Brain Scat

As I get older I’m being forced to acknowledge that my physical body is not accepting my mental premise that I’m pretty much the same as I was when I was 18 years old.
I’m forced to rationalize more things to myself.
I tell myself I’m wiser though strangely slower to learn some new things.  I have [...]

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Oh, this is a good, good thing.  Lots of great photos here.
[Via: Lifehacker]

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Painting is hard.
A recent article I read determined that it took roughly 10,000 hours to become good at something.
If you do the math, that’s 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year (vacations are good) for five years.
So, a full-time jobs worth of work for five years and most of us can become good at [...]

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This was written after a long day of dealing (unsuccessfully) with the incredible weather we’ve had around here.  Worst storm in 40 years, according to the weather wonks.
‘Twas The Week Before Christmas
Twas the week before Christmas, in old Portland Town,
And the cars and the busses were sliding around.
The stockings were sitting on a chair by [...]

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Here are the results of my first pumpkin efforts of the year. I have a plan for another one, but that’ll have to wait for next weekend.

Some links for ideas for pumpkin carving:

http://www.pumpkingutter.com/
http://www.extremepumpkins.com/
http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm

Last years pumpkin: The Cannibal Pumpkin!

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This is an even older one, but still one of my favorites.
Clear back in 1998, I wanted to build something and the something I came up with was a plan for an Adirondack chair.
At the time, I didn’t have many woodworking tools, so it had to have pretty low hardware requirements. Also, I didn’t [...]

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This is an older one, but I liked the results and I think it was a pretty keen project.
Inspiration for this was an article on Instructables about Sun Jars.
At the time I saw the article, I was looking for a Christmas gift project and this seemed like a good fit.
The original article used some tracing [...]

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My nephew asked me recently to look at a story he’s writing and give some feedback and asked if I had any advice about writing.
While by no means what I consider to be a writer, I had a few things to share that I thought worthy.
The first question was what makes a writer.
I don’t recall [...]

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My goal for this evening was to try and turn a video captured from a camera in to something to be shared via the Internets.
The source material was a dance competition. The material was about 2:30 in length. No real editing since it was basically from start to finish.
Since I’m working with [...]

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This isn’t a long one.
I was struggling with an interesting idea for Valentines Day. Something more than chocolates and flowers and a card. Something creative, something at least a bit different.
After some brainstorming, I decided a customized calendar was in order.
It turns out the Costco Photo Center not only has a pretty decent [...]

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