I’m not really sure what it is called, but when people combine two words where the last letter of the first word and the first letter of the second word are the same they sometimes just use one letter.
I *HATE* that…
This seems to happen pretty often for software for some reason… I guess someone thinks it is witty or that they are saving tons of money by omitting one letter or something…
“Updatexpert”
It isn’t Updat Expert nor is it Update xpert… Just put the other damned “e” in there!
I guess I’ve never really seen much in the way of performance art that actually impressed me or struck me as real art. I guess everything I’ve seen was just some guy throwing paint at a canvas…where seeing it being made didn’t really add anything… The only performance art I ever really liked was Bob Ross, but I guess that was really more instructional rather than performance… well anyways…
This is f’ing awesome…
Okay the original song from Feist is very catchy and really sticks in my head… but this version from Sesame Street sticks in my head even more than the original one.
1…2…3…4 chickens just back from the shore…
Okay… I always thought that pagodas looked pretty cool, but I don’t think I ever really knew anything beyond the “look” of them.
Turns out that they’re actually pretty interesting. Of the hundreds of pagodas in Japan only 2 are known to have collapsed or fallen over. Many more have been burned down or destroyed, but that doesn’t count!
So their question in this article is why… turns out it is a pretty interesting structure that is really held together (level by level) by gravity and the levels themselves are only held together by loose joints… Then in the middle of the pagoda is something called a “shinbashira” which is apparently a large tree trunk sort of thing that sounds like it serves multiple purposes… 1) provide weight to help gravity hold things together and 2) to counterbalance movements of the different levels…
That’s pretty friggin cool really… now I want to go see one…
Take a minute to read this…it is really pretty cool…
Okay… I found a new site that I’m pretty interested in: Instructables. Basically people come up with ideas and provide some detailed instructions on how to make something. They’ve got a pretty wide variety of stuff though. Some really kooky stuff sometimes, but a lot of actually interesting things for people that like a little DIY.
Instructions on everything from food to home projects, to garden projects, etc… take a look around or keep an eye on their RSS feed just to see what is being posted…
So this one caught my eye… Hungarian Shelves. What a cool idea. Basically I would put a vertical board on every stud across a whole wall, and then put shelves all the way across. Some nice simple notching, no stupid “L” brackets, etc… What a good idea! That is if you have a ton of books I guess.
I have an issue with book shelves… I never have enough of them. I put up what I thought at the time was a ton of shelves… by the time I got my existing books onto the shelves I was already out space and the books have already overflowed into a cheap 2 shelf bookcase (2 deep) and onto the ground in front of the shelves and the nightstand and dresser. I like to read… a lot.
Here is the progression of my issue…
When we first moved in
So then I got these cool sort of end brackets from ikea and made myself what I thought was a ton of space… turns out i just barely fit what I had!
Brand new shelves! Look at all that empty space! Oh.... wait...
And now I’ve gotten even more books so they are piling up by the bookcase
The cup runneth over...
and into another small shelving unit
and over...
and onto my dresser (these are just my most recent ones that haven’t made it to the study yet)
and over!
So this doesn’t even include all of my wife’s books that are on two more 4′ high shelves in our closet… I think the next house will have to have a whole lot more shelves for books. Maybe I should just build a little library in our next house…
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