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What have you made with your own two hands?

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  • C Chris Maunder

    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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    Mark_Wallace
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    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!

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    • M Mark_Wallace

      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!

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      10 CC :-D

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      • A Andy Brummer

        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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        Andy Brummer wrote:

        I'm making Halloween costumes for my son and myself.

        My mother was a tailoress, and my daughter is studying all that fashion-designy malarkey. All I can do with needles is make holes in my fingers. The gene must have skipped a generation (unless there's another possible reason I'm missing).

        Andy Brummer wrote:

        Also, I put together an android app that gives the user x-ray vision to look to the other side of the Earth.

        Can't find it! Where is it? I desperately need to see the antipodes!

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          10 CC :-D

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          Mark_Wallace
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          That's one per finger, right?

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          • M Mark_Wallace

            And you enter beauty contests, obviously.

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            Lost User
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            Why wouldn't I with a body like this?

            PooperPig - Coming Soon

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            • D Dr Walt Fair PE

              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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              Lost User
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              Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:

              I make, restore, use and collect Morse code keys

              So, when you show someone your work you can say "I didit" * * morse code joke

              PooperPig - Coming Soon

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              • C Chris Maunder

                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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                Lost User
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                Chris Maunder wrote:

                I make a better pavlova than Maxx.

                It doesn't look like I will be able to get to MM's birthday - but in the event we both make it there, it'll be Pavs at 50 paces :)

                PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                • M Mark_Wallace

                  Andy Brummer wrote:

                  I'm making Halloween costumes for my son and myself.

                  My mother was a tailoress, and my daughter is studying all that fashion-designy malarkey. All I can do with needles is make holes in my fingers. The gene must have skipped a generation (unless there's another possible reason I'm missing).

                  Andy Brummer wrote:

                  Also, I put together an android app that gives the user x-ray vision to look to the other side of the Earth.

                  Can't find it! Where is it? I desperately need to see the antipodes!

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  Lost User
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                  Mark_Wallace wrote:

                  My mother was a tailoress,

                  My mother was a tailor! She sewed my new blue jeans. My father was a gambling man, down in Birmingham.

                  PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                    Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:

                    I make, restore, use and collect Morse code keys

                    So, when you show someone your work you can say "I didit" * * morse code joke

                    PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                    Mark_Wallace
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                    _Maxxx_ wrote:

                    * morse code joke

                    I'm with you as far as "code", but the last word doesn't make any sense.

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      Mark_Wallace wrote:

                      My mother was a tailoress,

                      My mother was a tailor! She sewed my new blue jeans. My father was a gambling man, down in Birmingham.

                      PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                      Mark_Wallace
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                      -5 zoo-cred points for getting the location wrong.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                        Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:

                        I make, restore, use and collect Morse code keys

                        So, when you show someone your work you can say "I didit" * * morse code joke

                        PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                        Dr Walt Fair PE
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                        Yep, but no need to repeat yourself. ;P

                        _Maxxx_ wrote:

                        * morse code joke

                        CQ de W5ALT

                        Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

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                        • M Mark_Wallace

                          _Maxxx_ wrote:

                          * morse code joke

                          I'm with you as far as "code", but the last word doesn't make any sense.

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                          Lost User
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                          See the soapbox for a real morse code joke - for which I will no doubt be chastised, so be quick!

                          PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                          • M Mark_Wallace

                            -5 zoo-cred points for getting the location wrong.

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            Lost User
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                            well it's not my fault my dad wasn't born in the right place!

                            PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                            • M Mark_Wallace

                              That's one per finger, right?

                              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                              Ron Anders
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                              Na, It takes two hands to handle a whopper.

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                              • A Andy Brummer

                                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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                                RossMW
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                                What. You built an apps to look up dresses of people on the other side of the world? Kinky, but only any good at night...

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                                • M Mark_Wallace

                                  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!

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                                  Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                  Running, playing badminton, or sampling newly acquired fragrances[^].

                                  "Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

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                                  • M Mark_Wallace

                                    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!

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                                    Roger Wright
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                                    No Name Substation[^] Other than that, I play in the backyard...

                                    Will Rogers never met me.

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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!

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                                      Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                                      I do several things... 1. Cooking and baking are my favorites 2. I build also furniture 3. Drawing and painting 4. Short and long trips with family

                                      I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

                                      "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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                                      • M Mark_Wallace

                                        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!

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                                        Simon ORiordan from UK
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                                        A 1:72 scale trio of V-Bombers. All painted in classic anti-flash white. Placed on a low, black coffee table that I assembled myself. :-D

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                                          I do several things... 1. Cooking and baking are my favorites 2. I build also furniture 3. Drawing and painting 4. Short and long trips with family

                                          I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

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                                          Mark_Wallace
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                                          Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

                                          Cooking and baking are my favorites

                                          Baking is something I've had wildly varying degrees of success with. Madam bought the Great British Bake-off and Fat Paul's Pies & Puds books, so at least she's getting better at it.

                                          Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

                                          Drawing and painting

                                          W could do with a couple of elements around the CP Lounge. The walls are pretty bare.

                                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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