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This dude has worked out a process of using a microwave to cast metal objects in bronze, silver and even cast iron. Says it works with up to about a pound of metal. Also has a bunch of other interesting stuff on the site.
Comments Off on day by day Tis another cold sunday. Brrrrrrrrrrr cold today.
It was 21.5 at 1:35 am and had a wind chill of 8.5 f. Tis only 21.2 at 7:21 and a wind chill of 7.6. Wind is only about 15 mph now. Worst wind was around 2:30 at 38 mph.
All the plastic and temp walls and underpinning held up. Got down to mid 50's in here but with a few extra blankets we were fine. Cat is still upstairs under about a foot of cover.
Been out and surveyed the area but no real problems. Lit off the kerosene heater to go along with the 2 oil filled and the Ashley. Put more wood in the Ashley and got it going full tilt too. Almost up to 60 in here now. Starting to see the sun peek over the hill so should warm up fairly quickly from here on.
Up to almost 70 now at 9:30. Wind still whipping up out there quite a bit. Put a couple of more arm loads of wood in the stove and is heating nicely in there. Got so much wind and so many small holes in the temp plastic walls that it isn't staying very warm in the greenhouse right now though. I can either ignore it or try putting more stuff up in there. I'm tempted to get some of the blue board and put it on the section of north wall as well as under the trailers west end. Got a lot of air coming in that way from where it's blowing in under and around the old FRP that I've got blocking the north side. Could also put up more plastic over the FRP to try and block some of the worst of the wind and may try that in a bit. Gonna wait till it gets a bit warmer first though.
Ordered and got a copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596004761/qid=1106494950/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2454472-7002206?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Perl Template Toolkit</a> finely. Have managed to read through the first page or two so far.
Having a bit of a time with my head lately. Just not working with learning things from print. Some days I can read and understand and others I can reread the same paragraph 10 times and still not remember a thing I have just read. Tis a tad irritating to say the least. On those days I also have problems getting things down on the computer so it would seem to be the brains IO interface that is causing the problem. I seem to be able to function physically fairly well but would rather not be in public when that is going on either as I am tending to get disorientated more frequently in unfamiliar surroundings also. Again may be a pointer to the IO system.
Keep looking at the Mac Mini. I am planning on setting up a server here at home and am considering one for that.
There is a site that I found the other day (and promptly forgot to either bookmark or note here in the blog so will have to try to find it again) that is a mac only data center and has a deal for folks that want to use a Mac Mini for a server. If you sign up before 3/15/2005 the cost per month is 22.99 for rack space. That is a hell of a deal! The data transfer is reasonable and only a small fee for over usage per gb. They will supply the machine or put yours in a rack. Their price per machine was about a hundred more than apples price if I recall correctly but it seems like they were offering more ram. guess I need to look and see if I can find the url again.
Okay, the url is <a href="http://www.macminicolo.net/">http://www.macminicolo.net/</a> and I was wrong about the price. Their machines are about 50 more than from apple but you ain't paying to ship the machine to them. Of course you are gonna end up having to upload all your data that way, so if I go that route I'll order from Apple, install and ship to them.
Was reading posts on Homesteading today and someone posted this <a href="http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/sears/">link</a> which has some interesting house plans for houses that were sold by Sears in the first half of the last century. Neat stuff!
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Interesting site with lots of info on woodworking of all kinds.
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