This weekend has been filled with lots of productive endeavors, among which was a spur of the moment idea to make a sculpture from several boxes of various tech-bits.

The sculpture is taking form, as a robot assembled from all sorts of junk which once sufficed as high tech. It is being leisurely assembled in an ad-hoc way...

Thanks to @Chunkylover53 and @BlueRidgeBlog for their great idea to do beer bottle snow gauges! I'm going to participate with one of my favorite Flying Dog brews, the venerable and exceptionally wild Double Dog double pale ale.

Here is my first observation photo from "close to Todd" on the New River:

I was fortunate enough today to finally work with the masters, get under the lights, and have my gnarly mug (or a fraction thereof) snapped by the official university photographers! The outcome is really cool, and I particularly enjoyed the impromptu lighting...

I've been computing and geeking so long- even my mamma thinks that my mind is gone. I'm also proud to be full of some serious 'shine-runnin', 'grass-pickin', and genuine backwoods hillbilly genes, and suchlike.

To phrase a question that will read the same to both hillbillies and technologists: What happens when the two are mashed up? ;-)

Monday, November 30, 2009 is the infamous Blue Beanie Day. I don't have a blue beanie, but BLUE is my favorite color! I've been studying this phenomenon, and more relevantly, the latest in sociological interactions amongst the perceived "God of Next Web" and the boggin'ed gent from NY whose likeness I sort of distilled down into a contemporary CCCP propaganda poster, which you can see by clicking this post's title or Read more below.