Adventures of an Urban Jungleboy

I was looking for video to put on the iPod bovil gave me for my birthday, and discovered:
the Internet Archive of feature films

This is just one small piece of a much larger archive, with lots of films, etc. that are in the public domain and available for free download.
The cool part is they've already been converted to MP4 files, which is what my iPod wants. They'll also play in QuickTime or several other desktop media viewers.

I just thought I'd spread the joy!

bovil and I are off to Las Vegas in the morning to celebrate my in-laws 40th anniversary, so I expect we'll be almost entirely offline until Monday night. Be Seein' Ya!

Remember the plans to start building a carnosaur head?

Well, I've also been working on bring the online registration system up for Costume-Con 26.

Along the way I broke it.

The ENTIRE website.

We finally found the pesky misplaced double-for-single-quotes culprits (and an equally pesky change in the way PHP handles mixed form variables), but I was, as you might imagine, rather focussed on bringing it back online.

You can preview the form at www.cc26.info/interactive/registration_form.php
But it won't actually take you past the second step at this point. I still have to activate the recording and payment gateways, so IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY WORK yet.

But the rest of the website does.

If you'd like to see what's been consuming a chunk of my mental bandwidth lately, the website for our laboratory 20th anniversary event just went live.

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden20

I'm the artist who created the logo, and one of the people responsible for developing the event website (I even got to publish an explanation of the logo design; that is in the About Almaden Research section of the website). I'm also in charge of organizing the poster exhibit (the "Walk of Innovation").

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Corn!