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[Bruce Freeman]

Oops.  That was the blizzard of '10, not '11.

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't knock winter!   I'm enjoying the snow here on the east coast.
> (I hate to say "Jersey Shore" anymore.  They should rename that TV
> show "The Bennies")  The snow from the blizzard of '11 never melted
> off, and we've had some light snowfalls since to keep it very
> XC-skiable.
>
> I was just in the process of rearranging my shed, and had to run a
> cord to cut some metal shelf stanchions a couple inches shorter with
> the angle grinder, when the blizzard hit.  I can get out there now in
> a pinch, but it's not first choice of places for doing chores.  So
> I've been doing mostly indoor stuff, including the garage shop, which
> is just across the patio from the house.  I've gotten some good
> cleaning-out done, but there's 30  years of accumulation to deal with!
>
> If you guys haven't heard of "hackerspaces", look them up:
> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
> "Hacker", here, does not imply someone who illegally breaks into
> someone else's computer an steals things or plants viruses.  Rather,
> it means someone who takes things apart (hardware or software) and
> puts it together differently.  Some folks are getting sensitive to the
> ill-repute connoted by "hacker" and want to call their spaces
> "makerspaces", but all this is a tempest in a teapot.
>
> The important thing is this is a bunch of extremely creative people
> doing interesting, if useless, things with technology.  That describes
> a lot of us too, doesn't it?  I've started interacting with two
> "local" hackerspaces and they're delighted to be in touch with someone
> with a vastly different body of knowledge than theirs.  I would like
> to start a hackerspace nearer to me, and there is a possibility of
> doing so, but we're going to need to collect up about a dozen
> like-minded folks before we can get things rolling.
>
> Visit the websites of these places and have a look at the incredible
> nonsense they engage in.
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:01 AM,  <dann at wctatel.net> wrote:
>> James,
>>
>> Yes,  it has been quiet.  It might seem that you  have been dropped from
>> the list,  but I imagine that others are also trying to work in the cold
>> environment.   Saturday,  I ran my skid loader moving snow and then
>> finished up with snow blower blowing snow until I was almost too cold to
>> pee.
>>
>> There are no pictures that I want to post about that. But in less than 60
>> days: March 21, comes  Spring Equinox.
>>
>> I had a small room that for the past 115 years had been used as a food-
>> pantry adjacent to our kitchen.  We first remodeled the kitchen, then
>> removed  the cabinets from the Pantry, rebuilt the subfloors, took out
>> some of the old plaster and lath, and then dry-walled and plumbed it for a
>>  bathroom,  with sink, stool, and shower.
>>
>> I had originally intended to finish the project last fall.  With the cold
>> weather @ 15 degrees below zero this morning, inside projects like that,
>> which I've put off for so long, now come to forefront.
>>
>> Last week, my wife did take a kitchen photo of me working on some project,
>> using my small anvil that I had hauled into the house, and had sitting on
>> her kitchen cabinets.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dann Johnson
>>
>> P.S.
>> Not in Minnesota... but we can see Minnesota from here !
>> ( Going shopping for stuff to finish a project @  Home Depot in Mankato,
>> MN this morning )
>>
>>> Is the list that quite our have i been doped  i know that i do not post
>>> a lot but i only get on once or twice a week and you all get i done
>>> before  before i get too it   one of these days i will mhave to lern to
>>> send pic's of my work   jim o.
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