November 2005 - Posts
Last week, one of the window installers gave my cat Mabel a chunk of sausage off the pizza they were eating. It happened before Melissa had a chance to come upstairs and see what Mabel was meowing about. (When a cat wants to sneak away, they do it very
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The window and siding company came in today and installed the 6'8" bow window on the side of the living room. Before (click on the image for a larger version). The brace in the corner was in the way. That was needed because the "georgia
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The window company installed the kitchen windows and patio door this week. Before (click on the image for a larger version). The single window above the sink was adequate, but didn't provide much of a view, or much light. The fridge used to be right
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This was easily one of the more disturbing Christmas stockings found in recent trips: Is this simply a bad case of Limp Lightsaber, or is this really The Dark Lord of Whips and Chains. If you can find a stocking with Leia in her slave girl outfit, you'll
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For those of you porting .NET 1.1 apps to 2.0, this is a useful reference Breaking changes are changes in either the .NET Framework (runtime breaking changes) or Visual Studio (design/compile/project upgrade) that make certain application and development
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Over the weekend, I built and installed the framing for the kitchen arch. This is the current plan for the arch: First I screwed together (clamps would have worked, but not as well) two pieces of 1/2" plywood. Then I used a piece of flexible 5/8"
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Over the weekend, I tore off the rest of the drywall in the kitchen. Monday night, I marked up the walls with the locations of all the switched, outlets, junction boxes and other services. The electricians came today and roughed-in a lot of the electrical
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This was outside of our patio door the other evening. Pictures never give you a real sense of the scale of these things, but I threw down my keys next to it for some comparison. The large black car key on there is really big as keys go. I'm surprised
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Today I was asked to point someone to some WPF/Avalon screenshots, showcasing what types of apps one might build. Short of the Microsoft Max site and some Vista shell shots , I couldn't find any static shots; just about everything was a video, done presumably
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Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign Halfway through 2004, I openly predicted incessant redesigning would become somewhat cessant by the same year’s end: Forward thinkers understand content is still king and focus on such while deploying minimal
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To replace the ugly old builder's chandelier over the dining room table, we ordered this lamp: It was more than our initial budget for this light, but it fits our Arts & Crafts / Craftsman inspired theme nicely, unlike any others we've seen.
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The Bamboo Flooring from Sustainable Flooring arrived today. This time the truck driver was very helpful, and assisted in unloading it. Just for the record, this stuff is heavy, really heavy. We unloaded 49 6' long cases, each weighing 70 pounds,
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