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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 1040×768of it) revealed a nasty [...]

Tagged as: family photos, scanner

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