Seagulls + Doritos

This is just so ridiculously great.

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A seagull in Manistee, MI, has developed the habit of stealing Doritos from a neighborhood convenience store. He waits until the Manager isn’t looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos. Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds..

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The seagull’s shoplifting started early this month. Since then, he’s become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.The Manager thinks it’s great because people are coming to watch the feathered thief make the daily grab and run, and that’s good for business, and especially since customers have begun paying for the stolen bags because they think it’s so funny. However, the Manager did say, ‘This is Michigan, and if that seagull starts to grab a 6-pack o’ ‘Bud’ to go along with the Doritos, I may have to put a stop to it.’

Thanks to Rose D. for this article..

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Frito-Lay just got a free Doritos commercial and mascot on their hands. I wonder if the seagulls' faces and wings are permanently stained orange from the chips?

via michelle brook

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I've had a lot of time on my idle hands lately....due to well, not really working yet. I drew a squirrel. That is all.

Tenori-on! (aka kickass LiteBrite)

I came across the Tenori-on about a year ago but never thought that it would really take flight until today when I came across (somewhat unshamedly from the urbanoutfittersblog) an actually impressive and fun use for the thousand dollar plus synth-lite brite.

Such a good cover, I'm going to make a mental note to learn this on guitar tomorrow....maybe I can rig up some Value Village LiteBrites on some timers and foot pedals to emulate the same effect?

Always, always, always back up your work...damnit

Otherwise you end up staying up all night for no reason, an useless 136mb file on your hands, and a late project hand-in for a potential employer. There goes a good job perspective...damnit. The hunt continues.

NDFDA-TFS

Not-Designed-for-Disassembly, That's for Sure.
The need for urban living space and curiosity killed the printer. After being moved around from apartment to apartment and between three cities four times, it was time for my seven year old printer to go. But to go where? The thing still worked (unfortunately), but a free-ad on craigslist showed that nobody wanted a perfectly good printer. Where square foot in my Toronto apartment is about 4 or 5 dollars a square foot, it was actually costing me money and space to hang on to the beast. So what do you do with a decent printer that you no longer need? You take it apart!

It took me about 3 hours over 2 nights to fully take the bastard apart. I found a few interesting things inside the printer, but I think the most ridiculous was a huge 1/2" felt pad on the bottom of the housing whose sole job was to soak up excess ink that arrived via a tube. No wonder I always ran out of ink so quickly!

So THAT's were all my ink went!

I also salvaged a few freebies from the inside, including 4 motors, a really shiny inanimate steel rod, and some gears. Random? yeah......it is.

There were a few parts that I just couldn't take apart no matter how hard I pulled and smashed. Ultimately I found an approximate 38 screws, 50+ plastic parts, 30+ metal parts, 6 parts that I just couldn't figure out how to disassemble/destroy, and 4 motors that I will probably fashion into another robot in the near future.

Printer carnage.

7.11 Pingu - Eskimo Disco

No one can resist Pingu, emo penguins (@ 3:05 of the vid), and really, any type of dancing claymation.

Copy e'vy'ting!

Painting that I got in Hong Kong. Real (toxic!) oil painting, real smile, real e'vy'ting!

As some may know, or little will know, as probably nobody reads this......but anyway, as some may know, I spent two months over the summer working in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen itself is an interesting place itself, and I'll probably talk more about it over time as I run out of ideas, but I wanted to mention this little unknown village called Dafun Village (30 minutes beside Shenzhen). Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to hit it up while I was there, but it is definitely on my list of "stuff to do if I ever make it back into China before I die" list.

Basically, Dafen Village is a village that exists purely to create "bootleg" or copy paintings. The village boasts 600 art-packed stores, 8000 skilled artists (which is pretty much the make-up of the village's population), and pumps out 5000 copy Mona Lisa's a week. The paintings that some of the artists produce are actually really amazing quality. Although I didn't get a chance to check out the village, I did get a chance to bargain the socks off of some guy for a few paintings (which I'm sure are from Dafen). I've yet to figure out who the painter is, but I picked up a couple of his paintings, or at least copies of them, to give out to some family and friends.


Check out neat vid.