Distraction Mouse started life under my pillow. Okay, I think technically he started life in a Chinese factory. He has a plastic core with something inside that rattles. He’s covered in rabbit fur (rabbits that were used for culinary purposes). But in our house, he started life under my pillow. We have a kitten … Continue reading RIP Distraction Mouse
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Building light-up R2D2 mouse ears (May the Fourth)
I basically grew up at Disneyland. As a kid, my family lived about 20 minutes away and we’d get to go twice a year: once on my birthday and once on my sister’s. In my 20s, I had an annual pass and would go on the weekends, or just pop by for an hour after work … Continue reading Building light-up R2D2 mouse ears (May the Fourth)
Son of RatRacer: Mouse Car
After the initial failure described in yesterday’s blog post about the RatRacer, I thought I would scale down the problem a bit. I figured it would be easier to iterate through design tweaks when big parts took 20 minutes to print versus 120 minutes per part. If I ended up with a sound design for … Continue reading Son of RatRacer: Mouse Car
On designing and building the Rat Racer
As you might have guessed from the previous post about attic rats, I had a few leftover rat traps. And what does one do with leftover traps? I supposed you could do something cool with ping pong balls, but I did not have nearly enough traps or ping pong balls. I have a vague childhood … Continue reading On designing and building the Rat Racer
The one annoyance of a side-pinned OS X dock
Most people I know that run OS X keep their icon dock on one side of the screen or the other. By default, the dock sits at the bottom, but moving it over to the side gives you a bit more screen space. Most monitors are widescreen, giving you many more pixels left-to-right than they … Continue reading The one annoyance of a side-pinned OS X dock
The mice I dislike -or- looking for a new mouse (suggestions?)
I’m having a bit of difficulty finding a mouse I like at work. I really enjoy the magic mouse on my Macs at home, but at work I share time between a Windows and Linux system. Under Linux, you really need a center mouse button. There is a way to kludge a solution for a … Continue reading The mice I dislike -or- looking for a new mouse (suggestions?)
The food chain in action
“There is a mouse-width trough through my loaf of bread. I think our cats are defective.” -me, 2008-10-07 It now appears that we have a pair of mousers. Last weekend, Kim discovered that Norman caught a mouse in the back yard. I don’t find the video disturbing–if I hadn’t known it was a real mouse, … Continue reading The food chain in action
Dead Rats + Soldering Iron = Fun?
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/10/It seems that all of the really good craft projects start out with “be warned, this is another extremely graphic tutorial … Continue reading Dead Rats + Soldering Iron = Fun?
Mice and Pigs
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/03/ MEMORANDUM To: People Of Earth Att’n: Musicians Subject: War Pigs Quota Our quota for covers of War Pigs has been … Continue reading Mice and Pigs
Do not confuse “toga party” and “yoga party”
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2005/08/[insert typical comment that I don't write in here enough and so much has happened in the past week or two] … Continue reading Do not confuse “toga party” and “yoga party”