Technospinach

Does Anybody Even Read My Blog?

2011-06-21T21:04:00.000-07:00

I started Technospinach about 3 years ago, with the goal of posting cool stuff I found around the Internet. And then, predictably (like Hollywood [that post is an old shame of mine]) I got bored. And Technospinach lay dormant for a while.
Then, Blogger came out with Stats! (or at least, I realized they existed.) And lo and behold, Technospinach had been doing pretty well for itself! (Well, at least better than a blog of this caliber would be expected to do.)
It seemed that somehow, people searching for "steampunk robots" and "creepy spiders" with Google or Bing would eventually hit on my blog, namely those exact posts. And out of the few who did, even fewer reposted the images on their own websites. Especially the steampunk spider, which I honestly didn't make.
And out of the people who did trawl those steampunk galleries, once in a while one of them would hit on a little steampunk spider, follow a link, and find this blog.
Then they would stay for about ten seconds.
No, seriously! I'm guessing that once they realized the content I had up at that point wasn't very interesting, people left quickly, and never returned.
But... (there's always a "but")
To quote Pink Floyd, IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Does anyone actually read this blog? Did anyone rejoice when I returned to posting occasionally? Does anyone sit in front of their monitors, refreshing and refreshing, hoping that the elusive Technospinach will once again make a post?
I really, really hope that somebody is.
And since that hypothetical someone went through all the trouble of reading this excessively long-winded post, here's a picture I took of Los Angeles!

Aren't you special.

The Happy Airplane

2011-03-04T18:33:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time, there was an airplane.

A happy airplane.

And then, I took a picture of it.

An awesome picture.

Yup, pretty awesome.

(This photo has no watermark, so you can use it as your desktop if you want. Just leave a comment if you do!)

Pictures in the Hail

2011-02-27T10:23:00.000-08:00

So there was a hailstorm yesterday. I got me some photos:

A seedpod on the grass.

Hail on the grass.

Hail on a car.

Hail on a car-vent-thingy.

Santa Barbara Photos

2011-01-30T19:24:00.000-08:00

Some cool pictures I took down in Santa Barbara last week:

Sunrise over the water looked amazing.

Abandoned boat on the beach. This was a lucky shot as a few hours later a crane came and took it away.

Here you can see the Santa Barbara Pier in the background. And that little red tugboat puttered around all day.

Some more tugboat shots. At least, I'm pretty sure it's a tugboat, but then again, I don't know a whole lot about boats. Maybe it's a fishing boat. If you know, sound off in the comments! I'd love at least one comment on this website :-D

Some views of the Pacific Ocean.

A nice, minimal shot of the beach.

Thanks for reading.

I'm Back!

2011-01-30T16:36:00.000-08:00

So guess what? I did something I should have done a long time ago. I looked at the stats for this here blog o' mine. And guess what? Seems that Technospinach has been generating a fair amount of traffic! Back in October I got over 1,000 pageviews! Pretty good for a blog with no original content whatsoever, am I right? Right? Right?

So anyway, maybe I'll start putting some stuff up here again.

Or maybe not.

We'll see.

Coraline and Boxes

2009-02-07T18:24:00.000-08:00

Thanks Doobybrain!

Today I went to see Coraline. It was quite good and the 3D was amazing, but I heard about something even cooler-the Coraline Boxes.

You see, to promote the movie the producers sent out 50 unique boxes of Coraline memorabilia to 50 bloggers (I didn't get one). Pictures of each one have been posted online; here are some of my favorites.

If anyone has the original source for this one (above) please let me know. technospinach@gmail.com

via ASIFA

Thanks for reading!

Creepy Spiders...

2008-12-03T08:37:00.000-08:00

These are some of the creepiest spiders I could find: (all images from What's That Bug)

Before you ask, no, I am not scared of them.

Steampunk Robots!

2008-12-02T09:48:00.000-08:00

Steampunk robots are pretty cool, so here are some pictures of them-

Stay out of his way. Keith Thompson via The Download Munkey

This is really neat--a steampunk spider robot. No source, sorry--email me if you have one.

On a related note... the Steampunk iPod! via Colin Thompson

UPDATE: Wow. Looking at my Blogger stats, this is by far the most popular post on Technospinach.

And I wonder why? I didn't make these pictures. Why don't you readers look at some of my original content? Like my Santa Barbara photos? Or the happy airplane? C'mon, click 'em! You know you want to.

Bolt and The Predictability of Hollywood

2008-11-25T08:21:00.000-08:00

So yesterday I went to see Bolt, and I thought it was kinda cool. But the best part was all the action at the beginning-

via Filmonic

And I thought to myself, "That would make a cool video game."

Well, lo and behold,

via GameStop

They did make a game out of it!

-sigh- Hollywood... SO predictable!

Hello, everyone!

2008-11-24T09:30:00.000-08:00

Hello, readers!

I welcome you to Technospinach. I hope that this blog will be able to entertain you and inform you. I will try to post about interesting stuff, and you can request a certain subject by e-mailing me at technospinach@gmail.com. So, without further ado...

let's get started!