A Wanderer
Not all who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I am a recently retired accountant/finance professional looking to explore all of the interests I have had over the years, promising myself that I would pursue them “when I had the time”. Maybe you are on a similar journey.
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Father & Son Collaboration
I may have mentioned before that I share my shop with some friends. A friend made a nutcracker with his young son. I think it came out pretty well!
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3D Printing
I recently acquired a 3D printer through a kickstarter, the AnkerMake M5. It was pretty easy to set up and the first two files printed well. The first one came from the pre-installed library. It has some complicated features to it, but printed fine. The second, the bookmark, I designed in Fusion 360 while following…
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Unavailable Thoughts
My son said a while ago that there were thoughts a person could not have if he only spoke one language. I said I had trouble believing there were thoughts I could not think. Robert Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, has some Koreans tell him that thinking in a language with…
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Blue Mars
I recently read Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. From the highlights I made, gardening and terraforming, including ecopoiesis, dominated. According to NASA, “Ecopoiesis is the concept of initiating life in a new place; more precisely, the creation of an ecosystem capable of supporting life. It is the concept of initiating “terraforming” using physical, chemical…
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Physical Journal
In a Ryan Holiday YouTube video on journaling, he suggests a physical journal on the basis that in the future it will be available, whereas digital copies may not be. One of the reasons I like Obsidian is that it creates text files. They are unlikely to be unavailable in the future. Like physical books,…
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Planer Stand
This afternoon, I designed my first project from scratch using Fusion 360, a stand for my planer. I found a design I liked from a You Tuber, Daniel Demir (video at Thickness Planer Stand). I modified Daniel’s design dimensions to my needs and lost myself for a few hours in the design. The design is…
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