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The shirt is almost constructed. Because it’s such a stretchy fabric it’s a pain in the ass to work with so Jess will be handling the adjustments.
I’ve decided to hand embroider the red bloodstripe down the pants which may end up taking longer than anything else. The majority of the stripes seen here were done while watching—surprise!—Return of the Jedi.
Spent a long day in the fabric district, but I have (most of) the materials for my Han Solo costume. I found some $2/yard denim for the pants and decided on a stiff black denim for the vest. I think it’s actually supposed to be a cotton twill but the texture is about the same here. For the shirt I ended up going with an off-white spandex. Yes, it’s stretchy as all hell but I’m making a shirt out of it so it doesn’t really matter. I also went by a leather store to pick up some remnants to use for the belt/holster.
Fortunately, a lot of the research on how to make a Han Solo costume has been done for me. A brief google search pulls up all kinds of photos and notes on the original costume. I’ve got a good chuck of work ahead of me. In particular, I’m going to hand-embroider the blood stripe down the legs which will probably take a week to do.
Putting aside the problems of clogging the world with even more ads that no one wants to see, it does have a kind of cool, Blade Runner, sci-fi feel to it, you know?
If it ever does come to pass, I look forward to the inevitable plate hacking revolution to come.
This pre-series car suffered as the result of a human error in preparation of the crash, Volvo later claimed, and that had a human been driving, he or she would have noticed the system was not operating correctly.
He or she probably would have also noticed the giant truck parked up ahead.
I should really stop talking about Facebook, but it’s hard when it keeps getting more and more…creepy. On top of all that they’re also practically giving your IP address away. Whoo!
Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook’s claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of social networking sites.
God damn, Facebook. Stop it. Just…stop it.
When I moved to California, I had a hell of a time trying to guess the distance between any two points (say, Santa Clarita and Burbank) on a map. At first glance, I assumed Burbank might be a good hour away at least. Nope. Only 15-20 minutes. In fact, pretty much all of Los Angeles is within 30 minutes of home. Santa Monica is only 40. Why do I suck at reading a CA map?
Up above is central Florida as seen from Google Maps. This is how I saw my home state when I needed to find out how to get somewhere. An inch on this map (at full size) represents roughly 20 miles. There wasn’t much reason to zoom in our out much more than this.
Here’s Southern California. This is what I see when I’m getting directions somewhere. On this map an inch is only two miles, but my brain is so accustomed to how I looked at Florida that it uses the wrong scale when judging distance.
Just thought that was interesting. Class dismissed.
I’ll be damned. Police are investigating the Lost iPhone. Ian Betteridge wrote a good summary of the legal implications. One part that bugs me though is that he says Gizmodo may be off the hook if they can convince a court that they didn’t know the iPhone was lost/stolen.
Guy, they paid $5000 dollars for it, wrote articles about what it is, what it does, how they got it, exactly who lost the fucking thing, and a point-by-point explanation of why they’re certain the phone belongs to Apple.
I’m no lawyer, but come on…
I feel silly throwing my hat in to the ‘Roger Ebert, Video Games Can Never Be Art’ ring, considering the number of hats already in it at this point. Even Penny-Arcade has joined in. They made the most salient point in the whole debate though: Who gives a shit what some old guy who’s never played a video game thinks about video games? He may as well argue that a television is just flashing lights and noise that can never reach the level of radio, or that writing will ruin oral tradition.
