With a string of days off coming in October, I'm gearing up for some major work on a few neglected projects and the beginnings of a couple new projects. I had a bunch of vacation time to use or I would lose it. Nine days to be exact. Luckily I was able to get all nine days even though it was on short notice. So, the projects are to be of an archery ( Read more... )

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Don't know if you've seen this but thought you might like it. With all your contacts and love of Bollywood, I'm wondering if you might have more success tracking down his first album. Turns out it looks like his first album with this track is no longer available, or if it is I sure as hell can't find it. Anyway, I expect great things from you and ( Read more... )

I gotta say, I'm looking forward to the new Conan movie. I've spent years wishing Schwarzenegger and Milius would live up to the promise of the closing credits of 'Barbarian' and 'Destroyer' and tell the story of how Conan tread the jeweled thrones of Aquilonia beneath his sandaled feet. However, it was never to be and after the mostly campy ' ( Read more... )

Well, since it seems all of the people I know are all on facebook, I finally broke down and went over there a few months back and signed up. Of course, about that time I started neglecting LJ, not that I'd ever been regular about posting anything anyway. However, that's all going to change (I hope). I've been thinking a lot recently about getting ( Read more... )

Well, my Dell 1545 apparently needs a new motherboard, chips, RAM, and hard drive, or at least that's what tech support decided to do since I guess they couldn't easily troubleshoot my ongoing sporadic BSODs. At least it's under warranty and a tech will come to my place to remove and replace said parts. I guess I'll have a mostly new computer even ( Read more... )

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I had to gank this from anniemare because my old meme connection happygoth just hasn't delivered in ages. Anyway here 'tis.

Your results:
You are Worf
Worf
80%
Will Riker
70%
Mr. Scott
65%
Jean-Luc Picard
65%
Geordi LaForge
60%
Chekov
55%
Mr. Sulu
55%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
55%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
45%
Spock
45%
Uhura
40%
Leonard McCoy ( ( Read more... )

Edward Woodward June 1, 1930 - November 16, 2009

(He was a great actor, but his role as 'The Equalizer' was always my favorite)

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I played around a bit with the Holmgaard and didn't get too far with it. Unfortunately, due to its design, the Holmgaard is a difficult bow design to tiller properly. Since only about half of each limb is actually working, you have to be that much more careful in shaping those working sections of limb since there is so much less wood doing the work ( Read more... )

Well, finally got some bowyering going. The glue-up of the Mongol-gone-Scythian bow is pretty much a disaster. The bamboo was way too thick and I'm convinced that even roughed into a bow-like shape it won't be able to be floor tillered (ie. able to be bent before stringing), let alone actually even strung. The core pieces might have been too thick ( Read more... )