Between the Lines and other non-sense
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Where I drink Mill Stream, brewed in Iowa, beer: a panorama.
The the panorama consists of five images stitched together using Microsoft ice a freeware program from MS. Each photo has people in different positions with one women walking ten feet or more before I shot her in another image. Ice stitched the images and decided which image of her to eliminate a procedure that I could not have done years ago by hand.
Mike, off to get a |__|/, E
Friday, June 18, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
up, up and away with a speeding bullet into the micro processer
Up and running and tripping over low buildings, faster than 2 steps backwards and crashing into firewalls. Not enough room for a good virus
System
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version
Service Pack 1
Computer
Intel Celeron processor
465 MHz
512 MB of RAM
Hard drive
5 GB
Slave drive
10 GB
System
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version
Service Pack 1
Computer
Intel Celeron processor
465 MHz
512 MB of RAM
Hard drive
5 GB
Slave drive
10 GB
Friday, June 11, 2010
content, what content!
This is a content free blog... how wonderful is that!
Bye
Mike, nothing much here, E
Bye
Mike, nothing much here, E
walking for exercise, not me, Michelle
About two weeks ago Michelle decided to start walking and it is a good idea. She started out slow and picked up the pace quickly over the next few days until Sunday morning when Michelle stepped it out to 7.3 miles! She had been determined to go farther this morning but decided that the sore knee and foot blisters needed a break for a day. Once Michelle makes up her mind she has a tendency to go full tilt. Sunday morning she stepped off 8.5 miles!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
facebook as a tool
facebook as a tool:
That is the way I finally looked at it, instead of having all your buddies comment on all that stuff you will here in the bar anyway... ditch them! What I want is a facebook page that reflects my interests and that is hot glass. I finally decided I would invite glass workers and jewelry designers. The criteria is straight forward; invite lampworkers, glass blowers, slumping artists, collectors and jewelry designers pretty much in that order. I check the page that lists possible 'friends' and go to there page to see what there interests are and if it looks like a strong interest in glass, then I invite them. Then if they have other interests, like photography, that is even better.
Bye,
Mike, Do not get me started on a description of what a friend is, E
That is the way I finally looked at it, instead of having all your buddies comment on all that stuff you will here in the bar anyway... ditch them! What I want is a facebook page that reflects my interests and that is hot glass. I finally decided I would invite glass workers and jewelry designers. The criteria is straight forward; invite lampworkers, glass blowers, slumping artists, collectors and jewelry designers pretty much in that order. I check the page that lists possible 'friends' and go to there page to see what there interests are and if it looks like a strong interest in glass, then I invite them. Then if they have other interests, like photography, that is even better.
Bye,
Mike, Do not get me started on a description of what a friend is, E
Saturday, June 5, 2010
A possible unnecessary death
Death
A close friend found his business partner dead when he failed to show up to pick up Ken for work. People die; in this case I believe there are problems. Dave and Ken where mudding drywall when Dave lost control of his right arm. Dave decided to go to a chiropractor; this is where I think the system went south... you would have thought a chiropractor would have caught on to the symptoms, but no, he just did his thing (boat payment I think) and sent Dave off to his eventual doom. Dave did end up in a hospital where they, for whatever reason did not stint him or clean out the artery in his neck?
I should say that Dave did not follow doctors directions about drinking, working and rest... BUT!
A close friend found his business partner dead when he failed to show up to pick up Ken for work. People die; in this case I believe there are problems. Dave and Ken where mudding drywall when Dave lost control of his right arm. Dave decided to go to a chiropractor; this is where I think the system went south... you would have thought a chiropractor would have caught on to the symptoms, but no, he just did his thing (boat payment I think) and sent Dave off to his eventual doom. Dave did end up in a hospital where they, for whatever reason did not stint him or clean out the artery in his neck?
I should say that Dave did not follow doctors directions about drinking, working and rest... BUT!
Friday, June 4, 2010
rooster murrine
Thursday, June 3, 2010
The signature cane
Signature cane
I spent the first four days making letters/numbers for this years cane. The M was the hardest and always has been, The M has a tendency to look like McDonald's arches! I also screwed 4 of the Ms up!!! I like making the S, I just marry two C's together. I did have a short clip of the finished MSE 2010 signature cane but I think I deleted it from the camera. The final gather for the cane was problematic... I put together the MSE and then the 2010, the problem is that I do not have a garage to keep the MSE hot so I have to keep picking up the MSE and heating it!!!
Spell checking, I do it, I proof read, I think about sentence structure and I still get it all wrong. I think that is why people become writers, it is all about the challenge.
Bye
Mike
I spent the first four days making letters/numbers for this years cane. The M was the hardest and always has been, The M has a tendency to look like McDonald's arches! I also screwed 4 of the Ms up!!! I like making the S, I just marry two C's together. I did have a short clip of the finished MSE 2010 signature cane but I think I deleted it from the camera. The final gather for the cane was problematic... I put together the MSE and then the 2010, the problem is that I do not have a garage to keep the MSE hot so I have to keep picking up the MSE and heating it!!!
Spell checking, I do it, I proof read, I think about sentence structure and I still get it all wrong. I think that is why people become writers, it is all about the challenge.
Bye
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Facebook, a personal exp
Facebook, a personal experiment in controlling their settings in a way that makes one happy. Set-use-change-set again- on and on it goes...!
The six month hiatus is over... making a signature cane
The six month hiatus is over. Wednesday, I entered the 'studio' and began work on some letters/numbers for a signature cane. I made a zero first to get things moving, it went well. Then a, one, it was good. Next, an S, nice. Then the disaster, the hard one, the M, two hours and then, disaster!... First number tomorrow will be a two and then the dreaded M and if all goes well I should have the first good cane in over two years.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
First test at being nasty...
May 23, 2010
First test at being nasty...
How does one acquire readers and comments on a (-_-)ing bog? (I am speaking of mine of course) I am thinking of one way and that is to be controversial, rude, mean and take cheap oblique shots at not quite mentioned people or one may shoot from the hip right at the target person; got to love Rush Limbaugh, he is so inspiring.
So far My blog is a ('')-.-('') in hibernation, OH I know I should stick to hot glass stuff (I don't) thus making the blog more interesting to a certain group of people who may, may look in now and then to catch up with what is going on in my glass world. Maybe I should be more proactive and chatter on about the glass 'movement'... er uh no. Back to the wooden stirring spoon to mess with people.
How many times have you been on your favorite B Board and looked at the total number of comments on a thread? The threads with the most comments are the ones that are emotional, vindictive or overly argumentation, so I am thinking... OK, I think I will trash hot glass videos on Youtube: Here is what I am thinking... most the videos are trash! My first video was not so good, it was a bit blurry and wobbly. I should not have posted it and wasted the time of 12,000 people! Well PEOPLE a big majority of the videos I speak of are CRAP!
Next, details. Lack of content other than someone sitting there making something, these videos only have interest to people who have no idea as to what they are looking at.
Next: good content, very bad camera work, they are out of focus, camera waves around like the 'Videographer' is swatting at a ^v^ flying about their head.
Next: Fine camera work but the content is horrifying in its (-_-)om.
Did I mention that there are very few good glass videos? The last statement is a big LIE!
Your turn... lets get it on
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SHOUT back!!
Bye
Mike, off the get a |__|/ of beer, E
First test at being nasty...
How does one acquire readers and comments on a (-_-)ing bog? (I am speaking of mine of course) I am thinking of one way and that is to be controversial, rude, mean and take cheap oblique shots at not quite mentioned people or one may shoot from the hip right at the target person; got to love Rush Limbaugh, he is so inspiring.
So far My blog is a ('')-.-('') in hibernation, OH I know I should stick to hot glass stuff (I don't) thus making the blog more interesting to a certain group of people who may, may look in now and then to catch up with what is going on in my glass world. Maybe I should be more proactive and chatter on about the glass 'movement'... er uh no. Back to the wooden stirring spoon to mess with people.
How many times have you been on your favorite B Board and looked at the total number of comments on a thread? The threads with the most comments are the ones that are emotional, vindictive or overly argumentation, so I am thinking... OK, I think I will trash hot glass videos on Youtube: Here is what I am thinking... most the videos are trash! My first video was not so good, it was a bit blurry and wobbly. I should not have posted it and wasted the time of 12,000 people! Well PEOPLE a big majority of the videos I speak of are CRAP!
Next, details. Lack of content other than someone sitting there making something, these videos only have interest to people who have no idea as to what they are looking at.
Next: good content, very bad camera work, they are out of focus, camera waves around like the 'Videographer' is swatting at a ^v^ flying about their head.
Next: Fine camera work but the content is horrifying in its (-_-)om.
Did I mention that there are very few good glass videos? The last statement is a big LIE!
Your turn... lets get it on
Ò Ó
/|-/>|>
^|\ /\
/ | | |
SHOUT back!!
Bye
Mike, off the get a |__|/ of beer, E
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Making a wire shank for a lampworked PW button.
The following video is a how to for making a copper wire shank for a paperweight (PW) studio button.
Hope the sound track is not to scary. Posting the video here has caused some of the descriptions to be cut short, sorry. any questions contact me.
The following link has more information about collecting buttons.
http://www.buttonsintime.com/howto.htm
Next is a page listing state button societies where you can contact some one to find a list of clubs near you. You will learn a lot at a meeting. Do NOT start collecting buttons, I repeat...
http://www.buttonsintime.com/otherorgs1.htm
Hope the sound track is not to scary. Posting the video here has caused some of the descriptions to be cut short, sorry. any questions contact me.
The following link has more information about collecting buttons.
http://www.buttonsintime.com/howto.htm
Next is a page listing state button societies where you can contact some one to find a list of clubs near you. You will learn a lot at a meeting. Do NOT start collecting buttons, I repeat...
http://www.buttonsintime.com/otherorgs1.htm
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