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By Dave, March 29, 2005 5:05 am

Welcome to the Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc.

Interesting concept. Not sure how you can make a living this way but interesting none the less.

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By Dave, March 29, 2005 3:37 am

These are 3 pieces I am working on that are made out of hand hammered copper. The mushroom caps and the leaf are made from copper that I got from an old piece of 1 inch copper water pipe. I split it down one side and cut a section off. Heated it to soften it a bit and then used tin snips to get the general shape of the piece. Then out come the hammers, anvil and anything else that will work to beat and shape the metal on.

The stems are 3/8 copper water pipe that has been hammered on the sides, flared on the ends and then buffed before soldering to the cap.

I may do a photo layout of making some stuff if there is any interest.

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By Dave, March 29, 2005 12:58 am

Old Hag

Book Review Site

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By Dave, March 29, 2005 12:56 am

Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools – Poison Ivy Relief

Looks interesting!

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By Dave, March 28, 2005 11:45 pm

Boing Boing: Pet pillows

This is just plain WEIRD, and more than a little disturbing…

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By Dave, March 26, 2005 9:12 pm

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: The Maestro: Living History

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By Dave, March 26, 2005 9:10 pm

Free software movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And once again it sneaks into my thoughts… as i sit here on my iBook with it’s totally proprietary os and hardware platforms…

This paragraph hits especially hard:
“On the other hand, many who prefer the term “free software” and consider themselves part of the movement do not believe proprietary software to be strictly immoral. They argue, however, that freedom is valuable (both socially and pragmatically) as a property of software in its own right, separate from technical quality in a narrow sense. Moreover, they may use the term “free software” to distance themselves from claims that “open-source” software is always technically superior to proprietary software (which is often demonstrably false, at least in the short term). In this sense, they object that “open-source” advocates, by concentrating solely on technical merits, encourage users to sacrifice their freedom (and the long-term benefits thereof) for short-term conveniences that proprietary software may provide.”

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By Dave, March 25, 2005 10:18 am

Been a day. And some.
Started with up, shower, eat, get stuff needed list orginised and printed, and head for Jacksonville to the Coop.
Asked about the Universal Joint and was told that they weren’t in that business any more to try the tractor parts places. Dude was running wide open but was a bit out of line I think. Second time he has said something along those lines to me this week.

A quick stop at Warren Ace Hardware for a new chain for the Stihl Farm Boss MS 280 Chain Saw and 16 rubber feet for the kitchen chairs.

So to O’Relleys auto parts for plugs and to try for the u-joint. yes on plugs (autolite 65) no on the u-joint.

On to the John Deere place on 431. They had it but I had to find it. and then it cost $34 for what I would have thought would have been a $15 item at the most. Prices they are a changing.

Then to Lee’s Oriental Market for Chinese Noodles and Jasmine Tea.

Saks Hardware for Lopers and tried to buy a watering can but he wanted too much so will build one I guess.

Wright Dairy for 2 gallons of milk and a lb of CoJack.

Freds for cat food. Looked for watering can but no go.

And home. Unload. Put feet on chairs. Fix and eat lunch. I really love fresh home made bread.

To the barn for install time.

Press, beat, press, beat, press, beat. Insert retainer clip. Rinse and repeat. 4 times. That gets the u-joint in. About an hour. Taken longer. And a lot less. This was a medium hard one. Then installed back on the rotavator.

Had installed the tines yesterday and removed the u-joint then. Put 6 tines on. 3 on each end. A bunch more worn out but will use till they are nubs then replace.

Checked the fluid in the gear box and it was low. So added all I had which was a gallon or so and still needed more. So back to Jacksonville and O’Relley’s Auto for 5 gallons of Tractor Transmission Fluid. $26 with list of 40+… So back here and added another gallon and a half till it was at the top but still not showing on the stick. of course there is a internal shaft and bearings that it has to travel through to show so plug back in and…

Got the rotavator hooked up to the tractor. Started it up and it was quieter than I remember it being. Ever. But there is no telling how long the u-joint has been going bad.

Took it over and tilled the south garden. Then went and did the north one too. And as it was now dark put the tractor up.

Came to the house and cut a wheel barrow load of wood with the chain saw. Then after loading it and getting cat started unloading it I started cutting more log rounds about 2 to 3 inches thick for stepping stones above the mud. Got about 14 cut and then put out. got another 30 or so to have most of the way from building to building. Then will start paving the porch areas with them some creek gravel and a few bags of cement.

Then inside and cut up some chicken and bacon and in the skillet and on the wood burner. Likewise with a bag of frozen oriental veggies. A pan of water for the noodles finished off the needed vessels. 20 minutes later noodles in water and cooked chicken and bacon mixed with veggies and water added and left to steam. 5 more and drain water from noodles, add a bit of margarine and soy sauce and serve. Twas good.

And so the day ended. Came in here and surfed for a while and then got a bowl of banana split yoghurt and then so fueled started this missive… Am about to try the couch for size and check for light leaks in the eye lids…

Arms are telling me that I have over done it again. Surprise, Surprise, Surprise…

Goodnight Gracie!

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By Dave, March 25, 2005 9:18 am

Tunedge By ELTD aka Eating Like Truck Drivers. Interesting. Kinda like a bus wreck, you just got to look. Or in this case listen. Some good. Some bad. None indifferent.

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By Dave, March 24, 2005 9:40 am

The Independent Florida Alligator

“Capitol bill aims to control ‘leftist’ profs
THE LAW COULD LET STUDENTS SUE FOR UNTOLERATED BELIEFS.”

This is some of the most asinine bullshit I have ever seen. Reminds me of RA Heinlein’s “Crazy Years”…

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By Dave, March 24, 2005 8:15 am

Global dimming – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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By Dave, March 24, 2005 7:37 am

Yahoo! News – Plants Can Fix Bad Genes, Study Shows

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By Dave, March 24, 2005 7:35 am

Tyler Morning Telegraph

Stolen house. brick by brick.

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By Dave, March 23, 2005 6:07 am

Honolulu Star-Bulletin News /2005/03/20/

UH team locates
huge Japanese sub

Researchers discover the
wreckage of a giant underwater
aircraft carrier scuttled after WWII

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By Dave, March 23, 2005 6:03 am

FOXNews.com – Health – Moderate Drinking May Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

This is good news! 😉

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By Dave, March 23, 2005 4:17 am

Don’t know what happened but all but one of my channels are now gone. The only one that is left is The Accordion Guy. I just sent an email to the maintainer but looks to me like I am going to have to rebuild them from scratch. And I don’t want to! The damn things were there and now they aren’t. Makes me want to change to another aggregator. If I wasn’t comfortable with Shrook I would right now. I haven’t had major computer problems since changing back to the Mac and this has really upset me.

Guess I need to try to remember the list of channels I had. Was not a real long list but I use the computer because my memory for things like this really sucks.

UPDATE
Just heard back from Graham Parks, of Shrook fame, about the problem. Turns out he had his new server go down and had to revert to an old backup server which wasn’t up to date and it drove Shrook a bit bonkers on some machines.

I have managed to get about 70% of my channels back and the ones I can’t remember must not have made much of an impression on me. Or maybe I will remember them later on. Or not.

Taught me an important lesson though. I now have a backup of the OPML file squirled away for this kind of happenchance so maybe it won’t happen again. If only I can remember to update it after adding new entrys…

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By Dave, March 22, 2005 10:11 am

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Bike

Joey has a cool looking bike! Wish we had roads out here that were more conducive to bike riding. I want to hit the links and read the stuff Duff has written about life as a Bike Courier too.

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By Dave, March 22, 2005 9:44 am

Taipei Times – archives

“Artificial light illuminates our lives, allowing us to work or play through the night. But, we toy with our body clocks at severe risk to our wellbeing”

Interesting article. And not the first time I have seen most of this info. Does make some kind of sense. Same kind of thing that causes seasonal depression with the lack of natural light in fall and winter.

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By Dave, March 21, 2005 9:27 pm

Techdirt:AFP Gets Confused As To How The Internet Works

Leave it to the French 🙁

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By Dave, March 21, 2005 9:11 pm

Online presence blossoms in classified ad industry – Mar. 20, 2005

I keep wondering if there isn’t a way to do a geographic based ad or auction. Have had thoughts on and off for a while on this but never seem to make the time to do anything about it.

But I suspect that the (print) newspaper is dead, no matter how much they moan and try to get laws passed to hold back the sands of change…