Chopstork

Go here—BeatBots: Socially Rhythmic Robots.
Watch “Keepon dancing to a drum,” see how he works.
Watch “Keepon dancing to Spoon.” Dance.

His eyes are cameras, his nose is a mic. He reacts real-time to the music. I want one.

(Sorry, I can’t figure out how to embed the movies.)

A dude that goes by the moniker Amazing Rolo created a loop machine to DJ using the Wii remote. It is cool as shit. His video is about 10 minutes long but worth watching—even throws in some French(?) rapping near the end.

Look how much red I have on my brackets. That’s what I get for picking all the ACC teams to win (except Duke).

But my higher-seed-always-wins bracket doesn’t look too bad.

Playing Smooth Moves on the Wii. People either love it, or get really confused at why people love it.

Plus I wanted to see what MotionBox is like, cuz YouTube blows.

DC vs SF UI—Overall, I say SF wins. It’s the original. But I can appreciate the fact that 600 people drinking on the street with shopping carts in tow is not acceptable to the DC police. SF cops are way cool about that stuff. I like that all 600 people stay together in the SF version too.

It was still fun—it’s the Urban Iditarod, how could it not be. I was pretty impressed with some of the costumes. The teams do go all out. I think our collective favorites were PacMan, the Pope and Pope’s secret service, and Double Dare. Except that the themes weren’t dog-related. Hello, Urban Iditarod? Here’s our sorry-ass cart:

The Animal Control idea didn’t pan out so well since no other teams were animals. Except one—there was a Zoo team. We stole their animals. They slimed our cart.

Here’s something cool: sabotage is encouraged. I didn’t like the idea at first, but it adds an interesting element of danger to the whole thing. Water balloons and eggs flying through the sky, people sneaking around with duct tape and cable ties, waterguns, vaseline slime. Fun. Apparently there were things hidden around each bar for bonus points too. We were busy figuring out how to enjoy our own beers between running, so no bonus points for us.

Anyway, here are pictures. Wow, there was a lot of squirt bottling going on after the race.