Both the TV Theme Quizes generated a lot of traffic but not many people emailed me about them. For those keeping score at home, several people completed the first quiz but the best score I heard for the second was 20 out of 26. In retrospect, I think some of the second quiz was a little too obscure – if I ever do anything similar I will try to tone it down a little.
Anyway, everyone has had plenty of time so here are the official answers.
Questions and complaints in the comments.
I really like what people have been doing with robotics in the last few years. Now that powerful CPUs are cheap and wireless communications ubiquitous, whole new areas are opening up for hobbyists to explore. Sure, someday those robots will undoubtedly rise up and destroy humanity, but until then why build a single robot when you can build 32:
I love how the knights’ horses thrash their forelegs while they are moving – genius! There is a little more information at the Monster Chess Site. I hope they have a good supply of batteries.
Bonus robot video:
You find the most interesting things trawling through the “Incoming Links” section of the WordPress Admin Dashboard. According to this page at halfdone (I’d never heard of them either), Life of Andrew is the 151st in their list of NZ blogs that are “about something”.
I am not entirely clear how they calculate the rankings, but I am happy with 151 – surrounded by other blogs handling the big issues of the day: 150 (MENZ Issues: Promoting a Clearer Understanding of Men’s Experience, example post: “Feminists in denial about how they are failing girls“) and 152 (Web of Evidence: What They Don’t Want You To Know, example post: “Numerous Long Fibers Seen Floating Through The Air In Whangarei, NZ” )
And people say that bloggers are just weird malcontents.