work on electronic projects of all shapes and sizes. Everything I need has always been there, though some of it was (of course) stuff I donated from my personal collection.

Hive13 from Soapboxmedia.com on Vimeo.

Oh how I wish this would happen to me…

matt — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:45:32 +0000

Signs
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Yes. I am such a girl when it comes to things romantic.

Mom Sent Me Cookies

matt — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:59:04 +0000

Eskimos = Awesome

matt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:57:07 +0000

Those who know me pretty will know this piqued my interest in post-apocalyptic survival techniques:

Impressive, no? I doubt you or I could pull off making warm shelter in the same environment.

Bork bork bork

matt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:19:53 +0000

Maybe it’s all the classical I’ve been listening to as of late, but this was absolutely hilarious and really brightened my morning. Borka Borka Bork.

Photoshop Experiments

matt — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:31:59 +0000

I wondered if I still had my knack for using Photoshop, and I knew there was much more to learn that I’d never picked up before. This week I read a lot of photoshop tutorials, but the most important thing I never learned to use before: Brushes. I have NO idea how I’ve missed out this feature, and this week I discovered a few tutorials/videos on how to make photoshop do all sorts of things with my Wacom tablet that my ex-wife got me so many years ago. I’d really not been utilizing it enough. Without further delay, though, I’ll get to the art:

Promotional Artwork for Arsclan.net Turkey Shoot 2008 (my favorite camping trip):

Playing around with pixels & streaks, from the 3D Pixel Effects tutorial:

Playing around with grunge brushes, sunbursts, and making a new banner for the Ars Brute Squad:

And one from way back when I first started playing with brushes:

Comments are appreciated! Thank you.

Dan Rather nails why mainstream news sucks

matt — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:39:12 +0000

And now you have why I don’t watch the news.

Doomsday Vault

matt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:41:21 +0000

I have previously presented discourse in the area of discipline known to pessimists as “we’re fucked”, but we’ll go there again just in case you missed it the first time. But before I segue into the rambling you’re probably expecting, let me say that if Smart People think that we need something like this seed vault, we’re more screwed than I thought. Without further adieu, I link the Doomsday Seed Vault.