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Wait till you start playing with ceramic knives - I love them, but you have to teach yourself "if I drop it, do not try to catch it". Mine are what, ten years old? Maybe older? And apart from the ones Herself uses, still as sharp as the day I bought them.
Try to catch one, and you'll lose fingers ...
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This reminds me I have to assemble and wall mount two huge Ikea bookcases this weekend. And I'm about as technical savvy as a beauty pageant contestant.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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Get someone more mechanically oriented to help you, and do exactly what they tell you!
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My hope lies with my 14 yo doughtier.
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Just do what she tells you and you'll be fine.
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Another use for the wire wheel is to instantly remove the cuff from a long sleeve sweat shirt. It happened to my brother. He didn't even get a scratch. I guess this is why they warn us to not wear loose clothing around power tools.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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There is a company (called sawstop, but I'll post no links as it's probably spamming to do that) that makes table saws with a brake that stops the blade dead when skin comes in contact with it.
I saw a YouTube vid on it a couple of years ago, demoing it with hotdogs: How Safe is a Sawstop Saw? - Never Before Seen 19,000 FPS HD Slow-Mo Video - YouTube[^]
I was impressed, but I can't justify the price - I just have to be really careful!
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YEP I have been around saws for a lot of my early years as a kid
sent a 4 ft 2 by 4 through the garage wall with a Dewalt Radial Arm Saw
ripping the wrong direction Dad band me from using that saw and bought
me a jig saw
Saw Stop has a new saw it is OK just not a real performance saw IMHO
here is a link to a former state highway patrolman that turned into a
YouTube "performer" The new saw is $900.00
Was I Misled or Wrong About the SawStop Compact Table Saw? - YouTube[^]
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I have a DeWalt crosscut mitre was that I bought ex-rental about fifteen years ago - damn fine piece of kit even now!
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It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December.
So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around.
But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.)
So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you?
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SWMBO is very adept at getting the four strings of lights (total 260) back in their respective boxes. All I have to do is put the big box back in the attic.
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Nope, not until the 7th.
And that's not my problem anyway. I don't put 'em up, so I don't take 'em down.
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Tidy-ish chuck-it and forgeter.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type
The answer to this question tells more about a person than one would guess.
I am a tidy person. I love organization. So, wrapping your lights and string, etc. around a paper towel tube or something similar is appropriate and should be encouraged.
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In large parts of the US this Christmas won't be over until the spring thaws, when it's finally warm enough to remove the outdoor lights without breaking them.
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Wrap them around card board. Put them and the needed extension cords together in the garage. Not allowed to touch the tabletop tree which is put away decorated. I do hold the door open.
We mail our cards out only to people who sent us one last year. Trims our list, over the years it has gone from 3 sheets of labels to only one. Many friends have departed this life. Any who made it to heaven probably figure I didn't make it.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Christmas might be over, but twelfth night is the start of Mardi Gras here in New Orleans.
We solved the Christmas tree dilemma with an artificial tree pre-strung with lights installed. Remove ornaments, and stuff the tree in the box it came in.
However, it is the start of Mardi Gras and the Mardi Gras tree has to come out now, and I get to start all over again.
Ed
modified 5-Jan-23 10:45am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things?
Sadly, my proudest achievement when it comes to organizing physical things is to have come up with the idea of rolling individual Ethernet cables in those plastic blank CD spindles that have a lid you can screw back in place.
And then, I found out I'm not the first to have come up with the idea...
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I'd never heard of it, or thought of it - but I really wish I hade before I pretty much gave up collecting CAT5 cables ...
Don't care who came up with it, it gets a thumbs up from me!
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Bah Humbug - not even tree anymore
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I am like you. I learned tidy is mighty, chaos is not.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Being a "tidy away" person has always been part of my personality. I'm the type who likes to keep things neat and organized, and I find it much easier to focus when everything is in its place.
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I use old paper boxes for storing strands of icicle lights.
Start in the middle of the strand and lay them in the box.
Ends go in last.
Put a cardboard separator on top.
Repeat until full.
Next year, ends come out first.
No problems with tangling for years.
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I was looking back on my graphics library code.
I allow you to wrap a byte array with a bitmap object with a completely user definable pixel format/binary footprint.
Therefore you can declare for example, a pixel that's 18 bits wide if you want, and it will allow you to access the pixels in the bitmap.
Astute bit twiddlers here may realize that this requires potentially complicated bit shifts to make it all work.
I compute the necessary code for the shifts at compile time, optimizing for situations where I can, like where a pixel is an even number of bytes wide, or special casing for monochrome, etc. Bitmap blting is memcpys, either entire bitmaps, or lines at a time if you're blting from a rectangle within a bitmap.
It's nuts.
I'm looking back on it going "that's wicked code"
I love those moments when I impress myself. Unfortunately I'm not completely certain I could repeat this wizardry.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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