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By Dave, August 6, 2007 10:44 pm

Garbage Plate, History of Garbage Plate, Nick Tahou Hots

Sounds good to me! Gonna have to try this sometime.

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 10:23 pm

KINGSMERE CRAFTS

Lot of good info related to leather craft on this site. Good stuff!

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 10:02 pm

Homesteading Today – Simple sawmill setup

The pix below are from the 4th post down and are owned by the poster. Reproduced here for my use only. This is the simplest setup I have seen for a stable, easy to operate, sawmill. I have bits and pieces of a sawmill and a chainsaw with Alaskan mill (actually seems to be based on the Alaskan mill design rather than actually using one) that I may use to build something similar. Cool!

Update Dec 31, 2008 – Here’s a link to fluidp’s post on his site about the sawmill. Thanks for commenting and helping folks with it. Have been somewhat (quite) lax about doing stuff on the site for a long time now. Will try to do better… 😉

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 6:38 pm

Lizzdmc Productions, LLC :: Wrong Page

Funny 404 page!

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 4:14 pm

The Register: The Home of the Mighty BOFH

As per the previous post here is the BOFH current year index page with the latest posts as of August the third. Enjoy!

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 4:12 pm

Well I have been missing getting my BOFH fix for some time now but as I have been using a feedreader to check for new posts I figured I was just missing it seeing it in the mass of posts on the REG everyday. However I have switched to reading my feeds through the google reader (thereby making my feedreading portable and not tied to a single computer) and decided to see if there was a feed for Odds and Sods instead of having to wade through the hundreds of posts a month on the main feed. Anyway, I went to the REG site and found that there was a Odds and Sods feed, so I subscribed. After noting that the latest BOFH was posted on Aug. 3, I went to the google reader to make sure that it was there. But the BOFH posts were still not showing. So I tried going a bit deeper at the REG site and below is what I found:

The Register – Odds and Sods: BOFH
The Register – Odds and Sods: BOFH
Biting the hand that feeds IT
BOFH not available in feeds
Thanks for your interest in the Bastard Operator from Hell. Simon Travaglia, the author of BOFH, has asked us to remove links to his articles from our RSS feeds. We will not restore the BOFH RSS feeds without his permission.

Damn if I can figure out why but it looks like Simon Travaglia has got a problem with RSS feeds or something. So now I get to delete all of the REG links from my feedreader and try to remember to go to the site every week or so and see if a new one has been posted. If I didn’t like the humor so much I’d just say F#*$ it and forget about it, but for now will post links here on the blog for the newest stuff as it shows up, and I find it. Even though it is a REAL pain in the arse to have do so…

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 12:45 pm

bullet knife gun shell brass reload weapon assault swat – (item 170136134592 end time Aug-07-07 15:10:43 PDT)

Since Ebay will remove this at some point I am gonna copy the contents below. At the present time the bid (yep folks are really bidding on a rock) is at 122.50 US. Totally nuts!

From the site:

In celebration of Ebay’s new firearm parts policy we proudly offer the ONLY genuine, fully automatic ASSAULT ROCK!!!! Get yours fast before Ebay decides you can’t-it seems guns have some legal standing in the Constitution of the United States (not on Ebay). Our crack team of right-wing lawyer wantabees are looking for rock protection as you read this-besides it keeps them from esoteric pursuits such as trying to figure out why liberals exist. These incredible tools started out as just lousy old Colorado granite; but have been transformed into works of art worthy of, and able to induce shock and awe!

Colors available:

Black-a most ominous color, great for swat (literally) work and they immediately strike (that’s what you got it for isn’t it?) fear into your foe’s heart while showing that you care enough to use the very best.

White, while it may look like you stole it from some old lady’s garden, is no less effective, is innocuous enough to look like a paper weight, and great for winter work, but we caution, repeated use may cause staining.

Camo-OF COURSE, why wouldn’t we-after all we are shamelessly promoting this. It is our most popular rock, and its ability to blend-in is legendary and various patterns are available upon request

Natural-while it seems shabby on our part to offer what would seem to be a plain old rock-hey the pet rock phenomena still amazes us. We felt it only proper, and in may cases it would be the best choice at being non-threatening and blending in with the environment-again, hey we want to be able to have some bogus claim to being “green.” We will send you a relatively clean rock with most of the dirt clods knocked off, postage being what it is.

The “designer” rock-custom colors, blends, and jewel be-studded upon request. Price dependant upon upgrades and jewels chosen.

All rocks are fully automatic, never need to be reloaded-as long as you can cock your arm, have a durable dollar store spray paint finish and come with a lifetime guarantee-if used for their intended purpose. Please note: most have minor natural defects that do not affect performance. Please be sure to order the proper size, the largest you can easily wield will be the most effective. It is not our fault if you bring “too much rock” and have difficulty recocking in the fully automatic mode. Remember too little rock usually results it necessity to go “Full Auto” to be effective, and this may be offensive to some passer-bys. We also caution against just going out and getting your own home grown or “reloaded rock” as these are not subject to the rigors of our process and may be easily subject to the penchant of the legal profession to file a suit claiming you are a crazed, right wing, rock loving, Neanderthal, republican, enviro-hating, SUV driving, carbon hogging, God-fearing, aberrant, pervert.

Calibers available:

Humongous-best left to the meanest SOB on the block or a front end loader

Large-for those that have some kind of complex

Medium-best choice for most, a little large to conceal, but will “git-er-done”

Small-best for pocket of purse, may require repeated cycles to be totally effective

Micro only for the well trained in the art of “rockette”-did it take a rocket scientist to know that?

Specifications:

Material – granite, we think

Finish-lousy aerosol paint

Country of origin USA, Colorado

Weight: varies, depends on what we can find and what you want

Color started out sort of reddish brown, maybe gray

Safeties-None-the darn thing is a ROCK! For crying out loud, what do you want and HK?

Please note: this item, due to its inherently dangerous nature, is not available to: at least the northern portion of the left coast and the land of fruit and nuts (Kalifornia and Ebay). In fact, we highly recommend that those areas IMMEDIATELY begin a program of regulating, stamping out, filing a manufacturer’s class action suit against God,( the original manufacturer), and rendering all non-military or law-enforcement controlled rocks un-useable and ineffective by super gluing them to something solid or crushing them to the size of salt grains. (Any larger and some fool might think to use them in a sling shot!!)

Please Note Again: We recommend against going “air-borne” with your rock unless you are a major league class pitcher or NFL class quarterback. Rocks out of control and personal retention may be easily turned against the original possessor-besides it just shows a lack of self-control.

HURRY!! Get yours soon, as far as we know there are only so many available, and no more are being made that are readily available, although some MAY be evolving (just had to use that word didn’t ya?)

Be sure to check out our other items-sticks, hammers, assault cars, fire-place pokers, screwdrivers, golf clubs, etc.

Above content copyright JLS 2007. May be copied, perused, abused, edited and broadcast or re-broadcast only on fear of ridicule as long as changes are apparent and the original content remains intact?????

Shipping-you must be nuts!

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 12:28 pm

Will work on separating and sorting books over here (at the compound/dwelling) till almost dark and then try going back over to BSB (Blue Springs Bazaar or as I have previously called it, the yard sale trailer) to try to finish the last of the shelving in the library room.

Spent a couple of hours over there this morning starting the process of sorting and rearranging the books. Can’t even decide where the categories need to be till we get the basic groups sorted to see how many of what there is. For now I am not even working with the hard backs other than getting them on shelves so they can be seen.

And that’s not to mention the religious books that are still in boxes. Seems like there are 10 or 12 boxes of them that have got to be shelved somewhere.

The area that was the bathroom is soon to be gutted and walled with shelves. I think we can house around 2500 volumes it that area. But first we have to figure out where to store the stuff that is currently stored in there.

Bit by bit I think we’re making some headway but it’s painfully slow. Not to mention painfully hot right now which makes me move a LOT slower than normal.

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 8:55 am

Phone Number Comments

Having problems with someone calling that you don’t know and when you search for the # there is no info? Try this site. Not every number is listed but the ones from telemarketers and such that have been reported by other folks they have annoyed will be. Have had good luck with searches several times now that otherwise I couldn’t find.

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By Dave, August 3, 2007 10:47 pm

Been cleaning, fixing, moving, stuff and building and rebuilding the building that is housing it. Books are a real pain when you get as many as we have. But at this point we can’t seem to keep from getting more and more of them. Current rough count on the books on shelves inside the yard sale trailer (which is an old 14 x60 office trailer that I have somewhat gutted and lined with shelves from end to end) are paperbacks 2200 and hardbacks 900. Still need about 40 liner feet of shelving to display them all. Have 25 feet or so of paperbacks that are double stacked but by sliding the front stack can you can see what is in the back. Awkward but works.

Got the first wall of the shelves done in the book room yesterday late. There are 8 rows of shelves about 9 feet long that are 4 inch boards and meant for paperbacks. One shelf around the entire top of the room is complete and on the long walls (about 10 feet long) made out of 12 inch wide 3/4 inch plywood on one side and a 1×12 on the other. The two 9 foot wall shelves are 1×8. Will post pix as soon as I get the cam found (long story – but short form is moved computer station and screwed up something on the main computer so moved to the iBook for main machine, and cam and all the other stuff from the desk top where it was in now in boxes and somewhere in the clutter in the compound somewhere) (and yes that is the short form). Total length of shelving is about 110 feet so far. Planning on doing all four walls so discounting the 3 foot wide door in one 10 foot wall should have about 400 feet of books in the one room.

One more note of interest (to some anyway, maybe), so far the only cost I have in the shelves is that of the screws. Cat went and bought 8 founds of assorted sheet rock screws and spent a little over 17 dollars. I may have used a half a pound so far. With tax the screws cost $1.07 a half pound. I figure to use another pound total on the rest of the shelves so will have a bit over 3 dollars out of pocket. Wood is pallets and crates and such that would other wise cost these folks to take to the landfill. Good wood too.

Got a yard sale going right now too. There are several hundred books that are out there too. Along with a lot of other stuff. Keep getting queries for things we don’t have but some things that we do also. Other folks just look and say yall got a lot of stuff!

Aside for Steve, Sue, and Aaron. Remember the blue and white stripped swing set of Aarons that you gave me, lo those many years ago? We are using two of the side legs to support a metal frame and canvas tarp over part of the sale area. 😉 Thanks for the junk folks!

The hands, arms, and brain are about done in so will close for the moment. More as time and energy permit.

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By Dave, August 3, 2007 9:56 pm

Wildwood Survival – Wilderness Survival – Shelter

Good stuff! Gonna have to build a brush hut this fall or winter just to try it out.

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By Dave, August 3, 2007 9:53 pm

Anarchist Teapot Mobile Kitchen

An interesting concept. And I’m quite sure some very different folks.

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By Dave, August 3, 2007 9:50 pm

Stilt Houses in the Gulf of Mexico, Pasco County, Florida

Would love to live in one of these! Except when the big nasty winds and rains come around…

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By Dave, August 1, 2007 9:57 am

Zonbu: Green doesn’t have to make you Blue!

Steve pointed me to this new computer and while it looks interesting there are several things I wonder about.

First and foremost, what happens when the company goes under or their servers go down?

In their info limited site they say that it has a state of the art OS that is immune to virii they never say what kind of OS it is. The office productivity suite is the Sun Open Office package.

On board storage is 4 gb (i think) which is not much OS wise these days.

Price isn’t bad and the subscription pricing for online storage and OS updates is not out of sight either.

However interested I might be I wouldn’t bite unless I could use my own network storage and they don’t say anything about that in the site. Or at least I couldn’t find it. I wish them luck.

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By Dave, July 31, 2007 3:18 pm

Was gonna make this a comment under the previous post but after typing a bit decided it deserved a post of it’s own.

Sorry for the early morning shock, Steve. 😉 Got to looking at the site last night and the whole thing was just looking stale to me, so I got to poking around the web and this is what I came up with after going through a few hundred wp themes.

Been working on it a bit today (after sweltering outside for most of the morning). Got the recent comments and some other stuff back in the sidebar and this one is feeling/looking a lot better to me.

The Hobbit theme looks nice and kinda has the look and feel I would like but I am leaning more toward an expandable (sidewise) theme to make use of the available screen real estate and there is just no way to make it do that without a complete rewrite.

I may try to do something with the header on this one and then again I may not. As it sits now it seems to load quickly and should work on most current browsers, so will just have to wait and see if it rubs or chaffs…

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By Dave, July 31, 2007 12:09 am

Quiz – Hogwarts Sorting Hat: Based on Myers-Briggs Personality.. – Quizilla Quizzes

And I test out as a:

Hogwarts Sorting Hat: Based on Myers-Briggs Personality Typing

You are a RAVENCLAW!As a Ravenclaw and as an NTP, you are intellectual, independent, and value excellence in yourself and in those around you. You have a strong sense of curiosity, and in general can see many aspects of a single issue or debate. You have a strong drive to acquire knowledge and set very high standards for yourself and those around you. You enjoy being challenged, and can accept constructive criticism without taking it personally. You are probably at least somewhat unconventional, and will not usually follow authority for its own sake; instead, you will consider the issue at hand and make a decision for yourself.
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By Dave, July 30, 2007 11:11 pm

If things look weird and broken tis just me playing with the themes. Am gonna stop for the nonce with the Nikz Black and see how it works. Not the one I really want but the one I like needs a lot of mods to work the way I want it to.

Like it? Hate it? Let me know…

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By Dave, July 30, 2007 9:28 pm

OkCupid! The How much of a rebel are you Test

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By Dave, July 24, 2007 11:48 pm

Update Thursday, October 16 2008:

The Alabama Airsoft Forum is no longer at located at Technoprimitive.org due to excessive bandwidth requirements and no assistance from the forum members toward offsetting hosting costs. While we were hosting the games there was some money coming in from the airsoft folks so this wasn’t a big deal. However, it has now been months since the games were played here and I can no longer afford to continue supporting the increasing forum traffic, so I shut it down 2 weeks ago and have now removed the subdomain and forum redirect completely. Since I am still getting hits from people trying to find the forum I am posting this link. Please bookmark it.

The new site is located at Alabama Airsoft Forum.

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By Dave, July 21, 2007 11:36 pm

Extended Desktop

If you’ve got an iBook and want to use an external monitor at a different resolution along with the existing builtin display this is the program for you! Am sitting here using my Proview 19″ widescreen LCD (1400×900) with the main Firefox window open on it and Skype and another Firefox gmail window open on the iBook 14″ (1024×768) screen. NICE! Tis really a shame that Apple decided to disable some of the capabilities of the iBook via firmware to make the PowerBook more desirable.