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By Dave, January 20, 2007 12:43 pm

The J Peterman Company – Official Site

Love his stuff!  Glad to see its still around…

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By Dave, January 19, 2007 4:28 pm

Brooklands Vintage Motor Company Limited

These folks have some wonderful old and new cars.  Love the building too!  And all those copper bottom pans in the kitchen!  Wish they were closer…

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By Dave, January 19, 2007 4:21 pm

Your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Venerable Lord Wolfie the Fortunate of Deep Throcking
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

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By Dave, January 19, 2007 4:06 pm

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS, GEC, MITEL, PHILIPS, IBM, ERCISSON, GPT, SIEMENS, BT, SDX, PMBX, PABX, PANASONIC, AVAYA, LONDON, OMNICOM, AVAYA,

Bits and bobs about British telephone systems.  Just for the hell of it… 😉

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By Dave, January 19, 2007 4:04 pm

Dante’s Inferno Test – Impurity, Sin, and Damnation

What level will you get sent to?  According to this test I will spend eternity in the second level of hell… 😉

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By Dave, January 11, 2007 12:23 am

Been rearanging and moving crap around in the 14×66 to facilitate actually being able to work on things in there.

Got the repair room about a quarter there.  If that but it’s close enough that I am able to actually work on things in a semi comfortable room/building.

Wood heat for the entire building is a Warm Morning small upright parlor stove right by the front entry door.  The location in the middle of the building and in the hall helps to heat the entire building without a fan.  If the weather gets really cold putting a small fan blowing down the hall toward the repair room warms it enough for me to work.

I’m leaning toward opening a general fixit shop.  No automotive repair!  Household stuff, and electronics if you bring it in type repair shop.  No service calls! Don’t plan to post set open days or hours either.  Kind of a private word of mouth fixit shop for odd stuff.

Damn if I know if it will work but I keep getting folks bringing me things to fix so guess I need to go with the flow and see how it goes.

Since the building is on the other side of the property and the gates over there can be closed and locked, I don’t think I’ll have quite the problem I had before with the shop here in the qhut and me 200 feet away in the trailer with folks showing up all times of the day and night wanting stuff done.

Nor am I after that kind of volume.  If I can get one or two small ($5 to $50) repair jobs a day we can survive easily.  Even one $20 job a day 5 days a week will allow us to live much as we are doing now.   The airsoft thing is growing but we need a bit more coming in to help pay for some of the materials to help it grow.

So not quite as much time at the computer lately.  Have got the network up over there so will be doing some computer type stuff from over there soon.  Running a wireless link from the repair room machine to the wifil lan/cable link here at the compound, using connection sharing in pclos to connect via ethernet to the hub in the center of the building and then to the entry/payment workstation at the front desk.

This place is turning into a REALY big elephant and my knife is getting dull… 😉

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By Dave, January 7, 2007 1:26 pm

Found on the web, author unknown:

Some people are like Slinkies. They’re not really good for anything, but they make you smile when you push them down the stairs.

Interesting observation, and just SOOOOOOO true… 😉

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By Dave, January 7, 2007 11:18 am

geektechnique.org: DIY obsolete iBook logic board repair

I think a welding torch would set it on fire quicker. ;-)  Another link thanks to Steve!

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By Dave, January 7, 2007 11:12 am

Opposable Thumbs: The craziest modded-out laser tag gun you’ll see this year

This is one cool toy! Not airsoft but looks like the concept could be modified to work with an airsoft gun. Thanks go to Steve for the link!

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By Dave, January 3, 2007 11:21 am

Just a quick update, will take the camera out and get pix later today. Got the first 3 wall posts cut to length, headers cut and up, and first rafter cut and in place yesterday evening. Starting to look like more than just a pile of rubble and dirt. Has already been compared to a wooden stone henge (sp?). Ah well, slowly, slowly eats the elephant…

Todays pictures are up in the Roundhouse album at:

http://www.technoprimitive.org/roundHouseConstruction/index.html

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By Dave, December 29, 2006 9:29 pm

Been down somewhat with a bug the last few days and doing little as possible.  Got out some this afternoon and cut some more cedar 8 foot upright posts and 6 foot headers and one 15 foot rafter and carried them over to the round house.  Got a couple of the 8 foot upright posts and one 15 foot  rafter cut and carried over to the site yesterday.

After unloading them all, stood one of them up on the (facing the south facing entry way) right side of the door opening and screwed 3 saplings to it to hold it in place while I marked it for height prior to taking back down and cutting to length.  Planing to put 3 uprights in place with two connecting headers and then put one primary and 4 secondary rafters in.  Will add some bracing to the rafters as well as corner bracing on the uprights and headers.  I figure that should secure it enough to add more uprights, headers, and rafters, without needing too much additional temp bracing.

And that was about it for the day.  Going to Calcis tomorrow so will be back late.

That’s all folks…

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By Dave, December 28, 2006 2:06 pm

JET-MAN.com // jetman, jet-man, yves rossy,rossy,yves-rossy,flying man,flyingman,flying-man,skyflyers,pilote,suisse

This dude is something else.  Some of the videos of his sky surfing are just awsome.  The jet wing is coming along but not something I would even think about trying.  Totally nuts!

Thanks Steve for the original link to his jetman video!  Meant to reply in email and then the holidays ensueith…

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By Dave, December 28, 2006 2:02 pm

Inhabitat » GROW YOUR OWN TREEHOUSE

More of the grow your own.  Cool stuff!

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By Dave, December 28, 2006 1:59 pm

Introduction to growing your own furniture

Takes a bit of time but this is some really cool stuff!

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 11:14 am

Boiled egg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

More info on boiling eggs than I ever knew.  Good info.

Proper way to hard boil eggs:  Place eggs in pan and cover with 1 inch of water.  Place pan on heat source and bring to boil and take off heat.  Allow to sit for 15 to 20 minutes and drain hot water then cover eggs with cold (tap) water and wait till they are cool to touch.  Very little of the green tint on the yokes and the whites are not rubbery.

Old dog learned a new trick!

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 11:06 am

Best Deviled Eggs Recipe

Won’t say it’s the best I ever used but not bad.  The batch I made for the family Christmas dinner used chopped dill pickles with a bit of the juice and no horseradish. Reproduced here to get rid of all the damn ads.

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 11:00 am

Digitally Imported Internet Radio

Some good music some that I can’t listen to but seems to have something for everyone! Good stuff!

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 10:58 am

The Temas Blog » “Ecological Bricks”

New post about building with PET bottles/product waste at the Temas blog.  Keith as always has a good writeup with links to other sources (mainly in spanish but google or babel fish translate fairly well) and info.

I’m thinking of trying a wall section (or two)  of PET 2 liter bottles in the roundhouse I am building.  Been wondering how they would work with cobb as a binding agent.  No time like the present to find out.

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 10:51 am

Circle Circumference, Circle Area, Sphere Area, Sphere Volume, Cylinder Area, Cylinder Volume

Link to help my swiss cheese brain remember where to find these formulas since I can’t seem to remember them when I need them…

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 10:49 am

The Register: The Home of the Mighty BOFH

Several new ones since I last posted a link.  Funny shite!