Day: October 4, 2004

Maggie Muggs was made by Larry B Cottrill aka Cottrill Cyclodyne out of about $60 of hardware from the store.

ASPO: Amaze your friends! Blow up your house!

The same guy also made the Synchrodyne miniature jet engine… apparently as part of an effort to make a very very simple jet.

I like how all the jet engine products are seemingly made in his garage and have the word “dyne” in them- very 1950’s sci-fi. Larry could be up for a What Has Science Done award.
Web link of note: Coffee Mug Ramjet
(At http://www.cottrillcyclodyne.com/Maggie_Muggs/Maggie.html)

The site’s name, 妖怪絵巻, means “ghost picture scroll” – yokai emaki. “Yokai” being a genre of monster which is more uncanny than your standard bigfoot type of monster. A vampire or a zombie would be a Yokai. The Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot or a jackelope would not.

Anyway, the site is full of paintings of Japanese monsters. I’m not sure if the site owner paints them himself, or what- my Japanese isn’t that good!

Web link of note: Ghost Scrolls
(At http://www.blu.m-net.ne.jp/~uma001/FrameSet1.html)