What have you made with your own two hands?
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Whoopee, hanky-panky, and mayhem.
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
BillWoodruff wrote:
hanky-panky,
Whoa hold on now... :)
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OK, so John takes dead cars and turns them into super-cars, I take wood and make houses/furniture/absolutely anything out of it, and DD takes suckers and makes money out of them (tres tory); but we're extremes, and this place is full of analytical brains that should be able to turn their associated hands to anything, so what is it that you actually, physically make, when not sitting at a computer?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I occasionally paint - sometimes with melted wax (encaustic painting) though not as much as I would like. I also make a fool of myself. And I make sweet, passionate love (don't tell the wife!!) I make a great Pavlova. I also made (ok, only once, but it was a biggie for me!) a sculpture out of light bulbs. Oh, and a MAME arcade machine. Finally, I make the world a better place X|
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Music, and occasionally paintings.
I have a very particular guitar style. It's called "cr@p". I should have bought a violin.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I used to build tall bikes (and other strange ones) when I lived in France. Would still do it but don't have the resources at the moment to run my own workshop back here in Germany.
A guy I knew in Massa, Italy, made bespoke racing bikes. When I see bikes nowadays with those godawful machine-welded joints, it makes me want to cry. Even my latest Koga has welded joints -- but at least they took a file to them!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Work with boys grade 1 to 6 to teach them how to work with their hands: bird houses, tool boxes, lamps, lazy susans. And, in the process, learn how to do it myself.
Great stuff. Someone doing that for me was how I started; now I can make just about anything.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Whoopee, hanky-panky, and mayhem.
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
BillWoodruff wrote:
Whoopee, hanky-panky
"with your own two hands?" Ewwwwww! Never mind the pic! I don't want to know if it really happened!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have wore many hats over the years but 2 of my most personally rewarding were; I created a C++ program that ran on a VAX that communicated with an automatic call distributor that handled the routing of incoming and outgoing calls for a call center of 350 people that handled ~5K calls per day. For about 13 years I got out of programming and started my own construction company and remodeled many houses but I did one for a guy that flipped them and he had bought a house for ~24K that hadn't had a roof on it for 3 weeks during the rainy season. He and his partner tried to reframe the interior but decided it was to much for them so they hired my partner and I. When we finished it was appraised at $120K.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
For about 13 years I got out of programming and started my own construction company
I did it for about eight years. Damned if they weren't eight of the best years of my life, for two reasons: 1. You really can see what you've achieved after a day's work. That's unbelievably satisfying. 2. Office politics? Like f***. If someone's pissed off, everyone learns of it in honest terms.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I occasionally paint - sometimes with melted wax (encaustic painting) though not as much as I would like. I also make a fool of myself. And I make sweet, passionate love (don't tell the wife!!) I make a great Pavlova. I also made (ok, only once, but it was a biggie for me!) a sculpture out of light bulbs. Oh, and a MAME arcade machine. Finally, I make the world a better place X|
PooperPig - Coming Soon
And you enter beauty contests, obviously.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mike Hankey wrote:
For about 13 years I got out of programming and started my own construction company
I did it for about eight years. Damned if they weren't eight of the best years of my life, for two reasons: 1. You really can see what you've achieved after a day's work. That's unbelievably satisfying. 2. Office politics? Like f***. If someone's pissed off, everyone learns of it in honest terms.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Damned if they weren't eight of the best years of my life, for two reasons:
Yeah it was pretty great.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
1. You really can see what you've achieved after a day's work. That's unbelievably satisfying.
You work hard and it is satisfying to see what you've done. I still go by places I've done and think about the job.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
2. Office politics? Like f***. If someone's pissed off, everyone learns of it in honest terms.
Stress was a lot less and I didn't do jobs where there was liable to be politics involved. Although I did paint a porch for some rich people 4 times because when one or the other would come home they would tell me that's the wrong color. So I finally sat them both down and said listen...
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I take time and make it disappear!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
I can make replies disappear.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK, so John takes dead cars and turns them into super-cars, I take wood and make houses/furniture/absolutely anything out of it, and DD takes suckers and makes money out of them (tres tory); but we're extremes, and this place is full of analytical brains that should be able to turn their associated hands to anything, so what is it that you actually, physically make, when not sitting at a computer?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
A rather crooked fence....The old fence between the neighbour and I was about 30 years old, and wobbly...we started with the best intentions, neither of us had done one....and it showed. It is up...done. Not perfectly straight, not perfectly upright, but it's done.... Next year the other side of the yard, and some lessons hard learned. :sigh: :sigh:
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Damned if they weren't eight of the best years of my life, for two reasons:
Yeah it was pretty great.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
1. You really can see what you've achieved after a day's work. That's unbelievably satisfying.
You work hard and it is satisfying to see what you've done. I still go by places I've done and think about the job.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
2. Office politics? Like f***. If someone's pissed off, everyone learns of it in honest terms.
Stress was a lot less and I didn't do jobs where there was liable to be politics involved. Although I did paint a porch for some rich people 4 times because when one or the other would come home they would tell me that's the wrong color. So I finally sat them both down and said listen...
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
Mike Hankey wrote:
I still go by places I've done and think about the job.
What gets me now is how much you forget. I've all but rebuilt the house I'm living in now, but it's been a struggle, sometimes, to remember all the little details of how to do stuff that I've done easily in the past. Plus: if you're not getting paid for it, it can be hard to find the willingness to pay so much attention to detail (e.g. saying "oh, it's near enough plumb/square" or "oh, it's not worth scribing" have been things I've regretted more than once!)
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I still go by places I've done and think about the job.
What gets me now is how much you forget. I've all but rebuilt the house I'm living in now, but it's been a struggle, sometimes, to remember all the little details of how to do stuff that I've done easily in the past. Plus: if you're not getting paid for it, it can be hard to find the willingness to pay so much attention to detail (e.g. saying "oh, it's near enough plumb/square" or "oh, it's not worth scribing" have been things I've regretted more than once!)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Even though I'm retired I've been remodeling the house I'm living in. My son is in the military and he and his wife bought am older house that needs a lot of work so I've been working on it a little at a time. Latest project, have been replacing windows one per month in lieu of rent. They had someone come out and estimate the replacement cost, $12K and when I get done it will have cost ~$2K + my time, takes me about 2 hours per window.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
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A rather crooked fence....The old fence between the neighbour and I was about 30 years old, and wobbly...we started with the best intentions, neither of us had done one....and it showed. It is up...done. Not perfectly straight, not perfectly upright, but it's done.... Next year the other side of the yard, and some lessons hard learned. :sigh: :sigh:
Fences can be harder than they look. Just remember to dig deeper than you think is necessary, and if you get even the slightest feeling that a string line might help (over however short a distance) then you string that line -- it's never not worth the effort.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Even though I'm retired I've been remodeling the house I'm living in. My son is in the military and he and his wife bought am older house that needs a lot of work so I've been working on it a little at a time. Latest project, have been replacing windows one per month in lieu of rent. They had someone come out and estimate the replacement cost, $12K and when I get done it will have cost ~$2K + my time, takes me about 2 hours per window.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
Mike Hankey wrote:
takes me about 2 hours per window
heh. Don't worry; I won't tell him.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK, so John takes dead cars and turns them into super-cars, I take wood and make houses/furniture/absolutely anything out of it, and DD takes suckers and makes money out of them (tres tory); but we're extremes, and this place is full of analytical brains that should be able to turn their associated hands to anything, so what is it that you actually, physically make, when not sitting at a computer?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Well, I started trying to learn a musical instrument, but found out my only talent is for playing the radio. Then, I thought making videos would be neat, but I was informed that I have a face perfect for radio. So, I thought about singing and was told that I should be on the radio ... so they could turn it off. Hmm .... maybe I should try radios? Now they tell me I have a voice perfectly made for Morse code. I make, restore, use and collect Morse code keys and tinker with radios and antennas.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Well, I started trying to learn a musical instrument, but found out my only talent is for playing the radio. Then, I thought making videos would be neat, but I was informed that I have a face perfect for radio. So, I thought about singing and was told that I should be on the radio ... so they could turn it off. Hmm .... maybe I should try radios? Now they tell me I have a voice perfectly made for Morse code. I make, restore, use and collect Morse code keys and tinker with radios and antennas.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
I make, restore, use and collect Morse code keys
That's one of the better hobbies because (apart from the beautiful brasswork) you don't need 350,000 square yards of storage space for it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK, so John takes dead cars and turns them into super-cars, I take wood and make houses/furniture/absolutely anything out of it, and DD takes suckers and makes money out of them (tres tory); but we're extremes, and this place is full of analytical brains that should be able to turn their associated hands to anything, so what is it that you actually, physically make, when not sitting at a computer?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
At various times I have: - rebuilt cars. Too many cars. - renovate houses - landscape (everything from the lawns, feature gardnes tree removal and inground sprinkler systems) - I once had a thriving business growing and selling carnivorous plants. Isn't that what all high school kids did in their spare time? - I make a better pavlova than Maxx.
cheers Chris Maunder
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OK, so John takes dead cars and turns them into super-cars, I take wood and make houses/furniture/absolutely anything out of it, and DD takes suckers and makes money out of them (tres tory); but we're extremes, and this place is full of analytical brains that should be able to turn their associated hands to anything, so what is it that you actually, physically make, when not sitting at a computer?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'm making Halloween costumes for my son and myself. I've also been tinkering with an arduino with him. I also got to do a little arduino demo for kids in a local foster care center. I've also built the site in my signature. Also, I put together an android app that gives the user x-ray vision to look to the other side of the Earth.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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At various times I have: - rebuilt cars. Too many cars. - renovate houses - landscape (everything from the lawns, feature gardnes tree removal and inground sprinkler systems) - I once had a thriving business growing and selling carnivorous plants. Isn't that what all high school kids did in their spare time? - I make a better pavlova than Maxx.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
- rebuilt cars. Too many cars.
That sounds like one of the main reasons I quit driving. I decided that time spent doing other things was time better spent.
Chris Maunder wrote:
- renovate houses
That's something I can't quit.
Chris Maunder wrote:
landscape (everything from the lawns, feature gardnes tree removal and inground sprinkler systems)
Oh God, no! I don't mind getting dirty with machine oil, paint, sawdust, varnish, etc, but garden dirt?!? That stuff's alive! It's full of living things! I bought a house with gardens for the missus (and I've even bedecked/enplantered the garage roof for her), but she knows better than to ask me to stick my hands in mud. I can't be doing with that.
Chris Maunder wrote:
- I once had a thriving business growing and selling carnivorous plants. Isn't that what all high school kids did in their spare time?
No, I just overpaid for 'em, you apple-loving bugger!
Chris Maunder wrote:
- I make a better pavlova than Maxx.
Hell, that's hardly an achievement; these beauty queens are cr@p at cooking.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!