It’s been almost 2 months since my last post. I gotta say: most of that time just slipped right by me. August was A MONTH. None of it fun. I would not want to be me right now. I can’t quite pin down what motivated me to post today. The idea has been shuttling back…
Frankensaw
It’s been a busy week for me. This time of year there are lots of things to be done: gardening, maintenance, socializing, as well as overdue house repairs and some other things, so I’ve been offline for a bit. I’ve also been working on a lower-priority workshop project, just for fun. I like working with…
Where do ideas come from?
Last week I posted about not having ideas. And I also posted that I was browsing through old entries in my commonplace book and that’s where I got the idea for that post. And I am still working on how to project (and later retrieve) my thoughts into various apps and note-taking systems, but the…
The No Ideas blog post
I didn’t have a blog idea this week. I thought a little bit of following up on last week, but I don’t really have much new to say on the subject. I was leafing through my notebook, a bit of a “Commonplace Book” but a little more journal-like, and found a note about reading David…
Rethinking The Heap
When it comes to organizing (whether physically or mentally), I’ve always relied on The Heap. The way it works is, when you’re looking for something, you just think back to the last time that you remember it, and it’s about that far deep in the pile. It sounds like it’s the opposite of organization, but…
Unrejectable
A great thing about a blog is that you can’t be rejected. I can write as I want, I can even be dead wrong, and can still hit “Publish.” Most likely, few if anyone will read it but it’s still out there. I hesitate to call myself an author, but… the button is labeled “Publish.”…
Posting for the sake of posting
Well, I missed one. My goal is to post at least once a week, shooting for midweek but usually later than that. I missed my personal deadline though, which is no later than midnight on Friday. Earlier, I was shooting for two posts per week, but life is far too hectic. So, I’m posting on…
Designing stuff is hard.
I’m really good at following directions. Give me a recipe, or building plans, or even just a good hard look at something along with it’s dimensions and I can probably build it (within my skill set, naturally). But designing something from scratch is hard. Going from a rough sketch to actual measurements and assembly methods…
This is where the self doubt comes in
Inspired by a youtuber’s analog on-the-go note-taking desk, I decided to try my hand at improving the concept. I sketched it, mocked it up for an idea of size, and then I said: you have a 3D printer, why not print the parts you need? Which I thought was a grand idea. Being neither an…
No hot glue? No, hot glue!
I had an idea for a 3D printing project. Of course, being an old-school kind of guy, almost any idea starts out as a sketch (maybe digital, maybe not), but prototypes are probably not going to be digital. Regardless of the medium, a proof of concept can be mocked-up with card stock or cardboard. Now,…