Rubénerd!

From the University of Technology Sydney Open Day this week. The robots were manufactured by Aldebaran in France, and programmed by Benjamin Johnston at the Magic Lab. Wish I could have been there that day to see it!

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One of the cool things about Whole Wheat Radio is not only can you request shows of songs once you've created an account and logged in, you can create your own based on criteria you define. Cooler still, you can use existing tags/categories for your songs, or you can create your own!

I currently have two tags, Rubenerd Bagus! and Makes Ruben Feel Sophisticated, and my sister has Elke Faves This!

What's also been fun is defining synonyms for our tags/categories; the site itself says they're really just used so the internal search can pick them up but that's not to say we can't have some fun! I've used the word "fun" three times this post, counting this sentence. That's funny, I didn't know sentences could count. Chicken on a raft.

Frank Edward Nora of The Overnightscape and ons on Twitter turns 40 today, and I wanted to write something here that would do this monuments occasion justice.

In the midst of considering how I would somehow use lasers to etch a greeting onto an obscure astronomical formation that he would be able to see on the other side of the planet, a cool person referred me on Twitter to a randomised font generator page!

Many a happy return Frank, you haven't aged a day ^_^