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[Nate the Great]

A guy restores an antique rusty cleaver.


The amazing part for me is when he drilled a hole down the middle of the handle with a stationary drill bit and a rotating handle on the lathe. Never saw that before!


It always impresses me when people take old things that nobody would pay more than a dollar for at a garage sale and transform them into something worth having. People who have tools and know how to use them.

[Nate the Great]

The Opportunity Mars Rover has officially died.



Of course I was reminded of when XKCD told the life of the Spirit Rover.

[Nate the Great]

Mathology covers the Toroflux Paradox, which is related to Fibonacci Numbers.


I was already familiar with the basic optical illusion of rearranging puzzle pieces to create a rectangle one unit larger than the previous arrangement, but didn't know about the evolution or the relation to Fibonacci Numbers.


(Plus I love his shirt. "This Fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined.")

[Nate the Great]

In honor of Valentine's Day, a fan's cover of "Be Mine Today" from "Here Comes Peter Cottontail", plus the original if you'd rather hear Casey Kasem sing it.


And now for some random romantic pop songs that I like:


Pokemon AMV for "Can't Help Falling in Love"
Teen Titans AMV for "I'm A Believer"
Ranma AMV for "Everytime We Touch"
Disney/Anastasia AMV for "She's So High"
Disney AMV for "Kiss Me"
Cardcaptor Sakura AMV for "Accidentally in Love"
Cardcaptor Sakura AMV for "Everywhere"
Disney AMV for "She's So High Above Me"
AlbinoBlackSheep/Lemon Demon's "Geeks in Love"
Pokemon AMV for "Sometimes"
Ranma AMV for "I Won't Say I'm In Love"
Ranma AMV for "Seven Things"
Disney/Anastasia AMV for "Kiss the Girl" (Ashley Tisdale cover)
Anne of Green Gables LAMV for "Crazy For This Girl" (PS, the existence of LAMV for live action music video is my Amazing Thing that I learned today)
"We Can Fly Away", a song from The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns, one of my St. Patrick's traditions, up there with Darby O'Gill. Like many others I intend to play this one at my wedding, if I ever have one.
I Fight Dragons presents "The Power of Love", a cover from Back to the Future

Anne of Green Gables LAMV for "Just the Girl I'm Looking For"


And of course you can't forget Tom Lehrer's warped versions of love songs:
The Masochism Tango
She's My Girl
I Hold Your Hand In Mine
When You Are Old and Grey
I shall omit I Got It From Agnes in the name of good taste, shocking as that may seem. You can find it for yourself easily enough.


And now some romantic movie endings:
Anne of Avonlea
Little Women
Serendipity
You've Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle


How about some "I'm in Love and that's Great" songs?
Maria
Something There
'S Wonderful
Almost Like Being In Love
Lovely Lonely Man
I Could Have Danced All Night
I'm in Love With A Wonderful Guy
I am Going to Like It Here (have any of you ever seen Flower Drum Song, possibly the most obscure of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals?)

[Nate the Great]

So an artist named Jeff Carlisle creates drawings of lots of sci-fi/fantasy pop culture characters



Another Night At the Warp Core Cafe


Let's see how many I can name:


Ships past the windows: Defiant, Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer, Enterprise D and No Bloody A, B, C, or D, 23rd Century Romulan Bird of Prey, D'Deridex Romulan Bird of Prey, Klingon Battle Cruiser, Voyager, I assume that's the Serenity, a Borg Cube, the Iron Giant, a Y-Wing, I think that's a ship from Starchaser,



Ships and robots in the air inside: Max from Flight of the Navigator, EVE and WALL-E, Weebo from Flubber, Nomad


Upper Level and flying characters: A TOS woman, an Orion Slave Girl, some big-brained aliens from the Tatooine cantina, one of Jabba the Hutt's tentacle-headed slave girls, Data (playing a Lirpa instead of a violin for some reason), a Porg, Marvin, Superman, a Ceti Eel carrier, Impossible Man, a Gremlin, I think that's the robot from It Conquered the Word, the Robot from Lost in Space, Lion-O, Jabba the Hutt,



Lower Level: Quark, Guinan, Bea Arthur's character from the Holiday Special, Babylon 5 characters (Londo, G'Kar, a Minbari, the first officer, it's been awhile okay?), K-9, a character from Planet of the Apes, that blue-skinned girl from Farscape (my mom watched it, I didn't), Dathan, Barf, the main characters from Dark Crystal (amazingly I watched Nash's review of that movie only yesterday!), Yoda, E.T., the alien from Mars Attacks, Howard the Duck, Spock, McCoy, Picard, Riker, Kai Opaka, the Men in Black, a Jem'Hadar, Crow T. Robot and another MST3K robot whose name escapes me at the moment, Judge Q, a Mugato, a Gorn, some Viidians, that guy from Dune, Kirk and Han Solo arm-wrestling, an Ewok, C3-PO, R2D2, Qui-gon Jinn, Finn and that girl from Force Awakens, Uhura, Alf, the Great Gazoo

[Nate the Great]

I got a piece of spam today that really made me laugh. It's similar to another spam message from the same guy ("Greg Wilford", if that's his real name) here. Different dead imaginary millionaire and different date, but you get the idea.

[Nate the Great]

Peter Tork of the Monkees died today.


While I like a few Monkees songs, I remember him most from the pseudo-Monkees reunion on Boy Meets World.