{"id":2051,"date":"2008-12-10T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2008-12-08T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T16:03:13","slug":"mad-scientist-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mad Scientist&#8221; Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blocks-150x146.jpg\" alt=\"Mad Scientist Blocks\" title=\"Mad Scientist Blocks\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Here&#8217;s the perfect item for the young maniacal inventor on your gift list: Alphabet blocks lovingly engraved with a different mad scientific motif.  Original pen-and-ink drawings are laser-engraved (natch) onto maple blocks, and they&#8217;re just gorgeous.  The set of five includes all of the themes that any well-rounded mad scientist should explore:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A &#8211; Appendages | B &#8211; Bioengineering | C &#8211; Caffeine | D &#8211; Dirigible | E &#8211; Experiment | F &#8211; Freeze ray | G &#8211; Goggles | H &#8211; Henchmen | I &#8211; Invention | J &#8211; Jargon | K &#8211; Potassium | L &#8211; Laser | M &#8211; Maniacal | N &#8211; Nanotechnology | O &#8211; Organs | P &#8211; Peasants (with Pitchforks) | Q &#8211; Quantum physics | R &#8211; Robot | S &#8211; Self-experimentation | T &#8211; Tentacles | U &#8211; Underground Lair | V &#8211; Virus | W &#8211; Wrench | X &#8211; X-Ray | Y &#8211; You, the Mad Scientist of Tomorrow | Z &#8211; Zombies<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s never too early to teach your children mad science proficiency, and once they&#8217;ve grown up and begun an illustrious career reanimating dead tissue and launching laser satellites these blocks would make a lovely desk accessory or source of evidence when the FBI shows up with questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xylocopa.com\/product\/mad-science-alphabet-blocks\">Link<\/a> <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>(Also check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xylocopa.com\/product\/mr-bitey-personal-organizer\">&#8220;Mr. Bitey&#8221; personal organizer<\/a> on the same site.  I want one of these for my desk.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the perfect item for the young maniacal inventor on your gift list: Alphabet blocks lovingly engraved with a different mad scientific motif. Original pen-and-ink drawings are laser-engraved (natch) onto maple blocks, and they&#8217;re just gorgeous. The set of five includes all of the themes that any well-rounded mad scientist should explore: A &#8211; Appendages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}