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I’m playing around with a package called Asterisk. It’s an open-source PBX. Simply put, and office phone system. Or even better yet, do you know what Vonage is? It’s kind of like the equipment THEY have to allow you to access the Internet. Of course theirs is bigger, costs more, takes up more space and is much cooler. lol

Basically, I can hook up an Internet Phone to any Internet connection and make and recieve calls from my home phonelines (Yes, I have 2!)… I can even transfer calls between different extensions, music on hold, and my favorite, a customizable IVR…

So give me a call at 516-390-7191 (I know. It doesnt spell anything cool! It sucks!) Leave me a message, or give me some ideas what to do with the system.

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No, It’s not another Avenue Q song that you missed! Coming back from Shoreleave, we got off in MD to fuel up… Coming back, we followed the GPS/Navigation throught some really incredible areas. They were all hilly and points of the road overlooked huge fields of corn. Enough corn to feed most of (if not all of) NYC! If we werent trying to get home, I would have definitelty pulled out the camera and taken some shots. Perhaps next year I’ll go back and get some.

Just got back from Maryland and the 27th Shore-leave convention. It was a ton of fun (as it always is). Here’s 10 things I did this weekend:

1. Learned what FUPA is.
2. Spent $60 on a convention that I attended the equivalent of 2 panels at.
3. Becaame known (and respected) as the only Asshole at the convention.
4. Got Gelf!
5. Drummed for “Every Tuesday” and several other musicians (except when drunk).
6. Learned that being drunk for 12 hours straight is fun. Except the next morning!
7. Slept with a married woman.
8. Had my Pirate flag stolen by some guy named “Spat”.
9. Met a lot of cool people, many of which I will not remember.
10. Spent my money on some old TV shows, warped cartoons, a marshmallow catapult and a x-mas ornament that looks like me!

For those of you who find this post looking for the second movie in the Spaceballs saga, I have to dissapoint you. I, as yourself, am looking for concrete evidence of the second Spaceballs movie. Instead, this post is about my second attempt at building a spaceball helmet.

My first spaceball helmet took me weeks to make. Just cutting the helmet took a few hours and was less than perfect. I had to use a hand-hacksaw, so precision cuts were nearly impossible. I also wound up cracking one corner of the cut out leaving me with a LOT of work touching up, patching, sanding, priming and painting. The whole process took about a week or two of actual work (which was spread out over 3 months or so). All this work ended when I took a hard left turn sending Diana sliding across the back seat of my car into the helmet. It was completely destroyed.

2 days ago I realized that this upcoming weekend is Shore-leave, a sci-fi/fantasy convention held in Maryland. I made plans almost a year ago to share a room with some friends of mine giving me 3 days to finish the new helmet. I already had the materials, but I didn’t have any of the tools. I called my father and asked him to bring home a dremel from work, and last night headed to Home Depot after work to pick up some bits. I grabbed a diamond cutting wheel and a few other odds, hoping that they would work, but to my dissapointment, my father had not brought home the dremel yet.

I called him from work today and thank god, he brought it. The diamond cutting wheel cut slowly, but acurately. I was even able to use it to bevel the edges of the helmet without cracking it! I cut out the face, and even made the opening a bit larger. I actually think it came out better this time as all the edges are straight, and clean. I glued the head-peice in (60 second epoxy is awesome! lol)

Tomorrow, I’ll rush to Home Depot again (only place open at 11:30PM) and pick up some primer and glossy white paint. I liked the way the first helmet looked when painted, so I’ll repeat that. This time I won’t have to worry about sanding bondo or electrical tape to make everything look good 🙂

Without doing any complicated math, I think this costume has cost me over $200! Possibly $250 or so even… lol. It is rewarding to work on this stuff yourself though. My next project is to get the rest of the Spaceballs body armor and then paint the helmet black 🙂 I dont think thats going to happen for a while though 🙂