Ok, Steve and Susan both tagged me on this. Here are five things you might not know about me.

1. I can cook a bit. I make green curry, miso stew, homemade pizza, and cookies from scratch without a recipe.
2. I once had a job being in a bunny suit. I was respected as the best bunny suit actor ever.
3. I believe in everything.
4. I had my early childhood in Ithaca, New York.
5. I’ve lived for more than 5 months at a time in the following foreign cities: Prague, London, Osaka, and L.A.

Who’s it? I tag Joe, Jay, Anastasia, Jo, and Kosso.

The time to send out cards for the holidays is here. Make them special by crafting your own. Here are three ideas for you to make your cards extra special. Woodblock prints look great and it’s surprisingly easy to make a lot of them. Aluminum relief cards look like they have been formed out of metal, but they are easy to make for those who can be patient enough to let glue dry. Finally, if you want to send a message made out of light, you can make long exposure photographs and write your message in the air.

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Seattle geeks packed the house to build bridges out of popsicle sticks and hot glue at Seattle’s geek event, ignite. 13 teams basked in the glory of success or had their dreams crushed into tiny shards of wood as they stepped on their bridges and found out if their bridge would hold their weight. While the winners won the latest magazine, an amazing amount of applause was given to teams whose bridges were crushed. Hurray for destruction!

Props go out to the team that used 998 of the 1000 popsicle sticks allotted and managed to hold 5 people on their bridge. They brought an iron that they plugged in and turned upside down to heat up a makeshift aluminum foil pot of hot glue. Props also go out to the family that made the artistic bridge that managed to hold the 4 year old member of the team!

After the last bridge had survived crushed into the ground, Ask Later began. Moderated by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar, the audience was enthralled as the superstars of local start-upscreative innovators, scientists, hackers, puzzle-makers, and regular folks doing cool things managed to dump their brains into five minute power-point presentations.

Thanks to all the Make: and Craft: peeps who came out to have a great time, I look forward to seeing you all again at the next ignite in February. [My photoset] [Scott Beale's Photoset]

Crossposted to makezine and igniteseattle

Those of you who know me personally, know that I have a Macbook Pro that I use to it’s maximum capacity every day.

It’s gone for 5-7 days. The battery expanded and popped the back cover and the screen has nasty blobby spots that are not appropriate for a person who’s job is to make video and photos.