Don't worry about me, mistress! I have new friends now. I had hoped to tell you some other way, but I've fused with Turbo, Ski and Torch. Ski says I don't have to be your cabana boy anymore.
posted by scuba (a throwbot) at 9:14 AM

Oops. I won an ebay auction that I really didn't think I would. Still less than retail or Brickbay. Mostly.










posted by Kyle Beatty at 8:26 AM

Although I have spent a little more than I wanted to, I now have the means to provide the Bionicles with a real challenge. Tarakava? Bah! Mana? Bah and bah again! From the depths of a package from Illinois will come a creation so terrible, so ruthless, so, so, so ... really, really mean! that even working together with their rivals, the Throwbots and Roboriders, they cannot hope to prevail! Muah ah ha ha ha!
posted by Kyle Beatty at 9:03 AM

Your strange words dismay us, fleshling. Return my servant, Scuba, and we will overlook this mad talk.
posted by Gali (a toa) at 11:21 AM

You amuse me, Gali. I'll sort your parts last.
posted by Kyle Beatty at 3:00 PM

The project was to time-lapse film a block of ice melting. The gag was that I had frozen a Bionicle inside. I had hoped that the time-lapse would look like the figure was emerging from the ice. Well, it didn't. The ice just melted and that's what it looked like. It was interesting from a "how DOES ice melt" perspective, but it had no drama at all. Oh, it melts strictly from the outside in. If there is a supporting structure (say, a Bionicle) it will melt UP. So, the ice just shrinks.

The first test was a disk of ice with Kopaka. That fell over several times. It was pretty amusing to watch it skid around as the center of gravity changed. It quickly became annoying. The second test was a tall cone of ice with the Fire guy. This actually went very smoothly. For almost the entire melting, the block of ice was supported by the model's feet. The first thing that melted was the bottom of the cylinder where it touched the drain plate. So, here's this quart of ice with two little feet sticking out.

The cam set up is a bit disarrayed, it'll take a little doing to get it back in order.
posted by Kyle Beatty at 8:37 AM

Second in a series of photos of freshly baked bread. Consistency is the key word here.


posted by Kyle Beatty at 12:26 PM

Little children came to my door asking for work. It was positively Dickensian. I sent them away without a copper.
posted by Kyle Beatty at 2:27 PM

Web cams are off on a project. They'll be back tonight.


posted by Kyle Beatty at 9:24 AM

The Bionicle toy known as Onua fell off my desk onto a fan that was sitting on the floor. Not to worry! No harm done. Amazingly, his claws stuck in the finger guards in the most realistic way:






posted by Kyle Beatty at 9:16 AM

The fridge door will be replaced. Hooray! No mere service representative has a chance against Ginny. That's gotta eat into the ol' profit margin. Oh well.
posted by Kyle Beatty at 12:32 PM

A lady bug came into my house! I put it outside.


posted by Kyle Beatty at 2:12 PM

Gali can be pretty mean to her devoted priest Nokama.



posted by Kyle Beatty at 6:50 PM

Danish toy in a Danish freezer:


posted by Kyle Beatty at 7:06 PM

You can make a cool spider MOC from Onua but bad things happen:


posted by Kyle Beatty at 7:50 PM

The new fridge has arrived. It is all that was promised. A fine, efficient refrigerator with a small footprint.



One problem - the stainless steel door has a blemish. A smudge, a scratch, an oops. But it's right in the damn middle of the door! Argh!

Lookit here.
posted by Kyle Beatty at 5:35 PM

And another poll. This poll is harder to answer because I already own all the obvious must-haves. This is a battle between tadpoles in a shrinking puddle. Or something.
posted by Kyle Beatty at 6:52 PM

Order has been restored to the webcam universe at least for a little while. I don't know what these machines were doing while I was at work.
posted by Kyle Beatty at 9:22 PM