tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68080702008-10-19T21:33:46.155-04:00(in)frequently updated log of stuffentertaining dozens of readers since 1997jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-7571279485768362502008-10-19T21:07:00.003-04:002008-10-19T21:33:46.165-04:00walnut end tableI finally started, and finished, a walnut burl end table I've been meaning to build for the past year or so. I got some really sweet looking burl veneers - approximately 9x9", and quarter-matched them into a very pleasing pattern.
The legs and apron are domestic walnut, with a cherry inlay band on the top. It was built similarly in style to the coffee table, but with narrower stock for legs, jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-40707821762459263072008-02-12T21:40:00.001-05:002008-02-12T21:40:11.178-05:00bang camaroI'm currently sitting at the masq waiting for bang camaro to start playng. the first band, sgt (somethbing or other) was a pretty decent southern rock band, complete with camo netting on the drumset. band #2 , corgi, is absolutely horrible. so horrible that I'd rather type out a blog post on my phone than listen to this ass anymore. its really bad. very bad. in summary, they jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-53090882075981208732007-11-28T01:18:00.000-05:002007-11-28T14:48:21.489-05:00coffee scoopFor my first turning project after getting back into the game, I decided to go small and turn a coffee scoop. It comes in the same sort of kit that the pens do, where you buy the brass parts and turn the handel out of whatever. I started with what appeared to be a really nicely patterned wood blank that I had laying around, but by the time I turned it down to size, there was no more interestingjakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-5786506488925662382007-11-27T21:49:00.000-05:002007-11-28T11:34:40.119-05:00Coffee TableI'm pretty much finished with my new coffee table. Given that it will take a lot of abuse, I want to put several more layers of polyurethane on it before calling it "officially done", but it's pretty close. Since the shop (garage) is so dusty, I've been applying the finish up on the dining table, so I had to put off the finishing project, what with Thanksgiving and the whole "needing the dinnerjakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-67756868659087033402007-11-14T01:01:00.000-05:002007-11-14T17:06:08.895-05:00molting follow-upI've pretty much finished molting. I went back to the office for the first time on Monday, after working from home for about 3 weeks. I have to say - I got accustomed to having a fireplace in my "office". I'm going to miss that. That and spending more time with Judi. But mostly the fireplace.
Here is the latest udpate on the whole skin peeling off / rash thing.
The dermatologist says it's jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-24448883156597621262007-10-25T21:51:00.000-04:002007-11-28T14:42:54.509-05:00Taco Bell's statistically invalid promotionSo Jacoby Ellsbury just stole second base in game 2 of the world series. Taco Bell has a promotion that says everybody in the United States can have a free taco.
This has to be one of the most horseshit offers ever, both in spirit and statistical impossibility.
Lets look at the numbers.
Offer is limited to 2-5pm local time on October 30, 2007. (180 minutes)
Of course, most people are at work jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-78092168293507436822007-10-25T01:10:00.000-04:002007-10-25T02:23:27.385-04:00molting(Or - a medical entry with forced humor so people don't think i'm dying.)
So apparently I'm some sort of crustacean all of the sudden.
And it's molting season.
You know when you get sunburned, and then you peel? It's a lot like that, except without the sunburn. And the "peels" are crunchier.
Nice imagery, huh?
From what I've read, it appears that in humans, it's called (medically) jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-61153979965540414412007-10-11T09:05:00.000-04:002007-10-11T12:11:58.290-04:00let them liejakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-83660868753934963722007-10-11T00:52:00.000-04:002007-10-11T17:55:46.330-04:00first attempts at turning pensI turned my first 2 pens over the past couple nights. The first one is actually a combination of 2 different pens - one that was going to be cherry, and the other an unidentified pen blank that I got some time ago. When turning them, I got a little bit too heavy-handed and wound up splitting the wood when it got thin, effectively ruining that half of the pen. Rather than waste the effort, I jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-64950929166171480582007-10-07T15:31:00.001-04:002007-10-11T16:08:31.443-04:00Pao Ferro bowl
This is the small bowl I made this weekend. The wood is the smaller piece of the pao ferro I bought last week at rockler. I didn't make any major mistakes on this one, and I am pretty pleased with the shape. There's a little bit of tearout on the inside of the bowl, and I could have done a little better job blending the side to the bottom on the inside of the bowl.
I didn't think to take jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-32658280327225909552007-10-04T12:36:00.000-04:002007-10-11T14:37:40.747-04:00Lathe projects + Shopping experienceI finally got my new lathe which was on back order for a few weeks. I've spent my nights turning a few of my famous chipped-edge bowls, one bowl that came out half-way decent, and a lidded box that may be nice enough to sell for more than the price I paid for the wood, were I to try to sell it.
The patented chipped-edge bowl, made from the remains of what Judi says is a willow oak that died jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-3224897157812222832007-09-23T14:01:00.000-04:002007-09-23T14:10:53.276-04:00email fixedBack in June, I realized that my mailserver wasn't delivering mail to @jakevil.com addresses anymore. They weren't getting bounced -- they were just being blackholed somewhere.
In the fine tradition of "who gives a rats ass", I ignored the problem for about 3 months.
I'm happy to say that emails are now being delivered again. Rather than fight with my own internal server, or pay someone to dojakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-70976084046896545812007-07-12T17:43:00.001-04:002007-08-15T12:07:05.973-04:00vanilla tootsie rollsvanilla tootsie rolls are quite tasty. that's all.jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-8304464644852369332007-06-17T17:37:00.000-04:002007-06-20T18:01:50.594-04:00Crushed Red Peppers Treated with Radiation
Ordered some Papa John's Pizza the other night, and happened to notice that the packets of crushed red peppers now state:
CRUSHED RED PEPPERS TREATED WITH RADIATIONA quick google search didn't turn up much other than a few random blogs noticing the same thing.
I fully expect to mutate in some manner over the course of the following months. I'll keep you updated if I notice any extra jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-85516841510609356512007-06-16T23:30:00.000-04:002007-06-19T11:55:09.019-04:00Fishin'Andy and I went boating / fishing in Lake Lanier today with my coworker Brian. Brian has a sailboat, and there really wasn't any wind, so we never put the sails up. Fortunately, he has a small outboard motor as well, which was good enough to get us where we were going.
I think Andy was under the impression that "fishing" is the same as "catching fish." He's since learned that "fishing" equalsjakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-87258563346274812212007-06-15T01:21:00.000-04:002007-06-15T13:30:44.384-04:00random site of the random time periodjakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-7143028587109484342007-06-08T16:48:00.001-04:002007-06-08T19:02:45.397-04:00mobile postingnot sure how useful this might be, but I figured I'd test out posting from my phone. woo woo.jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-54054568151692483832007-06-07T21:36:00.000-04:002007-11-16T15:01:32.730-05:00Attention Arby's: You suck.Reasons why Arby's, with particular attention to the Arby's on Hammond Drive, sucks.
They switched to Pepsi products last year. I could forgive this somewhat, because the Jamocha shakes are still quite tasty.They no longer have baked potatoesThe guy behind the counter suggested I get an order of the "Loaded Potato Bites", which are essentially deep fried tater tots with cheese and bacon in them.jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-74175631666002898272007-06-07T19:09:00.001-04:002007-07-01T11:25:24.909-04:00New SpeakersI finally finished the new speakers I've been building for the past couple of months. The whole process took way longer than I'd anticipated, and naturally cost far more than I'd anticipated also.
They started out as sheets of MDF that I picked up locally at Suwanee Lumber, and slices of veneer that I ordered online at veneersupplies.com. If you're interested at all in veneer work, and don't jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-85207030980800566542007-04-18T18:54:00.000-04:002007-06-07T19:46:25.943-04:00cleanup.sh scriptSince I enjoyed yesterday's update so much, I went ahead and wrote the garage cleaner script
#!/bin/bash
STORAGE=/home/jake/garage
CURMONTH=`/bin/date +%m`
if [ $CURMONTH -lt 6 ]
then
echo "Nothing to do - it's not June yet."
exit 0
fi
do_sortclothes()
{
USELESS=`cat $ITEM | egrep -c 'smell|hole|stains|misc_faggotry'`
if [ $USELESS -ne 0 ]
then rm -f $ITEM
else
chown nobody $jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-68282210341827603392007-04-17T04:56:00.000-04:002007-06-07T19:46:43.215-04:00The friend-o-delete-o-matic 2000I wrote up a new script. Feel free to modify it to suit your needs. I offer consulting at very affordable rates if you're uncomfortable with bash.
#!/bin/bash
# for best results, run from cron every 1 minute
HOUSE=/home/jake
ls -1 $HOUSE | while read GUEST ; do
case $GUEST in
dave) rm -f $HOUSE/$GUEST ;;
*) ;;
esac
donejakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-59550787978731697892005-01-13T18:51:00.000-05:002007-06-13T19:22:33.986-04:00Designing and making your own custom poker chipsBackground
With the recent popularization of poker, many people today are getting their own set of poker chips. While many are content with cheap plastic chips (like those you'd get at the mega-pharmacy in the "games, candy, and zippo-flint" aisle), many people are opting to invest in a more substantial set of chips. One of the most popular styles is the "clay-composie" chip, which isn't made ofjakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-1096733279714251762004-10-02T13:00:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:40:56.654-04:00those crazy vegans...My sister recently got me a pizzelle iron for my birthday, so I thought it would be nice to make her a batch of tasty pizzelles for a treat. Unfortunately (for me) she eats a vegan diet. So the normal "4 eggs, 2 sticks of butter" recipe wouldn't work very well for this purpose. Interestingly, as far as I could find, there are no "vegan pizzelle" recipes on the Internet, so I got to make up my jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-1096057255433152262004-09-24T16:10:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:41:09.756-04:00happy birthday to meI finally got the set of poker chips I ordered after my birthday. A few of my friends chipped in for cash, and let me do the dirty work on eBay. Which was fine with me.
On a side note, even though I was home all day, and was listening for the UPS truck, he managed to sneak up the driveway and drop the package off by my garage door. I suspect he was too lazy to walk up the stairs and ring the jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808070.post-1095803564719883732004-09-21T17:40:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:41:04.079-04:00doggie doctorThis is why hamsters are better than dogs. A new hamster costs about $5.
Wellness Exam............................$36.45 Distemper Vaccination (dhp) adult.........$7.50 Parvovirus Vaccination....................$7.00 Leptospirosis vaccine (4 serovars).......$12.75 Bordetella/Kennel Cough..................$12.50 Heartworm/Lyme/Ehrlichia blood test......$29.50 Fecal float-Micro jakevilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157201840694125877noreply@blogger.com