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New Things
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. Read more…
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‘Twas The Week Before Christmas
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 Read more…
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President-Elect Barack Obama
It seems to me one guy tried to appeal to what’s best in us (hope) and one guy tried to appeal to what’s worst in us (fear, bigotry, anger, fear). The results speak for themselves. Give us something to hope Read more…
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Tracking Politics
Engineers love data. And graphs. We love graphs, too. Toss in some statistics and some simulations and we’re as happy as can be! A friend recommended a site that collects all of these together to try and help track polling Read more…
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Small changes
Finally got around to adding some more Front Page Pics from the last couple years. Also added an album page for all the Front Page Pics so you can look at all of them. Finally, added a link on the Read more…
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Make: Pumpkins!
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: Read more…
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Make: Bookmarks
This one is certainly not my own. I ran across a post on Instructables about making your own bookmarks from scrap wood. Lacking the appropriate scrap wood, I picked up some 2×2 lengths of hard wood, oak and alder perhaps? Read more…
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Make: Jake’s Chair
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 Read more…
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Make: Sun Jars
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 Read more…