Ok LJ, I got a question for ya:
I've heard from some people that body rust will cause me to fail a vehicle inspection in Boson. However, when I try to find out the official criteria for the inspection, I the most helpful thing I can locate is this list, which says nothing about rust. Given that I'm about to buy a used vehicle for not much money, ( Read more... )

So I was my way back home from doing pointless "research" at a JC Penny (find out how people get their purchases home from the store; spoiler: it has to do with plastic bags and cars), when I heard a knocking coming from the engine. When I depressed the clutch, it stalled. On the highway. Thankfully I was able to get to the shoulder without ( Read more... )

So, as some of you might have noticed I've changed my LJ handle from numath to sindrian. The reason for this is that it turns out I'm actually posting to this account. See, when I first got an LJ account I intended to use it just to check other people's journals, so I just pulled one of my random video game aliases out of the air and used that. ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a comedy of errors. The day started well enough with some test cuts of small pieces to test slot clearances, and all went well. Then I decided to mill out something big: the standing computer desk:

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It would seem that after some teasing, Murphy decided to give me a ( Read more... )

I had to order two new motors today. One to replace the z axis motor ( Read more... )

A quick update today:
On Friday I milled out parts for a prototype business card dispenser.
Check out the flickr set here.

Yeah, damn clichés ( Read more... )

Look!

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