workshop progress
I finally got the table saw installed in the second workbench. I think it’s going to work out nicely.
The saw is attached with a kinematic coupling: three v-grooves on the saw sit on three balls on the table. That way I can take the saw out and when it goes back, it goes to exactly the same place. So no adjustment is required to make sure the saw is square with the table. I plan to attach a large fence on the table.
beehive
A beehive fell from a tree. Fortunately it was not inhabited so it was fun to see what they are like.
LEGOland
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pizza oven lives again
The insulating-brick chimney seems to work very well.
the mothers’ day programs
Tavian made:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/21583396/
Indi made:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/21606215/
happy birthday
Tavian wrote me a poem:
happy birthday
to you
your 100 and 2
you smell
like a pig
and you
eat like
one too!!!
Indi drew a picture of me cutting a bad guy’s underwear off with a sword; the underwear are flying at my head and the bad guy is peeing on the ground.
A few bricks short
I started the redesigned rocket for the pizza oven. Seems like it will work out well but I apparently tried to skimp on the firebricks.
chess
I took a couple pictures while Tavian was playing chess with my friend Garth after dinner.
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I go away for two days and this is what the world comes to
SPAM sushi (aka reliving the ghetto-diner-near-Honolulu-airport days):
Reasonable
When Tavian came down this morning and saw the work I had done on Indi’s piñata, he says “It looks reasonable for a piñata; but not really if you were making an actual LEGO.” I’m still laughing.
