Wow, That Was Fast

[dotplaid]

Went to the pottery shop Color Me Mine this weekend for my mostly-annual-paint-a-thing-on-my-birthday celebration. I had, some years ago, painted a chopstick bowl (their term not mine) in a very zen fashion - one small strip of blue on the outside and one small strip of black on the inside - but it broke in my last apartment. This year I decided to

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[dotplaid]

cos(0). I totally MacGyvered it. Holding my hand very steady, and supporting only my elbow, I traced some horizontal circles inside the bowl. I then rested a plastic ruler (grabbed from a community jar) on top of the bowl and centered it over two principal meridians, 90° apart. One created the upper and lower boundaries for the lettering and the other helped determine the letters. I ran two skinny pieces of tape along either side of the ruler, creating two slits that I could see through. Centering my eye-line just so, looking through those spaces, I made little ticks at semi-regular intervals then freehand-connected the dots to form lines. Move the ruler and repeat. Violin!

As for the other colorers: dunno. I foolishly wandered in on Friday night, anxious to get started and spent a goodly amount of time trying to find a way to squeeze aigneadh into the rim as well - all of the letters would have been excruciatingly small if I'd forced it.

Here's another tip for ya. It's pretty much open seating, but sit nearer the dishes and bathware. Anyone under the age of 10 will bum rush the football player- & Tinkerbell-statues and get bored with browsing by the time they hit the nacho bowls. I wasn't ever bumped but I did have to regularly move my brush away from the bowl. I thought that sitting at a high table near the window would feed my ego, but passersby only saw some random guy sitting there worriedly eyeing his drying paint.

2.7ish. I hear ya. I used a spoon tonight, but a proper metal spoon. And I put it all the way in my mouth. I mean, it wasn't a big spoon or anything, so nobody got hurt.

3.14159ish. I don't plan on making handlebars or little bonsai creations, as I like a neatly trimmed 'stache. Rebellious? Nah. I prefer the term 'vivacious'.

0.75. That's why God invented seconds!

5 (think binary!). Your Lewis Carrollian depiction doesn't fool me in the least. Everybody knows that a horse's bones are on the inside. But if we suppose for the moment that this filly is dressed up in a skeleton costume (the only logical option as mares are well-reputed to militantly avoid celebrating Halloween) then I am pleased you answered my question. The placement of the shoulder does seem appropriate, but I am forced to rethink my notion of where the term 'shoulder' is appropriately placed. Further (a la my current FB status), I now know why horses are flat-footed...I always assumed that they had musculature control over their hooves. Whiz-bang you're smart.

[dotplaid]

My dad walked me to school the first day of 1st grade. Outside the classroom, my teacher got down on my eye level and asked me if I would like to be called "Lee" or "Norman" - even then I knew that I would need all the help I could get if I had any hope of surviving recess, and that Norman was too easy a target. I'm the fourth, you know, and I've come to claim the name and the lineage as my own.

You're right there is an abundance of noodling going on there, but all of my other shots were /fail - in one of them I missed my mouth completely. No, I won't be posting that, no matter how much you beg.

The hairs are unruly, at least while they're short. I think. I generally get bored with the beard after a few months and shave it off, only to regrow it again when I'm bored with the chin I know. It was easy when I lived in CO cuz I would grow some sort of facial hair for the month of March to usher in the spring, then shave it off on March 31st. CA seasons are goofy, though, and my beardly rhythm has been thrown out of whack.

That's a pretty cool picture of a horse! I wonder if the artist chose green for the throat and stomach(?) because grass is green.... I would surmise, based on nothing but the unruliness of my mustache, that horses can't don't have an equine version of the Tibialis anterior, or as I call it, the toe-tapping muscle. This would mean that the hoof just sort of hangs there and is mostly always parallel to the ground: flat footed.

Oh, and as for color schema. Though it's true I am an engineer, I still allow room for a muse. The colors and tartan pattern comes from the end of the paintbrush and not much else.