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we make money not art: Sensitive vehicles to help drivers
By Dave, April 12, 2005 9:35 am
we make money not art: Sensitive vehicles to help drivers
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/3637
Cool!
Update
By Dave, April 12, 2005 9:29 am
Still alive. Been feeling real bad the past few days. Guess it has just been another flair up. Seems to have eased this evening quite a bit. Last night was particularly bad. Thought several times about going to the ER but managed to meditate my way through it once again.
But the weird thing is at times I can work as hard as ever and then it’s like someone flipped a switch and cut my power off. Hit me this morning at the table between one spoon of cereal and the next. One minute I am fine, tired but okay, and then next I can hardly move the spoon from the bowl to my mouth. Could still talk with no trouble and thought was seemed to be unimpaired but the energy seemed to be drained from all the voluntary muscles in my body. I sat there for about 20 minutes I guess and it came back and I went and started doing stuff again.
Spent most of the day today at the creek working on the new bridge. Started it last week after stepping through yet another rotten board on one of the pallets that floored the old foot bridge across the creek. I have been thinking about what to do in rebuilding this for some time (years) now and at that point decided to fix it. So later that day I look at a Marvin’s flyer and see that they have a sale on landscape timbers. So make a run and get 30 figuring that would be enough for a 20 foot long foot bridge. Well it was till Bill says something about would be nice to put benches in the middle. And a roof on it.
And so it grew. At present we have made 3 trips. 30. 28. 30. The last trip was supposed to also get the ones for the front porch here at the trailer too but looks like they will be used on the bridge. It’s overall 4 feet wide for about 6 feet on each end and 8 feet for about 8 feet in the middle. There is a 2 foot + wide bench on one side and another with half the frame built on the other side now. One of the end arbor tops is framed in on 2 sides, another cut but not in place and 2 uprights need another setback cut into them at the top, and then the wire for the vines to run in. Got a bunch of native muscatine vines that are right beside the bridge that I am going to try to train to the arbors. Hand rails on the end sides at 3 feet with cross bracing of saplings below.
The benches are over the creek. Supported by pilings that I pounded into the ground, on each side of the water, till they hit limestone. This is one of those projects that just keep growing. And growing. Got a bunch of pictures of it as I have been working on it. So will try to get the pictures together and make a page for them.
I haven’t put anything on paper other than one set of measurements that I made after building the first bench seat end. It’s all come out of my head as I have built it. Cut to fit for the most part. Benches are 2 feet by 8 feet. Big enough for me to take a nap on. Backs are 30+ inches high boards spaced an inch or so apart. 3 inch lean from bottom to top.
Roof is gonna be about 9 by 10 with each side being 9 by 5. Got the idea in my head now to get it into wood. Entire roof should take 9 timbers if my figuring is correct. 5 of those will be 9 feet long and be made of an 8 foot timber and a 1 1/2 foot piece with a 6 inch lap joint. The other 4 are 2 8 foot pieces cut at an angle in the center, one side reversed to form the peak, 2 points cut out to fit the post corners about 2 feet from each end and nailed into place on top of the seat front supports. Then the 5 will be affixed across the rafters and the roofing put on. Should be interesting…
Guess I have rambled enough for now. Hands and arms are about done in. 3 pound hammer that it takes to pound in the 6 inch spiral cut nails has taken its tole.
Boing Boing: Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:37 am
Boing Boing: Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg
Looks to be an interesting read.
Wired News: EPA Cancels Pesticide Study
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:28 am
Wired News: EPA Cancels Pesticide Study
So should we be all stand and clap and be happy they decided to cancel this study or pissed as hell that they had the unmitigated gall to attempt this bullshit in the first place?
Harry Winston Rare Timepieces Discussion Forum
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:25 am
iPod shuffle Database Builder
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:23 am
Themocracy