shinyhappyrainbows

A friend needed a new coffee table, their current one is too big for the space. I needed to find a project for the plywood from an old shipping pallet (a hard rubbish find) and a wooden chopping board discarded from the kitchen. The solution? Use the ply and laminated timber chopping board to create a 2-tier, rustic school desk "conversion!" The ply, as you'd expect from life as the top of a shipping pallet, looks, well, lived in. Likewise the chopping board. The ply also tends a bit ruddy when clear coated, I've used this type of pallet before. So I've mixed a tiny bit of green acrylic art paint with the sanding sealer to create a mid brown hue. Some of the green kind of globbed around the screw heads, countersunk 2mm below the surface but, a bit of elbow grease with sandpaper and PVA plus sanding dust filler, the green is a tinge like a copper screw corrosion stain. That really speaks "old" eloquently. By the time I finish the sanding and lacquering,...

I think I have settled on my epitaph. Death is inevitable, only it's timing is unkown, so I must, while living, decide on how I might be remembered, and the words of Kahlil Gibran's " The Prophet " speak the best idea I can imagine for a rememberance, "And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky." That, or Jimi Hendrix's, "And so, castles made of sand fall into the sea, eventually." Ammendment - 2022:12:18:22:20. Better! Both! "So castles made of sand fall into the sea but, if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky." Oh, this fair inspires!

Oh my ghod! I can't believe this old "cobweb" is still hanging about on Web 1.0! lol

This is not a project as yet! It's an idea, something of a whitepaper, what a social network should be. I've been watching Facebook's and Twitter's declines into trading human connection and reaction like commodities and only staying on Web 2 socials to bear witness. Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, et al, are no better. So, I've had this idea, somewhat nebulous, and the skills to design a user interface, but I'm a hobbyist Arduino coder at best, Javascript breaks my brain. (Don't ask me why, I really don't know. Some speak C/C++, some speak both, some speak many, OK.) But, I do have this idea of what the app should look like. It should be, in no particular order... Open-source and free to use, fork or otherwise edit, audit or co-develop. It should not require cryptocurrency commitments and should use the existing internet in a peer-to-peer way. The app should work in browsers and the project covers its costs by selling mobile versions at a one-of...

I've committed to two bucket-list items in a single project, building a recumbent tadpole trike, thereby owning a trike. Read more here . Design is art, it's the law. So this trike is an artistic act, as well as an artisinal one.