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« Reply #975 on: June 26, 2011, 07:09:06 pm » |
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Apart from finding the electric fan (30 degrees today...32 tomorrow!) I've finished my two Penny Farthing racers for The Asylum.
Now I'm starting on my bits for Halloween. Yes I know it's a long way off but weekends free are getting in short supply.
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« Reply #976 on: June 26, 2011, 09:44:14 pm » |
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Apart from finding the electric fan (30 degrees today...32 tomorrow!) I've finished my two Penny Farthing racers for The Asylum.
Now I'm starting on my bits for Halloween. Yes I know it's a long way off but weekends free are getting in short supply.
Excellent news on racers. I must get on with mine as we are away for the whole of august and I guess its not allowed to use glueguns on transatlantic airliners |
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So it's every hand to his rope or gun, quick's the word and sharp's the action. After all... Surprise is on our side.
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« Reply #977 on: June 28, 2011, 02:02:31 pm » |
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« Reply #978 on: June 29, 2011, 04:55:19 am » |
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Excuse the poor quality phone image... Leapt around behind this lot for a few hours. WANT. NEED!!!SO. HARD. |
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Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
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« Reply #979 on: June 29, 2011, 10:38:27 am » |
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #980 on: June 29, 2011, 12:21:18 pm » |
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Excuse the poor quality phone image... Leapt around behind this lot for a few hours. AWESOME! I attended a samba workshop last Monday with Raul d'Olivera - I could get into this percussion thing. |
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« Reply #981 on: June 30, 2011, 05:06:11 am » |
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More like the past three days... I did the math on how many hours I've put in the past 3 days, just so see how much I'll be getting paid. Yeah, three days of work, $400+. Let me put that in perspective... When I was working ONE job, I barely cleard $800 A MONTH. So yeah, I think I have been pretty productive... For once, things are looking up for me!  |
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« Reply #982 on: June 30, 2011, 11:20:27 am » |
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Dissertation wordcount: 6,799 (first draft). I'm planning to write around 3,000 words per day- get three drafts done by the middle of August. First draft: me pontificating about the subject. Second draft: actually providing evidence for my pontifications. Third draft: re-wording, cutting down/filling in as appropriate, anything the tutor suggests may be useful.
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« Reply #983 on: June 30, 2011, 04:32:36 pm » |
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Household duties, put food out for the birds (we even get the occasional Woodpecker).
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« Reply #984 on: June 30, 2011, 04:38:16 pm » |
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« Reply #985 on: June 30, 2011, 05:39:30 pm » |
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Stopped some pleasant local scalliwags walking out the Hospital with £2000 worth of Computer equipment and got a load of abuse from them for my efforts, well, at least until the Constabulary turned up and carted them away Major, I applaud you. I hope it was merely verbal abuse, but in any case, well done. Did the Constabulary give them a bit in return? My bit of productivity isn't nearly so interesting: I got up at a reasonable hour (being unemployed will be my undoing, I swear) and stopped neglecting my boat. She now has significantly less water in the bilge, and I want a steam powered bilge bump, so I don't have to bail the poor girl by hand when she has that much water to be moved.  |
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« Reply #986 on: July 01, 2011, 12:09:56 pm » |
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Another day, another 2,000 or so words written- now we're up to a grand total of 10,660 (over half way there! ) The first draft, when finished, should be of the order of 12,000 words. Then I have to go through it critically, add in my evidence and explain the points... I'm confident at this rate I can get two, maybe three redrafts done between now and mid-August. |
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« Reply #987 on: July 01, 2011, 04:42:08 pm » |
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Well today I have made bread rolls, cheese and red pepper pasties, sausage and egg pasties, a chocolate cake and a Victoria sponge. I'm covered in flour and happy |
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« Reply #988 on: July 01, 2011, 06:55:29 pm » |
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Had a long phone call with my mum's social worker today and (fingers crossed) hopefully we can get her moved into a care home closer to me....
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
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« Reply #989 on: July 01, 2011, 08:05:36 pm » |
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Had a long phone call with my mum's social worker today and (fingers crossed) hopefully we can get her moved into a care home closer to me....
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« Reply #990 on: July 01, 2011, 11:10:30 pm » |
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Had a long phone call with my mum's social worker today and (fingers crossed) hopefully we can get her moved into a care home closer to me....
That's potentially brilliant news. All that is now (sadly) behind me but I know how tiring the worry and the travelling becomes, so this sounds as though it will be a great improvement presumably for all concerned. |
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« Reply #991 on: July 02, 2011, 08:29:33 pm » |
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Tomorrow I celebrate my birthday. My birthday is July 6th, but I have it this sunday. So today I started the day with swimming with our 19 month old daughter, Amber. She loves being in the water and can really move around the way she wants to go (with floating arm band thingy's). My parents, who joined us, loved watching her splash around and having fun. After that, Amber went to sleep and I went shopping for chips (crisps), drinks and booze. Then it was time to clean the house. It's been a mess for a while, because my wife is pregnant and finds it hard to move around. My parents helped in cleaning. In order to put everything in place, we first had to do the garage. It was covered with sawdust from making 2 little wooden bikes. I bought a bicycle lift a couple of days ago and fixed it to the garage ceiling. Now my wooden stretched cruiser hangs a meter and a half above the floor. Now, for some strange reason, my back hurts. Did I mention we have a 3 story house? First floor is garage/toilet/guestroom, second is living/kitchen, third is bathroom and 3 bedrooms. So, all groceries have to go upstairs.  Now I'm tired. |
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« Reply #992 on: July 02, 2011, 09:47:59 pm » |
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Feeling absurdly pleased with myself: made a breadboard light-sensitive theremin to be driven by an arduino I made about a year ago. The lovely lads at the Glasgow Electron Club were endlessly helpful and totally non-patronising of my utter ignorance. Amazingly it actually worked first time. I am thrilled.
This is my third theremin, all tiny things and not the sort you can play gracefully or even tunefully but heyho.
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« Reply #993 on: July 03, 2011, 05:44:21 am » |
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Found a local fabric shop that had patterns on sale... A dollar a pop. Will be returning with the wife tomorrow so she can snag up several of them.
Also found a decent price on the Lee Classic Reloader kit for rifle rounds-I hope to be able to grab one in .30-30WIN, would make my life easier.
Aaaaaaaaaand I chemically burned my eye a bit. Nothing major, just glancing chems in the eye, flushed it for a quarter hour, and went on with life... Just bloody burns to open it. Damn ammonia...
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« Reply #994 on: July 03, 2011, 11:40:40 am » |
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Well, that is productive of Wisdom, one hopes.
I haven't yet. But it is only 0630 in the bloody Ack Emma, and it is raining. I do hope to get the garage cleared out more today, with boxes of tools to the Frumious Bandersnatch, some boxes of brass bits and bobs off to the charity shops, and some flailing around with brooms and implements of destruction after that.
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« Reply #995 on: July 03, 2011, 12:59:48 pm » |
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Another day, another 2,000 or so words written- now we're up to a grand total of 10,660 (over half way there! ) The first draft, when finished, should be of the order of 12,000 words. Then I have to go through it critically, add in my evidence and explain the points... I'm confident at this rate I can get two, maybe three redrafts done between now and mid-August. Pardon me dear sir and let me explain myself, I have recently completed a course in a chosen field of study and am awaiting results. This is how my curiosity with your dissertation arose. But to the point. May I ask what sorts of dissertation are you writing? if this of course isn't a secret, and what is the filed you are working in? Would gladly hear more about it since my final year project guideline had a given word count of 10 000 words. Many thanks in advance. As for my productivity for today: sent an email regarding an offer of free marketing for game developers and upcoming game projects, found on linkedin. Corrected little things on my blog, and since today I planned to post Chapter One of my old/new story I am at the moment in the process of creative work. The last one doesn't count though since it hasn't yet been completed  |
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« Reply #996 on: July 04, 2011, 06:43:15 pm » |
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Found out it's actually cheaper to order the brand of workboots I prefer from Amazon -including shipping- than it is to buy them locally. So that's what I did. The catch is I have to wait a few extra days, but that's no big deal. Also ordered a replacement for my aging Razer Copperhead, since the left mousebutton half the time either double clicks or doesn't click at all. Got a new Lachesis incoming. And a new leather punch, since using my fist accomplishes nothing.  |
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« Reply #997 on: July 04, 2011, 08:01:37 pm » |
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Another day, another 2,000 or so words written- now we're up to a grand total of 10,660 (over half way there! ) The first draft, when finished, should be of the order of 12,000 words. Then I have to go through it critically, add in my evidence and explain the points... I'm confident at this rate I can get two, maybe three redrafts done between now and mid-August. Pardon me dear sir and let me explain myself, I have recently completed a course in a chosen field of study and am awaiting results. This is how my curiosity with your dissertation arose. But to the point. May I ask what sorts of dissertation are you writing? if this of course isn't a secret, and what is the filed you are working in? Would gladly hear more about it since my final year project guideline had a given word count of 10 000 words. Many thanks in advance. Not at all I have to write 20,000 words (it's a postgraduate dissertation) concerning London's Victorian railway stations, their historic significance, threats to their existence today and how those threats are being dealt with. I would have probably preferred to writer about the evolution of the Victorian railway station, but as that was more 'architectural history' than 'architectural conservation' it was inappropriate. In hindsight, the history of the conservation of stations (from say 1955 to the present) would probably be an easier topic to write about, but would lack the necessary analysis and inflection- more a case of 'this happened, then this happened, then this happened.' Rather than 'this is what is happening- why?'. The field I happen to be studying in (at the moment at least) is Historic Conservation- think along the lines of the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and you more or less have it- the thing is this dissertation is worth around a quarter of the final grade... we had the opportunity to define our own topic, so it's arguably the case that finding a good essay question that can be answered fully and stylishly within around 20-25,000 words is half the battle. I'm quite happy with mine. I would say I feel confident but the last time that happened I failed... |
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« Reply #998 on: July 04, 2011, 08:16:08 pm » |
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Another day, another 2,000 or so words written- now we're up to a grand total of 10,660 (over half way there! ) The first draft, when finished, should be of the order of 12,000 words. Then I have to go through it critically, add in my evidence and explain the points... I'm confident at this rate I can get two, maybe three redrafts done between now and mid-August. Pardon me dear sir and let me explain myself, I have recently completed a course in a chosen field of study and am awaiting results. This is how my curiosity with your dissertation arose. But to the point. May I ask what sorts of dissertation are you writing? if this of course isn't a secret, and what is the filed you are working in? Would gladly hear more about it since my final year project guideline had a given word count of 10 000 words. Many thanks in advance. Not at all I have to write 20,000 words (it's a postgraduate dissertation) concerning London's Victorian railway stations, their historic significance, threats to their existence today and how those threats are being dealt with. I would have probably preferred to writer about the evolution of the Victorian railway station, but as that was more 'architectural history' than 'architectural conservation' it was inappropriate. In hindsight, the history of the conservation of stations (from say 1955 to the present) would probably be an easier topic to write about, but would lack the necessary analysis and inflection- more a case of 'this happened, then this happened, then this happened.' Rather than 'this is what is happening- why?'. The field I happen to be studying in (at the moment at least) is Historic Conservation- think along the lines of the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and you more or less have it- the thing is this dissertation is worth around a quarter of the final grade... we had the opportunity to define our own topic, so it's arguably the case that finding a good essay question that can be answered fully and stylishly within around 20-25,000 words is half the battle. I'm quite happy with mine. I would say I feel confident but the last time that happened I failed... Thank you for the answer! This reminds me that I often traveled via Darlington train station while moving between my home and university. Indeed an interesting field of study, not to mention it is important in my opinion, to preserve relics of the past which still serve us today As for Darlington station if I'm not mistaken, it was the first trainstation to be erected, correct me if I'm wrong In any case, I wish you success with your dissertation, and may the Cogs be with you |
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« Reply #999 on: July 05, 2011, 07:25:57 am » |
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