Genius II: Awesome

Some things can only be explained by synchronicity, a higher power, fate or just sheer luck. How else could I explain the relation between the previous post and what I found at the local second-hand store today?


As you have doubtlessly realized, this... lamp thing, it is beyond awesome. Its awesomeness is so great that I cannot even express it. The battery pack weighs two pounds. Its heaviness is yet another testament to its awesome, awesome awesomeness. Regardless, I will be tinkering with it to replace the incumbent incandescents with a big heap of LEDs, given that I can get it bright enough. It would reduce the weight a bit and enhance the reliability a lot. I might be doing something with the ugly wiring, too. The optimal solution would be to be able to pack the batteries on the headband somewhere.

Anyway, I am now a new kind of awesome.

Speaking of awesome, I was reading Salingers Catcher in the Rye and started to think about rye in general, looking for interesting facts. Instead I found a great Russian artist who specialized in landscape painting.



Not only did Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Иван Иванович Шишкин) look cool, he was a great painter, too! Yay for the fact that the rye field above is readily available for uses such as a desktop background. I did that.