I have successfully used hard Bullseye glass to make beads, and annealed them. Victory is mine!

Soon, PMC finials for wire-weaving.

I has it, a Paragon Caldera, with a bead collar ( Read more... )

For objects at rest, E=MC^2.

For objects in general, E=MV^2.

Thus, for objects at rest, MC^2 = MV^2.

Since they're at rest, MC^2 = M * 0^2, or MC^2 = 0.

Since C is a constant, the only way this can work out is if M = 0.

Thus, physics has shown that mass doesn't exist, and thus neither does energy!

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So, I'm contemplating getting a kiln.

Rafni gave me some shiny Bullseye glass a while back, and I hear it needs needs needs to be annealed in the way the Moretti I've been using doesn't.

I wouldn't mind also being able to fuse silver and maybe do enameling.

Looking at the temperatures, it looks like a lot of kilns can anneal glass and do enameling and ( Read more... )

New at McDonalds, the McCafe Shepherd's Pie Mocha.

We take the finest coffee and chocolate and milk and make a delicious mocha, then top it with a scoop of mashed potatoes and a drizzle of brown gravy.

Mmmmmm.

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I hate OPOS/UPOS.

I hate vendors that have no idea that in 2009 people might just be running a 64 bit OS and consider making their !@#!# OPOS drivers capable of running on one.

I hate vendors (this means you, MS, and you, Epson) that make sample code that's so convoluted that it's useless for its intended purpose of letting you understand how the ( Read more... )

So, as many people know, I've started pewter casting.

I made a flat pendanty tokeny thing, and it turned out usably okay.

So now I want to make some belt fittings, with rivet backs.

That did not turn out okay.

How does one get a rivet back to fill in with the metal while casting?

The obvious solution of "drill it through the mold so the air can get out ( Read more... )

My Model1 stuff came today, and apart from needing some red Loctite for the gas block and flash hider, I'm down to needing a bolt group and sights.

Soon. 

As soon as orders from Midway and Model 1 Sales arrive, I shall have everything I need for my M4gery except a bolt group and sights.

Those can wait 'till next month or so, since I don't plan on going to the range anytime real soon anyway.