Our backyard gazebo, finally nearing completion. Since it’s been so long, I started a new post rather than just updating the old one. Most recent picture to the right, and more below the break. Click pictures for a bigger version. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for category Autobiographical
Gazebo, Part II
Dec 14
Peptic Salve and Adrenaline
Apr 25
Now You’re Drinking with Portals.™
(Idea: Greg Erskine at Metafilter.)
Plywood: The Silent Killer
Apr 24
I bought a couple of pieces of plywood today. You know the stuff: Useful, made of wood, pretty boring, kinda flat, deadly. Wait, what? Yep. Says so right on it:
Warning: This product may generate wood dust, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.
I Shoot an Arrow at It
Apr 22
Last Update: Saturday, 14 May 2011
Our backyard gazebo: a work in progress. Updates here in a more recent post as they happen (and I remember to take pictures). Most recent picture to the right. More after the jump:
SWFF: One Year Later
Mar 15
Sherwood Forest Faire (see previous post) is in the middle of its second season, and I’ve been back five of the eight days they’ve been open so far. (They are open weekends through April 03, plus Friday, March 18.) While not without blemish, my experience has been a whole lot of fun, and in many ways an improvement over their great inaugural season. Read on for specifics:
Teeth
Apr 19
Completing the set of digital medical imaging, here’s a set of dental X-rays. (Sorry it’s one big wide image; that’s as it was sent to me.) At least now, if something goes terribly wrong during my forays into Mad Science, the medical examiner can look to my blog for help in figuring out who I was.
The X-ray source for these images was a handheld emitter, which I didn’t have a chance to oogle as much as I’d have liked, but which I believe to be not unlike the Aribex Nomad pictured to the right. Technologically cool, and great old-school Buck Rogers styling.
Sherwood Forest Faire
Mar 11
A new fair has sprung up in this great land of ours, and against all odds it shows every outward sign of being exceptionally good. Sherwood Forest Faire is running Saturday and Sunday through April 04 of this year. I attended the opening weekend (27, 28 Feb 2010), had a great time, and plan to go back at least one more weekend if schedule and weather permit went back on 20, 21 Mar 2010, and had an even better time despite cold weather.
More gushing praise, links and even a few pictures after the jump.
CAT Scan
Dec 26
More fun and games with medical imaging. I got a lumbar discogram followed by a CAT scan. I was able to get a CD of imaging data from the latter. Gallery of images and some animated 3D visualizations after the cut.
You may recall with some indifference my immediately previous post, wherein I mentioned how impressed I was with some paltry digital X-ray images. That, dear reader, was the impression of a younger and more easily awed version of yr. humble narrator.
For I have now been imaged, in the nuclear magnetic resonance manner, known to the vulgar as an MRI.
Beyond the jump are images: 156 of them, with inline thumbnails (so please use discretion and have patience if your link is slow). Despite my earlier unseemly levity about the JT sign, all said images are impeccably safe for work.
Technology is freakin’ amazing.
Thanks to some lower back pain, I got a hands-on experience with digital radiography today. For five bucks — that’s five US dollars — they gave me a CD with the Dicom image files to take home.
Am I going to share those images? Converted to JPEG format on this very website? You bet I am, after the jump.
