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Halloween Pumpkin Carving
Following a previous story about a Dremel pumpkin carving kit, we've got a number of pumpkins to share with everyone. Leading off is Kathleen's Strong Bad. Next up is our first
Cacodemon, followed by
another Cacodemon and a Spider Mastermind.
quan74 pointed us to The Pumkin Lady who has carved up heads of state and has a pattern for creating your own Tux.
Kirk put together a tutorial for a
1upkin.
And finally,
droops sent us in the classic
Jack-O-Linux which never gets old.
You've been warned!
The best desert in the world is pumpkin pie. It is tasty and nutritious, being packed with beta carotene from the pumpkin.
It mentions the earlier Dremel story... and Taco needed an excuse to post his wife's pumpkin or no sex until Thanksgiving.
joke.
So I hear that the Chester Alan Arthur pumpkin requires over 80 candles, and you have to change the candles every few hours.
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You can use the innards from those carved-up pumpkins to make pumpkin pie. You can find a batch of recipes via Yahoo! Search.
I'm partial to the Sahara myself
this time it's a different category, and more info. Also, with this one CmdrTaco has /.-ed his own wife! :-) (I'm unable to get through to sacasta.net at just 10 comments)...
VKh
Don't forget about the Jon-Voight-O-Lantern http://www.jimdrewes.com/comments.php?bid=415 It also has instructions on how to make the template using the Gimp.
Heres a link for the World of Warcraft pumpkin carving contest winners
Who wants to take bets on how long it takes Nintendo to send the 1upkin guy a cease-and-desist?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Um, a dupe isn't a new story on the same subject, it's an identical story. (same link(s), etc.).
We put our pumpkin out uncarved. We were going to carve it, but a local squirrel decided to take care of it for us! Here's the photographic evidence http://www.geofffox.com/MT/images/nutti-goes-in.jp g
So...
To what does slashdotting a pumpking site amount?
Smashing pumpkins!
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Maybe they'll start using webcache links now and again after this... ;)
Having nothing else to do, I'll use this opportunity to show off my pumpkin from last year.
Perhaps this is where that Strong Bad pumpkin originated.
The Brother Chaps rock!
I recently carved a Tux pumpkin. You can find a pic of it here (whatsmykarma.com).
Saying "I'll probably get modded down for this" in a post is the best way to get it modded up.
or something?
Timang tinggi tinggi
parang sudah asah
alang alang mandi
biar sampai basah
Not only is pumpkin pie tasty, the scent of pumpkin pie is an aphrodisiac for men (do a google search for 'pumpkin pie aprhrodisiac' or 'pumpkin pie aphrodisiac scent' for more info). So if I want to get some, I know what I have to bake ;-) Though it seems that the combination of pumpkin pie and lavender is thet most arousing. Heh...
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
It is tasty and nutritious, being packed with beta carotene
The notable exception being the afforementioned 'Scariest pumpkin', which is packed with something entirely different. Pray that it's flushable.
There's a Starman, waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us, but he hasn't got the time.
Around most guys, if you want to get some all you have to do is say "I want to get some" or pretty much anything at all, or nothing for that matter.
from The Saint Anthony Messenger
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
That pumpkin is eating a squirrel!!! How can you let that happen?!! Barbarians!!!
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Huh?
....is a pretty good idea, actually. You can assemble it for long enough for a halloween kinda LAN party, and then after, depending on your processor, you could have an already cooked pumpkin for baking purposes.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
"Hey, Kathleen, that's a nice, bright jack-o-lantern you've got there."
"That's not a jack-o-lantern, that's my server."
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
Here's my pumpkin contribution for the office party.
...I let my wife do the pumpkin carving around here.
Id rather have everyones favorite poisonous potato with this pattern.
My own take on a classic.
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The Montreal Botanical garden has an annual pumpking carving contest. You can see the results here. If you are in the area, you might prefer seeing them live.
The Google guys had their own Halloween - http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/10/boo-who_3 0.html
Not sure if there was pumpkin pie
4 carvings, 2 pumpkins.
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dlpierce/pumpakuns.jpg
Individually:
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dlpierce/trogdor.jpg
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dlpierce/strongsad.jpg
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dlpierce/strongbad.jpg
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dlpierce/thecheat.jpg
here with bonus spittle in corner of mouth.
Anyone got any BSD related pumpkin carving patterns?
http://www.dremel.com/productdisplay/tool_template 2.asp?SKU=764-01
Can somebody please explain this? I won't be able to face myself in the mirror tomorrow morning if you don't. Or, even if you do.
Uh ... speaking as a man (lemme check ... yeah I'm a guy) I can attest to say that any food smell is an aphrodisiac ... hell, a swift wind or a "honey, let's go" is all I ever need.
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He slashdotted Kathleen!
(imagines the after-dinner conversation tonight)
Those who do have to turn in their Slashdot user id's at the door. :P
Do we really need to associate free and OSS software with this level of reactionism? It's bad enough when mommy thinks we're some kind of anti-American thought police without also dissing Halloween.
This Guy makes some crazy pumpkins, including a Jack-o-Carrie with pumping blood.
My Own Creation is, literally, the Pumpkin King.
Hey, why not right? Not exactally what i would call finish quality, but it was my first try.
i wonder how the homeless feel about it ?
In short, they feel well-fed but sick from all the sugar.
- adam
I just went to the Dremel kit page and it looks as though someone hacked their site and uploaded that picture.
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http://www.dremel.com/productdisplay/tool_templ
Haha, you wacky slashdotters.
The Giver won't be pleased!
Best pumpkin carving in the universe?
My brother-in-law and I carved a Space Invader and an intergalactic Hitchhiker, respectively.
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 ANNOUNCES VICTORY OVER LASTMEASURE
Sweet. Used to have to copy and paste possible tubgirl pages to Opera. Internet Explorer's new popup blocker has fixed this. I wonder if they still got my clipboard. Does anyone know if Opera also reveals what is in your clipboard to Lastmeasure? Not that it matters this time as all they got was the url to some very ugly mp3player/sunglasses.
http://www.oakley.com/catalog/eyewear/thump/
http://www.ipodhacks.com/ipod_o_lantern.html
blakespot
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
iPod Hacks.com
All the jokes are automatically explained to subscribers 10 minutes before anyone else finds them funny.
I'd rather act like a kid than spell like one.
Not statewide but my little town in OH did yesterday as well.
In Republican America phones tap you.
...if it was running Windows ME.
Just imagine the horror... you go to turn on your Jack-O-Linux, and *GASP* there's Windows ME, staring back at you.
I'm pretty sure there's a Twilight Zone episode like that.
Since I carved two fairly rad pumpkins this year, I guess I'll throw out a link :-)
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Both are based on prints from http://itswalky.com/.
http://zoo.nightstar.net/viewtopic.php?t=10011&si
The Matrix is going down for reboot now! Stopping reality: OK. The system is halted.
http://www.dremel.com/productdisplay/tool_template 2.asp?SKU=764-01&Color=99CCFF
1up mushrooms are green, not red as described in the article.
Did anyone else notice the Pumpkin Lady cheated by carving on artificial pumpkins?!?
C'mon, that's not the spirit of pumpkin carving!
The Jini Pumpkin as posted to the Jini User's Group. By the way Steve if your server gets slashdotted, sorry about that. ;-)
But really, you've got to expect this kind of thing when you hand out Dum-Dums to the Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween....
It's not halloween a day before, it's mormon halloween, mormon halloween rocks, it just means more candy!
Anyway wouldn't a Dremel work better if you freeze the pumpkin first?
Good question. We carved three pumpkins yesterday. It was the first time using the 'skinning' technique. One was the gargoyle-looking one from the Dremel site, and the others were Marvin the Martian and the Tazmanian Devil from elsewhere.
In addition to using a Dremel, I also used some dental picks. The WB characters were a bit too detailed to get much use out of the Dremel, so they were mostly done with the picks. As I worked in an area where I needed a very narrow ridge of skin left, it was tough to be very precise, as that ridge would always flex. I was pondering then whether a frozen pumpking would work better.
Second which is the best Dremel to buy?
Depends on what you're doing. I bought a kit a few years back that included a variable speed tool, the flexible shaft attachment, and a bunch of bits in a case. Works for most of what I use it for, which is mainly the cutoff wheels, a sanding drum for the dogs' toenails, and now pumpking carving.