Peter Follansbee: Joiner's Notes
Seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools.
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Finished the next box
[UPDATE: the carved box is SOLD. If anybody else wants one, send an email & I’ll put you on a list…] a follow-up to my previous post here. A friend of Drew’s Langsner’s (& mine) …
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sjhoward.co.uk
Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff.
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Deal porters
In the first half of the twentieth century, the area around Rotherhithe in London did a roaring trade in importing ‘deal’—large pieces of timber. In order to import it, it needed to be unloaded from …
EvermoreStudio
By Andrew Crawford.
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Jack-O-Lantern 2024
My 2024 virtual jack-o-lantern was created in Nomad Sculpt, then rendered and animated in Blender. Seen here with my virtual jack-o-lanterns from 2022 and 2023. The post Jack-O-Lantern 2024 appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.
By Andrew Crawford, 36 words
Life, Technology and more…
I'll know where I'm going, when I get there...
By Mark Cathcart.
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Whither archive.org books?
don’t claim to know what will happen about the “Internet” archive of books. If you have not used them, why? While in general the scanning of old books, magazines, and manuals isn’t perfect and doesn’t …
By Mark Cathcart, 1,282 words
declad
I am an architect with over twenty years experience working in different countries. I am British but I live in Helsinki.
By Lewis Martin.
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Arola Apartments Identical Twins
Exterior -Image © Wellu Hämäläinen It’s often quite hard to make direct comparisons as to the sustainability of different buildings in the industry as costs, supply chains, and methods of construction to name just a …
He Can Jog
A composer, improviser and instrumentalist of sorts.
By Erik Schoster.
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Log: Wednesday October 30th
It's a pedalboard, I think. This might be one of those misguided "if I only had this thing" thoughts, but I think the setup for rain -- and my instrument generally -- would be at …
Oliver Andrich
A software developer from Koblenz with a passion for code, coffee, punk rock and a good conversation.
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Two weeks with uv
Two weeks ago, I published my article UV – I am (somewhat) sold. Since then, a lot has changed for me. I switched all my personal projects to uv from poetry. I have set up …
String-Or-Nothing
Tangled Fiber Thoughts.
By Kim Brody Salazar.
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PERSISTING THROUGH BUSY WORK
It has been a week that was. A couple of them in fact. But I’ve tried to maintain equipoise by keeping hands and mind occupied as much as possible. To that end I have several …
Old mans thoughts and tales
Mountain Rescue Specialist. Environmentalist. Spent 37 years with RAF Mountain Rescue and 3 years with a civilian Team.
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1976 – North to South of Scotland a trip into the unknown.
This is the story of my first Walk from North – South of Scotland in May 1976 21 days , 334 miles 62 Munros 31850 metres feet of ascent. Jim Morning, Paul Burns and myself …
By heavywhalley.MBE, 1,362 words
Anže's Blog
Python, webdev, and surfing.
By Anže Pečar.
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Power Outages and Gunicorn PID files
This week, my neighborhood had a few power outages. Bad news for the uptime of my self-hosted sites! 😅 After the power came back and my server started, Gunicorn services failed with the following error: …
This Week In The 90s
Each week, we talk about a song that was in the UK Top 40 in the 1990s (and other stuff too).
By Bernard O’Leary.
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‘Trouble’ and the Mysterious Third Member of Shampoo [August 29, 1994]
Hey, welcome to This Week In The 90s where we tell stories about (or loosely connected to) songs that were in the UK charts exactly 30 years ago. This week, we’re talking about… Shampoo, ‘Trouble’ …
By Bernard O'Leary, 2,738 words
Netninja.com
A web log of Brian's projects.
By Brian Enigma.
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Lowering Expectations, One Project at a Time
I went to xoxo this year — I mean the real festival, not the fictional rave. This was the final year of the fest, and I have lots of feels around it. I don’t have …
By Brian Enigma, 1,176 words
Painted Eloquence
An art history blog.
By Adam Busiakiewicz.
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Henry VIII on BBC Midlands Today
The rediscovery of Ralph Sheldon’s lost Portrait of King Henry VIII on BBC Midlands Today 29th July 2024.
The Hiro Report
Delightful apps, everyday gear, and other fun finds from the web straight to your inbox.
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10NOV2024
Happy Sunday, everyone! It’s been a week. We all have our own unique ways of handling stress, and here are a few of mine from the last several days—watching Harrison Ford deliver some of the …
Ben James
Thoughts on climate by Ben James.
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The Earth's Temperature and its Enemies
What will affect the earth’s temperature the most in the next 10 years?Aerosols“Aerosols” is a fancy name for “tiny particles in the air”. Aerosols are the most potent climate lever in the world, because they …
By Ben James, 1,084 words