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April 2011

Computers & Programming

Kayaking Trips

In the process of copying content from www.rectorsquid.com, I decided to include a link to my kayaking trip map page. The image below is a snapshot of the page but is not up-to-date. Click on the image to go to the map page and see the most up-to-date…

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RSS Test

I was interested in RSS so I configured Microsoft Outlook to get the RSS feed for my blog. It seems to be working and this post is a test to see how some configuration changes in Outlook work. Sorry that there is no other interesting content. Other than…

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Sculpture and Art

Sculptures

I have a web page www.rectorsquid.com where I had been adding pictures of various artwork and other things. It seems like this blog is more easily parsed by search engines and I am going to start placing links to various pictures here because of that. I think that…

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Small Ring Roller

I built this small ring bender this weekend. It doesn’t have a crank so 3/16th rod is about the biggest material that can be fed through it by hand. It’s really made for bending rod that is part of a large rolling ball sculpture while the rod is…

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Dear Diary

In keeping with the exhibitionist-diary concept that is called “blog,” I’ll write something today even though I have nothing going on worth writing about. I am working on a switch for the large RBS (Rolling Ball Sculpture) and it’s giving me trouble. It’s not the kind of trouble…

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Computers & Programming, Sculpture and Art

Recent Projects

Rolling Ball Sculpture I’ll need to post some photos soon. I’m working on a billiard ball rolling ball sculpture. It is about 4.5 feet tall and has a chain lift like a roller coaster. The cool feature of this sculpture is the authentic roller coaster look and feel….

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