Category Archives: miscellaneous

In case it all goes wrong… We see a lot more hand paint­ed ver­sions of logos and few­er vinyl cutouts here than at home. edit­ed 25.june.2008 to cor­rect image links

This week­end was garage and barn tidy time. Which inevitably results in a trip to the local trans­fer sta­tion. Load up the flatbed trail­er and hitch it up to the adven­ture truck (don’t for­get to take a dog along!) and off we go. 40 min­utes lat­er we pull onto the scale at the trans­fer sta­tion and the … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Opin­ion — Good Cop Have a Doughnut”

We have new chicks. 12 arrived this morn­ing. Here’s my favorite. (A roost­er with my luck!) More info and updates on the chick­en page.

So here’s what Jim want­ed me to make him. A box for his Nin­ten­do. It’s sim­i­lar to the fold­ing box. In fact it start­ed out like the fold­ing box but then I closed up the sides so that it would be eas­i­er to use the DS while it was still in the box. (Hence the drop … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Jim’s DS Box”

I was upgrad­ing Word­Press installs this morn­ing and found this in the drafts fold­er of my old blog Mag­pie’s Shiny Things. Is Google the Next Microsoft Yeah, prob­a­bly, so what? The mar­ket demands that there be an easy, no brain­er, can’t pos­si­bly get in trou­ble for choos­ing solu­tion for the vast major­i­ty. Tools need to be … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Is Google the Next Microsoft?”