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10-01-2010, 03:27 PM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
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Originally Posted by Qingdai
I don't have a picture, but I'm in the process of making 2.5 gallons of hard apple cider. Does that count when it's drinkable or when I put up that carboy? Either way I've got nothing this week.
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 I'm putting 3 gallons of wine in the small carboy this afternoon.
Fermenters itt.
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10-01-2010, 04:06 PM
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Crafty Agitator
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I'm in! I'll make something this weekend. Can you finish something you already started?
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10-01-2010, 04:26 PM
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nominalistic existential pragmaticist
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
Here. I made the plans for my office desk:
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10-01-2010, 04:31 PM
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Vaginally-privileged sociopathic cultist
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I made perfect guacamole on my very first try.
Maybe I'll whip up an origami crane tomorrow.
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10-01-2010, 04:37 PM
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I said it, so I feel it, dick
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
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Also I can't be fucked to go to the post office and stuff, having to do it for SS is bad enough.
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Obviously kidding. I love SS
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10-01-2010, 04:50 PM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
Hell yes hard cider counts, however, in lieu of photos you'll have to act the complete fool under its influence.
vremya, sure you can finish something you started.
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10-01-2010, 05:04 PM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
What? More than usual? Is that possible???
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10-01-2010, 05:32 PM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
You want to win the Make Something Contest? Well, the Make Something Contest costs, and right here is where you start paying: in extreme foolery.
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10-01-2010, 05:35 PM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I spent the night in my office making a grant application. But I can't give it to you.
But if I get the grant, naturally you're all welcome to join me in snorting meth off a grad student's ass through rolled-up $1000 bills at some fake conference or other. Academic networking, we call it.
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10-01-2010, 05:41 PM
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liar in wolf's clothing
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
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snorting meth off a grad student's ass
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god that was an awesome fellowship
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10-01-2010, 06:27 PM
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Dogehlaugher -Scrutari
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
Yuck! Grad students, don't you have access to something less neurotic?
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10-01-2010, 10:07 PM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I'll be making a sammich later today.
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10-01-2010, 10:29 PM
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I'm the young one on the inside
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
Sorry Liv,
I make things all the time 'cuz I need them.
For  boring, for us (Sandra and me) - L&D.
I had an estimate of £2,000 for replacing my domestic heating oil tank.
I bought one for £600, built the stone plinth myself and got some friends to help me get it in place for £50. It's most probably legal!
I'm always combining weldmesh metal netting and plywood to make vermin-proof huts.
When I've made them - you can't have them!!!
I love freemonkey's avatar. (& sig)
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10-01-2010, 11:03 PM
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Clutchenheimer
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
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snorting meth off a grad student's ass
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Not the fellowship of the ring, I hope.
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10-02-2010, 12:04 AM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I never make anything 
Except coffee from beans.
Well, I grind them first. Works better.
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10-02-2010, 12:11 AM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I can crochet a blanket, does that count
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10-02-2010, 12:26 AM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I made a washcloth from some scrap yarn last night:
 img_1493.jpg by lisarea, on Flickr
And I am making a new batch of deodorant* in a few minutes because I am out.
* 1 part cornstarch, 1 part baking soda, a few drops of tea tree oil, and a couple drops of peppermint and/or orange oil, in a spice jar with a shaker lid.
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10-02-2010, 12:32 AM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
Of course crocheting a blanket counts. That's pretty advanced thing-making, in fact.
Watser?, if you make it and serve in a silver service on a baseball field like in A League of Their Own, that totally counts too.
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10-02-2010, 01:15 AM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
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I'll be making a sammich later today.
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freemonkey I love your avatar.
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10-02-2010, 01:54 AM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
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Of course crocheting a blanket counts. That's pretty advanced thing-making, in fact.
Watser?, if you make it and serve in a silver service on a baseball field like in A League of Their Own, that totally counts too.
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it was actually pretty easy, I was just playing with different stitches on them. I have made 3 so far. If the camera was working I would post a pic. After I get to TX, I will try to do that for you.
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10-02-2010, 12:03 PM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I started by making a to-do list with "Make something every week" at the top. Man I have a lot of shit to accomplish. O_O
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10-02-2010, 12:51 PM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
I was in chat when liv posted the OP and I told the guys there that I'd made a small chuck glider out of a pizza tray earlier that day. liv said that it qualified, so here are the details.
I wanted to make a small battery powered radio controlled delta plane, but I had no idea where the centre of gravity (balance point) should be. The position where a plane balances is very important - if it's wrong the plane will crash, so I decided to make a small chuck glider to experiment with.
I happened to have a clean pizza tray to hand, so I used that as building material. I drew some shapes on the tray (you can see from the lines that I changed my mind quite a bit), then I cut them out and glued them together with some UHU Por glue (I tried some other glues but the material just melted).
I taped what I thought was a UK penny to the plane so I could move the balance point around. I grabbed the penny from a pile of old coins that's been standing next to my PC for ages.
But when I looked more closely, it turned out to be a USA cent.
After moving the coin around and bending up the 'flaps' at the back of the wing (technically these are called 'elevons'), I got it to fly pretty well - though it's difficult to film it and chuck it at the same time - that video was shot in my garden this morning. 
I've since begun on making the radio controlled and powered version (but it's not finished, so that one isn't my entry for the 'Make Something' contest). The chuckie glider worked well, so I'm sticking to the same pizza tray material, but I've strengthened it up a bit by adding some carbon fibre strip in between the back edge of the wing and the elevons.
In the view on the bottom of the plane, the blue things at the back (servos) are to move the elevons to steer the plane; the motor is a modified motor from a CD-ROM drive. You can see the speed controller (not wired up yet) that sends power to the motor and the radio receiver is at the back, in front of the servos. The battery will be taped on top of the wing, under the fin - it's made from three mobile phone batteries wired together in series.
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10-02-2010, 04:55 PM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
cep, you are too fucking cool for school. 
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10-02-2010, 06:29 PM
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not very big for a grown-up
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
That's very impressive cep. 
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10-03-2010, 12:38 AM
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Re: The Make Something Every Week Contest
That thing couldn't stand up to a whole unit of orcs. 
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