I came home this afternoon to a wife in an advanced stage of cabin fever. So, naturally we decided to carve pumpkins. It's a perfect illustration of our marriage, or rather, of our different personalities--she finished her cute, functional carving in 30 minutes. Mine took an hour. That's maybe somewhat amazing when you consider that this is the first time she's ever carved a pumpkin--they're the devil, dontcha know...
To the left is a schematic of my original idea, the "Cylon Pumpkin."
In the end, it didn't come out so great. Here's one of the final product along with Grace's creation.
UPDATE: Man, it's a small Internet. Just a few hours after I posted, "Oskay" posted a comment down below. Oskay is an Evil Mad Scientist and the creator of the Cylon pumpkin par excellence shown below. I'm horribly embarassed that I didn't even mention that.
This pumpkin stuff also illustrates a character flaw of mine. See, I saw the awesome Cylon pumpkin over a year ago. I was going to recreate the exact same thing, with an update reflecting the new Battlestar Galactica's Cylons, of course. I even located an electronics store that had all the parts. I was going to make a circuit with the roving red eye-light.
Somehow, I never got around to it. So, one way to look at is that it took me more than a year to get to the project, and then I did it half-assed.
Sigh.
Anyway, here's the original Cylon pumpkin from the Evil Mad Scientist.
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See also this one, and our version, which is featured in Make!
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