Graham’s Ramblings
Ramblings of a hacker/photographer/woodworker
Mar 28, 2008
2:14pm
How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial : DivineCaroline
Submitted without comment; I have no personal experience with these matters.
Mar 24, 2008
10:47pm
Workbench
One pair of the legs for the bench is being glued together. Yay. I might actually get it on its feet and start installing the vises this week, if work permits. Wedged mortise & tenon joinery is…
Mar 24, 2008
8:46pm
Chisel review
I doubt any of you really care, but in case the Semantic Web comes to exist tomorrow I’d like prospective purchasers to be able to see my impressions of the tools. Capsule version: between the two of…
Mar 22, 2008
5:40pm
Tools
I received a traditional English style pigsticker mortising chisel today. It’s somewhat difficult to really convey my impressions of the thing in text, so have some photos instead.
Mar 20, 2008
7:48pm
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Could someone please sit down the slower students in the class and explain to them that ‘hackers’ who seek to alter a device’s software for the purpose of giving it more functionality are not the same as ‘hackers’ who try to find illicit ways to compromise your data for personal gain.
Kay apparently believes there’s a rash of people breaking into the homes of Apple customers, installing applications on their iPhones or enabling them to be used with other carriers and then slipping away into the night.
” - Oh, Kay. | The Macalope: An Apple blog - CNET Blogs
Mar 18, 2008
11:37pm
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You see, when the wingnut feels threatened, it excretes a foul substance which forms a protective layer of disingenuous stupidity designed to deflect dissonant facts and beliefs which could damage the wingnut’s tender underbelly of pure stupid. In order to harden this protective layer into an impervious carapace of ignorance, the wingnut needs to come to believe this tactically-held nonsense - needs to incorporate this protective layer into its body of stupid beliefs by making itself believe them for real. But then, of course, if this carapace is threatened, it too will have to be protected by a layer of disingenuous stupidity, and so on and so on until you start writing books called Liberal Fascism.
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- Oh, he’s good « Liberal Fascism
Mar 18, 2008
4:55pm
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…You nauseate me, you disgusting, spineless, pallid little excuse for a man. I hate you. I’ve seen tripe in my soup that had more character than you. When we all receive our just reward, you will spend all eternity cleaning my toilets with your tongue, after which you’ll have to write an essay describing your feelings about this experience, as well as discussing any new vocabulary you will have learned from my toilets. You foul little worm. For a person such as you to have testicles and a penis is such a profound waste of these lovely organs, yet I feel certain that you’d be just as much of a disgrace to the breasts and ova. Actually, the ability to have sex itself is something you don’t deserve even a little bit, and as for reproducing, may Heaven itself strike your unworthy DNA from the rolls of history. May your ass-cheeks be afflicted with a red, weeping rash; may your wife continually entertain herself with syphilitic manwhores; may your car always break down in a busy intersection on a rainy day; may your armpits ache with swollen carbuncles! May flies lay their eggs in the corners of your weepy little eyes! You and your whole tribe are nothing but an infected open sore on the groin of the Universe.
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- metaquotes: QWP. F’locked context hates her son’s wussy fourth-grade teacher
Mar 17, 2008
5:27am
The Infamous Brad - The Wearin' o' the Black
From Brad Hicks’s entry The Infamous Brad - The Wearin’ o’ the Black:
Early in the history of Irish Catholicism, somebody came back with stories of how amazingly spiritual the Egyptian ascetic…
Mar 17, 2008
4:27am
Link
Last week, we busted the myth that electroweak gague symmetry is broken by the Higgs mechanism. We’ll also examine the existence of God and whether true love exists.
Mar 13, 2008
5:06am
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How do I know my neighbors appreciate the melodious tunes of my power tools? Because whenever they see me, they wave like crazy. The odd thing is, the neighbors on both sides of my house must have experienced a similar unfortunate accident that claimed all but the middle finger on their right hands. Despite this, they wave. God love ‘em.
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- The Village Carpenter: Signs of Spring