The Make Something Every Week Contest

[livius drusus]

Right this way, ladies and gentlemans, right this way! Don't be afraid to step right up for the Conteeeest. Of. The. Centuryyyyyy! Straight from the darkest recesses of deepest lisarea, the most electrifying, terrifying, stupefying, test of will, skill and most likely swill ever conceived by the depraved mind of wo-man.

:partying: :raisetheroof: :jiveturkey: It's the Make Something Every Week Contest! :jiveturkey: :raisetheroof: :partying:

All you have to do to participate is make something. That's it. It doesn't have to be fancy, pretty, useful or in any other way remarkable. You just have to make one thing during the course of one week. Some possible things include clay ashtrays, sofa cushion forts, origami cranes, short stories, finger paintings, piñatas and macaroni greeting cards. The only limit is your imagination and maybe the laws of physics, but not necessarily.

Every week the winner will be determined by popular acclaim. TOTALLY IGNORANT HYSTERICAL VOTERS are not just welcome but encouraged. In fact, truly impressive ignorant hysteria will be considered a submission for the next week's contest.

Winners will get their pick of the other contestants' oeuvre, so basically it's like if you win, you get to eat someone's soul. That makes this the greatest contest of all time.

[Pan Narrans]

I made you a cookie.

But I eated it.

[livius drusus]

Eated cookies do not count, unless they turn your poop interesting colors. ALL COLORED POOP ENTRIES MUST BE SUBMITTED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY.

[Gonzo]

I am currently winning this thread. I'ze am fully engaged in comic book production lately.


I've been wanting to try my hand at my grandfather's shoemaking book. Maybe I'll finally do that. :chin:


I can't wait to win the grand prize of a delicious demoralizing soul eat. :excited:

[lisarea]

Is cheating against the rules in this contest?

[livius drusus]

Certainly not.

[LadyShea]

I will participate but nobody is allowed to take my crap er I mean fabulous creations. I make stuff because I need it, or want it, or it amuses me, or something. Also I can't be fucked to go to the post office and stuff, having to do it for SS is bad enough.

[curses]

Ooh! I maed yous gais someting!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/invisikitty/finger.jpg

Srsly, I will play.

[Ensign Steve]

curses takes an early lead! :cheering:

I'm in, but only because I was already planning on making something already! :muahaha:

[Ymir's blood]

I finished converting a unit of orcs just now. Sure, they were already orc miniatures, but I game them new weapons, cut off and repositioned arms and even sculpted a hood out of kneaditite for the champion.

[One for Sorrow]

Also I can't be fucked to go to the post office and stuff, having to do it for SS is bad enough.

:pout:

[Kael]

I finished converting a unit of orcs just now. Sure, they were already orc miniatures, but I game them new weapons, cut off and repositioned arms and even sculpted a hood out of kneaditite for the champion.poast pics plz!

[ITSOZAZ]

the last thing i made was a couple of weeks ago and was this shirt for zeke:

[Ymir's blood]

I finished converting a unit of orcs just now. Sure, they were already orc miniatures, but I game them new weapons, cut off and repositioned arms and even sculpted a hood out of kneaditite for the champion.poast pics plz!
The figure on the left in each photo is unmodified. The replacement parts are all GW bits, except of course the putty (white Testors model putty and Green kneaditite.) The figures aren't model plastic, so they had to be reassembled using pins and super glue.

[wildernesse]

I'm in. When does the week start/stop?

[BrotherMan]

It starts now.
It ends then.
(So sayeth the drusus.)

[Chris Porter]

I'm in. I'm thinking of making a ski mask out of duct tape. A sure winner.

[Ensign Steve]

I made this patch for my backpack on accouna this post (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=874357#post874357).

Whoops, I posted them in backwards time travel order.

[Kael]

I made some juice from frozen concentrate... that's all I've got for today.

[lisarea]

I am going to try to make something every day for a while.

Today, I made a porn rock. It is a rock from our front yard, and I cut out just a face from some porn, and decoupaged it on. Then, I kept messing around with it, sanding the rock and filling in parts with Sharpie and shoe polish.

I kind of wish I had picked something more obviously porn, because looking at it now, it could just be sexyface. Also, I'm hoping it weathers in quickly. Ideally, I'd like it to be like when you notice it, you might briefly entertain the notion that it might just be some naturally occurring pattern.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5040897456_8e9b41e7be.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisarea/5040897456/)
img_1494.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisarea/5040897456/) by lisarea (http://www.flickr.com/people/lisarea/), on Flickr

[livius drusus]

Yeah, I actually couldn't find Pr0n Waldo until I looked at the largest picture. OMG was this some kind of porn lesson about size mattering?

[livius drusus]

I really dig that giant yarn you sewed with, ES. It makes the strokes look just like the digital clock in the smiley.

[ITSOZAZ]

that is so awesome, ES! :D

[Qingdai]

I don't have a picture, but I'm in the process of making 2.5 gallons of hard apple cider. Does that count when it's drinkable or when I put up that carboy? Either way I've got nothing this week.

[Kael]

I should think any kind of apple cider counts, probably double when it's hard. (:bunnythrust:)

[ChuckF]

I don't have a picture, but I'm in the process of making 2.5 gallons of hard apple cider. Does that count when it's drinkable or when I put up that carboy? Either way I've got nothing this week.
:orly: I'm putting 3 gallons of wine in the small carboy this afternoon.

Fermenters itt.

[vremya]

I'm in! I'll make something this weekend. Can you finish something you already started?

[Chris Porter]

Here. I made the plans for my office desk:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/7/5/3/officedeskcutout.jpg

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I made perfect guacamole on my very first try.

Maybe I'll whip up an origami crane tomorrow.

[LadyShea]

Also I can't be fucked to go to the post office and stuff, having to do it for SS is bad enough.

:pout:

Obviously kidding. I love SS

[livius drusus]

Hell yes hard cider counts, however, in lieu of photos you'll have to act the complete fool under its influence.

vremya, sure you can finish something you started.

[Qingdai]

What? More than usual? Is that possible???

[livius drusus]

You want to win the Make Something Contest? Well, the Make Something Contest costs, and right here is where you start paying: in extreme foolery.

[Clutch Munny]

I spent the night in my office making a grant application. But I can't give it to you.

But if I get the grant, naturally you're all welcome to join me in snorting meth off a grad student's ass through rolled-up $1000 bills at some fake conference or other. Academic networking, we call it.

[ChuckF]

snorting meth off a grad student's ass
god that was an awesome fellowship

[Qingdai]

Yuck! Grad students, don't you have access to something less neurotic?

[freemonkey]

I'll be making a sammich later today.

[Listener]

Sorry Liv,

I make things all the time 'cuz I need them.

For :ff: boring, for us (Sandra and me) - L&D.

I had an estimate of £2,000 for replacing my domestic heating oil tank.

I bought one for £600, built the stone plinth myself and got some friends to help me get it in place for £50. It's most probably legal!

I'm always combining weldmesh metal netting and plywood to make vermin-proof huts.

When I've made them - you can't have them!!!

I love freemonkey's avatar. (& sig)

[Clutch Munny]

snorting meth off a grad student's ass
god that was an awesome fellowship

Not the fellowship of the ring, I hope.

[Watser?]

I never make anything :sadcheer:

Except coffee from beans.

Well, I grind them first. Works better.

[teasasue]

I can crochet a blanket, does that count

[lisarea]

I made a washcloth from some scrap yarn last night:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5042969796_abbf9bcf2a_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisarea/5042969796/)img_1493.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisarea/5042969796/) by lisarea (http://www.flickr.com/people/lisarea/), on Flickr

And I am making a new batch of deodorant* in a few minutes because I am out.

* 1 part cornstarch, 1 part baking soda, a few drops of tea tree oil, and a couple drops of peppermint and/or orange oil, in a spice jar with a shaker lid.

[livius drusus]

Of course crocheting a blanket counts. That's pretty advanced thing-making, in fact.

Watser?, if you make it and serve in a silver service on a baseball field like in A League of Their Own, that totally counts too.

[vremya]

I'll be making a sammich later today.

freemonkey I love your avatar.

[teasasue]

Of course crocheting a blanket counts. That's pretty advanced thing-making, in fact.

Watser?, if you make it and serve in a silver service on a baseball field like in A League of Their Own, that totally counts too.

it was actually pretty easy, I was just playing with different stitches on them. I have made 3 so far. If the camera was working I would post a pic. After I get to TX, I will try to do that for you.

[Gonzo]

I started by making a to-do list with "Make something every week" at the top. Man I have a lot of shit to accomplish. O_O

[ceptimus]

I was in chat when liv posted the OP and I told the guys there that I'd made a small chuck glider out of a pizza tray earlier that day. liv said that it qualified, so here are the details.

I wanted to make a small battery powered radio controlled delta plane, but I had no idea where the centre of gravity (balance point) should be. The position where a plane balances is very important - if it's wrong the plane will crash, so I decided to make a small chuck glider to experiment with.

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/pizzaglider/PizzaGlider1.jpg

I happened to have a clean pizza tray to hand, so I used that as building material. I drew some shapes on the tray (you can see from the lines that I changed my mind quite a bit), then I cut them out and glued them together with some UHU Por glue (I tried some other glues but the material just melted).

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/pizzaglider/PizzaGlider2.jpg

I taped what I thought was a UK penny to the plane so I could move the balance point around. I grabbed the penny from a pile of old coins that's been standing next to my PC for ages.

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/pizzaglider/PizzaGlider3.jpg

But when I looked more closely, it turned out to be a USA cent.

YouTube - PizzaGlider4.AVI

After moving the coin around and bending up the 'flaps' at the back of the wing (technically these are called 'elevons'), I got it to fly pretty well - though it's difficult to film it and chuck it at the same time - that video was shot in my garden this morning. :blush:

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/pizzaglider/PizzaGlider5.jpg

I've since begun on making the radio controlled and powered version (but it's not finished, so that one isn't my entry for the 'Make Something' contest). The chuckie glider worked well, so I'm sticking to the same pizza tray material, but I've strengthened it up a bit by adding some carbon fibre strip in between the back edge of the wing and the elevons.

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/pizzaglider/PizzaGlider6.jpg

In the view on the bottom of the plane, the blue things at the back (servos) are to move the elevons to steer the plane; the motor is a modified motor from a CD-ROM drive. You can see the speed controller (not wired up yet) that sends power to the motor and the radio receiver is at the back, in front of the servos. The battery will be taped on top of the wing, under the fin - it's made from three mobile phone batteries wired together in series.

[livius drusus]

cep, you are too fucking cool for school. :notworthy:

[Leesifer]

That's very impressive cep. :golfclap:

[Ymir's blood]

That thing couldn't stand up to a whole unit of orcs. :mutter:

[curses]

I made my mohawk*

*OK, I just shaved the sides down and trimmed the top bits as it was looking very Annie Lenox.

[viscousmemories]

It probably shouldn't count because I'm not giving away my desk, but with a drill and a couple wooden pegs I turned my keyboard tray into what the kids are calling a "slant board".

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7_AeHHzFZxo/TKj9CRUnI1I/AAAAAAAABkI/-V1_mNVRJCI/s912/2010-10-03%2016.58.59.jpg

[livius drusus]

Ooh, useful. Also points for the racism.

[wildernesse]

In the spirit of this thread, I made grape gel-o from grape juice and gelatin and a wee bit of sugar. I will try to make something fo real later.

[Demimonde]

I learned to knit and am working on my first scarf. I can post pix when its done but it is my first babby and I am keeping it.

I have crocheted but never bothered to knit. My friend is teaching me and getting the vapors over how I hold my needles, but I rock so whatevah.

[lisarea]

I taught myself how to knit a few years ago, but I cannot hold the needles right, either.

I learned to crochet when I was a tiny little babby, though. I have a hilarious hat I made once because I was mad at my mom for saying I couldn't make things without a pattern. So I made a hat and vest for myself and was like SUCK IT MOM.

The hilarious part, though, is that the hat is ridiculously tiny, but it did fit me at the time. (And it's acrylic, so it's not shrunk. My head was really that tiny.) Next time I find that hat, I will post a picture of it with a quarter for scale.

Oh, and I am failing the fuck out of my self-imposed make something every day contest. Saturday, I started to KNIT a washcloth as a sort of cheat, but I didn't finish it; and yesterday I made a bushel of unpeeled chiles into a bunch of small bags of peeled chiles, and then I was really tired and my fingers were pruned, so I pretended that would count.

IT IS OKAY BECAUSE MR. DRUSUS SAID THAT CHEATING IS ALLOWED.

[erimir]

I made facial composites and mashups on FaceResearch.org (www.faceresearch.org)

Such as this picture of me which was formed by averaging several pictures of me:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs348.ash2/62817_862694466238_2705893_47886574_5725437_n.jpg

[lisarea]

BAMP!

I actually didn't really make anything for the last couple of days, but I a) finished that knit washcloth, b) made a little squiggly like cord holder out of sugru mostly just to check whether it is prematurely expired, and c) assembled a new store boughten office chair because my bucket-and-ball chair stopped working.

So, you know, I am still winning, even though erimir is prettier.

[Gonzo]

Everyone looks pretty on average. :blank:

[Gonzo]

I made a babby with my face & Super Zoop the dog's face

http://i51.tinypic.com/k1x84y.jpg

[chunksmediocrites]

I made a Non-Player Character to use in an upcoming campaign. I don't want to give away too much, since Crumb will be playing, but his name is The Shandy and he is 65 years old, a 24th-level monk, is crazy, smelly, and doesn't wear clothes, and always yells instead of speaking.

A 24th-level monk, even one that doesn't carry any weapons other than his body, is a force of fucking nature, with a base move rate of 110ft.

I mades it.

[Gonzo]

So you made... [Stop that! --Ed.]

Ahhh come on but it was really f[Just stupid. -- Ed.]

THAT'S IT :^: LIST, NEXT!!! [http://foodcourtlunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/swimsuit.thumbnail.jpg --Ed.]

[irukandji]

i made their reunion weekend memorable

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs192.snc4/37920_1520961676383_1604790024_1249388_3161987_n.jpg

[vremya]

I made toast :holytoast: (and eated it).

Demi - I thought crocheting was harder than knitting - and who cares how you hold your needles, so long as you get the job done. My favorite quote from The Yarn Harlot: There are no knitting police. Do what you want.

[Pinecone]

I put new clean sheets on and made the bed.

[Crumb]

I made a Non-Player Character to use in an upcoming campaign. I don't want to give away too much, since Crumb will be playing, but his name is The Shandy and he is 65 years old, a 24th-level monk, is crazy, smelly, and doesn't wear clothes, and always yells instead of speaking.

A 24th-level monk, even one that doesn't carry any weapons other than his body, is a force of fucking nature, with a base move rate of 110ft.

I mades it.

I hope he is friendly... :blank:

[Kyuss Apollo]

i made some new box.net uploads and restarted my weekly signature music track project :songhead:

[Chris Porter]

I put the first upright shelf support into the wall in the upstairs hallway today. By the end of the week we should have new 75 linear feet of bookshelves upstairs, and we can unpack all our books.

I miscalculated the board feet of plywood for my office floor, so I'm going to go buy another sheet and have it cut tomorrow.

That too looks like it's close to being finished. And so far, only one badly bent nail out of dozens.

Doesn't look like I can move into my office until the last week of October, sadly enough.

[BrotherMan]

HEY LISAPEA
:loud:

I have an exciting new Make Something This Week project that doesn't involve ruining your precious manicure (or possibly pedicure, I don't want to know how you peel chiles). It involves the enclosed and a top secret NOBODY ELSE BETTER LOOK instructions on what I want.

Take this awesome old "cell" phone and make it into an awesome hipster modern usable cell phone. I know you have some kind of open source power over things that are electromechanical in nature so this shouldn't be a problem for you.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2010/10/imts.jpg

[lisarea]

WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT PICTURE? I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE AND I AM EXTREMELY AGITATED RIGHT NOW.

But yeah, I figure that this (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=51) would probably be a good place to start with that project.

[BrotherMan]

Because you're a girl and don't know how the internet works, I'll explain it for you.

I found the original article at Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/5661414/this-is-what-a-mobile-phone-looked-like-in-1964and-there-were-over-a-million-of-them). That article also has links (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Introduction/Introduction.aspx) to two other articles, the second (http://www.wb6nvh.com/Carphone.htm) which has olde tyme pictures. I remember that you have a fixation on M model phones. And M model keyboards too. You apparently really like the letter M. Maturin isn't an accident of simple brain chemicals or wanting to have a keen country lawyer in your pocket I now suspect.

[LadyShea]

I made firestarters from pinecones, melted crayons, and sawdust. I burnded them all up camping.

[Ensign Steve]

I want to know more about the crayon fire starters. Do they smell weird when they burn? Do they burn or melt in pretty colors?

[LadyShea]

I needed wax and I had bought a metric fuckton of dollar store crayons for some gift bags like 5 years ago. Dollar store crayons don't color on paper, so I replaced them for coloring purposes with Crayolas, and the cheap ones were sitting in a coffee can being useless.

Melting lots of different crayons together makes a sorta muddy army green color. But these were for camping, so utility was more important than attractiveness. In the fire the sawdust and pinecone burning smells overpower the sad cheap crayons and there is no melting, there is flames.

Now, if you wanted to make them for your fireplace or for gifts, you could get all fancy and use new paraffin or melt down colored votives...but the sawdust kinda hides the wax. You could food color the sawdust maybe. Adding salt or borax makes pretty colored flames I have been told, and you can add cinnamon oil.

Instead of pinecones you can also fill cupcake papers (paper not foil!) or coffee filters with sawdust, then pour the wax over it.

[LadyShea]

doubled posted

[Dingfod]

I've made nothing but trouble, and that's difficult to even quantify, let alone photograph.

[irukandji]

the furnace kicked on this morning...
the thermostat is set at 64°....:eek:


figured it was time for me to make
a snuggly bed for the rattiez, cos
winters are long, cold and dark in
the northern tier.... long, cold, dark

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs402.ash2/68023_463864147136_813687136_5288864_5879782_n.jpg


oh, you'd like to see a picture of
the rattiez in the hammock?

well so would i! those little
bastards are FAST!

[Chris Porter]

I made my knee broken. You can have it, now.

[vremya]

I made my knee broken. You can have it, now.

Ouch! How did you do that?

(I made the bed, I hope that counts)

[irukandji]

I made my knee broken. You can have it, now.

my stomach lurched to read that!

how are you faring?

[Chris Porter]

Not good. I'm on pain killers every 4 hours, and bed rest. If this doesn't work, it's going to be surgery. I'm opting for rest at the moment, I've too much to do.

I don't know how I broke it, on Monday it just got worse and worse through the day, and by Tuesday it was swollen and barely moveable. It improved all the way until Friday, when, in bending my knee gently, there was a loud pop and sudden agony. Ah. So it's back to bed rest.

At least no bones broken, just tendons. So it's going to heal but probably slowly.

[Corona688]

Does music count? I've been playing with Schism Tracker, here's my second result. (I'm not bothering to show anyone the first.)

[Corona688]

Ack! That's not good, Chris. :(

[Chris Porter]

Eh. I've done it before, the doc says it will eventually require surgery if I'm not more careful. I'm really hoping this is not the the time it does.

This is what happens down the line when you aren't careful playing on the exercise weight machines. I blew out both knees at once at the YMCA when I was in my 30s, working out on one of their machines.
*****
I would say that music counts, that was pretty good. What is the instrument/setting/term for that makes the rubber-band guitar sound?

[Pinecone]

Chris - may your knees bees better soon!! :beesknees:

[Chris Porter]

What I fret over is my lack of doing things that should be done for this contest! I need the office floor done, the baseboards installed, a door hung, the shelves installed. Now those are things I really want to make for this contest!

Stupid body. Getting old sucks.

[curses]

Eeeek, Chris! I hope you mend quickly!

I made a photo shoot this weekend! Here's a teaser as I still have a TON of post processing to do on the image. Don't worry, though. I'm photoshopping this image instead of doing my homework.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6973&stc=1&d=1287329950

[Corona688]

I would say that music counts, that was pretty good. What is the instrument/setting/term for that makes the rubber-band guitar sound? There's probably lots of ways to do it, but Schism Tracker/Impulse Tracker have a built-in resonant filter, which I use to alter the timbre of sampled instruments. The sampled instrument itself is cryptically named "depe4_c2", so I know not where it's from ultimately, but I found it among the stuff in the Maz No. 1 instruments (http://maz-sound.de/index.php?show=product&id=4) CD.

That looks like a fun thing to photoshop, curses.

[Crumb]

I made an external hard drive out of my gf's former laptop drive. Took all of about 3 mins. :)

I'm in the precess of making a simple shelf to go behind the new couch. Just a 1x6 stained and bracketed to the wall. Put on the first coat this evening.

[Dingfod]

Does installing more RAM and a new DVD drive in my desktop count?

[Corona688]

If done with interpretive dance.

[Ymir's blood]

I didn't make this, but I'm working on repairing it. lisarea sent it to me some time back but it got mauled by the USPS and arrived in fragments. It's been pieced together like a 3D jigsaw puzzle, but the pieces don't exactly fit. This is probably due to operator error and maybe a bit of disintegration of the material during the fracture. Anyhow, the mends will need a bit of putty and then the plane will get a new paint job.

[Chris Porter]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/7/5/3/bookshelvessm.jpg

Shelves! In the upstairs hallway! As finished as they are going to be for the next year.

[Ensign Steve]

Oooh! They look great!

[freemonkey]

I made a sort of a collapsible/portable photo softbox thingie. I was hoping to be able to put glass and other shiny objects inside to get even light (using ordinary lighting) and keep reflections down while photographing them. I plan to make them in various sizes and am trying to think of a way to make a big but portable one for getting shots of large pieces in situ.

I did not take a picture of the box, but here are a few objects that I used for practice. Not entirely satisfied with the results, but they are better than without the box.

[Chris Porter]

Is that fish on that blue cup with the tentacle handle? Or just fortuitous raku?

[freemonkey]

Is that fish on that blue cup with the tentacle handle? Or just fortuitous raku?

Those are fish, very finely painted all around the cup. There is also a fish head painted on top of the handle. This cup is no larger than 3.5 inches across and 2.25" tall. It was a thrift store find. I can barely read the signature on the bottom, but it looks like one of those fish incised in the clay with a needle.

I have no idea if it was locally made or not. I love it, it's one of my favorite pieces of pottery.

[Chris Porter]

Yes, it's quite lovely, and I'm glad you showed it off.

[Chris Porter]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/7/5/3/full_bed_storage.jpg

design for bed with storage, and headboard shelves.

[Demimonde]

I made a thirty second long stop motion animation for my multimedia authoring class. Ten images per second and an homage to Eadweard Muybridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge).

So much fun! And SO time consuming. I will link when my prof puts it up on the web.

:w00t:

[Chris Porter]

That's a bit weird. My only stop motion animation (for class about 35 years ago) was an homage to Eadweard Muybridge. I ran an animated paper horse across a grid, and interspersed/substituted it with a clay horse running, then some footage I shot at a stable of a running horse.

Now with your post, I wonder if many students opt for some sort of nod toward Muybridge.

[freemonkey]

That's a bit weird. My only stop motion animation (for class about 35 years ago) was an homage to Eadweard Muybridge. I ran an animated paper horse across a grid, and interspersed/substituted it with a clay horse running, then some footage I shot at a stable of a running horse.

I would love to see that. Do you still have it?

[Chris Porter]

Nope (and it was on 8mm film, btw). It was lost with a lot of my young stuff in a basement flood many years ago. I really liked that film class, taught me a lot about different aspects of film making. I shot most of it outside on the back stoop, because it needed lots of light. The paper animation was held down with rubber cement, so I could stick the limbs down again and again. I had the Muybridge book (http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Motion-Eadweard-Muybridge/dp/0486202038/) out from the library, to follow along.

I went to a somewhat tony midwestern high school for the times, IIRC. They had lots of extra classes that many schools nowadays seem to have dropped for budget reasons.

[LadyShea]

I made a wreath bow, my first bow making attempt. Not sure if it will make the finale on my first wreath, but it's not nearly as shit as I expected. I also painted a little wooden ornament disc to look like a peppermint with the swirl template I found on this lady's cute blog http://cobbcottage.blogspot.com/

I am thinking about tie dying a tree skirt for Kiddo's tree this week.

[Demimonde]

Okay my prof posted it, actually CP she was the one that asked for Muybridge, we were just the only group to go at it with abandon.

Phoenix

Oh and we only had a sucky little webcam to work with. I wish we had the reel deal.

[erimir]

I was bored, so I made an alien-ish "font" in Paint.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7072&stc=1&d=1288929506

Probably would be quite hard to decipher - it's phonemic.

[Qingdai]

Also it looks like it's staring at me!

[Chris Porter]

I was bored, so I made an alien-ish "font" in Paint.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7072&stc=1&d=1288929506

Probably would be quite hard to decipher - it's phonemic.

Do the related symbols (like the "2" in various configurations) indicate some sort of family of phonemes? Is there such a thing as families of phonemes?

[curses]

Okay my prof posted it, actually CP she was the one that asked for Muybridge, we were just the only group to go at it with abandon.

Phoenix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL1QbL7bJyw)

Oh and we only had a sucky little webcam to work with. I wish we had the reel deal.

OMG I love it. Muybridge indeed! Nice job.

[erimir]

Do the related symbols (like the "2" in various configurations) indicate some sort of family of phonemes? Is there such a thing as families of phonemes?The shapes are for almost all of them related (to lesser and greater extents) to the Roman forms, and the ones that are similar are either similar shapes in the Roman alphabet, or phonemically similar. Two are identical with their Roman forms (one of those is not in the English alphabet, however).

And the symbols that are stacked on each other are just for saving space - they're just two symbols in sequence. The first symbol is a capital letter (you can see the lowercase also).

[erimir]

Oy, the stupid things I find to waste my time on instead of doing something productive...

Actual fonts, like you can install them on your computer:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7077&stc=1&d=1289042382

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7078&stc=1&d=1289042382

Made here: FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts (http://fontstruct.fontshop.com)

[JoeP]

I call that productive.

[Chris Porter]

I do too. I used to make fonts myself, when I was younger (fontmonger, IIRC). Just English ones, though. It was, I think, a good way to understand interactions of form and function, with usability being my driving goal. I think it's a fine thing to mess around with.

[freemonkey]

Ohh, thank you! I've been wanting to make a font for some time mow.

[lisarea]

7239

http://thing-a-day.com/

I will be the Internet Friend of anyone else who signs up with me.

[Gonzo]

I'm in.

We're still not internet friends, though, nemesis.

[lisarea]

That was an angry thanks, G.

Rest assured that we are still arch enemies.

[LadyShea]

I will be the Internet Friend of anyone else who signs up with me.

That violates a clause in our BFF contract

[Demimonde]

Oooh! I like it. Count me in.

[lisarea]

OK, so I figure I will start making a compilation of projects, mostly quick and easy things to do on days when you're tired or busy or just don't feel like doing it.

Knitted headband: Knitty: Winter 2006 - editor (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter06/PATTcalorimetry.html)

Knit or crocheted dishcloths

Box made from a sodypop can: Make: Online : How-to: Tin box made from a can (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/diy_1.html)
(lol i totally mean a beer can!)

Sundial cube: Sundial Cube (http://www.randelshofer.ch/rubik/virtualcubes/rubik/picture_cubes/sundial_cube_en.html)

Custom vertical sundial: Sundial Damia.net Google Maps (http://sundial.damia.net/vertical/sundial.php)

Solar cooker: SUNNY COOKER | Simple Homemade Solar Cookers (http://www.freewebs.com/sunnycooker/funpanelcookerplan.htm)

CD envelope: How to Fold a CD Cover from a Sheet of Copy Paper: 4 steps - wikiHow (http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-CD-Cover-from-a-Sheet-of-Copy-Paper)

Pocketmod organizer: PocketMod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer (http://www.pocketmod.com/)

More decoupaged rocks

Doorbell clickthrough EULA so that ringing your doorbell agrees to terms and conditions

[LadyShea]

Shouldn't things you make be useful? I don't think I want to make something EVERY DAY unless I need it or them.

Box made from a sodypop can: Make: Online : How-to: Tin box made from a can
(lol i totally mean a beer can!)

Thats really cool but I don't get the folding part at all.

[seebs]

I have been thinking of splurging and buying a handful of big fat pillows so I can have a pillow fort.

[lisarea]

Shouldn't things you make be useful? I don't think I want to make something EVERY DAY unless I need it or them.

Yeah, well, shouldn't your FACE be useful?

[LadyShea]

So you just want me to make shit even if it's just gonna add to the hoard? Okay IF YOU SAY SO!

[Gonzo]

I have been thinking of splurging and buying a handful of big fat pillows so I can have a pillow fort.

There'd better be some pictures.

[Qingdai]

Beer, I made/am making beer. A 3 gallon carboy of my Chinese herb (buddha's hand citron flavored) Belgian witbeer is sitting in my guest room bubbling away.

Bloop. Bloop.

Buddha's hand is used for PMS, plus it looks like cthuhlu, so I'm not sure if it's for an elder god or PMS, maybe both.

[BrotherMan]

I have seen the future for matlock... I have stared into the abyss and it has stared back into me.
:eyesbleed:

http://cheezpictureisunrelated.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/693097f5-8eab-4856-93c2-d28361cbda7d.jpg

[Qingdai]

Going to take up fiber arts, brotherman?

[LadyShea]

I am making Tuscan saltless bread today. I made the starter last night.

[irukandji]

l@@k

i get it that many, most or all of you <bow>
are fukkin elites in the realm of computer-ese
programming, design, whatever even the hell
you call the stuff you do with such panache

i am not, nor will i ever be, even passably literate
or even good enough to be incompetent with this stuff
mostly because i dont have to be, because YOU are

but

that being said

i am having to "make" a website on a freebie
make your own website for free site (jimdo)
for my business skills class... and i SUCK at it but
i am also not going to be defeated by a fucking
websites-for-idiots assignment!

and NO
no fuckin'way will i link it

EVAR

[SharonDee]

Finally tiring of junk food, I've been attempting to cook this weekend. Sick of sandwiches made of bologna, Spam, and other meat byproducts I was.

Several days ago I cooked pork chops in the crock pot. Oh yeah, there's another reason I don't cook: I don't know how to do it for fewer than three people. So I also served a mess of field peas to go with. I had the leftovers a few days later, served with pan-fried okra. (My mom gave me some over the holidays, pre-cut and pre-dredged in cornmeal because I'm a kitchen idjit.)

Yesterday I attempted to make banana bread. But I was too far along to turn back when I realized the brown sugar I was going to use was rock hard. So I'm hacking and bludgeoning this brick until finally, finally I managed to break it into chunks.

Good enough, I decide.

So the stuff comes out with sugary brown lumps that are the best thing about the whole mess. Today I finished eating the sugary crusty parts and tossed the rest in the garbage.


.
.
.

Pass the Spam, wouldja?

[LadyShea]

psst 10 Ways To Soften Hard Brown Sugar : TipNut.com (http://tipnut.com/10-ways-to-soften-hard-brown-sugar/)

So my Tuscan bread was super yummeh, but I accidentally left like half a loaf in the turned off oven while we ate. It was pretty dried out, so I am going to make a strata with it.

[SharonDee]

psst 10 Ways To Soften Hard Brown Sugar : TipNut.com (http://tipnut.com/10-ways-to-soften-hard-brown-sugar/):glare:

Did I mention "too far to turn back"? I needed brown sugar RIGHT THEN, not overnight or several days later.


Oh, wait ... what's that? There are Quick Tips there? Never mind. :sheepish:

[lisarea]

Oh. The thing-a-day (http://thing-a-day.com/) signups have started.

Also, someone make me one of these:

Octopus Chandelier For Sea House Concept by Adam Wallacavage | ALL ABOUT HOME DESIGN & PHOTOS (http://archindesigns.com/octopus-chandelier-for-sea-house-concept-by-adam-wallacavage)

I like them all, really, and can't decide which I like best, so different people can make me different versions.

After I get them, I will email each of the makers a little blurb to put on your CV or in your sig or whatever.

[Qingdai]

I made soil out of kitchen garbage and lawn clippings.

Well, I turned over and emptied my two compost bins, then constructed a cardboard door for the third. Three wheelbarrows of new compost is sitting on 3 out of my 4 garden boxes.

[Gonzo]

lisarea! It's February! :bump:

Are you winning? Am I losing? Are we tied!?

I'ma make doubley today just to make sure it's one of those things. :brainstorm:

[lisarea]

I almost sort of forgot that yesterday and we had people over last night I had to cook for, but I powered through, stayed up late and knit a washcloth.

I haven't decided what I'm making today yet, but I AM IN.

[Gonzo]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=53&pictureid=589

1 Point - Melted Crayon Wax Glass Bottle

[Qingdai]

I bottled my beer yesterday. Point and match!

[lisarea]

Fingerless gloves from an old sweater.

They suck a lot, and I'm probably going to do a lot more tweaks to them, but they already count technically.

[Ymir's blood]

Loogie.
-1 point

[Lauri D]

I had a sudden inspiration whilst making guacamole...

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs900.ash1/180853_1701493349912_1615295838_1581536_1633768_n.jpg

His new hat is made from half of an avocado skin and a miniature daisy I found growing in a non-snowy area!

[lisarea]

i made another dishcloth yesterday lol

[BrotherMan]

Someone should make a new thrad. "Make something DIFFERENT every week Contest."

[lisarea]

ALRIGHT SHITHEELS ANTONIO BANDERAS REFRIGERATOR MAGNET.

For the past several years, Matlock and I have gotten The Little Muffin some different Antonio Banderas branded colognes for Christmas because it is such a hilarious lol to do that. Then, every year, TLM takes out the cologne and gifts me with the box for a second round of knee-slapping; and I in turn take the box, cut out the picture of Antonio Banderas, glue it to a magnet backing, and put it on the refrigerator for everyone's gut busting larfs. Except this year, I forgot to do it until TODAY. WHICH I DID. IT. TODAY.

Not the kind of thing some old Mary Worth would make at all, nosiree!

[Demimonde]

I suck, even with being snowed in the only thing I have been able to make is hangovers.

I am going to try to catch up, but I am a lazy lazy slug.

[lisarea]

Because I inadvertently taunted Matlock yesterday (he saw me posting the instructions for eggplant pizza, and got really happy, then I didn't say until the end that I didn't have the crap for it), I made eggplant and feta pizza, which I've already decided that making a normal dinner where I throw things in a pot and stir it around doesn't count, but I had to throw things in a pot and stir it around to make the sauce, THEN ALSO MAKE THE DOUGH AND THEN PUT IT ALL TOGETHER AND BAKE IT so that counts.

I also made a really big sentence, so TWO THINGS.

[LadyShea]

I was watching Gandhi last night and he was always spinning on a little wooden spinning wheel thing that he, apparently, invented (http://markshep.com/nonviolence/Charkha.html). They never showed him with a loom so I assume others did the weaving. It intrigued me.

I am sure that, today, it's more expensive to make homespun than it is to buy cloth, but it might be neat to try to make a cigar box charkha (http://www.spinningdaily.com/media/p/59.aspx). I don't mean me, of course, but you know, someone else who has long cold winters

[Chris Porter]

I made order out of chaos today.


That makes me god, and I win, yes?

[lisarea]

I am going to make a new batch of deodorant because I'm running low because of how smelly and terrible of a person I am.

[Ymir's blood]

I wasn't going to say anything, but...

[Gonzo]

I did a couple pencil sketches... :shiftier:

[LadyShea]

I made a Superbowl party.

[Pinecone]

I made brownies which doesn't count EXCEPT it required a double boiler thing which I didn't have so I put a metal mixing bowl on a pot of boiling water and it worked so what DOES count is that I made DO!!

[lisarea]

I forgot I had to cook dinner for extra people today, so I had to make a bunch of dinners, BUT I STILL MADE another refrigerator magnet, from a picture of a worried looking pibble we got in some junk mail today.

[Qingdai]

Crap, I'm falling behind again. I have to make some sort of savory pie or cake for a pot luck, would that count?

Savory pie :shudder:

[Demimonde]

In your case Qing, making a pie would count. :p

[lisarea]

A pie would definitely count.

Also, really anything you want to count can. Like, if every day, you made a post claiming to have satisfied the conditions of the thing a day, it'd count. I might end up resorting to that one of these days.

[lisarea]

That NYT no-knead bread. I kinda burned it.

[teasasue]

I am in the process of making my mom a blanket, here are a couple of pics.


http://i52.tinypic.com/14t1lhl.jpg
this is the front

http://i52.tinypic.com/2i91itj.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/2n74h0p.jpg
this is what the back will look like

http://i51.tinypic.com/2mpbt6u.jpg


I will post more when I am done

[lisarea]

OK, just FYI I am not bailing, but I am possibly cheating a little bit.

I am making a pretty big pillow cover that counts for at least the last two days because it is MANY TIMES LARGER than more dishcloths; then today, I made a big batch of Colorado style green chili, which was equal to dinner + two big buckets of it for later, +++ enough fork shredded pork put up for another batch, so that also counts.

As bonus, I came up with that if you first fry up some polenta, put it on a plate, then put leftover eggplant sauce in the same pan, heat that up, then poach an egg in it and serve it on top of the fried polenta it's really good and ONE DIRTY PAN IS ALL. So I kind of invented that also, which I think should count, which would actually put me ahead of the game instead of totally abandoning it like you jerks probably thought!

[Gonzo]

I haven't quit, I just gave up on winning.

I made a pan of mix and stir brownies in about 10 minutes of work. :cheer: me.

[LadyShea]

We made green chili last week. Nobody outside of Colorado seems to know what it is. They try green enchilada sauce, green tomatilla sauce, etc.

Also they don't sell Stokes green chili in the last two states I've lived in...in CO we always had a can on hand for emergencies and eggs.

I am designing covers for my camper cushions, though it will be awhile before I can actually make them

[Sonoma Bear]

I haven't quit, I just gave up on winning.

I made a pan of mix and stir brownies in about 10 minutes of work. :cheer: me.

Geez, it takes me longer than that to just score the marijuana! :D

[lisarea]

We made green chili last week. Nobody outside of Colorado seems to know what it is.

ALSO NEW MEXICO DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT?

[LadyShea]

Like I knew that New Mexican Mexicans eat green chili! Nevada Mexicans didn't, so I thought it was a Colorado thing! Gawd you're naggy.

The only thing I knowingly got from New Mexico is Pinon nuts.

[lisarea]

HOOO BOY! I think that today, I am going to count that I am MAKING a clean new telephone. I got a two-tone 2702BM Princess today, and it is...wait for it...TOUCH TONE DIAL. WITH TWELVE BUTTONS.

However, it is just coated with black humangrease, including the cord, and it is going to take me all night to clean it off, so it counts. I am making it a usable phone. Also, we are going to have to learn how to use these newfangled pushybuttons just like the modern youth of today!

[BrotherMan]

:faint:

[LadyShea]

The teal frilly valance curtains around the top of the camper have GOT TO GO! Something needs to be there to cover the edges, but not these. And, they stapled them directly to the ceiling. Who does that?

So, while the menfolk are fixing the mechanical and wood parts, I need to design a new valance, and a system to hang it that isn't stapling it directly to the camper. I am thinking Velcro, but not sure that's the best solution either.

[Demimonde]

I vote snaps and a glue gun.

[lisarea]

I need a picture of these valances because I don't understand what it means like about edges and being stapled to the ceiling and stuff. It sounds like something out of Eraserhead.

[LadyShea]

These are not my camper, but similar enough. My valance is the same color and fabric, but instead of being simple and straight they have a ruffle detail! And they have mildew stains because they aren't removable. This is the deep humid South, I need to be able to wash and dry them. My camper however has all the same fabrics, flooring, and finishes so any other ideas are welcome. Like, I am considering replacing the wood grain paneling. It's all 1/8 inch panels, so I could put most any finish in there.

http://www.motorhomeclassifieds.com/images/700/162739/3_4.jpg
http://www.motorhomeclassifieds.com/images/700/162739/6_4.jpg

[lisarea]

Yeah, that really is some straight up Eraserhead shit. That bed even kind of looks like the stage in the radiator.

I don't even know what to tell you.

JK! I think the hooks and eyes or grommets and clips, and your mom sews the valances for you.

Oh, and I am still p. much making stuff every day, but just assume that every time I don't tell you what, it's because it's something really gross and embarrassing like a pessary or a poop sculpture or something.

[LadyShea]

I don't know anything about Eraserhead...it's a camper, FFS. You act like it's some unheard of secret spacecraft.

[erimir]

There needs to be more bedazzling ITT

[lisarea]

I CHOPPED A PILLOW IN HALF SO THAT NOW IT IS TWO PILLOWS.

[LadyShea]

Why would you do that pea? Do you not have enough pillows? For some reason I have pillows everywhere.

I put two pillows together to make one pillow because down gets too squishy.

[lisarea]

BECAUSE I HAVE TO MAKE SOMETHING EVERY. DAY.

But for reals, I have a ton of those cheap flat bedpillows, and I needed some throw pillows because I got some pretty little silk covers at the thrift store today, so I actually in secret chopped TWO bedpillows in half and then doubled them to become throw pillows. Don't tell I did two today, though, because I might count the second one on another day.

[LadyShea]

Don't tell who pea? You are imposing this crazy on YOURSELF! Fight the Power!

[BrotherMan]

Okay, lisapea. You've had your laugh, NOW CUT IT OUT (http://imgur.com/TdI7E).

[BrotherMan]

After so much incessant hounding of lisa "open source" pea, I am slowly being drawn to the dark side. Behold, the thing I made this week! LOVE IT AND DESPAIR.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/outersanctum/IMAG0003.jpg

[lisarea]

SO COOL but what is it for? To hold your cellular telephone?

[BrotherMan]

Indeedy it is, pea. I shamelessly copied it from other hacksters of the online variety.

[Ymir's blood]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7419&stc=1&d=1298673835

[Chris Porter]

Indeedy it is, pea. I shamelessly copied it from other hacksters of the online variety.

How is that working out? Pretty steady, not too prone to movement?, I've seen that hack, and thought it was pretty damn clever.

[vremya]

I made a mess in the living room. Does that count?

Today's project is to figure out how to knit socks from the toe up, even if it makes me insane.

lisapea, can you throw a bunch of green chilies in a box and mail it to me? I can't find good Hatch chili out here.

[BrotherMan]

Indeedy it is, pea. I shamelessly copied it from other hacksters of the online variety.

How is that working out? Pretty steady, not too prone to movement?, I've seen that hack, and thought it was pretty damn clever.

With normal inertia there's nothing to worry about. Emergency maneuvers on the other hand could be problematic. At least with the way the hack stands now.

Because of the angle of my dashboard the large binder clip doesn't grip the vent as well as it should and would slide off just sitting there. I daisy chained a small clip to the larger one and that holds for normal conditions well enough. I would add some kind of grippy agent between the clip and the vent. In my case, I'd also add a grippy agent for the large binder clip to grab onto the handle of the smaller one - that's a definite weak point in my design.

The same holds true for the holding part of the device. In the hackster's original design he used nylon or some other small rope that would both cushion (so as not to scratch your precious) and provide some grip. I didn't have anything like that so I started with strips of duct tape then added rubber bands. The weakness here is the rubber bands used to provide reverse tension. (The handles want to spread open.) I used two fairly thin rubber bands. I'd look for stronger ones that could provide a better grabbing ability here.

My first placement was at the bottom of the vent. But the steering wheel blocked the view of the device, which was no good if using the GPS, or if I had to manipulate the screen for something. Moving it to the top makes it visible, and again because of the angle of the dash, it also provides some support and stability.

[LadyShea]

I made my yard prettier. I moved a bunch of lantanas and cut down an oak sapling. Oh and I made fireants dead

Hubby and his dad are doing a craft booth at an upcoming festival, and mom and I are discussing making firestarters to sell there

[ceptimus]

I would add some kind of grippy agent between the clip and the vent. In my case, I'd also add a grippy agent for the large binder clip to grab onto the handle of the smaller one - that's a definite weak point in my design.

Unfortunately no such agent is available :sadno: In a better brighter world there might be such a thing and it would probably be called Sugru, however this world is but a veil of tears. :tear:

[Qingdai]

I think that's "vale of tears" but for the life of me, I can't figure out what that might mean.

Oh, zoink!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_of_tears

A valley of tears would be much harder to cross than a veil of tears.

[Demimonde]

Two tips for Bro: the best rubber bands for traction hacking are the wide ones you find on the stalks of broccolli crowns. They are about half an inch wide and two inches in diameter. Also great for slipping around a remote so it won't slide off the arm of your chair. Never in my childhood was the remote free of one.

Second, try coating the tips of the bull nose clips with rubber cement and letting them air dry in the open position. Then attach them. This is a dry mount adhesive which should work in heat and cold and won't hurt your vent.

[JoeP]

Oddly, in grippy agent - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?q=grippy%20agent) the first hit is for videos. We are only the second.

[Ymir's blood]

I use broccoli bands for securing my razor to its case while traveling as well.

[Ymir's blood]

I think that's "vale of tears" but for the life of me, I can't figure out what that might mean.

Oh, zoink!

Vale of tears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_of_tears)

A valley of tears would be much harder to cross than a veil of tears.
While 'vale' is the correct word, 'veil' has a useful meaning as well. Mourning and grief have a way of filtering what our brain perceives, accentuating the negative things in our lives. That sensory bias could very aptly be described as a 'veil of tears' that distorts all that we see through it.

[Pinecone]

I love the purple vegetable bands and always save them. They are my very favorite rubberbands in the whole world. I've got a set of them in the art room to hold my sleeves up out of the artsy stuff I make, otherwise I just hoard them for normal rubber band purposes.

[BrotherMan]

Here's my modifications, complete with vegetable rubber band and grippy agent(s).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/outersanctum/modded.jpg

[Stephen Maturin]

nm

[ceptimus]

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/pizzaglider/PizzaGlider6.jpg


I finally got around to test flying this radio controlled version tonight. I know, I know... I've been busy with other stuff. :glare:

First flight was an uncontrolled loop from the launch followed by a crash, but with no damage. After adjusting the controls and moving the battery forward a bit, the second flight was a dive into the ground knocking off the fin.

However, the rest of the machine was undamaged. The reason the fin got knocked off was the battery flying forward when the plane hit the ground, so I've now fitted two smaller fins, one either side of the battery. Hopefully now if I have another 'arrival' the battery can fly off without hitting anything.

I shall try another test flight tomorrow evening, weather permitting. :eager:

[Pinecone]

Oooooooooooohhhh....lordy Paw. Put up the breakables ... he's a gonna try run'n that contraption of his tomorry.

[irukandji]

i spent the afternoon cutting old old carpet up
to haul it out of the living space in one of the
outbuildings, the first real start on what i have
come to call "the project of 1000 cuts", a pretty
ambitious 3 year plan to renovate, remodel and
repurpose elements of this leviathan property

phase I is to make the smaller living space more
formalized as an apartment and move out of the
4+ bedroom house and start renovation, largely
painting, carpet removal for laminate flooring, a
little bit of wiring for new fixtures, yada yada
projects that i can muddle through while living
in a different building that isnt as expensive to
heat through the winters....

so.... i made a mess and am right proud of it!


oh, and i started a blog as kind of an archive
of activity and progress.... a diary so to speak

[ceptimus]

It took about eight test flights ending in minor crashes to trim it out. Turns out the centre of gravity needed to be way further forward on the radio control version compared to the glider :shrug:

The nose got a bit crumpled during the test flights, but I was able to carry on. The eighth flight was going well till I tried a few stunts which caused the battery (held on with sticky tape) to break loose and remain attached just by the wires. That made it go totally out of control and it came down like a Catherine wheel but again without damage.

The ninth flight lasted about 5 minutes gently flying around till the motor on the weakened nose came loose and I had to land.

So I just have to re-glue the nose plate and make a better way of restraining the battery (now I know where it has to go to get the balance right). Then it should be ready for regular flying.

:radioplane:

[Chris Porter]

i spent the afternoon cutting old old carpet up
to haul it out of the living space in one of the
outbuildings, the first real start on what i have
come to call "the project of 1000 cuts", a pretty
ambitious 3 year plan to renovate, remodel and
repurpose elements of this leviathan property

phase I is to make the smaller living space more
formalized as an apartment and move out of the
4+ bedroom house and start renovation, largely
painting, carpet removal for laminate flooring, a
little bit of wiring for new fixtures, yada yada
projects that i can muddle through while living
in a different building that isnt as expensive to
heat through the winters....

so.... i made a mess and am right proud of it!


oh, and i started a blog as kind of an archive
of activity and progress.... a diary so to speak



I would very much like to see this renovation blog, as I keep a small folder of home improvement blogs and sites to goad me into my home renovations.

[Qingdai]

I win this week. I made gooseberry jam for the first time. It doesn't need pectin.

Gooseberry saw flies attacked my bushes, but they had three and a half cups of not very ripe berries on them. I figured while I was out smashing caterpillars I would pick the berries. I added a bit of strawberries and raspberries boiled with sugar and wham. I've got jam setting, or if it doesn't I've got syrup canned and ready to go.

[Ymir's blood]

Is that what you made gooseberry jam from, gooseberry saw flies?

[Qingdai]

You wish! :santathrust:

[Chris Porter]

I made a half door to the basement this weekend.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/7/5/3/20110711-basement-half-door-sm_thumb.jpg (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/showimage.php?i=7488&c=member&imageuser=753)

Also, too, I finished up installing the baseboards in the kitchen on Saturday.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/7/5/3/20110711-kitchen-baseboards-sm_thumb.jpg (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/showimage.php?i=7489&c=member&imageuser=753)

[BrotherMan]

I can't help but imagine a terrible "forgot the half door was there" accident wherein you will never be heard from again. :worry:

[Chris Porter]

I too do the imagining awful stuff, but in this case, it's my now-frail father loosing his balance at the top of the stairs and falling to the basement. That's why I made the door swing out into the hall, and put door stop-blocks on the open side, so it can't open up and dump people down the stairs. You can lose your balance in the short hallway, but you'll just be dumped on your tush rather than fall down the stairs. Also, now the future dog and cat can't get down the stairs, either, unless the cat decides to jump over the top of it. Let's all hope they aren't that interested in that. The half door is above my waist, and my sister's, so we can't lean over and fall.

Goodness, but I've been stewing about this issue for a while. While I won't get it sanded and painted for a while, at least it's here and presentable enough for company.

Due to the nature of the basement opening, a full door would not have worked-there is no room for a full door sill.

[Ensign Steve]

I don't know if this counts as making something, but my agenda cover was raggedy and falling apart, so I went and reinforced it with regular and hot pink duct tape.

I'm going to hit Michael's after school today and get supplies for my next thing(s).

[LadyShea]

Kiddo and I made 6 Tie Dyed T-shirts on Sunday. We bought the classic color set of Red/Blue/Yellow and through, er, creative experimental mixing (No it wasn't a 5 year old randomly squirting dye! It was all purposeful and stuff) ended up with one Earthy toned shirt (lots of orange, green, and sort of a wine color), that ended up being my favorite.

[Janet]

Does food count? I made rugelach for the first time. I'm told by the experts at work that I got the taste and texture perfect but it didn't look like the "old Jewish ladies" make it.

[Qingdai]

I think everything counts.

Tonight I went over to a friend's house and we made Kimchi together.

This is what we did:

Korean recipes: Easy kimchi - Maangchi.com (http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/easy-kimchi)

Only no leek and yes, we bought squid instead of keeping it in the fridge for a week.

"Only takes 2 hours because I'm a really fast worker" so true that.

[erimir]

In that case, last week I made banana ice cream with bits of chocolate covered toffee in it.

[thedoc]

On Mon. and Tue. I was running wires from the basement to the attic for outlets and lights in a couple of extra rooms there, also ran the wires for all the lights and outlets. Tue. and Wed. I also instaled the outlets and light switches, and one celing light fixture. Didn't hook anything up to the breaker box yet, I want to get it all in so I can test it. The rest of my time this week was spent taking care of 2 of my grandchildren, and taking my son-in-law to work and back. My Daughter is working and going to school and she and the 2 children live with us now, So I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren, mostly feeding them, the 5 year old is always hungry, the 21 month old seems to go thru a lot of diapers, probably just my imagination. I thought she was going to be easy to potty train, because a couple of times she would pat her diaper before she soaked it, but it isn't consistant yet, just wishful thinking.

[wildernesse]

I made my brother a pound cake for his birthday and mailed it to him. Then I fretted about having mailed a cake non-overnight (I froze it first, because I think pound cakes are better that way and that it would keep better in the mail), and what if he doesn't even like pound cake.

But! He just called and sounds like the cake was a nice surprise and still edible. He also thought I had lost my mind if I thought he didn't like pound cake.

Today, I am going to experiment with crocheting bookmarks to mail with birthday cards.

[Crumb]

Made these over the weekend with some help from the monkey.

7832

They are Decktet tokens. 20 of each of the six Decktet suits.

For more info: The Decktet (http://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/decktet/)

[Gonzo]

I have a complete comic book script written for the first issue of the series, have edited it once so far, and have begun drawing out story board pages.

[Crumb]

:coolness: What's it about?

[Gonzo]

Wrestling. :D

[lisarea]

When do we get our ebook?

[Gonzo]

Geez, I don't know since we've never done this before. :chin: It's a two guy operation, so it depends on how much time we have to collaborate and how we divide up the work. I would like to make it internet accessible when it's finished, though. It's much cheaper than printing it out.

[thedoc]

I've been putting up wall board for the extra rooms, I'm useing masonite that is painted white to start, but for the walls I'm giving them a coat of sky blue. In my grandaughters room I left some patches of the white show through that look like clouds. Makes it nice for a 2 year old's room. I've been laying the pannels out flat on the floor and painting them there, that way there are no runs, but with the wet weather it is taking longer to dry and slowing the project down. We painted the floor of the rooms last Sun. and had to wait for that to dry before I could put up the wall boards.

[JoeP]

Wrestling. :D

It's a two guy operation

:nowai:

[Doctor X]

:orly:



www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-9qZ4Zs6Ys

--J.D.

[Qingdai]

I made sun dried tomatoes and prunes (AKA dried Italian plums), which was the answer to, "WTF do I do with three pounds of cherry tomatoes?"

The coolest part is that I made them in my friends hand made solar food dehydrator. The sad part is I didn't put them out until it was no longer summer and had to take them inside and use the emergency back up light bulb to get them hot enough to actually dry this week.

[Ymir's blood]

"WTF do I do with three pounds of cherry tomatoes?"A catapult would be even better. :heckled:

[Qingdai]

Cherry tomatoes, really tiny catapult. Do you think Legos™ would be the way to go?

[Flying Monkey]

"the monkey?!" Pfft!

They are even double sided. =)

I made the dryer spin round and round with the touch of a button, does that count?

Made these over the weekend with some help from the monkey.

7832

They are Decktet tokens. 20 of each of the six Decktet suits.

For more info: The Decktet (http://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/decktet/)

[thedoc]

I made the dryer spin round and round with the touch of a button, does that count?



I think that's really great, but I think you should rest a bit before you attempt any other major accomplishments.

[Ymir's blood]

Cherry tomatoes, really tiny catapult. Do you think Legos™ would be the way to go?Nah, just pile all of them in the cup and let fly. Like grapeshot but with tomatoes.

[ceptimus]

This week, I've designed and built a radio controlled model plane out of correx or corroplast or corroflute or whatever the damn stuff is called in your country - it's that twin-wall fluted plastic sheet that house 'for sale' signs and other advertising boards are often made from.

I shall see if it flies tomorrow. I'll try to snap a few pics of it first, in case this is also its last outing.

It looks like crap anyhow, and is rather too heavy, so I'm not expecting great things - now I know why toy planes are usually made out of balsa wood and carbon fibre and stuff, rather than this horrible plastic material.

[ceptimus]

Well, it flew much better than I expected. It is even capable of prolonged knife-edge flight (this is where the plane does a quarter-roll, so that the wings are vertical, and then flies around using the fuselage side area as a kind of primitive wing to hold the plane up).

It has a peculiar trait where at very high speed, in a full-power dive, the ailerons start to work in the opposite direction so that commanding the plane to roll left actually makes it roll right. :egad: The first couple of times this happened, I thought it was due to radio interference or similar. However, it was so repeatable that it can't be that - I think the correx must be flexing under high load so that the wing twists the opposite direction to the ailerons and overrides their effect - quite a fun feature, once you get used to it!

Here is a photo of the model prior to its first flight. I did warn you that it looks like crap!

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/correx.jpg

[Crumb]

I created a prototype for a game of rover exploration of Io (a moon of Jupiter). It is a tile laying/modular board/area control game. It has some potential. :)

[Qingdai]

Cep! You're much younger than I pictured.

Yesterday I got together with some kids and made fake cardboard trees and bushes and painted them. I'll post a picture after we put them up.

[Gonzo]

It would be sort of badass if ceptimus was really a boy genius plotting to take over the world with remote controlled toy airplanes.

[SR71]

Well, it flew much better than I expected. It is even capable of prolonged knife-edge flight (this is where the plane does a quarter-roll, so that the wings are vertical, and then flies around using the fuselage side area as a kind of primitive wing to hold the plane up).

It has a peculiar trait where at very high speed, in a full-power dive, the ailerons start to work in the opposite direction so that commanding the plane to roll left actually makes it roll right. :egad: The first couple of times this happened, I thought it was due to radio interference or similar. However, it was so repeatable that it can't be that - I think the correx must be flexing under high load so that the wing twists the opposite direction to the ailerons and overrides their effect - quite a fun feature, once you get used to it!

Here is a photo of the model prior to its first flight. I did warn you that it looks like crap!

http://ceptimus.co.uk/freethought/images/correx.jpg

Groovy man, a fellow toy airplaner! May your fleet be fruitful and multiply. :wave:

[Qingdai]

Our cardboard shark attack in the bio-swale.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/1/6/5/0/100_0694.jpg

Also beware of lurking pedo- I mean polar bears.

Plus sad cartoonish bushes predominate the local landscape.
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/1/6/5/0/100_0702.jpg

[Ymir's blood]

You should do a Pedobear cutout and put it behind the fake bushes.

[SR71]

Me and the girl run this flea market stall on the weekends. I made all the stuff that isn't a tent or merchandise. She makes some of the merchandise. We bring mad hats and cheap jewelry to the market for less than WalMart, and still pay all the taxes, plus keep a fair part for ourselves. Last week I made a new display rack for animal face hats.

[Crumb]

I set up a yucata.de development environment on my computer. Does that count?

:pleased:

[Corona688]

My inner two-year-old demanded a giant trilobite with a thagomizer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer).

It's not a trilobite anymore, more of a mussel-turtle-slug, but I am satisfied with the result.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7967&stc=1&d=1319418513

Made with Blender.

[JoeP]

It's not a trilobite anymore, more of a mussel-turtle-slug

Um ... it's more of a kiwi.

http://kiwifoundation.org.nz/image/kiwi-011.jpg

:P

[Gonzo]

More :boar:ing news about me: I spent the whole day drawing concept stuff for another comic book which a friend of my bro has written (with a co-author) and asked us both to do all the art. He is really enthusiastic about it and a well educated and talented writer. I am psyched about the script so far.

[JoeP]

Post samples! If it's not super-sekrit.

[Gonzo]

I might later when I'm further along. Just designing characters right now... have to get his approval on them and see which we are using. His first task given to me was to design the leading female characters without any cliché within the set bounds of his descriptions. There is male/female protagonist and male/female antagonist so while the evil lady is described as 'stunningly beautiful' I had to find a way to make her look unconventional. I feel like I succeeded for the most part, though I might redesign her clothing. She is a little too burlesque, but she isn't really human just some hellish entity out to deceive. The protagonist had to look like a real woman does, none of that anorexic or half naked combat clothing stuff and she's a p. badass duel pistol wielder out for vengeance for the murder of her family. Def. my favorite character so far.

[Chris Porter]

I haven't had time to make a desk, and I decided I really wanted a standing desk. But adjustable. But not expensive. So I've been putting it off and putting it off, because the cost of an adjustable desk is prohibitive.

Then I saw this video on youtube, and got this idea:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/7/5/3/frenchcleatwalldesk.jpg

An adjustable desk designed to work on french cleats.

Will be specing out the real details and purchasing materials after I put new brake pads on the truck.

[JoeP]

Cool! Would you have to take everything off the desk to adjust it? - Because there's no mechanism to keep it level while adjusting?

[Chris Porter]

Cool! Would you have to take everything off the desk to adjust it? - Because there's no mechanism to keep it level while adjusting?

Yes, I think so, except the stuff in the cubbies of the desk and boxes. But it's only 4 feet wide, so it won't be that heavy to lift. Also, I normally keep a very spare desk to begin with. The monitors would be shifted first, if in sitting mode, then the desk brought up to them at the standing mode. The opposite for shifting the desk back down to sitting mode.

Because I don't keep much on my desk to begin with, monitors, speakers, external hard drive, phone, keyboard and mouse, I really don't need a full 6 foot long table. I do need room for working with my digitizing tablet, and occasion flocks of paper, but that is not something I keep on my desk at all times.

[thedoc]

Cool! Would you have to take everything off the desk to adjust it? - Because there's no mechanism to keep it level while adjusting?

Yes, I think so, except the stuff in the cubbies of the desk and boxes. But it's only 4 feet wide, so it won't be that heavy to lift. Also, I normally keep a very spare desk to begin with. The monitors would be shifted first, if in sitting mode, then the desk brought up to them at the standing mode. The opposite for shifting the desk back down to sitting mode.

Because I don't keep much on my desk to begin with, monitors, speakers, external hard drive, phone, keyboard and mouse, I really don't need a full 6 foot long table. I do need room for working with my digitizing tablet, and occasion flocks of paper, but that is not something I keep on my desk at all times.


I think you should go hi-tech (sort of a Tim Allen aproach) and install either hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders to raise and lower the components. Also could you detail what you mean by 'French Cleats' I'm probably just not up to the current terminology, but I have an idea what you might mean. I've done more carpentry than cabnet work, and more model-building than either, but lately chasing the grandkids precludes any thing else.

[Janet]

Me and the girl run this flea market stall on the weekends. I made all the stuff that isn't a tent or merchandise. She makes some of the merchandise. We bring mad hats and cheap jewelry to the market for less than WalMart, and still pay all the taxes, plus keep a fair part for ourselves. Last week I made a new display rack for animal face hats.

Do you have penguin hats? And is the lining really soft? My best friend said that's what I should get her daughter for her birthday.