Last year, Spirit Halloween finally got around to making the Deluxe Proton pack.  Which, of course, I snapped up.

It’s not quite full scale, but it’s definitely a more affordable entry into Ghostbuster costuming than had been available in the past.  Also, lightweight, and pre-assembled.

This year, apparently Spirit Halloween got the message about Ghostbusters still being popular, and drastically exploded the available gear, and addressed an issue that comes up for cons and Halloween.  How do you wear the cool backpack and carry other stuff too.  Ba-bam.  Spirit Halloween, by way of Spencers, presents:

A proton pack with an actual backpack built in, with much-appreciated better straps.  It’s the same shell (with small tweaks), but you can actually carry stuff in it.

The lineup this year also includes some important accessories, the PKE meter, ecto-goggles, and the ghost trap!

So, this jumpstarted me finally getting around to building the Ghostbusters costume I’ve always wanted.  A lot of the stuff is still on the way, and I’m really excited.

The pack and the trap have already arrived, and I’m pretty happy with them (though I’m already getting some ideas for upgrades/modifications.

This does present a bit of a quandary, though.  How do I store/display this stuff when I’m not using it.  The pack was easy to figure out.  There are command strip wall hooks that are rated for enough weight for the pack.  The trap is a bit harder if I want to put it on the wall in a way that I can quickly get it back off again.  I’m considering getting some calipers out, and designing a holder for it that will also use command adhesive strips.

At any rate, this is the year I’m finally doing it!  Finally gonna get my Ghostbuster costume together!

Disclaimer:  None of the post was sponsored by anyone.  I just really like this stuff.

So, lately I’ve been getting a Blue Screen of Death intermittently while playing my VR games… which is more disconcerting than usual because suddenly your vision gets weird, and then you go blind.  Well, the screen in the headset turns off, anyway.

I’m not sure what the specifics of it are, though I’m wondering if it’s related to the SSD that I installed a while back and moved my VR games to.  Most of my non-VR applications on my computer aren’t installed on that drive, and I only seem to get the blue screen when when in VR.  I also recall seeing some waning about memory errors recently.

Hopefully I can figure out what’s going on and adjust.  I don’t wanna have to get a new computer anytime soon.  In the meantime, I’m running whatever diagnostics I can find that seem related to system maintenance.

I came across this device the other day when browsing technology for potential use.

TAP

From what I’ve read, it’s a wearable keyboard and mouse that you wear while tapping your fingers or dragging your thumb across a surface to type or move a cursor.  For most of the applications they demonstrate it for, I think I’d rather use a real keyboard or use an on-screen keyboard.  I could see this being useful for people using an augmented reality display, though, which was the use case I was looking at.

However, they really need to make videos of people who are more proficient with it.  Typing looks painfully slow for normal use, and I think part of that is that the people in the videos don’t appear to be very proficient with it.