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By Dave, March 21, 2005 9:06 pm

Techdirt:You Have An Appointment In 3 Months, Unless You’re Dead — Then We’re Sorry

Gotta be a story (or many stories) behind this…

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By Dave, March 21, 2005 12:59 pm

the Walrus said, to speak of things to come. Of sealing wax, and sailing ships, and eyes closing on their own.

Say goodnight, Gracie…

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By Dave, March 21, 2005 11:13 am

Netpbm home page

I have been looking for a way to join 2 jpegs side by side without having to open them both and then make a new file and paste them into. This batch of programs has a program that does it but is going to take some shell or perl scripting to do what I want done. and gotta convert to another graphics format and back again. gotta be an easier way…

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By Dave, March 21, 2005 10:49 am

Moving the blog back to the Technoprimitive.org site.

Have moved the posts from livejournal and only lost the live links. Started cleaning them up but got a long way to go. Running on WordPress v 1.5 now. Now to try to get everything else back in place…

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By Dave, March 20, 2005 7:45 am

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/detlinks.html

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By Dave, March 20, 2005 7:42 am

http://www.englishcut.com/

Different world…

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By Dave, March 17, 2005 6:05 pm

http://www.psiberportal.com/psiberaudio/iPod_3.htm

Interesting. Wish there was more info. Still got a couple of old sansui tube output transformers that I had planned to build a amp out of one time. Need to dig them up and have another go at it. Like I need more projects…

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By Dave, March 13, 2005 7:03 pm

after almost a week without doing much with my hands or arms i think i will be able to work a bit in the next couple of days. took 3 days after last monday to get to where I could do anything. really overdid it. don't know if it was moving the steel or driving the tractor or a combo or a combo of that and the weather changing but whatever did it I would rather it not happen again any time soon.

have been working shelving books the last two days. that is shelving them in the 14 wide. moved a few in the 12 wide too but most of the work has been in the 14 wide. just been taking it slow and easy and taking lots of breaks. got all of them out of the boxes anyway. 2, 3 and 4 deep on the shelves but tis better than being in the boxes. Now only got another couple of thousand in boxes in the qhut to go… but got to build more shelves before i can do that.

storms tonight have been interesting, to sat the least. don't know if it was a tornado but something came close at the time that it was supposed to be passing through. Missed us though so…

some more coming later but think they are easing a bit. glad of it too.

about got another site built. http://www.lawkennels.com/store/ is the link to the new part. got a bit more to finish up but tis close to finished (i hope).

got the workbench almost cleaned off. Fixed a laptop, pioneer home amp, and belt sander the other day. felt good to fix some stuff again. got piles to go…

tomorrow am supposed to take cat to calcis to install her mom's new computer (again). saturday I didn't feel like making the trip after getting 10 miles down the road and cat finding she had forgotten the keys I came home and crashed a while. today cat got up feeling rough and we didn't go. so tomorrow is a maybe. or today as it is now after midnight.

want to go by the alabama thrift store or american as the name changed. hoping they got more books in. like we need to buy more.

time to call it a night.

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By Dave, March 7, 2005 9:49 am

gone over the limit on using my hands the last few days. gonna have to take a day or so off from heavy doing.

friday i spent the day on the tractor clearing brush. bill and cat burned as much as would.

saturday went to mountaintop with a friend and took pix of his store up there which had burned down. took nearly 200 pix of the stuff he used to have in there. was a total loss.

sunday morn i got up and took the ford ranger to the hill top for a short walk and commune with nature. came back down about 9:40 and the fire had come back to life and was blazing away so came in, got a couple of protein bars and went to watch and feed the fire. after getting it compacted a bit got on the tractor and started clearing more undergrowth. ended up making a day of it. worked on the tractor till dark then fed and compacted the fire till it was out enough to cover with dirt at about 10 pm.

monday morn got up and out about 8. got the lawnmower and trailer and loaded the chainsaw, oil and fuel mix and went to where I was clearing yesterday. took the time to sharpen the chain. cut a old deadfall that I still haven't identified. reddish colored wood. burns ok. also cleared some of the lower limbs from the cedar. got to get bertha over there to get further up the trunk to trim the rest of the low hanging stuff. from there loaded the trailer and came back here to unload. then to the pile and recut some of the longer oak. got a load and called it a day chainsaw wise.

took a short break then went to the 14 wide and sorted shelving pieces and loaded the trailer with everything but the erector set stuff. took the rest of my energy. should have waited. dodged rain off and on while loading the shelving. bill came by, got the cans and got more fuel. cleaned up around the back of the barn a bit and burned more brush and crap. got almost enough cleaned up to start forming up for the pad. figure sometime this week we will try to support the shed roof with a cedar beam and take the end wall out. then level the area and form up for a pad.

bit by bit… i do think we are getting closer though. just need about 5 more of me.

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By Dave, March 5, 2005 8:34 pm

or whatever it is that I am doing when I sit and type into this thing. Been busy and somewhat unable to spare the brainpower to try to focus on what I am doing or have done.

Feeling better. No real episodes this last week. Had a few times that I had to slow down but no show stopping moments so either it is a neurological problem or the crisis is past and the unpatient lived anyway. Changed diet a bit and eliminated a lot of the remaining caffeine by a switch to decalf tea that cat bought by accident. Tried it and wasn't too bad so have drunk it for a couple of weeks and seem to have more energy without as I have noticed before when quitting. Waking earlier too.

Was up at just after 6 this morning. And 2 and 4 but thats another problem.

Been clearing briers and scrub trees from old pasture land. Trying to get it cleared and cleaned up to facilitate moving the cars, trucks, van, transportable shelter dollies, and other assorted salvage and starting the teardown and disposal of some of the same. Some of the cars I am gonna keep but only the ones that either can be repaired and put back on the road and sold or the ones to experiment with.

Want to clean the van out and start the stripping out in preparation to hybrid electric.

Jag is tempting to modify to front wheel drive with a complete rewire and rebuild inside too.

Volvos are up in the air. May sell or convert to fwd or fix as is and drive. Or do one with one and one with the other.

Honda is fix and drive. Fun car and only needs minor head work I think. May run fine as is after a time not running. I think it was carbon on the valve stems but too lazy to tear it down again. Should finish fixing it up and drive or sell.

Toyota Starlet is another up in the air. May fix and drive. May fix and sell. May just put up for sale. Limited number made and over all this is a decent car. I think $500.00 would fix it right. Needs lifters and probably cam. Which means upper engine gasket set. Rear shocks. Tires all around. Brake work wouldn't be a bad idea either. Good transmission and rear end. Steering is tight. Fun little car to drive. And got good gas milage. Needs a fuel pump too. Intank. Repaired it once but car has sat for years again so…

Any souvenirs you want off your old Corolla Steve? Gonna strip and scrap all the rest of the Toyotas.

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By Dave, February 21, 2005 10:17 am

http://www.life-enhancement.com/article_print.asp?ID=949

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By Dave, February 15, 2005 9:40 am

http://msmvps.com/chrisl/archive/2005/02/14/35895.aspx

Stupid. IP in this <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">country</span> world has gone crazy. And for the most (all?) part it is the lawyers that have caused it in a bit to make themselves totally indispensable. That and the greed of a few (like our most dishonorable prez and his family) are suppressing creativity and individuality to such an extent that it scares the hell out of me. Keeps reminding me more and more of Nazi Germany prior to WWII. Nuff said…

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By Dave, February 13, 2005 11:55 am

pieces and bits
puts them together
n see if they fits

feel kinda like warmed over refried shit today and have for the last few days. yesterday was no real exception other than I knew that I had to get wood in or go and buy some so I managed to get a full cord cut, hauled, split and stacked. did about half of it by me self, with cat doing most of the final stacking and bill helped with the cutting, loading and stacking on the last two loads. I can feel it today too. have been up since about 0630 cdt and am just now (1300) feeling like trying to type. the monster maul was a bit much on the hands and arms. plus the chain saw is a mite on heavy side. I like that for the most part but when doing overhead limbing cuts it is almost more than I can handle. Guess I need to get one of the many older saws out and cleaned up to use for just that kind of work.

I also want to make a saw that I can use on high cuts. the ones I have looked at that will do up to 24 feet are way to high priced for me to consider. A long ladder is much cheaper and more versatile/generally useful also.

Wondering about a small hydraulic motor and hoses but the weight of the hydraulic oil alone would exceed any advantage.

so how about an air motor? total loss exaust so no return necessary. one line which can be the cheap lightweight hard plastic curly hose so extension will pose no problem either. need small air motor with gear reduction and bar mount.

Course easiest way is connect an electric chain saw to a pole and use an extension cord. with the bar set at a 45% angle to the pole or looking at the pole as being on a clock face and orientated from 6 to 12 the bar would point at 1:30, the weight of the motor should exert sufficient pressure on the chain to make the cut. certainly if the weight of the pole is added and the chain is reasonably sharp.

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By Dave, February 11, 2005 10:52 pm

all day

went to calcis thursday for cathy to set up her mothers new computer. I don't do that trailer so sat in the van. for 2 hours. till cat couldn't get the thing to make modem connection. I went in under protest sat down to the computer, tried to concentrate on the screen and ran out the back door as my heart almost tripled its beat and started fluttering a bit. not going back in there. we brought the computer home to set it up. will get to it tomorrow or sunday.

came back through pell city (how else?) and stopped at the american thrift store to check out the books. ended up buying 28 of assorted titles. got 4 john creasey's the toff series that I didn't have. 2 rex stout's nero wolfe, Murder by the Book and another copy of The Doorbell Rang. MBTB is a book club edition and TDR is a readers digest special printing (or some such. don't have it close at hand). Bunch of mysteries as well as some sci-fi.

left there and ate in coal city at the barbeque place there. was not as good as the first time. tea was ok but nothing special. barbeque was ground. weird stuff. cat said her burger was ok but again nothing to talk about.

coming through ragland i noticed how many more buildings were empty. the place is getting to be a ghost town. still want to spend some time there and learn some of the local history. need to pull out and dust off the story i start there.

heard of a place around northport above tuscaloosa called kentuck (?) i think. susposed to be an artist colony or something along those lines. guess i need to google it and see what and where. need to take a break for a day or two.

looks like an interesting place. not sure if i want to go that way though. or direction. would rather go south or east or south east.

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By Dave, February 8, 2005 12:33 am

<a href="http://www.baymoon.com/~ukulelebooks/">http://www.baymoon.com/~ukulelebooks/</a>

Though I never thought of them as needing to be quite this closely connected…

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By Dave, February 8, 2005 12:23 am

<a href="http://playlistmag.com/reviews/2005/02/sonos/index.php">http://playlistmag.com/reviews/2005/02/sonos/index.php</a>

This sounds nice! Makes me want to blow a couple of grand and get 2 ZonePlayers ($499 x 2 = $998) and 2 Sonos Controllers ($399 x 2 = $798). Then there are speakers to consider also. Out of my range right now but still cool as hell!

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By Dave, February 6, 2005 7:08 pm

<a href="http://collardpatch.blogspot.com/">http://collardpatch.blogspot.com/</a>

Some of this stuff looks good, other bits so so, but ain't that the way of the world.

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By Dave, February 6, 2005 7:06 pm

<a href="http://www.wetcanvas.com/index.php?">http://www.wetcanvas.com/index.php?</a>

Lots of info here. Almost too much.

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By Dave, February 6, 2005 7:03 pm

<a href="http://www.bensilver.com/style04/knots_home.htm">http://www.bensilver.com/style04/knots_home.htm</a>

And no I don't wear ties as a general rule. But have been known to in the far distant past. And once or twice for no reason.

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By Dave, February 6, 2005 7:01 pm

<a href="http://www.scrapheapsculpture.com/pages/5/index.htm">http://www.scrapheapsculpture.com/pages/5/index.htm</a>

This guy has some interesting kinetic sculptures.