I repaired the broken gear and replaced the two electrical components. Saturday, I took apart the base and bowl holder to paint them. For bizarre reasons, the canary yellow with a black stripe down the middle was very appealing. I did part of the bowl holder, the tail cone and (though you can’t see it […]
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Yay – the search is over! I went to a shop to get a test ride of a Cannondale T2000 touring bike. The guy working the floor suggested I try the Cannondale Synapse “Northwest Edition,” a variant I hadn’t heard of before. As described on the Montlake Bicycle Shop page: [The Synapse Northwest], a sport
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While pondering the new bike attributes, I got to thinking about my current bike and all the random maintenance and retrofitting I’ve done over its lifetime. As of Thursday evening, I have ridden 11,400 miles on the ‘ Friday. Though this is not even a year’s worth for Kent, it’s a lot for me.
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I liked John‘s and Woodstock‘s suggestion of decorating an otherwise boring home appliance. I called Krylon, makers of Paint That Sticks To Anything, and got some recommendations on the type to look for. Based on the cost and my lack of artistic merit in this sort of endeavor, I don’t think the flames motif would
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At a previous employer, we had a software utility, wcheckdb, whose purpose was to clean up all of the object database-cruft leftover from day-to-day use of the product. Its output was initially a series of cryptic diagnostics that only the lead engineer could appreciate. We often redirected these to a file. The program had a
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My KitchenAid mixer had been making abnormal noises during the last few batches of cookies. This afternoon, while subjected to my bagel dough, it gave out entirely. Because I am: curious and cheap and middle-aged it would be a safe bet that I’ll take it apart to determine if I can fix it. If my
As a numberphile, I often find amusement in tracking numbers and analyzing the results in different ways. For example, when I flew, I maintained a logbook of every landing, aircraft type and flight conditions. In the unlikely event I would be quizzed, I could rattle off a variety of facts like “the last night landing
My tire had a weird bump-bump-bump to it on the way into work this morning. Since the tire was not losing air, and there was nothing obviously lodged in it, I assumed it was tar or gum or something. The mental note to look further once I got into work was apparently shredded. On the
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