Blowing stuff up ....

I love that show How It's Made! It's so interesting to see how common objects get made like ambulances, 18-wheel trucks and tattoos (which by the way, the steps shown are a little out of order). The narrator, Brooks Moore, to his credit does sound like a nice guy, but can he please speed it up a bit? I do understand that most of the audience may not understand most of the terms used, but gee, it's not like we're retarded or anything.

Another favorite of mine, while not quite tech related, is Mythbusters. Adam Savage really looks like he is having the time of his life blowing stuff up and destroying Buster the crash test dummy in as many different ways as possible. My favorite episodes are basically all of them but the one that stands out for me is the one where they tried to duplicate the Chinese astronomer attempting to get sent into space with something like 48 really huge firecrackers. Which failed miserably, I might add. Another one that I liked was lifting a small boat out of the water with ping pong balls. That one worked surprisingly well with less than half the balls on hand.

One last tech show I can't live without is Tekzilla. Okay, granted it's only on the web, but hey it's still a terrific show. Super-geeks Patrick Norton and Jessica Corbin work well together and the blooper reel at the end of the show is priceless. I think DL.TV sorta took a hit when Patrick left, but hey, everybody's gotta procreate eventually, right?

Anyway, I gotta go finish building my destructo robot....