Not far from my home I saw this. Yes, it’s the Planters NutMobile and there are people called “Nutters” who drive it around the US.
My fascination with the Planter’s people came when I visited the Planter’s World Headquarters someplace out east. I have a Mr. Peanut key chain and an eight inch plastic figure of Mr. Peanut. This was before the nutters went into operation driving a large peanut across the country.
I’m not sure how they got my name but:
I’m wearing my NASA lab coat and an oscilloscope app
Showing off the resonator experiment in the foreground while kids are playing the theremin in the background
The favorite (from past shows) was the vegie piano
See volunteer Jeanne helped out on this one! I really needed more volunteers. Next time I will make sure I get some from the Hub.
And the latest device whatever it is.
OK, so I haven’t checked in for a while…
Stuff is still going on
Duncan is still hungry, Jeannie is conducting, 3D printers are printing and I don’t what the hell he’s doing.
Or just another chance to hang the FCCH banner in a public place:
Going toward an analog/digital Education Initiative
The future of a global community of makers, tinkerers, creators, designers and inventors will depend on a group of visionary educators who will dismantle the current education paradigm and rebuild from its parts a new and dynamic view of learning for the sake of learning. I don’t know… I just made that up. It’s got the words ‘education’ and ‘learning’ mentioned twice. Make stuff, don’t buy stuff. Recycle. Preserve nature naturally. Sigh!
Or maybe some songs from an earlier period:
Mixolydian Mode
Maybe. Banjo music from the Civil War era plus a few things about early banjo construction, especially how musicians at the time ‘borrowed’ parts from other regiments via various acts of vandalism.
There is a Bridge on stage
Again we paint and build sets for the Bas Bleu. Sure, we could be remodeling our kitchen instead, but then there would be no cast party after the whole thing was done so why bother?
First, the rats at the FCMOD:
Kids love watching the Rat Ball!
The FCMOD has these plastic exercise balls where a good sized rat can be encapsulated for a moderate amount of time. I have never released the rats out of their cage before today, but I now find that the rats love to get into these balls and roll around the museum floor. According to the Rat Forum, rat balls are not much fun for the rat, but how do they know that?
Dancers at the Zoo
In December the Denver Zoo puts on the “Zoo Lights” with more than 150 brightly animated light sculptures decorating the zoo’s trees, lawns and bushes. The cultural entertainment included the above costumed dancers; They didn’t introduce themselves but the costumes resemble Mayan culture, possibly a ‘deer dance’.
Also, Mrs Indonesia was there
… and a gamelan played to a group of Asian dancers; I will return to this place next week to check out the lights!
A male Ghost Mantis is in the following picture:
Museum worker Chris lowering the shade
At the last HOLA (or Hands On Live Animals) I was attempting to use my new magnifier app on my new smart phone to take a close-up picture of Phyllocrania paradoxa otherwise known as a Ghost Mantis. Just when I was getting the phone ready, the leafy looking bug decided to take off! As in fly away… He (and it was a male mantis) made a few circles at a height of about 25 feet in the air and then finally rested upon the shade near the window. He’s in the upper left of the window in the above picture but you can’t see him.
Ghost Mantis at the top of the window shade
Using the zoom function of my camera (Not my smart phone) I was able to get the above shot of the little ghost while he rested on the shade. Chris got a ladder to reach the pull chord for the shade and gently lowered the little bug-a-boo so he could safely be returned to his cage. All is fine, so I thought, but when I returned to the museum the following week I found out that 1) Chris got a job a CSU and is no longer employed at the museum and 2) The females in the mantis cage ATE THE ESCAPEE ! … I guess they were a bit pissed off that he wanted some time away from the girls.
Or was that the 15th annual Sustainable Living Fair?
On display, A Tesla Model S EV
Yes, on display only. I volunteered to drive/co-pilot the Electric Vehicles (EV) at this year’s fair. I test drove a Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt and Mitsubisho MiEV, but NOT THE TESLA. Maybe next year?
It gets better: Finnders and Youngberg on the Main Stage
and a giant chess set made out of junk
Haven’t seen one of these before…
WW1 ammo carrier Nash Quad
One of the early four wheel drive trucks, it also had four wheel steering.
A 10 wheel Jeep?
Don’t know about this one. Some sites say that there are only 2 such known vehicles like this one? Don’t know– should have asked someone there…
Birny car heads the parade
We all know this one, it’s the original Fort Collins Trolley from 1919. Happy 4th of July to you all!