Tuesday, March 3, 2009
AT-AT Boombox
i've read that this is a few years old, but has been making internet rounds here lately thanks to boing boing. pulled the pics from: zen77990, artist not specified, no details listed.
Friday, February 27, 2009
PS3 > Transportation?
A Sacramento Superior Court judge has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 120 days in county jail and four years of probation for filing a false police report and fraudulent insurance claim.
Judge David De Alba sentenced Nicholas Stanfield Friday after a jury convicted him, according to a news release issued Wednesday from the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.
The release gave this account:
On Dec. 17, 2007, Sacramento police responded to a 911 call about the carjacking of Stanfield's Dodge Ram truck.
Stanfield's face was bruised and his shirt torn. He told officers he was walking to his truck in downtown Sacramento when two men assaulted him, took his keys and drove off in his truck.
Stanfield filed an insurance claim with Ameriprise Insurance and claimed there was more than $4,000 in personal property inside the truck.
He also wanted payment for the truck including $20,000 in customization that he had put into the truck. He also wanted the insurance company to pay for a car rental, towing and storage fees.
Sacramento Police Detective Bryce Heinlein discovered Stanfield had made up the carjacking, asking two friends to beat him up so it looked like he had been attacked.
Stanfield later admitted to the fake carjacking, saying he had financial problems. He missed the $500 monthly truck payments for November and December.
At trial, he testified that he spent $500 on a PlayStation 3 as a Christmas present for himself instead of making the December truck payment, the DA's office said.
Judge David De Alba sentenced Nicholas Stanfield Friday after a jury convicted him, according to a news release issued Wednesday from the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.
The release gave this account:
On Dec. 17, 2007, Sacramento police responded to a 911 call about the carjacking of Stanfield's Dodge Ram truck.
Stanfield's face was bruised and his shirt torn. He told officers he was walking to his truck in downtown Sacramento when two men assaulted him, took his keys and drove off in his truck.
Stanfield filed an insurance claim with Ameriprise Insurance and claimed there was more than $4,000 in personal property inside the truck.
He also wanted payment for the truck including $20,000 in customization that he had put into the truck. He also wanted the insurance company to pay for a car rental, towing and storage fees.
Sacramento Police Detective Bryce Heinlein discovered Stanfield had made up the carjacking, asking two friends to beat him up so it looked like he had been attacked.
Stanfield later admitted to the fake carjacking, saying he had financial problems. He missed the $500 monthly truck payments for November and December.
At trial, he testified that he spent $500 on a PlayStation 3 as a Christmas present for himself instead of making the December truck payment, the DA's office said.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Happy Friday the 13th!
be careful. don't die or anything.
i really should make the time to go see this.
i really should make the time to go see this.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Pure Awesome!
(taken from toynewsi.com)
This week's TNI Cool Custom is of a Transformers G1 Devastator byKingBotz.
Here is how KingBotz describes the making of this figure:
"Like many other Transformers fans out there, since childhood I was always fascinated by the harmony and power of a well-proportioned giant that a team of robots could exhibit in combined form...it seemed so natural. I am the original creator of the Tonka-based Devastator, and I began this challenging journey 3 years ago with my first version of G-1 Devastator featured at Botcon 2006. I have since evolved my depiction of this character with a new one, telling a totally different story with a revised face, colors and articulation at over 5' tall. I'm compelled once again to pay tribute to the classic, impending, destructive character everyone knows as G-1 Devastator. Everything but the Tonka trucks themselves is scratch-built. "
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