People can do amazing things with time, talent and a dedication bordering on the obsessive. Here’s a perfect example; A home-made model of Bumble Bee based on the latest Transformer’s movie, made from Kentucky Fried Chicken boxes. [LINK]

Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin’ me on"
God say, "No."
Abe say, "What?"

Great example here from Dylan of the power-struggle between man and God. In the Genesis 22:1, God asked Abraham to kill his son Isaac. Apparently Abe was 137 years old at this point! That seems like a pretty extreme request from a benevolent God and I’m sure Abe must’ve thought he was having a pretty rough week when the request came in.
In a similar but far less extreme …

Derren Brown has a show on the SciFi channel called "Mind Control". On the show he conducts various situational type tricks using the audience. These range from reading people’s minds to beating them at tic-tac-toe whilst blindfolded. He is not a magician and he does not use camera tricks or other paraphenalia.
Last week he had a teacher read a story out loud to her class. When she was done the teacher was asked to think of an object. He promptly drew a picture of what she was thinking about (a Teddy …

Maybe I’m just stressed out and punchy but I found these videos incredibly funny:
“David Blaine brings his famous street magic to YouTube. Watch as the famous magician blows the minds of two Los Angeles idiots. WARNING: This magic is amazing.”

And this one:
“Blaine is back, and believe it or not, he’s tormenting the same two idiots as last time.”

I’ve done some multi-threading programming the last week or so for fun. Here’s the result:

This picture is made up of a few thousand photos, selected from a repository of 35,000. No image is repeated in the collage. I think I’ll make a few more when I get a spare minute. If you’d like one made for yourself, let me know.

I’m feeling some blog-guilt these days, I haven’t posted in ages, at least not here. I’m sure you’re all starved for some techno-blather that is the norm for FS.com. Unfortunately I’m low on motivation for this sort of stuff. I’m pretty busy at work and the off-hours I’m spending primarily on cancer research and spending time with my family. I can’t say this trend will change any time soon but don’t give up on this blog. I haven’t. In the meantime try here [LINK].