No, not the video game.
From SciFi Wire comes news that Disney is remaking TRON. Should be interesting to see what kind of story they come up with and the liberties the screenwriters take with the original TRON concept.
Christmas pains
Heard one of the more amusing variants on ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ on the radio today that I’ve heard in a long time. It was a song called ‘The Twelve Pains of Christmas’ and I got a pretty good chuckle out of it. I particularly liked the guy trying to rig up the lights.
25 Questions
My friend Mike sent me another one of these things, so I thought I’d answer it in my blog again like the last one.
Babylon 5 movie!
Sweet! Seems a movie based on Babylon 5 will start filming in April.
Can’t wait to hear more about it.
Heads up from Slashdot
Roomba in infrared
Just for kicks and giggles, I dug out my Sony video camera and used it to take some video of Roomba. It’s one of those Sony cameras that does the ‘Nightshot’ thing letting you see in low-light conditions by illuminating the area with an IR emitting diode. It also lets you see the IR lights that Roomba and its various components use. The pictures are posted over in the gallery.
This is a picture of Roomba in infrared. You can clearly see the 4 floor-directed IR lights.
This is Roomba’s base station. The IR signal it broadcasts out the top is what Roomba uses to find it’s way home. It comes on automatically when Roomba is turned on or is removed from the base station.
This is the light pattern broadcast by Roomba’s Virtual Wall. It’s actually a circular beam. It just looks like that because I have it pointed obliquely at the wall. The VW has 3 range settings which simply controls the intensity of the IR beam that is broadcast.
I just thought it would be a fun geeky thing to do.