Archive for September, 2007
Kiteboarding at Rosses Point
0In my boredom I’ve decided to try a new sport, kiteboarding. I looked around to find as much information on the sport as I could and came accross the following sites:
From reading through the fourms on the sites it soon became apparent that I needed to get lessons before doing anything else. This put me in contact with the LSD Kiteboarding School at Rosses Point, Co. Sligo and I went for my first lesson yesterday (Sunday 23rd). If anyone is considering doing kiteboarding or are just looking for something different then I suggest giving the boys at Rosses Point a call. I had a great day out and I’m looking forward to getting back to finish the lessons and then moving on to getting into the sport more myself.
Thanks Peter and Paul, check them out here
Bebo Visitors Map Settings
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From the comments being left on my other posts people seem to be having trouble with the visitors map feature on Bebo.
The above picture shows the box at the top of the visitors map page and shows your current account setting and the options to which you can change it. The box on the left shows your current setting, which in this case is “Public”. On the right shows the two options you can change this to, Anonymous and Off. Your profile has to be set to Public in order to see the pins on the map. Point to note here is that Bebo seem to be only showing pins for people who have visited your profile in the last 24 hours, so your map might have nothing on it for times.
If you see something different from what’s in the picture above then your account is different in some way. I’m guessing Bebo have different settings depending on your age.
Hope this helps some people
Ross Noble – Kinder Surprise Campaign
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I went to see Ross Noble last Thursday night in the Olympia Theater in Dublin. If you haven’t seen Ross in action then I highly recommend going to one of his upcoming shows.
But here’s the point of my post, during the show he told us he has developed an addiction to Kinder Surprise eggs so what I’m looking for is anyone going to one of his shows to take a kinder egg with them and leave it sitting on the stage either before the show starts or during the interval. If you do this please let me know what happened.
Good luck!
Heroes Season 2
0Just found this ad for Heroes Saeson 2 on YouTube. There’s other special promos and also a minute and a half preview of episode 1 “Generations”
I can’t wait till season 2 starts on the 24th, the first one was so good. Heroes is going to be huge this year.
Glenties.ie – My hometown website
1I’m sorry but this is just a shameless plug for my hometown’s website glenties.ie, which seems to be lagging in the google rankings for some reason.
If anyone’s interested please check it out. You’ll find information on our Harvest Fair Festival, the Halloween Ball (which I won last year with my Dr. Octavius costume), the Fiddler’s Weekend and lots lots more. Thanks
engadget – The hundred gadget giveaway
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Chris form The I Spy Site pointed this out to me earlier. The website engadget are giving away 100 gadgets for free. Here’s how it works:
Since we can’t give all this stuff away individually (100+ giveaways would equate to a new giveaway every two hours for more than seven days, which would drive everyone friggin nuts), we’re going to have four giveaway rounds a day, once every six hours. Each round will have three prizes of varying radness and will be open for entries only for six hours. You can enter ONCE per round on as many rounds you like (until you win something, that is). Winners will be selected randomly.
So all you have to do is leave a comment, what have you to loose. See the full story here
Halloween Costume 2006 – Dr. Octavius Costume
0Finnally getting around to posting this. I figured it’s coming up to that time of year again when people would be looking for ideas for Halloween costumes so here’s mine from last year.
Right at the start I’m not claiming this as my idea. I found this costume on cockeyed.com. That guy makes some unbelievable costumes.
When I seen his Dr. Octavius costume I knew I just had to try it!
First of I had to build a spiderman.
The frame of the spiderman was made from 1.5″ piping glued and taped together. The next step was to pad him out and cover in paper mache.
While the spiderman was drying out I started on the claws for the Dr. Octavius part of the costume. Two of the claws were going to be big and hold the spiderman in place, while the other two would be small and be attached to the spiderman. The claws were cut from a corrugated plastic sheet and placed together with some styrofoam in between. This “sandwich” was then taped using masking tape and spray painted.
To make the arms I again used 1.5″ piping and bent to using a blow torch. The outer shell of the arms is aluminum ducting which is very easily bent and looks great.
With the two main arms constructed I cut a board that would hang on my back under the coat and attached the arms.
Two holes were made in the coat so the arms could come through and also to hide how they were attached.
The painting of the spiderman was done rather crudely. A quick spray paint to generally match what his costume looked like would do as I figured the overall look of the completed costume would make up for any inaccuracies. The only place where I did go into detail was on the emblem. I printed of a stencil and cut it out so I could spray it on his back and front also 2 triangles of tinfoil were cut out and stuck on for his eyes.
In order to keep the spiderman above my head there needed to be a support as the already constructed arms wouldn’t be able to hold him up on their own. This was done by bending a metal tube that would normally be used for a clothes rail and placing it upright in the centre of the back board.
All that was left to do now was fix the claws to the arms. The larger claws were fixed to the arms and the smaller claw was fixed direct to the spiderman as I had run out of time I couldn’t fit in doing the forth arm.
With everything now in place it was just a matter of putting it on and enjoying the party.
This costume took 2 weeks to make costing €70 and it did win 1st place. It’s getting another run out this year as part of an advertisement for this year’s Halloween Ball so it was well worth doing.
All I can say now is bring on this year’s Halloween Ball for bigger and better, check back to see what will happen with this year’s costume.
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