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November 2, 2008

Jason Hall
jayce^
Jayce
» Finished Spider

A shot of how I finished up the spider for halloween:

I wound up spending my time up on the roof, basically inside the spider.  I could control the legs and have the spider shake, or lurch out at people (though not far, enough to freak people out).

Next year I hope to have more time to build it better.  Actually delivering the candy through one of the pipe legs would work well, having a speaker/megaphone or something would be nice, as I got rather hoarse by the end of the night from “hissing”.

The webs really added to the effect, I had a nice spolight on it, with a red bulb in the ‘mouth’ of the spider.

Several kids, and even a few parent refused to even approach the house.

by Jayce at 10:41 PM under diy , halloween , home (Comments)
November 1, 2008

Jordan Gunderson
jordy
Jordy Blog
» Knight of the Old Republic

This is who I’m being for Halloween.  :)

Ron Paul was dead right about the economy. If you haven’t watched his videos on YouTube, you should. He was calling the bursting of the housing bubble well before it happened. And the credit crunch? Yep, he’s warned of that too.

Ron Paul would have smoked Obama in the debates, especially on questions regarding the economy. Anyway, there certainly wouldn’t have been any bantering about who didn’t support the bailouts enough. Good grief!

Sadly, the way things are looking I think we’re in for more of the same at best, no matter which major party candidate wins. Now that’s scary.

Happy Halloween!

by Jordy at 12:07 AM under bailouts , barack obama , credit crunch , economics , halloween , housing bubble , john mccain , nerdiness , politics , ron paul , socialism , star wars (Comments)
October 31, 2008

Hans Fugal
no nic
The Fugue :
» Happy Halloween!

doctor who?

by Hans Fugal at 5:58 PM under costume , doctor , gimp , halloween , photoshop , scarf , who

Jason Hall
jayce^
Jayce
» Setting up Halloween

So last night, I wanted to do something to add to the Halloween spirit.  See our neighborhood goes all out.  Everybody has picked some theme/location from the Harry Potter series, and has gone all out in the decoration.  Maybe I’ll get some pictures of it for later, but understand that it’s good enough to get featured in the local papers and TV.  So I quickly had to start my bit, here’s a sneak preview.

Right now I’m figuring out how to make the back legs stand up more, so it appears to be walking more, and improving the fangs.  I have a light that goes into the back and makes it glow some, and am putting a floodlight on the front, so the face shows up, and the eyes glow a bit.

I’ll be adding the spiderwebs in today, and a ‘body’ wrapped up in spiderwebs.  The best parts though.  A) I’ll be in the spiderweb, ready to freak people out.  But also, that long front leg, I have fishing line on it, so I can make it reach out and grab kids as they go for the candy :)

It’s not a good Halloween unless you can make a kid soil their costume :)

The only really bad part is, my wife is refusing to walk in the front door now.

by Jayce at 3:57 PM under halloween , home (Comments)
October 31, 2007

=Utah Open Source=
Utah Open Source
The Utah Open Source Foundation
» IRC Halloween Bash - Right Now!

If you live in participate in irc on freenode, or even if you don’t, this might be some fun.  A good time is currently being had by all by changing your identity for Halloween.  Become someone else and get into the Halloween spirit!

I’m currently DwightSchrute, so come and ask me some questions.

If you’re not familiar with irc, check out this tutorial and you can join our fun.

Cheers,

Clint

by herlo at 5:30 PM under community , dwight schrute , events , halloween , irc , utah open source (Comments)