technabob » sock monkey http://technabob.com/blog gadgets, gizmos, games, cool gadgets, geeky gadgets Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:47:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 spock monkey: half-vulcan, half-sock, half-monkey http://technabob.com/blog/2009/09/27/spock-monkey-sock-monkeys/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/09/27/spock-monkey-sock-monkeys/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:51:05 +0000 lambert v. http://technabob.com/blog/?p=20524 That’s right: each Spock Monkey is a combination of three halves, resulting in one logical, emotionally detached yet huggable primate. I used Vulcan math to calculate Spock Monkey’s constitution.

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Each Spock Monkey is lovingly handmade, so each of them is unique. Some are uglier than the others. There’s also a Captain Kirk Sock Monkey. No monkey McCoy though.

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Each Spock Monkey (or Capt. Kirk Sock Monkey) sells for $46 (USD) at Cottage Linen. Don’t feel bad about separating the Spock Monkeys from each other, because they’re all adventurers, seeking new frontiers. Every Spock Monkey is also sent off with one hell of a going-away party. Seriously, check out the party. It’ll make your day.

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]]> http://technabob.com/blog/2009/09/27/spock-monkey-sock-monkeys/feed/ 0 who watches the watchmen? crafters. http://technabob.com/blog/2009/03/30/who-watches-the-watchmen-crafters/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/03/30/who-watches-the-watchmen-crafters/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:24:12 +0000 alisha k. http://technabob.com/blog/?p=10985 Watchmen may have suffered mixed reviews from fans and newbies alike at the box office, but Alan Moore’s seminal characters are certainly scoring big with one subset of the population: crafty types are embracing Watchmen’s heroes anew… and in interesting ways. If you thought you’d never see a Dr. Manhattan sock…]]> Zack Snyder’s take on Watchmen may have suffered mixed reviews from fans and newbies alike at the box office, but Alan Moore’s seminal characters are certainly scoring big with one subset of the population: crafty types are embracing Watchmen’s heroes anew… and in interesting ways. If you thought you’d never see a Dr. Manhattan sock monkey, well, you were wrong.

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Dr. Monkhattan, as this version happens to be named, is from the wearing-black-man-panties stage of the superman’s development, so there’s no issue of bright blue sock monkey genitals to be addressed.

Crafty Crafty has a round-up of some of the more unique and interesting examples of crafters’ takes on Watchmen, including a Hello Kitty/Rorshach mashup flash drive that can go toe-to-toe on the randomness scale with Dr. Monkhattan any day.

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