Boing Boing: Great bookmod: encyclopedia into scrapbook
The link on the Boing-Boing page goes nowhere as the “artist” has taken the site down as she seems more worried about someone using a picture of “her” work to promote or link back to “her” site than about sharing her ideas.
I have run into this blinders-on attitude quite a few times with “artists” trying to “protect” their “property”. Thought then and think now that if they are that concerned about “their” work they don’t need to have a website in the first place. The web is a place for sharing. Get over it!
This is the pix that she has her knickers in a wad over:
Good concept, though I would have used string or rope or leather instead of wire to tie it all together.
The Maven’s Archive
Words are slippery little things. Here’s some unusual ones.
Tastebud Chicago: How to Cook a Steak
Mummmmmmm Steak! Gonna have to try this in the mud oven… 😉
Linux Commands for Beginning Server Administrators – www.reallylinux.com
Good bookmark material for anyone running linux or unix. Server or not. Several of the commands were new to me and I have been running linux for several years on the desktop.
Hands and arms are still giving me fits. Numb fingers and hard muscles in my forearms. Done too much for too long without enough time in between for them to relax I guess.
Been trying to figure what program to use for a new project that Cat is working on. 800+ drawings of american sign language signs that have to be linked to text and other things. Weeded a few cms programs out but still trying to figure which one to use. Thought about a wiki too. Gonna have to think about it and look some more.
Not quite as much rain inside today after the ditches I dug the other day. Got to get the underpinning finished soon, next rain sunday I think.
Attalla fall festival this saturday. Guess we will try to make it this year too. Made the last two and was a nice day out.
Florence Ren Faire is the following weekend. Gonna go whether we take stuff to sell or not. Also gonna try to hit some used book stores on the way. May even take a day or two extra and visit a few extra ones I have found here in the state.
Techdirt: Nice Work Retrieving That Magic Sword… But Now You Need To Pay Uncle Sam For It
greedy bastards. both the ones that file the lawsuits and the irs. a pox on both their houses!
Today was a not day for the most part. The pain in my hands and arms has been on extra special today so sitting and doing little but reading books and computer. Still hurt but not as much as trying to use them for anything. Hope to get some things done tomorrow but time will tell. Typing is hurting a bit over the top too so will close for now.
for the winter. Got the back shed area walled in and 2 windows installed by late afternoon on Monday the 16th. Then came the rains. 6:30 this morning the dead pine goes down. Been wind and rain all night but at that time most of the wind had died down. The crack and then fall was a not good sign and then the lights going off and computer backups beeping was the kicker. Didn’t hit the dwelling or barn just took the power line out. As in out for the count. Caused traffic on Cedar Springs road to hault for a while. I went out and pulled the line out of the way of traffic and tied it off so it couldn’t fall on cars or whatever. The two cops sitting blocking traffic just looked at the line now 20+ feet in the air and ignored me. I watched them a bit and then rain started again and I went in to call the power co and report the line down. I went back out after getting the down line reported about 5 minutes later and the cops were just leaving. Guess they figured the elves had fixed things. Course I was wearing camo pants, a tank helmet liner with headlight on, and a dark green military officer style coat so maybe they didn’t see me. Or want to admit it anyway. 😉
Got the tractor and came up and finished pulling the broken tree trunk down off the standing part which was about 8 to 10 feet high. Threw a strap over the trunk and used it to pull a logging chain over and around it. Hooked it to the tractor and pulled it down. Still hung in a tree on the other end and not on the fence yet. So I go and unload the trailer and put it under the trunk where it goes across the drive. Built up under it with cement block and cut it. both parts fell on the trailer (17 feet long home made out of moble home axles, ibeams and 2 inch oak decking so not a whimpy lawn mower hauler) and didn’t hit the exposed water line on one side or the fence on the other. Cut it again over the fence and both parts missed doing damage. Went to cut the piece on the other side and a guy from the contractor the power co uses for building lines asks me if I can move the trailer and tractor. I tell him yes that I am trying to get the tree gone so they can get in. Get it cut and move the trailer. They come in and put a new tri-plex line in from transformer to pole by the barn. 400+6 feet. They had a 400 foot roll of wire that was 6 feet short so there is one splice at the transformer end. But an hour and a half of work by 7 folks got us power back before noon.
Got to get the underpinning finished. Took many gallons of water under the end wall of the trailer. Dug new ditches and got it under control but the rain was stopped by then so… Will finish underpinning and then see if it happens again next rain. If so will have to figure an underground water channel from the hillside across the way. There are several others within 600 feet that spew water when it rains much so tis not impossible. If so will try a french ditch and may anyway just to make sure any that builds up will be drained off before coming in.
Spent the afternoon cutting up the pine and clearing some of the other crap out from in front of the qhut. One trailer full moved across the creek cut to length for seating when we have the airsoft games. One more load in the morning of privit and fresh broken oak limbs.
Hands and arms are quite painful so will close for the nonce.
BOFH: Let the games begin | The Register
There’s more than one way to skin the manager. 😉
Inflatable Fist Flicks the Bird – Gizmodo
Glad I don’t drive much any more. I’d have to have one of these and an onboard air compressor, to hell with the pump… 😉
Techdirt: Would Jesus Get Music From P2P Networks?
Considering the susposed fact that he threw the money changers out of the temple I think he would tell the RIAA and MPAA to kiss his ass. But I suspect that would just get PETA on his case… 😉
Most preachers that I have met are a bunch of money grubbing asshats that are in the religon business as a way to make money by not working a real job. I have no use for them or their deaf/dumb/blind/can’t-think-for-themselves born-again followers and think the world would be a better place without them in it.
The ones hollering the loudest about people stealing from them by sharing music are the ones that work the least and want the most. I fart in their general direction!
Beyond Pollution, Inc. – AirTap Water Heater Add-On
Interesting concept. Would have to see more info from some independent testing labs before investing that kind of money into an add on to a standard water heater.
A Low Impact Woodland Home
This is a great little house built out of mostly indignious materials. So many things about it I like I can’t list them all right now. Am gonna have to spend some quality time thinking on this.
White LED 50 Pack, 13000mcd: LEDs – Bulk Pack LEDs – LED-White-50Pack-13000mcd-5mm – Alan Parekh Electronic Projects Online Store
Looks like a good deal. Wondering about using these for path/road lighting down to and around the camp ground. Should be able to use them a LONG way from the current source on even small wire. Guess the only one way to find out if it will work or not is to buy a batch and try it.
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