You may call yourself a tinkerer, a techie, a builder, a hacker, a fabricator, a decontructionist, a DIY enthusiast, a maker, a baker or even a candlestick maker. You have a compelling desire to understand how something works. You aren’t content with LED status lights and plastic casings - you *need* to see the wiring and to understand which types of integrated circuits are being used (digital or mixed signal?). Your fingers show soldering iron scars. You have a shoebox filled with capacitors and inductors. You know how to build it back bigger, better, and stronger. But most importantly, you void warranties. And you’re damn good at it.
Awright, right, so I’m easily amused. This afternoon I spent way too much time on The Dialectizer. Yer can’t ‘ave a knees-up wivout a joanna. The bleedin’ Dialectizer will translate web pages or text into, yer guessed it, different dialects. Right. Among them are: redneck, right, cockney (an example is this post), the bloomin’ Swedish Chef and even moron.
Go on, yer know yor dyin’ ter see ‘ow Elmer Fudd would write yor blog or favourite web site.
A while back I did this post teasing Dan about his collection of identical notebooks. I thought it was only fair to post of few pictures of items that I horde.
I forgot to put one in, and I left out all of my grocery listers, and I think there’s several more in a storage container. Memo pads and sticky notes just rule.
I’m determined to have a Sharpie in every colour and every type point possible. And I just like the Papermate felt tip pens. I usually copy recipes onto cards with them.
Who has that much stuff to highlight? I also have many of the fat barrel type that are hiding in various storage boxes.
This is excluding the 0.3 mm, 0.9 mm and 2.0 mm leads I keep in my art supply tackle box. Or the red artist leads. Or the extras that wouldn’t fit into my pencil case. Or…
Tonight our neighbor’s house caught fire. The house wasn’t finished yet and was still uninhabited, so the fire department just wet down the surrounding area and let the house burn to the ground. This is some video footage that we took right in the middle of the burn. As far as we know nobody was hurt, but we’ll know more on tomorrow’s news I’m sure. -Dan-
This is a silly post, I know. Aquazone wouldn’t run on our old computer, even with a nice graphics card, and other updates — the processor was just too slow. Being a fish geek, I was pleased when AZ was able to run on the new beast, so I’ve been playing around with the settings.
I started out with 15 Sardines. My Black-Tip Shark has eaten eleven of them already! I find myself sitting here waiting for the screen saver to kick in just to watch the shark feast!
How many nearly identical notebooks does one man need? Apparently 10 small ones, and one large one, and he hates the large ones! Oops, I think there’s a few more in his bag that I missed.
