Shaper Origin

Shaper Origin - How It Works
This could be very cool. Routers are used freehand to do things like carve script letters into a wood plank, but for any kind of accurate work you need guide or a template. This thing allows you to do precise work with nothing but a paper pattern. I don't know how precise it can be, but it seems like it could be accurate enough for most wood working projects.
    It is not available yet, and it's quite a bit more expensive that a regular router, but if you are actually making stuff that requires making patterns first, this might be just the ticket.

Rain, rain, go away

Greenhouse constructed of PVC pipe and plastic film

We have an 'event' coming up and now it looks like rain. I'm thinking that we should have a backup plan, you know, just in case our luck should turn sour and it does rain. It's not going to rain, but you know, just in case.
    So I'm thinking a giant tent made out of cheap plastic materials would be just the ticket. Looking around I found this picture on Simplifed Building, who seem to have some good ideas.
    As to whether I actually build such a structure or not is still up in the air.  It would run about $500 for materials and cover an area about 700 square feet. But when do you set it up? It would take at least a day to set it up, so it would have to be set up the day before. If I am seriously considering this I should go buy the materials tomorrow, just I have them on hand. Urk. $500. If I don't use them, I should be able to return them. Still, kind of a big commitment. And if it does rain, would something like this suffice? Fret, worry and concern seem to be mine.

Frickin' Lasers!

Laser Cleaning: HIGH POWER 1000W!
I was watching some random YouTube videos yesterday and in a couple of them, in an adjunct to the main action, over in the background, someone was cleaning rust off of steel by pointing a Star Trek phaser at it. (Wait, what? Shhh, never mind how cool that is, I tell myself to stick with the main story). Today this video shows up in my inbox via R&T. They are expensive now, but I hear Apple is coming out with one next year and after that I fully expect the Russians to jump in with both of their great big booted feet. In ten years they'll be selling them out of Harbor Freight for $10.
    Lasers can be 30% efficient, so to get 1KW of output, you are going to need 3KW of power, which works out to about 30 Amperes of 110VAC household current. So you should be able to run it if you combined a couple of your big appliance circuits.
P-Laser website.

Sammy's Linto

In response to my post about the Harley Davidson Sprint, Stu sent me this picture.

Sammy's Linto
Via Stu

Sammy is Sammy Miller, champion motorcycle racer. The Linto is a 500 cc Grand Prix racer from 1969. It used the top end from two single cylinder engines and grafted them onto a custom crankcase. It was a competitor. 

Linto Engine

Lots of pictures of this bike out on the net. I collected a few of them into one page. Only a handful of these bikes were made. At what point do all the bits from all the images outweigh the original machine?

Fiber Fix

Redneck Drives a Duct Tape Car off a Cliff!
I think this is a real ad, but it's just so far out there I had to share. It's so manly it almost makes me want to go out and buy some.

BakraOnline.pk

Big Eid ul Adha Animals

Got a comment on an old post. Comment didn't say much, but given the topic (hex arithmetic in Google spreadsheets), I wondered who it was. Silly me. It was spam for a Pakistani website. I think their text blurb says it best:

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I always wondered what became of the bodies of those sacrificed to the gods. In ancient times I suspect they were left for the gods or their minions to do with as they saw fit, which was probably for the best, being as you don't wanna be messin' with gods, being as they are all godlike and shit.
    But once you have cities and some level of civilization, you probably don't want to leave dead bodies lying around. Maybe burn them or donate them to the poor. Perhaps that was what the novices did. While the upper echelon of the priests were making nice with the rich, their underlings were supplementing their meager earnings by shoveling the bodies out the back door onto meat wagons.
    Anyway, it looks the bodies of these sacrificial animals are going to the poor.

One Ad Leads to Another

Burberry Ad

Looking for the Gucci ad, this one caught my eye. That is all.