Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

Big props to Dave for this awesome rendering of me as the happy-go-lucky cyborg. I think "Larry the cynical cyborg" has a better ring to it, probably due to its alliteration, but alas, I am not so very cynical and so this is much more accurate.

<---Notice maintenance hatch on chest. This has the extremely usefull features of not only allowing me to work on my wiring and reboot my systems when they lock up, but it also gives full access to my OGS (Organic guts stuff). It can even make light work of weight loss, allowing one to merely open up the hatch and pull the offending tissue out with one's super cool cyborg hand- a feature which, as you can see by this picture, I have allready put to good use.

Also, I'm bullet proof, I think. Few more tests...

Thanks again Dave, your the man.

Peace out,

----Mr. Roboto

P.S.: If you don't get the title, "Mr. Roboto" it is the title of an old song by a band named The Styx. You HAVE to go listen to it. It is requried listening; resistance is futile. If you do not, my evil cousin, Lore, will come and kill you. (Let's see if anyone gets that sci-fi reference....)

New theories of flight: Why didn't I think of that?

This is my brother:



For a period of several days, he continually badgered me about putting up a full description of his craft and it's technological and scientific break throughs. Many an occasion he would come up to me, and with out context start telling me new features of his creation or of motifications to its principles of operation. He wanted for me to be sure to pass them on.

However, so fast is my brother's pace of innovation that I felt hard pressed to keep up. By the time he had atempted to retrofit an electric motor from a totally un-lego toyset onto the orginal body, and to make it spin the propeller by a series of ad-hoc gears, the new creation shared few simularities with the one I had photographed earlier. I checked just now and he has a winged lego creation on his mantle right now, but it is something totally other then what he had made before.

I do think though, that his creation and new discoveries were so amazing that I must put to record what they were, before it is too late. Humanity deserves it.

Let us start off with an illustration of this rocket-sled-plane juggernaut:



















First of all, as you can see, this thing is more loaded the a B-52. There are your normal everyday type of guns- the ones for shooting frontways. He's got lots of those- but of course, he also has guns for shooting directly above you. You know the circles at the bottom of legos? Yeah- in his creation, those are guns, too- for shooting people below you.

Her

Before I go on to the new laws of airflow, I have to emphasize how cool my brother's dual gun is- yeah, not only does it shoot bullets out the center, but lazers out the middle. Can your gun do that? I didn't think so.

Allright, now we get down to the real revolutionary bits of this thing. Noctice the two peices marked "Air Deflector" and "Air trap"? These work as such:

When in Normal flight, the air hits the flat up and down part of the air deflector. This causes it to go almost straight up till it hits a cloud- the air then bounces back down and flows over the wing, generating lift. This is the first aircraft to ever be flown based upon this priniple by the way- we are truly breaking new ground- err, air. Cloud deflection- who would of thunk it?!? Its genius!

The slanty part of the air deflector is for landing. Now this is clever- When you need to land, do you slow down? WRONG! You speed up! Why? Well, you see, as you speed up the air is forced over the slanted part of the air deflector, which pushes it up into the Air trap. The air trap is kind of like a parachute- if you enough air in it at the right speeds, POOF! You slow down extremely fast. And so, when making a landing, you full throttle this little baby until air starts flowing into the air trap and BAM! Your landing light as a feather, nice and easy like.

I thought all of this very clever, though when my brother disccused it with me, I asked him if the idea of a valve or flap in front of the air trap may make things easier. He said "Yeah, I was thinking of that." I think it was I who pointed out to him that if your taking off, you would get air in the air trap. He must have been thinking of this all day, for that night as I was trying to get sleep he suddenly shouted out an idea he had. It went something like this:

Little man:"Zeke! Zeke!!"
Me: "eurghhg, mubgph.
Little man: "Zeke!
Me: "Aughhdmgpph... what?"
Little man: "You know how yike (my brother's way of saying like) if you were trying to take off-"
Me: "Wait, dude... is this about the rocket-sled?"
Little man: "Yeah!"
Me: "Ok..."
Little man: "Well, you know how yike if you are trying to take off you are speeding up and speeding up and speeding up?"
Me: "Yeah.."
Little man: "Well actually if I had the air go up like that it would not work. It would not, because it would be like woOop-EIErrn! It would be like speed slow down so it would not take off."
Me: "Yeah, ok..."
Little man: "Well actually, you know how it yeally (thats my bro's way of saying 'really') would take off then? You know those guns on the bottom that can shoot people? Well actually, those would just all shoot at the same time yeally yeally hard and so it would get up into the air, then it would fly."
Me: "Good idea little man- now I want to go to bed. Its ten o-clock."

Topics topics everywhere, but not a drop to post?

So I didn't expect this happening...

Right now I have three really good things to blog about. I want to do them all justice, but alas, I am a lazy butt.

First of all let me apologize in advance to Anders and anyone else who is still part of the dial-up sufferage- there is alot of pictures here. Here is a tidbit of each of them, and because, as I have mentioned before, I am a lazy butt, this may be all you get. Dissapointed? Well then, beg for more.

Ok, foist of all.... I had aLLLOOT of fun fixing my friends computer...


Yeah... thats on MY computer.... The malware was amazingly agile. Mind you, I had TWO antivirus programs on the computer to stop them from even getting that far in the first place.
This story I suppose would be called "The computer from Hell" or "Galen's Bane" or maybe something like "#@#$%#&$ VIRUSES!" if it had a title. The story it amazing, even though I won in the end... albiet a bit battered, but I won none the less. I have to write this one up later, even if it is just for my own theriputic reasons...

Other good story is of my brothers creation:



This is Little Man's "Flying Rocket-sled-ship". Quite a mouthful, but it well deserves its title. This thing has it all- Shields, machine guns, lazers, redundant gas tanks (and gas tank bombs). My brother's brain has the most amazing blend of imagination and engineering. The best feature of this aircraft is probably its aerodynamic design- no, really. My brother explained to me all about the airflow and how it worked- I think he even taught me some things I didn't know about lift. I'll tell 'em to you later, if I get a chance, as well as give you an entire description of its features and which bricks do which.

Well its hard to top that, but this is something I'm kinda proud of:


My new case! (Thanks Mr. Deer!)

I got that thing wired up last night... though one of the Front usb ports I messed up on.

Oi, so ends my oversized post. If you guys want any more of these stories, either pay me one low monthly rate of $14.95 for the extra content plus a Uttereast.blogspot.com mug, or show me some love in the comments.

----Me.

Big post coming... make a note to not visit soon

Big post coming... for half of you(the geek half), it will be more exciting then the superbowl . For the rest of you, sleep in or visit some other site. Its going to be unapologetically geeky.

In the meantime... My sister got the entire first season of the muppets show on DVD with some of her Christmas money. What a great show! The writing is so great on that program and it's genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. I wish they were still on the air.

This is the opening to one of the greatest shows ever concieved:


And here is a great big group shot:

Wish I could get some good screen caps from the show or even video clips. Maybe later.

Sax player muppet (to dancer with poofy scarf thing): Hey, whats long, hairy and has one eye and sharp teeth?
Dancer: Mmm... I don't know, what?
Sax player muppet: I dunno either, but your wearing it!
Scarf thing: HEY TOOTS! (Jumps off of dancer)