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or maybe a gerbil

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

at Bill Rickard’s

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

I went up to Bill Rickard’s yesterday to have Hugh Hunter tweak my banjo. Unfortunately Bill wasn’t there; he father died earlier in the week, and the memorial was later in the day. My condolences to Bill and his family.

Hugh was busily turning a banjo-uke block rim on the lathe when I arrived. After a little setup work (file the second string nut to kill a buzz, reduce the head tension to get the tubaphone sound), I looked around the shop.


Tone Rings and rims - including Bill’s new Dobson tone ring


Hardware - bracket bands, Whyte Ladye parts, etc.


The work in progress rack


Whyte Laydie at rear, Tubaphone up front.

For a banjo and engineering nerd, Bill’s shop is amazing. Get yourself invited up there if you get a chance.

coffee time

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

In which Catherine menaces my ca phe sua nong:

like a fibreglass bull on a pickup truck

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

scenes from midwest banjo camp

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Loren\'s Hicks\'s bikeBob Carlin and Joe NewberryOne of the loud tree frogs in Olivet, MIdo not leave an open bag of gummy bears in a hot carpee for enjoyment not for employmentthe quad at Olivet College

random photos

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

i suspect prankage at Langstaff station

the owl of minerva: catherine liked this

blossom and wires

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

blossom and wires

This Seat Reserved for Thor

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

wall of pencils

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Wall of Pencils

At Wallack’s in Ottawa. They are Faber-Castells.

ocarina man is surprised

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

ocarina man is surprised

(it’s the back of an ocarina.)

cutest fish ever

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Rosie the Porcupine Puffer.

wind turbine raccoon sees you

Friday, April 18th, 2008

… and is unimpressed.

racoon at ripley

We encountered a raccoon last night. It was somewhat surprised to see us. Almost as much as we were to find it on top of the steps to a wind turbine.

snoozing squirrel

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

On our fence just now:

snoozing squirrel

owl

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

You can tell I’m a towny when I get all excited about a blurry picture of a Hawk Owl:

hawkowl.jpg

It was kinda windy, and it was taken at maximum digital zoom. The Wikipedia link has a much better picture.

giveaway: windshare turbine picture

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

WindShare / Toronto Hydro wind turbine

Decided to give away my favourite picture of the WindShare/Toronto Hydro wind turbine under an open licence.

Here are the file details:

File size    : 719263 bytes
File date    : 2003:02:23 16:25:10
Camera make  : NIKON
Camera model : E2500
Date/Time    : 2003:02:23 16:25:10
Resolution   : 1200 x 1600
Flash used   : No (auto)
Focal length :  8.9mm  (35mm equivalent: 58mm)
Exposure time: 0.0007 s  (1/1451)
Aperture     : f/3.4
ISO equiv.   : 100
Whitebalance : Auto
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure     : program (auto)
Jpeg process : Progressive
GPS Latitude : N 43d 37m 54.98s
GPS Longitude: W 79d 25m 32.4876s
Comment      : WindShare / Toronto Hydro wind turbine
Comment      : Exhibition Place, Toronto
Comment      : taken on opening day, 23 Feb 2003
Comment      : licensed Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons by the
Comment      : creator, Stewart C. Russell / scruss.com - 23 March 2008

It’s also on flickr and Wikimedia Commons.

wish I had a canon …

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

It’s probably as well that the most basic digicam that CHDK runs on is just too expensive to be an impulse buy, else I’d be doing all the weird and wonderful things you can hack your Canon digicam to do.

All that’s left of Bishop’s Block

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Bishop’s Block windows

Two windows are pretty much all that’s left standing at Bishop’s Block, which was one of the oldest buildings in Toronto. It would seem that the façade is being kept for the new Shangri-la bourge hut, but the way the workers have been wrecking old bricks, it would be a surprise if much of the outer wall can be rebuilt.

Bishop’s Block windows

probably the wrong time to have bought a polaroid back

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Save Polaroid - Save Instant Film

ice crystals

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

ice crystals on the car windscreen

okay, so maybe it’s not spring, then

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

car buried in snow