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Went to Alcoa/Maryville to check out the new Aldi market there, and to get a paint marker at Hobby Lobby. At the latter, I also found a little artist mannekin keychain. The mannekin doesn't have much articulation, but is a useful size (roughly 1/25 scale). So I bought it and removed it from its keychain components.

I got my catalog from TEKO today (http://www.teko.it or http://tekoenclosures.com). They manufacture what are called enclosures for the electronics industries. Other people make gadgets; it's TEKO's job to wrap it up in a practical case that ( Read more... )

The train of thought that went through yesterday's post about the toy Porsche 917 led me to the Laser 917 and Aztec/Avenger/Valkyrie families of kit cars, inspired by the Porsche 917 and Ford GT40 cars respectively. Both the Laser and Valkyrie kit bodies are still in production, and now I'm wondering what could be the MINIMAL changes in ( Read more... )

Nothing like going back to an old theme to see if it has anything I hadn't discovered the first (or second, or third) time.

In this Previous Commentary I did a look through of the 1981 Book of Predictions to see where we had been in the turn of the 21st Century as opposed to how things looked to happen back then ( Read more... )

( I Hear There Is Also an Instrumental Version )

( Perpetually building the future one penstroke at a time )

1) Manufactured Housing...I go past mobile home sellers fairly frequently around here, and I see those Colonials and Ranches and ones like those and think "You know, since the market is shifting toward immigrants, they really ought to be changing their styles. More Mediterranean Revival, more Hacienda, more Mission ( Read more... )

Hey.

Anybody else here habitually read the "Friends" page of any of your LJ "Friends"? I read kevissimo's, but that's just because his circle of friends is always interesting and worth reading. I'm not into reading the Friends page of any of my other friends, tho'. I mean, I'd do it every so often, but not for all of them and not every day ( Read more... )