While I was at my parents, and making my cat annoyer, I also made the backplane to my Home made Digital TV antenna. This is just a reflector for the antenna to give it better gain. It’s actually a little short, but I didn’t want to pay the $6 difference for the taller wire mesh. …
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My new knife: Buck Knives – Vantage™ – Select Small
While on vacation in Florida, my “souvenir” of the trip was a new pocket knife. I had broke my old one months ago – this spring actually. I picked a ~$30 Buck Knife even though the place had some really nice Benchmade knifes. I can stand loosing a $30 knife a lot more then a …
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Keychain box
I carry a lot of stuff in my pockets. This is the contents of my left front pocket. I am tired of sounding like a coffee can full of nuts and bolts rattling around every time I take a step. My keys rattle against each other, the little Altoids tin, the pill canister, my knife, …
Walk in the park
Sunday, I went to a primitive skills meetup in Peterson Park north of Chicago. The meetup was quite interesting, we explored some excersizes that focused on increasing our awareness. It was a wet, rainy day, so most people didn’t want to go outside. After the meetup, I took a little walk in the fenced in …
Restless Feet.
A rolling stone gathers no moss. Well, in-case you haven’t heard, I am moving. I took a new job with a company called Hexagon Metrology. The quick description of what they do is “make robots that measure things”. My job is going to be webmaster for http://www.hexagonmetrology.us/ and related websites. My last day with iMapp …