We’re Grow-Ups Now

Posted by Toni | on November 28, 2007

Webcomics, balls, dreams, juggling and the Omnibot 2000.

The site xkcd.com describes itself as a “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”. The site updates without fail every Monday, Wednesday and Friday — I wish I could remember to eat breakfast on such a regular schedule. So check out the site, and book mark it if you dig it.

The following is one of my favs by xkcd… a girlfriend this cool could possibly turn me gay:

This comic inspired me to add “Ball Pit” to my list of “Stuff I need in my dream house” joining a room made out of Lego, Omnibot 2000 for my personal butler + tape player, and a Velcro room.

Dream House List xkcd is already ahead of me on the adult size ball pit… a recent post on xkcd’s blog/blag explains how he put together a nice ball pit with tips and tools for those wishing to try to create something similar.

You’ll need some spare change if you want to take on this DIY: an average room would cost about $4000 to fill up with an optimum amount of balls.

Check out this online tool that will calculate how many balls it would take to fill a given space, and a cost estimate. Spiffy

xkcd Ball Pit

Slowly working on collecting balls for my own future ball pit project, I picked up a bag of 75 balls. I did my own DIY and made some “Russian juggling balls” by filling some of these hollow balls up with a bit of sand.

russian juggling balls If you <3 juggling, or want to learn — Russian balls are great as the sand makes the balls “stick” to the ground when they are dropped. And they are pretty good at sticking to limbs.