Category Archives: Arts

Building Bamboo Bicycles and Road Bikes

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin

I recently stumbled upon Bamboo Bicycles. I’ve spent a couple of days investigating this on and off now. There seem to be two major vendors at the moment, both related to the same man. Calfee Design appears to make Bamboo … Continue reading →

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The Albatross Around AOL’s Neck

Posted on July 26, 2011 by admin

Actually that’s a misnomer. But let’s look at digital music, MP3s, digital distribution and ecommerce for a moment. Apple is a $40 bn company, reshaping their OS (Lion) to reflect their mobile devices (originally the iPod). From largest to smallest, … Continue reading →

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Espresso Book Machine

Posted on August 17, 2010 by admin

I’d just come up to Vermont from Texas for a distant cousin’s wedding in Burlington. After unknowingly driving halfway across the (tiny) state in search of the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream factory, we decided to drive to New Hampshire … Continue reading →

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Photography

Posted on April 16, 2010 by admin

Jim Kazanjian

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Customize your car

Posted on September 8, 2009 by admin

Saw this through Livejournal. Livejournal has kind of lost it’s usefulness over time, but the communities are what makes it worth continuing to visit. In addition to the DFW communities, there’s some really good random image groups. I came across … Continue reading →

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Songs

Posted on July 18, 2009 by admin

Well, “songs”. Ashley came over. I finally put my recording equipment to use. That’s “80s Baby” Ashley on Guitar, myself (being drowned out) on Harmonica. I need to buy that harmonica mic already. Plenty more details on our EP, “Basement”, … Continue reading →

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Foxy’s Wooden Guitar Stand

Posted on November 22, 2008 by admin

I had a comment from this guy on my Wooden Guitar Stand post a couple of days ago. It’s certianly refined from my design, but it also involves a lot of tools other than a screwdriver.  A lot of people … Continue reading →

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Make Magazine Critique

Posted on April 17, 2008 by admin

While I think Make Magazine is a pretty cool idea, the production values are about 20% of what they could be. I just finished watching their “first take” of a vacuum forming how to, which ended up being their final … Continue reading →

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Tabs

Posted on February 23, 2008 by admin

Everyone has their favorite collection. Its a pain going somewhere and leaving your music behind. This is mostly for me, but smaller personal collections of tabs online tend to be of much higher quality and better signal to noise ratio. … Continue reading →

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The Fall Season

Posted on September 21, 2007 by admin

So Greys Anatomy S04E00 HDTV XviD-STFU has hit the web, a full week ahead of schedule (air date: 9/27), officially kicking off the .torrent fall TV downloading season. Comcast has recently announced (what slashdot geeks calculate) a 99-150GB/mo download cap. … Continue reading →

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