This is Duncan at about 9 months old. We were up at Rattlesnake Lake.
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This picture, the pose, and the hat were all done by Jake. He decided it would be funny to put his hat on Ginger, then he grabbed my phone and took a picture of her.
It’s also a sculpture I did for my sister Kristin, which was started when she was pregnant with her child number 1, and finished well after child #2 was born. I gotta get faster at finishing these things. Last Friday Jakey got dressed up as his principal, Dan. Shirt, tie, briefcase, slick hair (minus the leucotrichia), and a big grin.
Duncan has a rich imagination. He’s always naming his toys fun names. He’s playing with cousin Ben’s rubber snakes and named both of them: Degas and Nuno. I’ll google the names later.
Here’s the completed shed, or at least as complete as it’ll get until the roof is done and I can convince one of my truck drivin’ friends to haul me some 5/8-minus. Yay!
Shed, big enough to banish a young boy in case he needs it.
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time.” StateStats: Allows one to enter search terms and see which demographics correlate. Fascinating.
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Best. Dessert. Evar. I can’t decide if they’re being serious or seriously ironic, but this recipe appeared in a cookbook that Jill’s mom had on her shelf. Someone seriously sat down and created this dessert, took a picture of it, and published it for real in a book of banana recipes. I want to do up my office in this. There are some other designs there on their site, but I like this best. On his part, my father could never believe in something as comic as an ephemeral old man who lives on a cloud and whom — after a brief burst of creative creationism in his early twenties — has been spending the last six thousand years of his early retirement kookily obsessing about where and how people are mashing their genitals together. Jakey lost his second tooth today, so the tooth fairy is going to visit tonight. If I stay up late I may see her, too! I’ll get pix.
wall-e The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other docs at Truman Library. I wish this had an OCR’ed version of the text… I’m mostly off work this Thanksgiving week, and as is the tradition around these parts, most of the rest of the company is off, too. Either for real or “Working From Home”, as opposed to, say, “Living at Work”. But I digress… This week is project week. I built a kitty escape hatch so the qat could hide from the dog. Said qat has a hidey spot behind the dryer which I knew about but gave little thought to, but after losing one too many socks behind the dryer I pulled it away from the wall to see what was going on back there. Amongst the lint and qat fur and orphaned socks the qat had squished the dryer vent tube down to about half its former size. This explains the sloooow dry times and very warm laundry room on washday. So I fixed the dryer vent, vacuumed the fur and lint out, then built a little shelf with an escape hatch so qat could hop behind the dryer when the dog gave chase and not have to squish up my dryer vent again. She almost immediately put it to good use. Confused at first when she came around the corner of the washer, but with a dog on your tail you can’t be choosy. Zing — Safe! Pictures of Numbers
What may not be readily apparent, is these are the original actors who did the original “Wassup”. Awesome! What qualifies a given director as an artist? http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/10/09/8-top-music-videos-made-by-artists-the-classics/ Vote Obama Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster just like Shepard Fairey. [ Do you realize how many different ways there are to spell Shepard? ] Physical Security Maxims: Apropos, considering the work I’m doing on the network infrastructure.
Laser Wash Permanently Closed Funny sign I passed by today. Of course it begs the question as to what happened to require them to close the laser wash permanently. Did it freak out and slice off someone’s hand? Who’d have turned a laser up that high? And how the heck did it ever get a car clean? Umbrella Today? What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
Bridge complete! Standing on the bridge are the directors, organizers, and instructors, from left to right: Alexandra Morosco; Nathen Blackwell; Russ Beardsley; Peter Attila Andrusko; Patrick McAfee; John Fisher; Scott Hackney; Keith Phillips; David P. Miller; Sabah al Dhaher; RIch Hestekind; Bobby Watt.
Stone Bridge This is one of the projects we’re working on at Stonefest’08. This will be a drystone bridge with a four foot arch. The stones leading up to the bridge are a limestone and a dream to work with. The stones in the arch are utter crap: they split lengthwise when you don’t want them to, and have no other discernible grain. I think we went through three crates full of stone to get 1/2 a crate’s worth of usable stone. I stopped working on the bridge when the sun got too hot for my pasty white skin, and went off to practice lettering.
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 2008.08.04 07:22 |  Uncategorized |  Arrested Development (2009) I spent the day with my mother today, which meant a lot of walking the boys to and from camp, preschool, daycare, and naps, and in between browsing the local farmers market. It was there that I spied these massive berries — Williamettes, I was told — that were tasty and cheap. Since that morning I’d been complaining about how my favorite raspberry jam had HFCS in it and I couldn’t eat it anymore, my task was clear. I bought the berries, and stopped by Thrifty for pectin, jars and sugar, and at 10pm this evening finally started jamming. Lucky for me, the berry jam process is pretty zippy, and by 11 I had five jars of Willamette Raspberry Jam setting up. They need to sit overnight to be sure the seal is good, but I’m pret sure I’ll be have jam on my toast in the morning.
MobileMe Loses Contacts If you use MobileMe, stay away from the contacts app in the web interface. I mean, you could probably look up a contact or two in there, but don’t use it to do anything serious, like, edit. You run the risk of losing all your edits and even entire contacts, too. I set up a new Group in the web interface, and then dragged a bunch of contacts to it. What I think happened is that the creation of the group didn’t get propagated out correctly, and the subsequent dragging of contacts over to the phantom group was merely sending them off into the ether. Or, perhaps, it sent them off to someone else’s MobileMe account. So if you spot some extra contacts you don’t know, let me know. Srsly, why are programmers so lazy? If you’re coding up a web site that is collecting credit card numbers, why does your expiration date dropdown include the years 2003-2007? You’re not going to accept anything that’s earlier than this year, so why put it there? If Judge Judy was around in the 70’s would we have seen Sid opposite?
Apple has a lot of work to get MobileMe working as advertised. Little, if anything, works as flawlessly and quickly as their video overview would have you believe. Mail Calendar Gallery Performance Notes I’m very disappointed.
Moreso than the “Pointers and Setters” I recall from Le Pissoir Publique at the Double Hex.
Jake just took another art step today (after having drawn 3D last month). He drew shadows coming off of real objects. This is even without the benefit of sun to help. This one is the lawnmower. Normally I’d consider this “cheating”, but I imagine there are some applications for this that just aren’t possible with normal (manual) carving. At $1899 it brings CNC into the realm of possibility for the average joe… but like anything that makes it easy for the average joe to get into areas that were normally reserved for talented folks, it will birth tons of “carved” crap. Update: This is also available at Highland Woodworking for a couple hundred bucks less. from Shouts and Murmurs, by Simon Rich, who also has a whole book out called “Free-Range Chickens”
The Rolling Bridge and other Heatherwick Designs I read about this in the New Yorker, and was so interested in the description that I had to look for an actual photo of it. And so… marco sez:
So that’s where the hot is. It’s sure not in Seattle. 50 degree days are the norm lately, peaking around 60. I suppose it’s the global warming and all, weather starts freaking out and soon’s you know it there’s another ice age. Hope there’s still hot coffee when the mammoths show up. Sync iPhone with Google Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive Steganography for Dummies The ECC Blog Hackintosh
Not all macs are created equal. I’m a mac-mini user, and these things have more problems than any other mac, enough to make it a wash for me. My biggest complaints about the mac are that it doesn’t have an easy open case or user serviceable components (bigger hard drive? can’t do it without voiding your warranty. install apps on drives other than the boot drive? can’t seem to do that for no verifiable reason). My complaints about OS-X are I can’t resize a window anywhere but right down there in the lower right corner, and the mac mail keyboard shortcuts are retarded. This begs the question why not use the mouse, but i’m a touch typist and mousing is always a last resort for me. Macs still have the same sorts of problems that windows has: applications that don’t uninstall all the way, requiring the occasional reformat to clean up; applications that crash with cryptic error messages (SIGABRT! SIGSEGV! wha?); etc. I think if you only had one Windows hardware platform like mac only has one platform, that Windows would be just as stable as mac. The fact that Windows CAN run on so many different (cheaper! faster! more versatile!) platforms makes it way more useful. [disclaimer: when I say Windows, I mean XP and not Vista.] Think about it. People only hate Windows and MSFT because they’re successful. When IBM was the king, and MSFT was the up and comer, I knew people who railed against PC-DOS, saying MS-DOS was better. It’s the American tradition to root for the underdog, and then once they’re successful stab them in the back. woo hoo. Once Apple and mac get big enough, you’ll hate them, too, and so will the government. There’s already talk of govt legislation because of the hegemony that ipod/iTunes have on the music market, and the iPhone is close behind. Apple gets away with lots of stuff now because they were the underdog, but that’s coming to a close. And they’re going to hate that, and struggle with how to operate under consent decrees and monopoly laws. And the crowds will hate Apple, and still hate MSFT, and start rooting for some other underdog and so it goes. Surgical Necessity?Instead of a knee surgery this woman instead got installed a prosthetic anus. Wait, what? Photoshop Disasters It’s the best thing since, well, I don’t know what they had before this… Puzzlin’ Evidence : Here’s a fun “Olla Podrida PLEXUS Puzzle”. Our rescue cat, Spike, has grown from a skinny, scrawny little runt into a massive tabby/tiger that can nearly suffocate me when she crawls onto my chest while I’m laying down. In the winter, she’s taken to growing an extra belly that flops from side to side whenever she runs… it’s quite mesmerizing, really, to watch as she makes her way across the yard. Anyway, we were trying to decide what it’s called. Wattle isn’t appropriate because that’s on the head or face. Pannus seems to be too low. Dewlap, though technically under the chin and before the forelegs, seems more appropriate, mainly because when Spike is running across the morning grass, that flap of fat is lapping at the morning dew. |
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I’d never thought of it before, but the silhouette on the Wyoming license plate of a bronco rider is actually based on a real person. Albert “Stubby” Farlow (1886-1953) was born with short legs, but made his mark as a bronco rider, at least long enough to get his image plastered on every Wyoman’s car. I suppose it had to be someone. Why not Stubby? Would that you or I could get immortalized in tin.
Why ya gotta be a hater? 
