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| Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | | 5:14 pm |
In anything but the most trivial of electronic/robotics projects, it is impossible to overestimate the amount of time you will spend making cables and connectors. Current Mood: busy | | Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 | | 7:05 pm |
It's completely freakin NUTS that for the past 4 days straight here, in eastern MA, it's been warmer than what my parents in Ft Lauderdale Florida have been getting. Yet I still feel that if I plant things now, stupid new england weather will snow/frost on them *sometime* before May. Maybe peas or pole beans. | | Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 | | 8:03 pm |
PEEPERS!
We got em, going strong tonight. I did not hear them last night. Yay Spring! | | 12:35 am |
bugger.
It's 12:30am, and I'm currently in the middle of completely disassembling the cross-slides of my Bridgeport, so as to figure out why it just decided to ignore any turning of the X-axis handwheels and just sit there, motionless, taunting me. This is one of the three main machines I now make most of my living with, and I cannot afford any serious downtime. Gonna be a long night. Update: 2:42 am: Machine is back to working order. ( Yay! I win a donut! ) | | Friday, January 6th, 2012 | | 4:37 pm |
While I'm not complaining about todays weather here in northwest Massachusetts on January 6th, during the time period of about 3pm and 4pm I spent outside in the driveway, in nothing more than a short-sleeved T-shirt and jeans, freeing up and replacing a stuck bolt on the alternator mount, and replacing the serpentine belt on my Scion xB. Nor am I complaining about the gorgeous week just a couple of weeks ago, when again I went outside in a pair of jeans and nothing else, and changed the oil. That said, the whole weather situation does make me go "Erm. Uh." and get sort of queasy. Currently zone 6a and counting here... | | Sunday, May 1st, 2011 | | 10:50 pm |
PSA for spring foragers
Hey there, wild hunter-gatherers. It's Japanese Knotweed season! The stuff is just at the right stage to grab those fresh shoots, steam, and eat. And please do, with great vigor, because the damned stuff will take over the whole world if nothing gets rid of it. Luckily it tastes pretty yummy. L and I had some tonight. | | Friday, April 8th, 2011 | | 1:10 pm |
| | Friday, February 4th, 2011 | | 12:20 pm |
Todays Feynman moment
So, we've got MASSIVE ice dams in places we have never gotten them before, so i'm up on a ladder today exposing said ice dams to the RaW POweR of my AIR HAMMER... which is a far better tool for the job than the last time i had to do this, using a manual hammer and chisel. However, like the shuttle SRB's, there seem to be seals inside the air hammer which lose effectiveness once they get too cold, and the hammer stops working well, or at all. So it's inside to the oven for a bit, then outside and hammer away for another half hour, then oven, rinse, lather, repeat. Awesome to see the river of water pour out once i had made the first breach in the 2-foot dam, though. | | Sunday, August 8th, 2010 | | 9:04 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 | | 1:59 pm |
Todays blast of surreality: Coy Ray Phelps
In the mid-1980's there was a rash of pipe-bomb attacks on rabbis, Jewish establishments, and synagogues in the San Fransisco area. Eventually, Coy Ray Phelps was arraigned on multiple charges, tried, and found not guilty by reasons of insanity. Since that time he has been in and out of the federal mental health prison system. He is currently inmate 78872-011, at FMC-Devens, in Ayer, Massachusetts. Today I received a letter from him. Via U.S. Mail, right in my mailbox along with my 2010 excise tax bill and L's latest Photoshop magazine. Previous to today, I did not know who he was. Maybe I could have dredged his name out back in 1986 when he was in the news. Today I had to use Google. Text of the letter reproduced below. ( Letter reproduced in it's entirety. He wants to run for public office and wants a website )So, I now find myself in the possession of the 1980's San Francisco Synagogue Bombers' autograph. It is not an object that I particularly want. And yet, tossing it into the circular file doesn't seem right either. What, if anything, do I do with this? | | Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | | 3:17 pm |
Rig Raising Call To Arms!
As posted earlier Here, we are planning to have our annual Rig Raising BBQ and Hot Tub Massacree this Saturday, the 15th. Assembly starts at 1:00pm, raising to happen somewhere between 2 and 3. There's a fair bit of prep I need to do beforehand to have everything ready, and we haven't gotten very many affirmative RSVPS, so i'm asking any of you folk who may have been planning to come by but haven't actually said so to speak up, we have an idea as to how many folk to rustle up vittles for, or whether we should just postpone to later on in the year. Who's in? | | Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | | 3:42 pm |
new kitties update
Yesterday we let the new cats out of their safe room where we've been keeping them for the past 3 weeks. Radar has been allowed in to this room to meet the other cats a few times, and they seemed to get along reasonably well; no big fights, a bit of bapping each other and feeling each other out occasionally. Zera (the female) appears to be more outgoing toward Radar; Zowie isn't sure whether to be scared of him or not, and Radar seems to feel the same way. They spent the moving from room to room sniffing *everything*, and by the end of the day seemed happy to have more space to run around in and explore. They've been chasing each other around a lot. Radar doesn't seem too put out by it. The new ones are currently on the couch getting in some Z's. ( Cute Cat Picture Here ) | | Friday, April 2nd, 2010 | | 3:27 pm |
last nights multi-cultural dinner
Yaki-Ika (broiled marinated squid; Japan) Baked Chili Rellenos (Poblano chilies stuffed with onion, tomato, cheese, cilantro, and assorted spices; Tex-Mex), Hillel Sandwiches (Matzo, Charoset, Horseradish; Pesadich) | | Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | | 7:14 pm |
| | Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | | 7:56 pm |
well, ain't that grand!
After settling the cats in, I went outside for about an hour and battled the wild thorn bushes in the yard, cutting them back. Just now, while in the machine shop, i started noticing a rather odd feeling in my left armpit. After it got annoying enough, i took a look, and for petes sake, it's only March 20th, still officially winter, and i just had L remove my first attached tick of the season. F$#&&!@&^%g parasites. | | 6:53 pm |
cats++; cats++;
Today we adopted two cats from the Kitty Angels shelter. We brought Zira and Zowie home with us. They're currently being scared-y cats and hiding in one of the cat carriers in the library-now-safe-room for them. Zowie is the gray-and-white male and is the more outgoing of the two; we expect him to come out of his shell before Zira does. Both were ferals and they'll need time to develop. They were unbelievably cute in a cat pile in a box at the shelter today. Zowie has poked his head out of the cat carrier and sniffed a bit but is still unsure about actually exiting. Zira is hiding under the blankets and pillows within. We hope that they'll eventually prove to be good companions for Radar. Pictures forthcoming. Cats! | | Friday, March 19th, 2010 | | 11:44 pm |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) chillguru, call your office Go and listen to this and i dare you to tell me that ENSMB should not do a cover version of it. | | Monday, March 15th, 2010 | | 9:55 am |
if the rain don't stop, soon there be whitewater
rain, rain, rain, rain. Yep. More rain. The basement is currently dry, as the French Drain system we have works amazingly well. If we lose power, however, either we power the sump pump via generator or battery/inverter system, or we get hosed pretty quickly. like this I got a set of those rubber boots with patterns on them lots of folk have been wearing lately. Black with colored polka-dots. Mostly i got them in prep for this years Firefly, which is always a mudfest, but they were great for sloshing around our new stream. For some reason, stores think that only women like having dry feet and socks. I'm a womens 9 when it comes to these. They run big. Lake Phiz is early this year:  This is the new stream we have on our property! Running quite well, too!  It opens out onto the wetlands that are usually about 200 feet away but are *much* closer now...  I'm going to get the inverter system set up *now* so i can switch quickly if needed... | | Sunday, March 14th, 2010 | | 12:26 am |
| | Friday, March 5th, 2010 | | 6:57 pm |
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