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CNC Milling
I've just ordered a xylotex controller for my little sherline mill. It's funny, I'm spending cash to turn it into a specialized robot. After all, the robot is a much better machinist than I:) -
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I have in the past several months taken an interest in prestidigitation, and I'm honestly finding it like a sliver in my brain. It fascinates me, the psychology of it is wonderful. Not that I'm any good, it's just fascinating. -
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The world is ruled by profitability. It is possible for a company to break the law, pay the fine, and still turn a profit above complying with the law. Similarily, farmers in Columbia and whatnot raise poppies because there's more money in it. If it were unprofitable, it would be much less common. -
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I just picked up a small diaphragm valve, with the hope of experimenting with it. The past few days have been substantially boring, with little happening. I await the forwarding of my GED transcript to the college... In the mean time, I have to seal the connections on my j-pole antenna and mount it to the garage roof. As well, I need to build a ( Read more... ) -
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Well, it turns out I have inattentive type ADD. That explains a lot. Now, the trick is figuring out how to motivate myself to do things. -
Writer's Block: It's Too Late to Apologize
Oddly enough, no. I'm a pretty forgiving person. Combined with an innate forgetfulness, it smoothes over many disagreements. -
The Corporation
There is one thing I have done in the past few months. I formed a corporation, Lynn Instruments, Inc. Very small, no revenue. But, it exists, and it would probably cost money to dissolve. So it lives like a zombie. -
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Night time is always far, far too quiet. It's harder to distract yourself.
In the mean time, the 20 tesla Bitter magnet. -
Education Costs
I was thinking just the other day. Around here, houses are going for about 400k. That's more than most people can pony up in cash, so they have to go in debt for it. Most of the time, people are in a similar situation with education. Except a university education is dramatically less expensive. Being knowledge, it's value never diminishes. ( Read more... ) -
The Art of Management
Important Management Skills #1: The ability to flick a screwdriver into a man's sternum at five yards.
Important Management Skills #2: Blame subordinates for a minty fresh sensation in the morning.
Important Management Skills #3: Maintain duplicate sets of memos for and against all initiatives. Do not distribute, but file them. After ( Read more... )