Woodworking – Page 28 – Stochastic Geometry

26 November 2024

Listening to rte cover #ge24 and the amount of sports style coverage explains a lot about why things are so shit and why almost a third of the country will vote for bunch of kneecapping carbombers.

Small hint lads, the election candidates get one vote each, not ten thousand so their antics on the campaign trail do not generate votes. There is no "one weird trick' to get votes. You don't manage the vote. You certainly can think of voters as sheep but there's a word for that.

#mastodaoine

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25 November 2024

@gvwilson Greg, I found an old downloaded copy of the vimeo talk from 2010 that went missing, I've put it up on youtube as I don't have a site that would withstand the downloads if I just uploaded it to a blog site.
https://youtu.be/7Mxw5ShGGJE

I'm guessing this should reside in _your_ youtube channel or other site, let me know when you've grabbed it and I'll take it offline from mine.

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25 November 2024

I'm in the top 3% of earners in Ireland (I'd love to say because of hard work as there was a lot of that, but the amount of sheer blind luck and Other People's hard work and sacrifice is too high for me to believe anything other than Elizabeth Warren's take on "self-made men" here).

Next year, the median price of a house within ICBM range of work will climb more than I can save in a year.

If that's the top 3%'s experience, what the fuck is the plan for when the inevitable rioting starts?

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24 November 2024

@gvwilson BTW Greg, I just found a copy of your 2010 CUSEC talk "What we actually know about software development and why we believe it's true" buried on an old hard drive; should I reupload it to vimeo to pass it across to you?

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24 November 2024

Holy shit, what the hell happened to goth while I was blinking and aging two decades?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjgYNVe4k4

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Masochism…

Bandsaw Boxes Woodworking

…is deciding to make a batch of bandsaw boxes for your son’s school’s xmas bazaar thingy, while in a shed that’s too small, with a bandsaw that’s not really up to the task, and a sanding arrangement that… well, more on that in a moment.

I mean, I don’t even keep anything other than 4/4 material on hand, thicknessing anything else down to the normal 3/4 width you see in furniture is just too much work by hand (though I do need to get some 8/4 stuff soon for a piece’s legs). So it’s lamination city…

Something is missing….

Ah, there they are. Literally every clamp I have (bar the 5′ cast iron ones that are slowly rusting away outside, accusingly. I’ll get to them this xmas and sort them out, honest).… Read the rest

Mark Dennehy in 19 Nov 2017 No Comments

Ebonising…

Bandsaw Boxes Finishing Woodworking

Before:

During:
After:
No paint, no stains, no inks or dyes.

I used Richard Maguire’s ebonising method – take handful or two of oak shavings off the floor, boil for ten minutes in a saucepan, paint the resulting tea on the piece, sand down the raised grain, repeat 2-3 times. Then take steel wool, soak in vinegar for a week in a jar with a hole in the lid. Now paint the piece with that solution. The tannic acid in the oak, boosted by the tannic acid in the tea, reacts with the iron in the steel wool solution, and turns jet black.

It’s not a bad result, even on a quickly-done test piece that only got two doses of the tea and not much prep work.

… Read the rest

Mark Dennehy in 15 Nov 2017 No Comments

Open box

Bandsaw Boxes Woodworking

The ash bandsaw box is still being finished and this one hasn’t even started the finishing process (I’m going to try ebonising the outside using Richard Maguire’s method and painting the inside with milk paint), but I thought it looked reasonable for a second try:

Finish, fill with jelly beans, give as gift. Sorted.… Read the rest

Mark Dennehy in 12 Nov 2017 No Comments