So I’m writing this post in Internet Explorer and cursing the fact that it doesn’t have Safari’s handy-dandy way of resizing all text boxes. Unfortunately, when I did switch to Safari it froze and crashed every chance it got. This has reinforced my already unshakable theory that Steve Jobbs’s master plan is to make us hate PCs by creating faulty software for them. Instead we should be hating Apple, but I digress.

The clock continues and as you can see from the pictures below we’re in the penultimate part of this time-consuming trip through the creation of cardboard clocks. First, we placed the face on the clock. Then ran together the gears allowing for some photography that looks like the first trailer for “watchmen.” The idea is that the weights turn the gears and the pendulum slows them down so it can only move a click at a time. (See Below)

Sorry if you haven’t been building the clock all along those photos are probably meaningless. But suffice it to say the whole thing is one big attempt of weight vs. lever. Then you add in some friction as you can see the gears ouside the clock and you have something that is geared perfectly on a 60:1 ratio. (Because in an hour is 60 minutes duh). Now for part four what you have to look forward to is more sanding and lacquering followed by my realization that I need to find 2.5 pound weights that don’t cost 40$ for my clock to work. Oh…for you photography nuts, I turned down the exposure to make the cardboard look more menacing. Feast your eyes.

Of course the espresso nuts out htere want to see exactly what kind of foam art I’ve been up to lately. You’ll all be pleased to hear that my foam art has improved greatly. Just look at these beauties.

Feast your eyes…while it may look to the untutored layman that I have just made a blob or better yet a Rorschach test, it just means you don’t know your science. The one on the left is carefully crafted to resemble a fraudulent embryo sketch by Ernest Haeckel. Haeckel, a scientific fraud who manufactured images as evidence of evolution, has been discredited but he still provides inspiration for my latte art.

The other one quite obviously is an angel folding one of its wings…ok if you bought that then I’m getting better at my own brand of fraudulent claims, but the resemblance is uncanny isn’t it? Well that about wraps it up for today, but wait! It is now time to for previews.

Coming Soon to a Blog Near You:

• The clock gets finished. Perhaps some more foam art that looks like freaks of Nature.
• I’ve always wanted…to play chess like Mikhail Tal: If you don’t know who Tal is, he’s a Latvian Chess grandmaster who’s considered the best attacking grandmaster of all time. (No Latvia is not just a psuedo-slavic country in a Louis Sachar book where Madame Zeroni lives. I thought that too until I looked it up).
• Russell’s interpretation of your baby names.
• And…the beginning of the fun game of why I am healthy (Taught through the innovative game…Pick Russ’s Shopping Cart).