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April 13, 2012
Friday Five 4/13/12
Breaking china in slow-motion
Slingshots vs. a tea set + slow-motion = yeah!
Awesome marble machines
I wish I had the skills and patience to build these sort of things, but I have big dumb clumsy hands. I’ll study these for when I make my homemade pinball machine though.
All the jumps from Dukes of Hazzard
The title says it all. It’s like every episode was just an excuse to throw this car off a ramp.
The Hubos perform Come Together
Jonah and I were listening to Kraftwerk the other day and he came up to me a day or so later and asked to hear the robots again. So I tried to play him some more Kraftwerk and he got agitated and kept pulling out our copy of Abbey Roads and talking about Come Together (one of his favorites). I couldn’t figure out what he wanted to listen because he kept talking about robots playing the Beatles song. After some extensive questioning, I finally remembered THIS video which we watched like a MONTH ago. That kid has a crazy memory.
4-year-old skateboarder
Speaking of Jonah, this kid is the same age as he is, but damn if he doesn’t kick some ass. He’s better than me anyway. Jonah could probably get this good if he had a ramp in his room, too.
and now… Jonah eating pop-rocks.
April 12, 2012
April 11, 2012
Jonah receives an award
Jonah was nominated for Student of the month at his school for “Outstanding Social Studies Student” Here’s what their teacher had to say:
Here he is getting his picture for the paper with the other winners from the other schools:
So proud 
Work from Home Wednesdays: April Fools Treasure Hunt
One day last month, while checking the mail, I saw a note sitting on the floor in the hallway of our apartment building.
I am a found object enthusiast, so I opened it up and it lead me to another note… and another… and eventually to a small treasure trove of trinkets: a quarter, a plastic dinosaur, a jelly bracelet, a mini candy bar. I took my reward (the plastic dinosaur which I gave to Jonah) and left a note saying that I would return the favor with a treasure hunt of my own.
If you follow my instagram (and you should: todorrobot duh!), you might have noticed a string of not particularly interesting photos taken around my apartment complex a few weeks ago.
I used these as points on a map of the first floor (I was able to convince the property manager to give me a photocopy of the apartment building layout) and wrote instructions to look at each location for stickers pointing to a letter that, when strung together, would reveal the location of the final treasure. I was particularly proud of the “K” in the “No Parking” sign that can really only be seen if you look at it from the side.
I placed the stickers (reminder…yard sale price stickers are TOO sticky and leave residue when removed) and left a handful of printed maps in the common area on April 1. Then I hid a loot pile in LOCKER 181 on the 2ND FLR (our apartment building is an old high school and the lockers are still in the hallways). When I checked back in the evening, most of the goodies were gone.
I’ve built treasure hunts like this before, two for the RTD (neither of which got used ) and one for a church youth group (that almost burned the rec room down when they were using candles to reveal invisible ink), but this is my first attempt in Michigan under my Ravenchase-esque name Red Heron. I hope to do a few more small scale tests and eventually construct a city-wide puzzle centered around Main Street Eaton Rapids in the next year or so.
April 10, 2012
366 Page Comic Challenge 101/366
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Inspired by my 30 Characters Challenge from last year. Here, I picked 5 characters randomly from my list and wrote a story about them. I want to explore more Warrior of the Purple Dunes at some point, which was inspired by this photo:
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April 9, 2012
#musicmonday Kraftwerk – Die Roboter
Kraftwerk – Die Roboter
One of my favorite Kraftwerk songs. I love Kraftwerk’s aethetic.
lyrics under the cut
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