Cabbits!

1.) Regarding “A Full-scale Robotic Uprising”:

“There’s almost a kind of hopeless optimism hidden here. Besides the whole uprising thing, it still implies that mankind was able to, with hardware and software, create a race of beings that are actually way better than humanity. Think about that the next time Windows Vista stops and asks you if it has permission to run a program you just freaking told it to run 4 seconds ago...”

1) Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do

“The aliens in Independence Day were not only thousands of years ahead of us technologically, but also were an entirely different species. Therefore, Goldblum’s feat[hacking into the ufo and giving it a virus] was the equivalent of colony of baboons in the Congo hacking into CitiBank using tree bark and clumps of their own feces.”

2) Facebook Drinking Game

Saw this on the internet. It is an office pic but could apply to college students.

Pretty accurate but add more swearing.

So a little background first. I live in an apartment. More importantly, this apartment is in a college town. This is why making a stripper pole makes sense, after all, it’s always great for parties.

Of course, I live in an apartment. 2nd story apartment to be more exact. Which means I have a couple obstacles to this goal. The first obstacle is that I don’t want to find the beams in the ceiling to attach a pole up to (plus the beam might not be wide enough or strong enough to support a beam). This all means that the support must be all on the bottom without making my whole setup collapse my floor.

Coming from a family of engineers, I had thought up how to do this in a few minutes. Then I thought someone might’ve done it better so I googled ‘mobile stripper pole’. The results I had found seemed sturdy but I thought I could improve upon the design a bit. Also, the best result I found had only hand sketched blueprints that were kind of vague. Before I started building this with my friend, I decided to try to photo catalogue this for anyone who might want to have a better visual of the steps in building it.

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