Nothing exciting to report… I hung the work on “Kubla Khan” up next to each other so I can see the progress and fill the holes. Also gotta write a “screw you, landlords” letter today giving notice — once again, this afternoon there was no water pressure for about three hours.
Expanded after bedtime… Having finished Coraline last week, Nefarious and I started on Caitlin’s latest book-gift, James and the Giant Peach, which she’s absolutely loving. We made it through the first seventeen chapters after school… I think when we finish this we’ll read The Twenty-One Balloons, which for some reason I thought was actually by Roald Dahl but is actually by William Pène du Bois. I enjoyed it a great deal as a child.
Other than that, if you haven’t already checked out the idle entertainment of Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog, one of the latest viral hits, do enjoy it. In more productive watching there have been a couple great features on Make today — this post in which “lost-foam” casting is done to create a set of pulleys (although I have to think that just machining them would have been easier), and also this idea about building flat-pack houses on location using a CNC cutter… Reminds me of the old portable steam-powered saw mills that could be brought to location to fabricate most of what was needed for a barn or home on site.
