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tools

Garden Report — August 30

30 August 2009

It’s been hot and dry for much of the sum­mer. That’s hard on the plants and I know that I’m going to have to move some things that haven’t han­dled the heat well come fall.
Mean­while I’ve been replac­ing some of the things that we lost in last winter’s deep freeze.
Rose­mary is some­thing that I regard as […]

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New Tools, Continuing Upholstry and No More Room

22 June 2009

I got tools from Rio Grande this after­noon.
Clock­wise from the top. Ring man­drel — very pleased with the qual­ity and heft. Par­al­lel pli­ers — thank you Sarah L. for get­ting me addicted to those expen­sive lit­tle dears. Raw hide mal­let for bang­ing on metal. Ring clamp for hold­ing onto things and not sand­ing my fingers, […]

Tagged as: bench, parallel pliers, rawhide mallet, ring clamp, ring mandrel, snips, upholstery

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Clouds

8 July 2008

Word clouds are a fun way of find­ing out what’s really on your (blog’s) mind. The Gen­er­a­tor Blog pointed to Wor­dle this morn­ing and I’ve been hav­ing fun mak­ing clouds for var­i­ous blogs I read/write.
Here’s one based on ms. shoes:

I think I spend a lit­tle too much time writ­ing about the chick­ens. Though I do like […]

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Housekeeping

25 June 2008

A few months ago I moved some things — includ­ing the files for this blog — around on the servers. It all seemed to go just fine — until…
I upgraded the word­press installs. All the older image links broke. Luck­ily I fig­ured out just how they broke. It’s taken a cou­ple of hours but all the […]

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Trivia I Need

23 April 2008

ColourLovers posted a list of all 120 Cray­ola crayon col­ors and their (approx­i­mate) hex and RGB codes. The list was com­plied by Aaron at ColorSchemer.com.

I am now going to waste sev­eral hours cre­at­ing a cus­tom Pho­to­shop palette of these col­ors.
Sigh.
BTW When did the Cray­ola site change so much? I remem­ber it as being a much […]

Tagged as: color, crayons

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new toys

11 February 2008

I’ve been busy acquir­ing, set­ting up, and occa­sion­ally curs­ing a batch of new toys.
The dreaded yel­low line scan­ner has been evicted and in it’s place is a new Microtek i900.

So far it and I are get­ting along pretty well. Though it’s a right hulk­ing bit of equip­ment.
Can’t say as much for the soft­ware. I have two […]

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Trouble with Scanner

24 January 2008

The great photo dig­i­tiz­ing project has hit a snag.
I started work­ing on “fix­ing up” the pho­tos that I had scanned in last week. First up was this pic­ture of Jim’s par­ents Bill and Betty on their wed­ding day. (Too cute, no?)

A care­ful look at the orig­i­nal file (all 1040x768of it) revealed a nasty yel­low stripe […]

Tagged as: family photos, scanner

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