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#1 Mar 14 2014 at 6:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm disappointed - Google didn't do a Pi-day doodle.

Last weekend I ended up with both days taking me away from the homestead, so this weekend I'm not doing anything but playing in the snow.

Also I think I'm going to experiment in making my own tortillas. They seem easy.

Also again, I might sneak off to the theater and see 300: The Rise of An Empire - even though it's getting panned by the critics.

I might also reload ESO beta, start a new character from a different faction and try to love the game.


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#2 Mar 14 2014 at 7:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Going bar hopping Saturday night.
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#3 Mar 14 2014 at 7:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'M NEVER USING GOOGLE AGAIN!!! Well, of to google alternative search engines..

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#4 Mar 14 2014 at 8:34 AM Rating: Good
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The boys are at heir grandmothers this weekend so I am using the time today to pressure wash our ginormous deck so that we can stain and seal it tomorrow without little feet tramping mud on it. Sunday we plan on painting more of the den, which is huge and has built in painted bookshelves that have smokers stain on them. Ugh.

Tonight we're having friends over for dinner. Pot roast, wine, rolls, and of course, pi
#5 Mar 14 2014 at 9:05 AM Rating: Excellent
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Something, something, cake.

I probably have plans, I just don't know about them yet. In lieu of anything major coming up we've been on a spring cleaning binge the last couple of weeks, and there's more to do there. Would be nice to tackle that large pile of papers on the counter, and maybe shred some stuff.
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#6 Mar 14 2014 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good
Our local pizza franchise Your Pie is offering their signature custom personal pizza for $3.14 today if you say "Happy Pi Day" when you order.

That's half off, so it's a great deal. We're going.
#7 Mar 14 2014 at 11:28 AM Rating: Good
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I don't care about pi day. Probably ordering my new PC over the weekend though which is great since my current one is a frankenstein of a machine built in 2006 or 2007 and upgraded over the years.
#8 Mar 14 2014 at 2:22 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm more interested in the other holiday today's date marks...I had steak for breakfast.
#9 Mar 14 2014 at 2:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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No, chicken, that was supposed to be a new york strip roast, and my grandfather is coming for dinner, and I have a bunch of kids and a permanently tired wife so yeah, no fun for me.
#11 Mar 14 2014 at 3:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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In honor of Pi day, I'm making brownies tonight.
#12 Mar 14 2014 at 3:39 PM Rating: Good
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Happy Dean Winchester Day!
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#13 Mar 14 2014 at 4:18 PM Rating: Excellent
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Happy Dean Winchester Day!

Punch and Pi!
#14 Mar 14 2014 at 5:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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You'll totally never guess what a local school donated to our shelter today.

Go ahead.



Guess.




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#15 Mar 14 2014 at 5:13 PM Rating: Good
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Dragon dongs?
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#16 Mar 14 2014 at 5:16 PM Rating: Good
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Boxes of cafeteria pizza?
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#17 Mar 14 2014 at 5:25 PM Rating: Good
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Dragon dongs?

What sort of school did you go to where they had dragon dongs?
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Dragon dongs?

What sort of school did you go to where they had dragon dongs?


It was probably one where everyone dressed up as the school mascot.
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#19 Mar 14 2014 at 8:26 PM Rating: Good
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Oddly, it was a collection of fruit and/or crème topped pastry product.



...I forgot why this was relevant...Smiley: frown



EDIT:
Huh, the text vector/fixer/thingy automatically put an accent mark on crème. That's kind of neat.Smiley: smile

Edited, Mar 14th 2014 8:28pm by Bijou
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#20 Mar 14 2014 at 9:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm working on a mostly 3d printed trombone for a contest to win a bigger 3d printer than the one I already have. The company providing the 3d printer and judging the contest decided to do a mini feature on my design for their blog and social media stuff. It's like the 2nd or 3rd biggest 3d printer company in the world, so I thought it was pretty cool anyways. It's the trombone towards the end of the page if you are curious. http://www.lulzbot.com/blog/hackerspace-giveaway-and-reddit-contest-updates

That's mainly my excitement for the weekend. Yard work this sunday too. fun fun.
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#21 Mar 15 2014 at 8:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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That's pretty cool. Is it all printed (besides the mouthpiece) or just the green parts (looks like the white is store bought PVC)? Is it operable? Do you play trombone to know how well/poorly it works?
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#22 Mar 15 2014 at 11:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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Thanks! The green parts are the printed parts. There is actually a printed mouthpiece that goes with it as well, but it wasn't done printing at the time of the picture. The white stuff is indeed PVC (well, some PVC some PEX). My printer can't print a straight section of tube that long with a sufficiently smooth surface to work as a slide or a tuning slide (very few can print that length, and none that I know of could print one smooth enough) so the use of PVC for the slide and the tuning slide was due more to a technical limitation than any particular design aesthetics. The join union fitting and the back piece of pipe are standard 1/2" schedule 40 PVC tube. That could have been printed, but I kept snapping the tube pieces back there, so I went with something stronger to make it a more usable instrument. It is indeed operable.

It actually sounds like a real trombone, though somewhat muffled since you don't get the resonance you would from the metal. The bell is also slightly undersized due to the maximum printing size of my existing printer, so it doesn't project quite as well as it should. I'm still getting some air loss between the inner and outer slide that I need to resolve, but it is playable and recognizable as sounding like a trombone. I'm experimenting with heat shrink tubing on the inner slide to see if I can get a closer fit. if I can eliminate the air leak there then I think it is actually a viable instrument. The main slide works, the tuning slide works. It needs a better water relief valve at some point, and a slide lock, but I didn't think I was going to have time to design those bits before the contest.

I do play trombone, though I am a bit out of practice. Played all through school up to College I used to be pretty good. I can still play a tune on a real trombone pretty well. I've heard worse sounding trombones, though I don't expect to see the major trombone players of the world switch over to this model immediately.

People will be able to print one of these for themselves as soon as the place we're supposed to upload the files to for the contest fixes their 5 file upload limitation so I can upload all 11 pieces of the design. I'm considering uploading this one to shapeways as well so people without their own 3d printer could order one eventually.
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#23 Mar 15 2014 at 12:56 PM Rating: Excellent
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3D printers freak me out.

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#24 Mar 15 2014 at 11:28 PM Rating: Good
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Happy early St. Pat. day...
Getting drunk is retarded..
That is all...
and good evening.


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#25 Mar 17 2014 at 8:18 AM Rating: Good
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Happy early St. Pat. day...
Feeling lucky?

Pick the perfect bracket for a billion bucks from Buffet.
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#26 Mar 17 2014 at 1:47 PM Rating: Good
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Sports are De Debil!!


but with all this trombone talk..

I must present you with the finest boning (hehe) this side of the hemisphere:
Don Drummond; Father of Ska


(any excuse.. I know..)
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