Ch,ch,ch, changes

On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 6:39:33 PM UTC-6, Frank Reid © 2012 wrote:
That's all well and good, but how's the fishing?

Waving a stick in the air with a bit of string and a hooky thingy on the end of it? That sort of thing?

Haven't done that in about five years. Opportunities for such pursuits are somewhat limited here in S.E. Curdistan and I kind of got sidetracked into chasing birds, bugs, flowers and trees for a while. And then it was geocaching for about a year.

The latter was an illuminating experience. You know those areas you've haunted all your life.....the places you've covered every inch of for years and years.....the places you know really really well? Well, it turns out you don't. Somebody else has visited spots in there, a casual twenty minute's walk from your home that you never knew existed. And it cuts both ways. You have been to places virtually in other people's back yards that they have never seen. Mental maps are filled with very large holes.

More recently, I've been pounding on steel and rocks with hammers and chisels and fullers and flatters.....I've been sanding and scraping and planing and drilling and welding and screwing and bolting and stitching and all manner of fun things at a place called Milwaukee Makerspace. Last night I got knocked on my ass by a two thousand volt blast from a microwave oven transformer while trying to make Lichtenberg figures on a piece of two by four slathered with a baking soda solution. It worked....eventually.

Me and a couple of other guys are currently in the early planning stage of a project to convert a couple hundred pounds of Lake Michigan beach sand into steel using a fifty-five gallon drum, a bunch of refractory clay, and a few pounds of thermite.

What a hoot!

g.

On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:16:14 -0800 (PST), giles wrote:
[...]Me and a couple of other guys are currently in the early planning stage of a project to convert a couple hundred pounds of Lake Michigan beach sand into steel using a fifty-five gallon drum, a bunch of refractory clay, and a few pounds of thermite.

What a hoot!

g.

Wait - you can make steel out of beach sand now?
That just sounds wrong, but then again, I know nothing about Lake Michigan
"beach sand".

Carry on...

/daytripper (who doesn't quite know what to make of all this activity
here...

On Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 9:29:36 PM UTC-6, daytripper wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:16:14 -0800 (PST), giles wrote:
[...]Me and a couple of other guys are currently in the early planning stage of a project to convert a couple hundred pounds of Lake Michigan beach sand into steel using a fifty-five gallon drum, a bunch of refractory clay, and a few pounds of thermite.

What a hoot!

g.

Wait - you can make steel out of beach sand now?
That just sounds wrong, but then again, I know nothing about Lake Michigan
"beach sand".

Carry on...

/daytripper (who doesn't quite know what to make of all this activity
here...

Well, you can't exactly make steel out of sand. But this particular stretch of beach sand is distinctly rust colored. Rust color strongly suggests rust, which in turn.....well, you get it.

At the end of the day, what matters is that we get to play with thermite. Could anyone who passed on the opportunity possibly be considered sane? Would Franklin have passed? The Curies?

g.
who thinks not

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:26:01 -0800 (PST), giles wrote:

On Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 9:29:36 PM UTC-6, daytripper wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:16:14 -0800 (PST), giles wrote:
[...]Me and a couple of other guys are currently in the early planning stage of a project to convert a couple hundred pounds of Lake Michigan beach sand into steel using a fifty-five gallon drum, a bunch of refractory clay, and a few pounds of thermite.

What a hoot!

g.

Wait - you can make steel out of beach sand now?
That just sounds wrong, but then again, I know nothing about Lake Michigan
"beach sand".

Carry on...

/daytripper (who doesn't quite know what to make of all this activity
here...

Well, you can't exactly make steel out of sand. But this particular stretch of beach sand is distinctly rust colored. Rust color strongly suggests rust, which in turn.....well, you get it.

At the end of the day, what matters is that we get to play with thermite. Could anyone who passed on the opportunity possibly be considered sane? Would Franklin have passed? The Curies?

g.
who thinks not

lol! Ok, I get it. I've watched railroad crews use thermite to weld rails and
it was exciting enough that I can see the attraction.

Have fun with that!

/daytripper (but leave the adult beverages at home

On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 5:13:27 PM UTC-6, daytripper wrote:



lol! Ok, I get it. I've watched railroad crews use thermite to weld rails and
it was exciting enough that I can see the attraction.

Have fun with that!

/daytripper (but leave the adult beverages at home

Home is where the stomach is.

g.
burp

"daytripper" wrote in message
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/daytripper (who doesn't quite know what to make of all this activity
here...

He just wants to be the last poster and is hiding his real motive with
drivel...

On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 4:36:07 AM UTC-6, Nogood Boyo wrote:
"daytripper" wrote in message
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/daytripper (who doesn't quite know what to make of all this activity
here...

He just wants to be the last poster and is hiding his real motive with
drivel...

I like shallow thinkers......they're more fun than juggling flaming kittens.. Here's a little exercise you might want to try. Take a few days to dissect your latest ejaculation, included above. Come back when you've identified the gaping hole in your logic and figured out how it encapsulates why you are forever doomed to a life of being a cheap source of mild amusement to the majority, and a mild annoyance to a few hopeless idealists.

Think about it.....what do you really have left to lose?

g.

On 01/25/2016 05:57 AM, giles wrote:
On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 4:36:07 AM UTC-6, Nogood Boyo wrote:
"daytripper" wrote in message
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/daytripper (who doesn't quite know what to make of all this activity
here...

He just wants to be the last poster and is hiding his real motive with
drivel...

I like shallow thinkers......they're more fun than juggling flaming kittens. Here's a little exercise you might want to try. Take a few days to dissect your latest ejaculation, included above. Come back when you've identified the gaping hole in your logic and figured out how it encapsulates why you are forever doomed to a life of being a cheap source of mild amusement to the majority, and a mild annoyance to a few hopeless idealists.

Think about it.....what do you really have left to lose?

g.

I suspect he never found the hole. Oh, well.

Russell

Feeling nostalgic. (And silly. Didn't really want to send Wolfgang a
personal message. Call it USENET rust.)


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On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 11:02:57 PM UTC-6, Russell D. wrote:


I suspect he never found the hole. Oh, well.

Russell

Hey Russell, it really is good to hear from you.

Meanwhile, make no mistake about it.....he never did find the hole.....but maybe, this time, it found him.

Feeling nostalgic. (And silly. Didn't really want to send Wolfgang a
personal message. Call it USENET rust.)

Nostalgia is for the living. That can't be all bad. And ALL messages are personal.

g.
who knows that there can be no rust without iron.

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