Archive for April 16th, 2006

Make Your Keyboard Grow

If you remember back to the Office/Cube Pranks post there was the living keyboard. Here is the tutorial on how to create this work of art.

Gigapxl

The Gigapxl Project has done many amazing things. I will not begin to start them here, that is what their website is for. Capturing some amazing pictures in the highest digital resolution on earth is breathtaking, but I realized another awesome use for these pictures. With a few minutes in Photoshop you can crop these pictures down and create some awesome dual monitor wallpapers. I haven’t found any really good sites for dual monitor wallpapers, and the pictures on Gigapxl are amazing. Also I must ask where are the Chicago skyline, and New York skyline pictures on that site…hmm.

I Miss Chicago.

Well I’ve been home from Chicago sense last Wednesday. I have to say I do miss that town. People in Chicago were so friendly, it was quite nice. The Museaum of Science and Industry I thought was good, but in all honestly I was disappointed in some areas. As a kid I did model trains, and I have always loved everything about trains. When I saw they had a train exhibit I was all pumped, The Great Train Story, it was not what I was hoping for. It was a huge model train layout showing trains going for Chicago to Seattle. That was cool, but I was hoping for more. The Coal Mine was also very disappointing. Maybe I just have high standards or my childhood was more hands on than many kids. Now the Toy Maker 3000, that impressed me. It might be the fact that machines have always amazed me, and that my father had a machine shop when I was little, and my brother is going to school to become a mechanical engineer. Basically the core of the exhibit is an assembly line that makes toy tops. For five dollars you can have a top custom made for you in front of you very eyes, I got one for my brother because he enjoys cool things like that. It was very cool watching the machines make all the small motions very accurately and quickly, and an exhibit that I could watch for hours.

I never did get a chance to go up to the observatory on the Hancock Tower or the Sears Tower. Hopefully in October if I do go downtown I will be able to do that. But I did get a few pictures of the town off the might camera phone.