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Mountains Azul

  • July 16, 2005
Last night was a blast. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was quite fun, and I was impressed that its story remained mostly parallel while still being completely original in dialogue. Actually, several subplots were removed from the original while a couple were added, making it much less of a traditional "triumph over evil" movie and more "triumph over self". The new Oompaloompa songs exceeded the silly old ones as well, and the audience was in hysterics most of the whole time.

Earlier in the day I helped Jesse work on a prop for his Halo outfit, a plasma sword. The tough part of the project involves squeezing a small circuitboard into the handle, to light the sword with UV LEDs, starting with a board that's about 1/8" too long in width and length, and 1/2" too tall. We purchased (and acquired from Dr. Brewer) replacement parts and I resoldered them into more compact positions. In the end, it barely fit and I felt like a real EE. Tom watched for a few minutes and I think he might have learned something about soldering.

The evening wrapped up with a nice game of half-drunk ERF (the drunken half being Tom and Matt while Katie and I played sober). Tom's reflexes weren't harmed by his Heinekens, so the game lasted quite a while.

Comments

  • jennifer
  • July 17, 2005
  • 12:11 am
dammit, that sounds like fun. boo for not being there! and i'm proud of you, EE-boy! at your recommendation, i went to the air and space museum in dc. it was quite cool, but every time i looked at the complex circuitry involved in some of the spacecraft and satellites i felt so hopeless, like, i wonder if i'll ever be able to do something like that... ;P
  • Ariel
  • July 19, 2005
  • 5:26 pm
wonderful. i love the layered look of mountains receding into the haze. great capture.
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