A tiny little box with a daisy on the lid. The box is made from Lacewood, also known as Australian Silky-oak. The lid is Padauk. For the painted daisy, I used a stencil based on a printed design and cut with an X-acto knife,
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Jones Falls HD Video
Jones Falls, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
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YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/v/j56pyjYHqb4
Jones Falls Mini-hike
Today we went for a short hike in to Jones Falls. The trail was still fairly muddy in spots, but not too bad. Still working out the new camera’s bits and bobs, although I mostly left it on Auto again. The lighting was at times a bit more contrasty than last time shooting, as the sun struggled to come out. And I managed to drop a lens cap in the river. But generally a successful outing.
As always, do click the photos to view larger on Flickr.
We took the bunny trail. No sign of bunnies though.
They were actually ahead of me, but I made them turn around for the shot. Photography has its privileges.
It’s true what they say — moss always grows on the north side of the rock. And by north, I mean top.
Just follow the blue blaze marks. Or the clearly established trail. Or your wife.
Jones Falls, Owen Sound. Lots of water this time of year.
They weren’t tired, but I made them stop to pose.
Nice boulders.
Caught on Film: Vegetable mates with Mineral.
More mossy goodness.
New Camera Walkabout
I finally pulled the trigger on buying a dSLR the other day, a Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D and today I took it out for a brief spin around the yard. The objective was just to get comfortable with it, and just walk through the process of shooting and downloading using the new software. I shot on the fully Auto mode for now, just to see how it would perform, and I think it did very well. Conditions, mind you, were pretty favourable: nice even light, no harsh contrasts for the AI to get confused over…
Before heading out for my little walkabout, I tried out the camera on my lovely wife Lynda, who did not let us down, and vice versa I think…
The Muskoka chairs I made last summer have survived their first winter. They have a diluted coat of spar varnish on them, so that helped.
Silver likes to cross over to Kitsch Island in pursuit of the Mallards that often drop in to hunt our few remaining goldfish.
An earlier pair of outdoor chairs I made in 2009, now recovering from their second winter… nicely grey now… no varnish on these…
The moss is well established now between the flagstones of our front walk. Most of the heaving from the winter has settled down.
It’s a boot. It’s a planter. It’s a mashup.
♫ I always feel like… somebody’s watching me ♫
During this past winter, there was a presistent snow cover on the front lawn, from the blower and just in general. Some rodents, voles we think, tore up the lawn pretty good under there.
Patrick the gnome has no legs. Every year he seems to be a little deeper in the ground. So it goes.
Our male Reeves Pheasant, named George. George Reeves. As pheasants go, he’s super, man.
Remnants of some project, I’m not even sure now, that we piled up here with an eye towards maybe using them to firm-up the banks of the pond, which tend to erode… The chairs are old, came with the house…. definitely not for sitting, they hold potted plants in summer…
Heart-Shaped Cutting Boards
Heart-Shaped cutting boards, now featuring cheesy radial blur FX… B-)
The boards are about 10” across and about 7/8” thick. They are made of hard maple with purpleheart racing stripes for extra speed. (zoom zoom)… I made these by request for a favourite client. One has the stripes at a slight angle for a hint of jauntiness, without quite being sassy. Nobody likes sassy.
Just in time for Valenti…. er, Easter, I guess…
How to Hide the New Facebook Questions Feature
UPDATE – Forget this whole thing and just install “Better Face Book” plugin for Firefox.
http://betterfacebook.net/
How to HIDE the new Facebook “Questions” feature from your News Feed (EASY version)
[update: forgot to say, here’s the original article I based this on]
Facebook “Questions” can soon dominate the “information” in your “News” Feed, so I went looking for a way to be able to Hide these posts. As a native Facebook feature, it can’t be hidden via the little X button the way you would hide posts from, say, Farmville. Do people still play that? Dunno.
The solution I found was fairly geeky, so I thought I would try to make it simpler. It’s the same solution, I’m just going to break it down a little. The original article was a bit daunting…
You need:
–Greasemonkey Add-on to Firefox
–FFixer script for Greasemonkey
The first three steps are to install these three things, in that order, using the links above.
1. Install Firefox as your browser, if you haven’t already. Actually, if you haven’t, you’ll probably say screw it at this point. Up to you. B-)
2. Install Greasemonkey. Nothing to it, just hit the install link.
Greasemonkey alone does exactly nothing, it is just an environment into which you can install any number of user scripts that do any number of things to the way a browser displays certain pages. There’s a whack of them for Flickr, as many of you know…
3. Install FFixer. Again, nothing to it, just hit the install link.
FFixer is a Greasemonkey script which will provide a somewhat modified Facebook viewing experience. I found the defaults were pretty good, and didn’t really mess with them too much. You can experiment with the settings. I actually abandoned an earlier solution for eliminating the Facebook clutter in favour of this one.
4. Configure FFixer. You’ll find the link for this on your now-modified Facebook page under the “Account” menu at top right.
5. Click on “Advanced” when the Configure window opens.
6. Look for the first big empty text box titled “Custom Feed Modification” about halfway down the “Advanced” page.
7. In that box enter these two NEGATIVE numbers:
-338
-280
Just like that, hitting enter for a line feed after the first one.
8. Click “Save Custom Feed Modification” button under the text box you just typed the numbers into.
9. Close the Configure window, and you’re done!
10. You can still view and participate in the “Questions” feature by clicking the “Questions” link in the left-side navigation on your News Feed page.
I’m not hating on “Questions” so if you love it, don’t hate on ME. As the kids say.
Hope this helps.
Angus Roast Beef
Our dogs are accustomed to only the finest things in life. Here they are delaying their gratification of enjoying some delicious Angus Roast Beef. Although this is a smaller portion than they would probably have preferred, it does bear mentioning that they had just enjoyed their usual lunchtime helping of kibble. This is basically dessert.
[YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTI72aP0k8 ]
Offended
This fellow was apparently offended by me on a couple of levels. When he sent the first message on Facebook (he’s not among my Friends) it was during atheist week, and he apparently took exception to me based on my icon being the official Atheist Week “A” that was going around. I hadn’t really POSTED anything inflammatory, just the notification of it BEING Atheist Week. He was worried for my soul, I guess. Just looking out for me.
By the time I noticed his message, I had changed my icon to the dog, a reference to my new “Signed, The Dog” Twitter account ( twitter.com/SignedTheDog ). Well this too was a problem for him, apparently.
Can’t please everybody I guess.
Recent Projects: Pens Pens Pens
I’m either in a rut, or on a roll, but either way I’m making nothing much but pens lately… here are some recent samples…
As always, if anything catches your fancy, just get in touch. The Etsy where to buy generic phentermine store doesn’t have much loaded up at the moment so best thing is just talk to me… hit that contact button or email me… or catch me on the Facebook or the Twitter.
Afzelia Burl Rollerball Pen
A pen I turned, moments ago, from Afzelia burl wood. The plating is “bright copper” and the pen style is called “Sedona”, which is similar to the “Baron” rollerball, but has a Celtic knot-style centre band. I think this is my favourite style pen now. It has 17 parts. I’ve been known to struggle with assembly, but this one went perfectly.
[YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EOS3efblbE]