Archives for the 'True Stories' Category
New Workshop
Published on 14 Dec 2007 at 10:03 pm.
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So, I was complaining about how I was out of room on my workbench and had no real room to expand. Kathy’s response: why not rearrange this stuff like this, do this, and take over the whole other side of the basement instead? Woo hoo!
The last project I did before rearranging was a limberjack, an […]
Insert Cuckoo Clock Sound Effect Here
Published on 9 Aug 2006 at 8:37 am.
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So I was walking to work from the subway this morning when a woman turned to me and said “Excuse me?” Thinking she was going to ask directions, I stopped.
In a Caribbean accent she said, “Did you know that Black people can use a wind… I’m not Black by the way,” she said gesturing to […]
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Satellite Sighting
Published on 20 Jun 2006 at 12:38 pm.
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Saturday night Srini and I were checking out Mars and Saturn. They were very close in the sky - but unfortunately not close enough to take a picture (the NexImage field of view is quite small, about the same as a 5mm eyepiece).
I decided to sketch what I saw instead, and look up the moon […]
Frazetta Close Up
Published on 12 Jun 2006 at 10:35 pm.
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On Saturday Jim and I drove out to East Stroudsburg PA to visit the Frank Frazetta museum.
Frazetta’s been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. I don’t remember when I first became aware of him, but I do vividly remember begging my mom to let me buy “The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta” […]
Well, that sucked.
Published on 25 May 2006 at 4:19 pm.
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Today Kathy and I spent 6 hours on a train - 5 of those stuck in the tunnel between NJ and NYC. Apparently the entire Amtrak system from DC to Boston lost power. We were about 5 minutes from the city when it happened.
I don’t blame the conductors obviously, but NJ Transit / Amtrak / […]
Metal for Old Farts (Rob Zombie at the Nokia Theatre)
Published on 29 Mar 2006 at 12:37 pm.
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The tagline for the show was “VH1 Classic presents Rob Zombie”. VH1? Classic? How old is Rob Zombie? How old am I?!
This was my first time at the Nokia Theatre and I was really impressed. It’s a good medium-sized venue (holds about 2500 I think), with the front general admission standing and the back […]
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(Don’t) Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd
Published on 17 Mar 2006 at 6:37 am.
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Kathy and I went to see the new production of Sweeney Todd. Bleh. Awful.
It was staged in a style I can only describe as Avant Tard.
There was no orchestra - the actors were also the musicians. Clever, right? I guess. But what that means is that every scene has a bunch of people milling around […]
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Trek is Dead, Long Live Trek
Published on 14 Mar 2006 at 8:55 am.
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A lot of Trekky things have happened in the past year… Enterprise was cancelled (woot!), Braga left Trek (WOOT!), and Beer Trek celebrated it’s 10th anniversary on the web (whoa).
Last year Jack and I had planned to turn over management of Beer Trek to a team of like-minded Scots. We knew that it had gotten […]
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Neither Art School Nor Confidential
Published on 13 Mar 2006 at 8:52 am.
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Here’s what I’ve been drawing over the past week or so.
I started with a pencil sketch of a corner of my living room.
Then I tried to recreate the sketch in several different media. Note that I am not talking about just running it through the “watercolor” filter or whatever, which I hate. If you want […]
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Observations
Published on 24 Feb 2006 at 11:57 am.
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Last night we went to the Schommer Astronomical Observatory at Rutgers University. On the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month the observatory is open to the public.
The telescope there is a 20-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector. Unfortunately, according to the guy running the session (a grad student named Libby), someone broke the focusing controls a week […]