| Another vain attempt not to buy things off Etsy |
[May. 11th, 2008|11:29 am] |
I need to get a clock movement with a longer shaft before I can mount the face backing, but this is the basic idea for the clock I've been thinking about making for a long time. Basically a discarded 48 tooth chainring and a used up 12-32 cassette, cleaned and fastened into an arc.
Also, I suck at taking pictures of shiny metal objects. |
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| A bike for Sunny days |
[May. 9th, 2008|11:46 am] |
Well, my commuter bike frame getting broken inspired me to get my Sunny day bike fixed up last week. I've been stockpiling parts for it for a while, so it was relatively quick to build up.
( Pretty pictures after the cut )
I talked to the shop that has my old frame (Recycled Cycles in the University District). They've left some messages with Surly, but they haven't actually talked to them about it. So my bike is still languishing in their shop. And I've got this bag sitting on my desk at home full of all the parts I took off the frame.
I'm just glad it broke during the summer so I'm not missing my dedicated all weather/bad weather bike in the rainy season. Well, and that I didn't bother overhauling the headset and bottom bracket right before the frame broke. Procrastination saves the day again! |
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| Ooooh, touch me there. |
[Feb. 14th, 2006|01:19 pm] |
So, I've picked up a Nintendo DS[1] from a friend. He'd received it as a gift, but really hadn't used it all. So I received it at a nice price.
The last time I bought a console [2] while it wasn't totally obsolete was when I bought the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) while I was in middle school. So, it's rather novel to actually be following what's being produced rather than just hitting junk shops and the used section in video stores. Additionally I haven't been gaming on the PC for a number of years since I only run Linux at home. Ever since the porting company Loki died, there has been a dearth of Linux gaming titles.
( Idle gaming musings ) |
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| Praise DeCSS |
[Mar. 25th, 2005|12:07 pm] |
 So this arrived in the mail yesterday. Despite the fact that it's for Region 2/4 and in PAL (not NTSC), thanks to the miracles of Opensource I was able to fire it right up and play.
/me huggles mplayer & kaffeine
Later tonight or this weekend I'll be mucking with the region-free hack for the Philips DVP-642 player I bought after my last DVD player died. The player is nice since it will play DiVX/XViD/MP3/AVI/etc from burnt discs and will do PAL->NTSC internally. Shiny.
Now to find the time to watch the Dystopian low-budget sci-fi goodness that is Blakes 7. I also need to try and resist the temptation to buy the second season from Amazon. |
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