Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Wed.
You know it is time for a new profession when you cut your arm off. Especially after the second time you cut the same arm off. STORY
Tuesday 2.0
I got this link in the mail from my FIL. Pretty amazing stuff. If you go there, check out the links at the bottom of the page. There is a link video of the fly-by there. Some other cool links too.
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This turned out the be a perfect day. 60 plus degrees!!!!!!!! I got up and played Gears of War2 for a bit and then got busy. I cleaned out my truck and washed it and put the vacuum to it. Then I went to the library to get some books for ideas on the cabinets I am going to build. I want to do some nice trim work on them and so I grabbed a bunch of books and will look through them tonight. When I got out of the library I was right across the street from where Mary works so I called her and she took an early lunch. Arby's. Yummmm. I went to the store and got a bunch of meat which I am going to put on the grill here soon. Then I cleaned up the mess on the table saw (as seen in previous photo). As I was driving home from the grocery store in my clean truck with the window down The Boys Are Back In Town came on the iPod and I cranked it up. Now I am doing something that I have wanted to do for a long time: I am sitting out on the screen porch watching the sunset and typing on my Macbook Pro.
Sometimes it is just really good to be me.
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I just got mail from Mary that Jeremy Lusk died today. I kind of follow freestyle MX and know of him so that is really sad. I can't believe that more of them don't get killed. That stuff is just nuts. here is the video if you feel you need to see it. Yea, I did.
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I got a thing from Qwest on the door today saying that fiber optic internet is available here now. They say 12Mb/sec for the same as I am paying for 8 with Mediacom, and for $10 more a month you get 20Mb/sec. I was thinking that I don't really need that extra speed too much and I don't want to change my email address. I am curious, however, what the upload speed is. Mediacom is SO lame about that. So when I got the flyer I got on the internet to look it up and Mediacom was slow as hell and it still is now. I think their timing is not the best. I will think about it for a while.
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I reset the modem and I am going faster now :-) Hey there was a cel phone reunion!
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When geeks make cookies.
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Mary is watching the incredible hulk (original series) on TV right now. The chase scenes look familiar to me. Anybody else recognize the vehicles in this show from Stephen Speilberg's first movie?
Tuesday
Well it is 05:00, I have the day off, and I am up. This is how I usually start my days off. I wake up way too early just out of habit and so I get up. Then about an hour later I take a nap. I know it is silly, but it works for me. I am just surfing around waiting to get tired enough to sleep a little more.
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How would you like to find this Bugatti in a barn?
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I have been working on a jig to cut box joints on the table saw. I made it so that the face can be taken off and I can put others on to cut different spacings, or whatever, and not have to keep building the sled part. There are dowels that reference it back to center. I drilled them through from the back of the vertical support so that if I put another face on it, I can drill through that and have a perfect alignment. The joints turned out perfect and I was really happy with it. I needed something to try it on, so I just used some pine I had lying around. We had photos in a tupperware bread box and so I made it to replace that. After the first cut I remembered that you need a backer board to eliminate tearout in the back piece. You can see that on the table saw. Heck, you can see a lot on the tablesaw. I kind of stopped putting things away as I got near the end of the project. You can also see my fancy rip fence on the router table. I really need to make a real one. I wanted to get this done so when I build the furniture for upstairs I can make these joints on drawers.
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How would you like to find this Bugatti in a barn?
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I have been working on a jig to cut box joints on the table saw. I made it so that the face can be taken off and I can put others on to cut different spacings, or whatever, and not have to keep building the sled part. There are dowels that reference it back to center. I drilled them through from the back of the vertical support so that if I put another face on it, I can drill through that and have a perfect alignment. The joints turned out perfect and I was really happy with it. I needed something to try it on, so I just used some pine I had lying around. We had photos in a tupperware bread box and so I made it to replace that. After the first cut I remembered that you need a backer board to eliminate tearout in the back piece. You can see that on the table saw. Heck, you can see a lot on the tablesaw. I kind of stopped putting things away as I got near the end of the project. You can also see my fancy rip fence on the router table. I really need to make a real one. I wanted to get this done so when I build the furniture for upstairs I can make these joints on drawers.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Monday
Left work early today because it was a slow day and I have tomorrow off. Sweet. I am working on making a jig for making box joints on the table saw with a dado stack. I got the sled part done and am trying to make it so that I can attach other jigs to the front of it for different things so I don't have to keep making that part over.
Naturally I love the Woz. He is the number 1 geek of all time as far as I am concerned. His book is really good if you want something to read. Anyhow, the idea of him being on Dancing With the Stars does not sound like a good idea. We shall see I guess.
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I found this really amusing. A collection of letters sent to corporate headquarters of major corporations. Some of them are really funny and all are well written. It is fun to see the response to them. Well done, sir.
Naturally I love the Woz. He is the number 1 geek of all time as far as I am concerned. His book is really good if you want something to read. Anyhow, the idea of him being on Dancing With the Stars does not sound like a good idea. We shall see I guess.
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I found this really amusing. A collection of letters sent to corporate headquarters of major corporations. Some of them are really funny and all are well written. It is fun to see the response to them. Well done, sir.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Friday
Gotta work the weekend, so Friday is not such a big deal. 49 degrees, however, is a very big deal. Feels great outside.
I drove by the Liberty Tax lady that I mentioned a few days ago. She was out there waving and dancing like a fool and making the best of the situation. I waved back. Then I saw the guy about 15 feet from her with a sign begging for money. There is just something wrong with that.
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A friend of mine has a son in high school. They are doing a project about business. They start a business and they make a product and then sell it. His son sold literally 2x more then the other 14 students combined. Most sold none. Even after he found out that they had to split the profits evenly he is still selling them. He likes it. He also wrote a letter to his teacher telling him what a great lesson he learned about how socialism works. :-) I thought that was pretty sharp.
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I drove by the Liberty Tax lady that I mentioned a few days ago. She was out there waving and dancing like a fool and making the best of the situation. I waved back. Then I saw the guy about 15 feet from her with a sign begging for money. There is just something wrong with that.
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A friend of mine has a son in high school. They are doing a project about business. They start a business and they make a product and then sell it. His son sold literally 2x more then the other 14 students combined. Most sold none. Even after he found out that they had to split the profits evenly he is still selling them. He likes it. He also wrote a letter to his teacher telling him what a great lesson he learned about how socialism works. :-) I thought that was pretty sharp.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
Wed.
Had the day off and took care of a lot of things. I got the flooring ordered today and it should be in stock in time to work on it next weekend when I start a bit of a vacation.
failblog is one of my new favorite sites. They brought you this:
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I understand why "the man" would not think this is funny, but I got a chuckle out of hacked road signs.
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I thought this video was cool. Putting corn starch and water on a speaker. But the funny thing was the ad placement that went with it: an ad for nasal congestion relief. You have to see the video to understand why that was really odd.
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I find this kind of sad. With the time that this kid wasted mastering this game and the money mom and dad spent replacing all of the little plastic guitars, they could have bought a strat and he could have learned it. Really nice use of the F* bomb in front of your 14 year old kid also, dad.
failblog is one of my new favorite sites. They brought you this:
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I understand why "the man" would not think this is funny, but I got a chuckle out of hacked road signs.
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I thought this video was cool. Putting corn starch and water on a speaker. But the funny thing was the ad placement that went with it: an ad for nasal congestion relief. You have to see the video to understand why that was really odd.
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I find this kind of sad. With the time that this kid wasted mastering this game and the money mom and dad spent replacing all of the little plastic guitars, they could have bought a strat and he could have learned it. Really nice use of the F* bomb in front of your 14 year old kid also, dad.
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