Originally posted on January 14, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
This is one of the most original Apple iPod hacks I’ve seen yet, playing doom.wad’s on an iPod with a NES controller:
Find out more about this iPod artistry.
Originally posted on January 14, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
This is one of the most original Apple iPod hacks I’ve seen yet, playing doom.wad’s on an iPod with a NES controller:
Find out more about this iPod artistry.
Originally posted on January 1, 2007 @ 11:32 am
Back in 2006… it’s so funny to be saying that now since we’ve just barely come into the year 2007… the movie Cars by Pixar was released.
It’s a cute animated film about a hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen that gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.
It’s definitely a fun movie for kids but also for adults as well. Pixar is good like that adding in a little adult humor which can also be seen and heard in Pixar’s 1995 classic Toy Story. Yeah, Buzz Light Beer…
Anyway, I love animation and of course PhotoShop projects, so I went looking for some tutorials on how to take a picture of a real car and make it look like one of the cars from the Pixar movie Cars:
So if you’d like to learn how to do this, here is a link to the tutorial on making your car look like a Pixar Car. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: The car pictured above is not my own car but I’ll be doing a picture of that soon.
Welcome to the year 2007 by the way :)
Originally posted on January 4, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
The pilot pickup season began in earnest Tuesday, January 3, 2007 with NBC green lighting three one-hour projects, including a new take on “The Bionic Woman.”
For those of you who don’t remember this show or never heard of it, here is a YouTube clip from the introduction of the original TV series:
I’m a child of the 1970’s and I remember watching this TV show as a kid.
Thinking about it, the show was way ahead of it’s time with the things they used as subject matter.
Back in the early 1970’s it was all fictional things but today in 2007 it’s more of a reality.
The funny thing is 30+ years later, the star of the Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner can now be seen doing Sleep Number Bed commercials :)
The original series, a spin-off from “The Six Million Dollar Man,” starred Lindsay Wagner as a woman whose body is mechanically enhanced to save her life. It ran on ABC and then NBC for three seasons in the mid-1970s. NBC’s order is contingent on casting.
NBC Quote Source: CNN
Originally posted on December 24, 2006 @ 7:43 pm
On December 16, 2006 I posted about the Twisted Christmas album by Twisted Sister and how it’s a nice holiday edition to any metal head music collection.
Well today I figured since it’s Christmas Eve here in the United States that I’d post the video “Oh Come All Ye Faithful”, the Twisted Sister version:
Why this song and video you ask?
Well if you haven’t already watched the video, the music is based off the Twisted Sister song “We’re not gonna take it” and they did the video with a similar opening theme… “who are you? what are you going to do with your life?” – good times.
As an added bonus, since I know how to play “We’re not gonna take it” on the guitar, I can now play a metal Christmas song too :) and just change the lyrics.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from Have Laptop Will Travel.
Originally posted on January 10, 2007 @ 11:46 am
This morning I was introduced to Pleo, a Ugobe Life Form which is basically the Furby of the future… well kind of…
It’s very modern in what it does compared to the Furby but this isn’t a cute little Gremlin looking thing, it’s a long extinct Camarasaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period.
So what is a Camarasaurus? CAMARASAURUS (KAM-ah-rah-sawr-us) “Chambered Lizard” (Greek kamara = chamber + sauros = lizard, referring to the holes in its vertebrae).
Can a long-extinct species be resurrected? Ugobe designers and engineers studied the long extinct Camarasaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. Pleo, a Ugobe Life Form is the authentic recreation born from that study. UGOBE’s designers and engineers recreated Pleo’s physiology from the fossils of the original. His height and weight are consistent with that of a one-week old infant camarasuarus.
Pleo is a ‘designer species’. He incorporates all the basic traits of autonomous life. He is specifically engineered and enhanced to mimic life and relate to his owner on a personal level.
Pleo is equipped with senses for sight, sound, and touch. He learns as he explores his environment. He will exhibit genuine reactions to sensory stimuli.
Every Pleo begins life with certain tendencies but, interaction with his environment has subtle effects on his behavior. Every Pleo eventually exhibits a unique personality.
This little creature is capable of expression. Apparently it can feel joy and sorrow, anger and annoyance.
When Pleo is tired, he will become drowsy and go to sleep – even dream and just like with Furby’s, if you put two or more Pleos together, they will recognize one another. Yikes.
The more I look into this thing, it’s a lot like a Furby for sure. Be careful though. They can transmit colds to each other. Achoo! Pleo even sneezes!
I found a YouTube video with a running time of 5 minutes 31 seconds of this thing in action. Check it out if you dare.