Kings & Queens......and Bikes!

I don't listen to '30 Seconds to Mars' all the time, but they do put out some really great stuff, and I am a fan. Here's the video for their newest single called 'Kings & Queens'. Not only is the song pretty epic sounding, the video has some pretty sweet videography as well. Plus it also helps that I like biking, which is what the video focuses on. I really enjoyed seeing the creativity that people can display when it comes to making your own bike. Makes me want to build up a fixie for myself! Enjoy.

LED Christmas Lights & Me

So this past weekend I attended what I'm sure will only be the first "Christmas Sweater Party" of the year. At any rate, somehow I got the idea in my head that it would be a fantastic idea to try and install some Christmas lights on the sweater this year. Good idea right? I thought so. Well as it turns out, I'm not an electrician.


My brilliant idea was to buy a set of Christmas lights, and somehow rewire them to run off of dc current (batteries) instead of ac current (plugging them into the wall.) I found this nifty little site which I thought was going to help me with my mission, unfortunately things only got more complicated from here on out.

I learned that with LED lights, red, orange, and yellow run on a different voltage than green, blue, and white. Since I bought multicolored lights, I had to completely cut up and destroy a once perfectly lovely strand of Christmas lights and splice the right colors back together. Victory will be mine! Except not really. After further reading on that 'helpful' website, I learned that the author used voltage based on rechargeable batteries and not regular coppertops like I had purchased. Okay no biggie, I'll just use 2 less batteries to reach the same amount of total power for my strand. Eureka! A quick half-second blip of light and then.....nada. I give up. The lights beat me.....but I will be back!

Some construction pics for your viewing pleasure:

Still made it to the party though!