TechnoPrimitive

A friend of mine has this car for sale. Basic info is as follows:

1968 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow SRH - English right hand drive.
This is a complete project car ready for restoration. An opportunity to own, restore, and drive one of the worlds most renowned & respected legendary automobiles for only $6500 - OBO.

Serious inquires only - For more information call 256-239-3302 or email scb at hiwaay.net

Pictures below the fold.
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Been one of those days. Will fill in on that part later. For now here are pix of the bits I have gotten donein the past couple of days.
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Still going. Starting to build the inside cabinets, toilet and storage areas. Have now stared at it long enough and finally decided how to built most of it so things should start moving a bit faster.
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Spudtech.com is for sale! If you ever wanted to be your own boss, and make hardware that people could use to accurately put potatoes into low earth orbit, now is the time!

Requiem for a legal disaster: a retrospective analysis of SCO v. Novell: Page 1

For the searchengine impaired this is the link to the article Steve mentioned in his comment on the earlier post about SCO vs Novell. At least this is the one I found after searching for it. Thanks for the pointer Steve.

Russell Shaw: How About A New WPA To Rebuild Our Nation’s Infrastructure? - Politics on The Huffington Post

Sounds like a plan to me.

Seems that the earlier patch of feeling better was just a lull in this crap.  Back to the head spins and problems breathing.  Gonna make a early night of it me thinks and see if I can sleep it off.  Of course that is what I have spent most of the week so far doing.  Onward and upward as it were…

The J Peterman Company - Official Site

Love his stuff!  Glad to see its still around…

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…

Quick note to wish everyone a happy holiday season!

Will be back to our regularly disorginized posting sometime in the near future. 

Dave

This weekend is the big Bay of Pigs 2 game here at the Weaver Combat Ranch so postings have been few and far between with us trying to get things ready.  Expect nothing post wise from now till it’s all over.  40 + eating and right now the count of players is somewhere around 60 so is gonna be hectic the next few days.

Black & White, Birmingham’s City Paper
Customer Confidential

A new Black & White consumer column helps you fight bad service, bad products, and bad ideas.

By David Pelfrey

November 16, 2006

Here’s a scenario that is familiar to anyone who has ever set foot in Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite-Aid, or any of a dozen other major retailers. After you have made a purchase, collected your bags, or packed everything into a shopping cart, you head for the exit. Just as you approach freedom an alarm sounds (usually a sequence of ugly, electronic grunts) and a robotic voice (always female) announces: “Please return to the checkout.” Other customers immediately look in your direction, and an employee begins to approach you. What’s your next move?

Tell them to stuff it and walk out!  I love it!  Well worth the read.  Thanks go to Steve for the link.

Demopolis Alabama’s - Christmas on the River

Don’t see that we will be able to make it but if you’re able check it out!  Hope some folks get some good pix.  I want to see the floating floats!

Catmas

A sometimes disturbing look at cats.
Not that that is a bad thing… ;-)

A Sorta Taxonomy of Pavilions

Good info on the different types of pavilions.

Surviving Medieval Pictures of Tents and Pavilions

Trying to collect these links for reference.   Still trying to decide on what kind of tent/pavilion to build.

Tom’s Project Notebook

Quite a broad range of projects that fit into the SCA world.  Cool stuff.

The Shaving Horse

Good info on the shaving horse.  Guess I will try building one of the dumbhead type sometime soon.  The one I have now is the English two post type but limits the size of the stock I can shave or work.

In the same day.  280+ miles is more than I enjoy driving in a day any more. That alone tired me out, not to mention the 3+ hours walking around at the faire.  Enjoyed the acts and vendors and renewed aquantences of some of the folks we have gotten to know over the last 3 years of visiting.  I got some pix and Cat got a lot more.  Will get them up soon.  Course I said that last year and still haven’t posted them.  Guess I need to do that too…  Soon.  Really.

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.