Well, I am going to be moving soon. I need an apartment, furniture, all that stuff. I may have found some furniture from a friend’s mother who is moving out of her house, It is currently up by Orlando, but my find it’s way to Lakeland for me. This weekend I may have found a …
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Broken Blogger "rel" Tags
I use Operator for FireFox which parses Microformats and allows you to take actions on them – such as add a contact to your address book. Some really cool stuff. But the “rel” tag is broken on my blogger blog. Blogger doesn’t follow the spec. Not that they can, with my site being a FTP …
200th post
Wow. This is my 200th post to this blog. I didn’t think I had that much to say. I worked on my boat tonight. I basically did the same thing as last night, only on the other end brace. I worked on the two bottom stringers – rounding them out and recessing the nuts. I …
Finishing an End Brace
I worked on finishing up one of the two end braces tonight. I beveled all braces, counter sunk all the holes, filed all the corners. I did notice that I need to cut a bevel on the bottom (short) braces on the end brace so they will clear the stringers when folding and unfolding. I …
Midbrace notched out for gunwales
The midbrace with the different hole pattern gets notched out for the gunwales. Here I balanced one of the midbraces on the other so I can mark where I want the notch to be. I think the gunwale is supposed to lay flat and square to the ground. Here is the midbrace marked and ready …