Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
Am I missing an eyebrow?
Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality. We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
There is no dignity in television.
This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
Bigger is always better.
I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the ‘Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us. That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.