Bots over Brooklyn

We had a wonderful visit to Brooklyn in July. Some of the high points:

Got to see brother Bill in a production of Hamlet in J.J. Byrne park in front of The Old Stone House. It was a perfect summer night, and the performance was very enjoyable despite the tragic plot. There are so many familiar quotes from that play - I'd forgotten where they came from.

Did you know there are fireflies in the city? We saw several playing hide-and-seek between folks spread out on the lawn to watch the play. Who knew?

As the city that spawned Etsy, it should not have been a surprise that Brooklyn houses a diverse and interesting artist community. We spent quite a while window shopping. Found a very friendly LYS (local yarn store) called Knit-A-Way and dropped some cash on a few skeins of Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino. Yum! Also found a cute pair of robot earrings. Joy!

At one point, we stood transfixed by the contents of an antiques shop window which was filled with amazing robot sculptures.



Yet another thing to save my pennies for (or is that buy lottery tickets for?). But which one? Ms. Jello, Simplex 3, or Spot?? Sigh....

Shopportunity

So no good deed goes unpunished, right? I loaned my sweet Avenue A | Razorfish USB flash drive out to a co-worker. Long story short, co-worker departed with the drive and says they mailed it back. A week ago.

Excuse to go shopping? You betcha!

Reason departed, and BOTH of these sweet mimobots will be mine! Let the Empire beware...

We have a winner!!! (sort of)

Way back in April, I submitted one of my Proto the Robo brooches to the TNNA/Piecework Magazine brooch contest.

While I did not win any of the fabulous prizes, my brooch did make the group selected for display in a special exhibit - and is pictured in this month's Piecework Magazine.

Super-wohoo!

Little proto can be spotted with his 52 new friends at the Embroiderer's Guild of America Museum in Louisville, Kentucky through September 23rd, 2009.

P.S. Take note ye who scoff at the social media revolution - I found out about this contest on Twitter!!

In search of the Mecha Dunny

I have a small addiction. I've been collecting series 5 Dunnies. The lure of the blind box. The quest for the rare Dunny. I only buy one. Here and there. The problem is that most of them are really so, well, ugly. And the object of my desire is so very rare...


Surely going to the source - the Kidrobot store in NYC - would bring me luck? No soap. Drat and double drat. A duplicate Dunny!



Oh Mecha Dunny, where are you??

Finally finished with the Tab Button Jacket

Finally done after sewing in 8 million ends.

Nuff said.

RoboGames: Olympics for the circuit board crowd!

Wish I could have made it out to RoboGames 2009 in San Francisco June 12-14 this year. Looks like it was a lot of geeky fun! Now that's an Olympics I could compete in! (maybe...)

Take a peek at this documentary from the RoboGames site. Best quote "Anytime you get geeks thinking in mass, you get societal benefits from that."

Kerchief done, end-sewing commences

Finished the kerchief. Not sure I love how it looks on me, but it does keep the hair out of my face. I ended up knitting "between" sizes, and it came out a bit too big. So, I single crocheted through two layers of the band to tighten it up.

Want to try it again with a more springy yarn than the Debbie Bliss Cotton Cashmere I used. Overall, a fun, fast pattern.

Have the tab button jacket all sewn together, just need to tuck in all of the ends (how can there be so many!) and sew the pockets and button. Soooooo close!