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This time Phil :
www.flickr.com/photos/brucewaynelego/
made me build something i was crazy about as a kid.
Inspector Gadget:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-JHfXVlkik
Geeking out on how to build this damn car i can tell you guys, it is not easy to build something that looks kind of ugly and make it still look good.
Took me some time to figure out how to do tthe transformation, but you know me!
I am always on duty ;)
Go Go Gadget!
After numerous meetings about the problems and successes of Wayne Enterprises I finally managed to get down to applied sciences to see Fox. There he informed me that he had ensured that all of the necessary equipment was sent back to the Manor. Good job I tipped him off that a search of all departments would be carried out today in response to my comments to Uncle Marcus. By all accounts Uncle Marcus only asked for a search of applied sciences. I guess only applied sciences deals with this type of exo-suit so the thief most likely resides in that department. I’ll need to check the staff list for applied sciences when I get back to the cave to see who would have the need to sell the prototype equipment. Whilst at applied sciences I inform Fox about how effective his suit is with how much trouble it gave me. He seems somewhat pleased by this. I then inform him of the problems that have persisted through the use of the bat-suit. If there’s one way to tempt Fox to commit to a difficult task, it’s to mention flaws with his work. His desire for perfection will not allow him to repeat the same mistake, perfect for creating my new suit. If I am to be able to deal with more opponents such as the one in the exo-suit I’ll need a less cumbersome suit. Rather than take a punch head on I’d prefer to avoid it all together, and hopefully the new suit will allow that.
As I leave Wayne Tower I notice spit on Uncle Marcus’ car. I guess Alfred has been waiting a bit if he’s had time to show his dislike of Uncle Marcus. I enter the car and we head back to the Manor. I enquire with Alfred as to how long he’s been waiting for me. He gives his infamous ‘long enough to do what I needed line’ basically confessing he spat on the car. He’s had a haircut whilst I was in my meetings. Good. He has a habit of letting these things pass him by whilst he’s helping me whilst I’m out on the streets. This crusade I’ve undertaken has consumed my life, the last thing I want is for it to consume Alfred’s also. No one deserves that.
Back at the Manor I notice the large shipping crates. The crates are ambiguous. No Wayne Enterprises markings on them and they’re sealed tightly shut. Good. If it were ever to be revealed that Bruce Wayne and Batman are one in the same, the last thing I would want is for Wayne Enterprises to be ruined as a result. My Father built that company, and the last thing I want is to ruin it. There would be no greater disgrace to his memory. Perhaps that’s why I choose to allow Uncle Marcus to run the company, because I secretly know that I am not the person to ensure this company survives. I can stay on the streets and attempt to clean them up in the name of my Father but at the end of the day my Father’s legacy will be Wayne Enterprises, not the Batman.
Alfred has the crates brought down to the cave and I open them all. In every crate there is a different item. It reminds me of those early Christmas’. The joys of opening up presents not knowing whether it would be the latest remote control car model, or a plastic toy gun. Looking at it now, the gifts haven’t really changed beyond simply being repurposed for my quest to save Gotham. In the largest crate there is the new prototype engine Fox had been developing for one of Wayne Enterprise’s military contracts. The perfect heart for what I plan to build. The engine is electric and is designed to generate electricity whilst it moves and store a reserve in the event that the generators fail as well as to ensure that the car will start. I fire the engine up and it’s silent. Perfect.
The second crate contains dozens of the new cowl designs. They appear identical to the ones I have worn previously in terms of structure, but in terms of composition they are far from that. According to Fox it is made from a specially designed polymer that contains traces of lead to help strengthen the cowl thus ensuring that it will not shatter as easily as my previous cowls have. According to Fox I could simply fight crime by head butting every criminal I encounter on the streets and the cowl would still be in tact. A tempting prospect, but one that I shall probably never need to test. My moves are focused more around using my arms and legs are both my sword and also my shield.
The remaining crates contain a variety of new gadgets Fox has created. It’s amazing what his mind can create if it’s allowed to run free. In one of the boxes there is a gun. I’m not one to use guns but Fox knows this, so when I pull the trigger a deafening screech emits from the gun and most of the bats in the cave fly off in fear. A sonic cannon. Interesting. Not sure what I can use it for, but I’m certain that a need will come. Another houses what appear to be a new version of my gauntlets? Fox wouldn’t of given me these without having some form of twist to them. What could he have done?
I place the gauntlets on top of my suit and as I’m putting on them a note falls out of the left gauntlet from Lucius. ‘I’d use these on a practice dummy to see how they work. Just point and press the inside button’. What have you gotten up to in your spare time Lucius? Sure enough I head over to the training area and I line a practice dummy up before pressing the button. Immediately a taser launches out of the gauntlet and shocks the practice dummy. This will certainly be useful.
With all these new toys I was very keen to hit the streets and try them out. So I swiftly suited up and as the clock struck 10 pm the Dark Knight headed into Gotham…
Sure, iPods are cool and everybody loves them, but sometimes I'm in the mood for the old, sturdy and reliable sony minidisc. It's a shame I don't have the headphones anymore.
This time Phil :
www.flickr.com/photos/brucewaynelego/
made me build something i was crazy about as a kid.
Inspector Gadget:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-JHfXVlkik
Geeking out on how to build this damn car i can tell you guys, it is not easy to build something that looks kind of ugly and make it still look good.
Took me some time to figure out how to do tthe transformation, but you know me!
I am always on duty ;)
Go Go Gadget!
My iPod progression. 1st gen circa Nov 2001 then 1st gen iPhone circa Aug 2007. Original iPod still works beautifully.
OurDailyChallenge Gadget
This gadget belonged to my FIL. As you say, the plane blade was clamped into the slot in the leading edge and the screw that controls the roller could be adjusted so that the bevel on the blade was at the correct angle. The second part of this tool was an oil stone that was large enough to accept the tool with enough length to allow it to be run back and forth on the stone, thus sharpening the blade.
Neat eh?
For any of you trying to read the embossed words, they are "MELHUISH LONDON"
File name: 10_03_000896a
Binder label: Leisure - Reading, Travel
Title: Read! Pro Bono [front]
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 14 x 9 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Dwarfs; Gadgets
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Shot for the ODC theme "Gadgets".
This is my HTC HD2 sitting on top of my cheapo Android 10 inch tablet. Quite tricky to get the two lots of text to line up(it's still not perfect) and I couldn't find a (quick) way to light it that didn't result in a load of flare or reflections, so there is a lot of black edge on display here!
Le maine coon est une race de chat à poil long originaire de l'État du Maine aux États-Unis. Ce chat au physique rustique est caractérisé par sa grande taille, sa queue en panache, son museau carré, ses oreilles avec plumets et son poil long. Wikipédia
This is a post in response to several threads in the Strobist group (I have seen it pop up on UTATA and the Canon DSLR User Group as well) asking how does one connect a Pocket Wizard or an E-bay Trigger to a Brand-X flash.
The key component in use here is the Wein HSH ( which sells for about $30). As Dave Hobby mentions in a post from Sept. 2006 this little device lets you connect a flash without a PC-synch terminal on it (Sigma EF-500 DG Super users I'm looking at you) to a variety of trigger devices. This allows me to use my flash with:
The advantage of the house-hold connection is it is a lot stronger than a standard PC connection. As also mentioned in the post, another nice feature of these adapters is they have a 1/4 x 20 mounting thread on the bottom. Since the bodies are aluminum they make for a sturdy flash mount.
I connect my flash to the Gadget Infinity triggers via a standard PC-to-HH sync cord. I just let the trigger hang by the cord because it is so light. This helps solve two of the annoyances of these triggers:
1. It provides for a more solid flash mount
2. It brings the flash more in line with the center of the umbrella.
Using a small length of zip cord, a house-hold plug (bought from the hardware store for $1), and standard 1/8 mini-plug (Radio Shack for $1.50) I made my own sync cable. I can now connect my Pocket Wizards to any flash.
taken for Our Daily Challenge - gadget
Let's see if anybody recognizes this special item. It was given to me by a doctor friend. :)
This IS a sonic screwdriver. Fans of Dr. Who recognized it as the all purpose tool which has gotten our favorite Time Lord out of many a jam.
> No cassette deck has ever been an oil painting, but early examples of the breed were particularly nasty to look at. Seventies top-loaders were fussy and a pain to use, while front-loaders looked brash and imposing. As for the machines' mechanics, forget it. Crude and clunky, they only served to confirm cassette's status as the poor relation of open-reel.
My submission for week 23/52 of the 2010 Challenge. The theme is GADGETS.
Tuning peg on a bass, shot with a 10x diopter on a 50mm lens. There's a lot of dust on this -- guess it hasn't been tuned in a while....
Strobist: bare single strobe from camera top/left, just skimming across the surface, triggered w a cactus wireless.
David Jefferies
kitchen gadgets essay
081031 {yymmdd}
When we are small, kitchen craft is taken care of by the parents or other house-occupants without our conscious awareness. Food arrives, plates are cleaned, and the idea that any of this takes effort never enters our little heads. When we grow up and set up a home of our own, we unconsciously copy the habits we learned when small, even if this was appropriate decades before, and there is no reason to go on doing things that way.
Then the advertisers move in. They suggest the latest tin-opener, genuinely designed, so they say, to open tins rather than people. They promote orange juice squeezers, and suggest electric waffle-irons for cooking cheese-and-ham paninis. These ideas seem good, particularly when reinforced by our friends and acquaintances who have more experience and money than we seem to possess. The result is that our kitchen gradually fills up with electric gadgets; with exotic devices for cutting and opening, and even large "white goods" representing significant capital investment.
Experience tells us that the usual fate of most of these devices is to be used for a few months and then abandoned. Then, what to do with them becomes the issue. We feel unwilling to chuck them away, and selling them is not very feasible - it seems to the potential purchaser be like using recycled loo-paper. Not a good idea at all. So gradually, little by little, the kitchen fills up with unused and unwanted mathoms.
Even worse, one's well-meaning friends drift through and spot a gap in our kitchen goods market. Gifts of further unwanted equipment arrive. Often these have had a prior life as unwanted utensils in other people's kitchens. And one never wants to throw away the inherited pots, pans, crockery from Victoria's reign, and that marvellous coffee percolator made by Russell Hobbes in 1963 that has always leaked, and makes revolting coffee, but the china jug is Poole Pottery and might one day be a valuable museum piece.
As with most familiar objects, unwanted kitchen detritus works its way into the background of our being, into our expectations of order, and becomes part of the family. On the other hand, the things used regularly, the oven, the hob, the dishwasher, the sludge-gulper, the toaster, the coffee espresso machine, and the microwave oven, never elevate themselves into our consciousness as mere "gadgets". By definition, a "gadget" is a one-day wonder, of little use long term, and just a talking point for visitors.
Sometimes one's gadget provokes such a reaction in a visitor that it is re-elevated to a condition of service. One spends a happy half hour showing off what it will do; what visitor is not going to be impressed by a freshly-baked loaf of bread in the Breville breadmaker? But this enthusiasm seldom lasts.....
Generally, kitchen gadgets are not very useful. What would be useful is to resurrect one's parent(s).