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when he’s not making latté art, he’s making art lattés. ladies and gentlemen… danny williams.

i married jenny herman over 20 years ago, and i never looked back… even when old photos of her family surfaced on facebook. this pic has one of her brothers and his cousin melvin in it. classic ’70s, man.

i taught a CPR class for health care professionals at the hilton this morning. one of the students was scheduled for a skills test at 11:30, but he never showed up. so i played tetris on my phone and took a picture of the training mannequins (aka dummies) while i waited.

saw this car on shawnee mission parkway thursday. the only two things that would have made it cooler would have been seeing it hover, or hearing it speak.

recently i fell asleep to the padded out movie that is the andromeda strain and after waking up i realized michael crichton (the author) recycled THIS story and made a fortune on jurassic park. this happened after i accidentally hard-wired a glitch on my latest circuit bending project, the texas instruments touch and tell. i need better movies, soldering lessons, and probably a new soldering tip.

i picked up some more control switches for current (and future) circuit bending projects, and a volume/reject button– but the coolest acquisitions were the two pinballs from thunderball (thanks ray!): i was able to generate a loop effect just by rolling them around on the touch and tell toy.

danny williams and i recorded a bunch of stuff tuesday morning. motivation and muse came from zelda, cybill shepherd, and heavy tremolo.
chill tremolo
naked cybil
zelda

went back to the burger stand for dinner with my nephew, reggie, tuesday night.  that place has a WIDE variety of sauces to go with their fries. whoever came up with this idea is a marketing genius. it forces you to eat your fries one at a time so you can try each sauce: guinness wheat, chipotle, cherry something, roasted marshmallow, weird mustard… and alot more than i can remember.

getting these sounds from the touch and tell toy finally made me feel like a circuit bender… the next item on the agenda, attach a potentiometer to alter the pitch… kinda like slowing down a record from 45 rpm to 33 1/3 rpm.

the latest accomplishment on my circuit bending journey was making a reset button on a texas instruments touch and tell toy. a reset button allows me to flip a switch instead of taking out the batteries when the toy “crashes” and the audio locks up. i basically cannibalized an AFC switch from an old sears radio, and re-purposed it on the touch and tell. had a minor scare when a wire came loose during the exchange, but i had the schematics from a printout and was able to re-attach it correctly.