Monday, October 31, 2011

ME∀NWHILE, IN RUSSI∀





The world seemed to have a use for daring young men in the distant past. Cat-burglar in an empty building seems like a step down.


Sunday, October 30, 2011

I Wish These Guys Spoke English, So I Could Figure Out What The Hell They Were Trying To Accomplish

(They swear a bit. I think)





Two regular Enrico Infermis discover that sparklers have a piece of metal wire as their core. I love that they conduct their experiments on a carpeted floor. They're currently (sorry) working on a cold fusion/warm beer experiment that should revolutionize garage life forever.



Tuesday, October 25, 2011

There's Cool, And Then There's...




There's Clint Eastwood cool. Mild sorts of cool, like Fonzie. Cool like Godfather movies. Rat Pack cool. Way up the scale, there's things like Miles Davis cool. But at the apex, it's gotta be a robot riding a bicycle.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Oh Dear; They've Found Mates And Are Reproducing




She told him it was their mad bike skills they found so attractive, but it was probably the Beemer.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

'Tis The Season




If the Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys had a Mount Rushmore, I'd have to climb up it tomorrow and start chiseling these meatheads' faces on it.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011

I'm So Old, I Actually Used To Call People On My Phone And Talk To Them



"The mechanics are constructed entirely from LEGO, including four MINDSTORMS NXT kits, with the addition of a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone running a custom Android app as the robot's brain. Both the MINDSTORMS NXT kits and the Samsung Galaxy SII use a variety of ARM --based processors.

The app uses the phone's camera to capture images of each face of the Rubik's Cube which it processes to determine the scrambled colours. The solution is found using an advanced two-phase algorithm, originally developed for Speedcuber, enhanced to be multi-threaded to make effective use of the smartphone's dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 1.2GHz processor. The software finds an efficient solution to the puzzle which is optimised specifically for the capabilities of the four-grip mechanism. The app communicates via Bluetooth with software running on the ARM microprocessors in the LEGO NXT Intelligent Bricks which controls the motors driving the robot. During the physical solve, the app uses OpenGL ES on the phone's ARM Mali-400 MP GPU to display a graphical version of the cube being solved in real time."

ARM TechCon 2011

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire (Just My Pants)

(Some salty language in the soundtrack)



I never thought I'd live long enough to see "running away from the cops" eventually become an Olympic sport, but I might make it.


(Thanks to Brian Erb up in America's hat for sending that one along)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Hartebeest Actually Does What We've All Been Thinking Of Doing When A Guy Wearing Spangled Leotards Just To Ride A Bicycle Passes By




If it was a recumbent bicycle, some lions would have eaten him, too.

Don't worry overmuch about the rider. I heard he had plenty of insurance from the Hotfoot Casualty Underwriter's Insurance Company of Schenectady for just this eventuality.






(Thanks to wildman Casey Klahn for sending that one along)



Saturday, October 8, 2011

It's Not The Craw. It's The Craw




Gareth Pearson demonstrates that sometimes you have to show off, because anything less than showing off is less than your best.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Monday, October 3, 2011

Get Your Moped Runnin' - Head Out On The Highway






At this point, you see the Cyrillic alphabet in the label and you know it belongs on the BSBFB.


(Thanks to Mac daddy Van der Leun for fast-forwarding that one)