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Kayak Mishaps

Well, today was a bust. It seems like the only thing I got done was breaking tools. I managed to make 1 small bracket and one 10″ bracket tonight, but at the cost of a hacksaw blade, a small clamp, and 2 Dremel cutoff wheels.

I am not sure where my jigsaw is. I think it is in a friends garage down here in Florida. He didn’t remember seeing it out, so it is probably stuffed away in a box. He offered to lend me his in the meantime. He won’t be at work tomorrow, so I guess I will have to wait until Wednesday.

I sent an email to the fella who originally made the PakYak, Jim Heter. He sent back an email and said that he will link to my blog from his site. How cool is that? I guess this means that I will need to be extra diligent about keeping the blog up to date with the progress on the kayak.

Taco Bell Deomographics?

I am at Taco Bell. There are thirteen people here all are male. Is that this place’s demographic?

Who eats at Taco Bell? Who do they target their marketing too?

Kayak – first pieces assembled together!

Well, the Kayak is starting to come together. I am getting some of the aluminum brackets cut so I can start assembling the pieces. I am leaving many of the pieces fairly rough for assembly, and once I like how the whole thing comes together I will clean them up.

It looks like I got the wrong kind of bolts, so I will need to replace the ones I used with the right kind. I need flat head screws and not pan head screws. The flat head screws can be countersunk and recessed into the pieces so that they don’t hit each other when folded up.

I need an old bicycle tube if anybody has one laying around. It will be kinda strange to buy one, just to cut it up. The far ends in the picture get held together with a chunk of rubber cut from the tube. Pretty clever.

Maybe by next weekend, I will have the frame fully assembled. I can then go and tweak the design, and finish each piece.

Library Thing Writeup in the NY Times.

The New York Times did a nice writeup on the LibraryThing.com.

There are very few websites that I actually like. Most of Google’s tools, del.icio.us, and Library Thing. Blogger is on my @#$%^ list at the moment. Well, the stuff I have on my blog is the stuff I like. So check out my books and bookmarks in the right column!

Lunar Eclipse

No eclipse for me.
The moon is hiding behind the clouds.
You can make out the moon as that brighter smudge in the upper right.