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Only counting books I read (or soon-ish will have read) in their entirety…
Below are starting dates, titles, authors, and some quotes / comments that I could think of. :p Hopefully I have not typo-ed up the quotes too badly.
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15-Jan-2022: 1. Kompendium i klinisk kemi by Ulrika Falkenö, Anna Hillström, Bernt Jones, Inger Lilliehöök, Emma Strage, Bodil Ström Holst, & Harold Tvedten
Almost-a-book on clinical chemistry. Directed at vet students, but my vet nursing class also got copies in 2017. I never got around to reading it until now. :p Promptly LOST my copy at a train station :'( BUT it turned out that my nice boss had it as a PDF! :D
25-Jan-2022: 2. Little brother by Cory Doctorow
Fave! And a re-read.
12-Mar-2022: 3. The alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A re-read.
14-Apr-2022: 4. The language instinct: How the mind creates language by Steven Pinker
"Thinking of language as an instinct inverts the popular wisdom, especially as it has been passed down in the canon of the humanities and social sciences. Language is no more a cultural invention than is upright posture. It is not a manifestation of a general capacity to use symbols: a three-year-old, as we shall see, is a grammatical genius, but is quite incompetent at the visual arts, religious iconography, traffic signs, and the other staples of the semiotics curriculum. Though language is a magnificent ability unique to Homo sapiens among living species, it does not call for sequestering the study of humans from the domain of biology, for a magnificent ability unique to a particular living species is far from unique in the animal kingdom. Some kinds of bats home in on flying insects using Doppler sonar. Some kinds of migratory birds navigate thousands of miles by calibrating the positions of the constellations against the time of day and year. In nature’s talent show we are simply a species of primate with our own act, a knack for communicating information about who did what to whom by modulating the sounds we make when we exhale."
Quotes "the following pseudo-German notice that used to be posted in many university computing centers in the English-speaking world:
'ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen and poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.'"
"Another team is trying to teach a computer the basics of human common sense, which they estimate to comprise about ten million facts."
"Let me begin with the ability to learn, and by convincing you that there is something to explain. Many social scientists believe that learning is some pinnacle of evolution that humans have scaled from the lowlands of instinct, so that our ability to learn can be explained by our exalted braininess. But biology says otherwise. Learning is found in organisms as simple as bacteria, and, as James and Chomsky pointed out, human intelligence may depend on our having more innate instincts, not fewer. Learning is an option, like camouflage or horns, that nature gives organisms as needed – when some aspect of the organism's environmental niche is so unpredictable that anticipation of its contingencies cannot be wired in. For example, birds that nest on small cliff ledges do not learn to recognize their offspring. They do not need to, for any blob of the right size and shape in their nest is sure to be one. Birds that nest in large colonies, in contrast, are in danger of feeding some neighbor's offspring that sneaks in, and they have evolved a mechanism that allows them to learn the particular nuances of their own babies.
Even when a trait starts off as a product of learning, it does not have to remain so. Evolutionary theory, supported by computer simulations, has shown that when an environment is stable, there is a selective pressure for learned abilities to become increasingly innate. That is because if an ability is innate, it can be deployed earlier in the lifespan of the creature, and there is less of a chance that an unlucky creature will miss out on the experiences that would have been necessary to teach it."
"What an irony it is that the supposed attempt to bring Homo sapiens down a few notches in the natural order has taken the form of us humans hectoring another species into emulating our instinctive form of communication, or some artificial form we have invented, as if that were the measure of biological worth. The chimpanzees' resistance is no shame on them; a human would surely do no better if trained to hoot and shriek like a chimp, a symmetrical project that makes about as much scientific sense. In fact, the idea that some species needs our intervention before its members can display a useful skill, like some bird that could not fly until given a human education, is far from humble!"
"Until the recent invention of the Heimlich maneuver, choking on food was the sixth leading cause of accidental death in the United States, claiming six thousand victims a year. The positioning of the larynx deep in the throat, and the tongue far enough low and back to articulate a range of vowels, also compromised breathing and chewing. Presumably the communicative benefits outweighed the physiological costs."
Contains a list of "human universals" compiled by anthropologist Donald E. Brown. As the list is a 2-page wall of text, I'll just link to the quote here. :)
9-Jul-2022: 5. Vägen till Jerusalem by Jan Guillou
Fave! And a re-read. Book 1 in a trilogy about a knight in the 1100's. The trilogy (which is available in English) has feminism and Arabian horses and shit. :) And there is just something about historical novels, man. :q Now I really want to read another novel series by Guillou, 10 books about the 1900's. :D
15-Jul-2022: 6. The call of the wild by Jack London
My fave novel! And a re-read.
18-Jul-2022: 7. A Shropshire lad by A.E. Housman
Collection of poems that Richard Dawkins kept going on about, so I checked them out. Here's my fave from the collection:
"Along the field as we came by
A year ago, my love and I,
The aspen over stile and stone
Was talking to itself alone.
'Oh who are these that kiss and pass?
A country lover and his lass;
Two lovers looking to be wed;
And time shall put them both to bed,
But she shall lie with earth above,
And he beside another love.'
And sure enough beneath the tree
There walks another love with me,
And overhead the aspen heaves
Its rainy-sounding silver leaves;
And I spell nothing in their stir,
But now perhaps they speak to her,
And plain for her to understand
They talk about a time at hand
When I shall sleep with clover clad,
And she beside another lad."
20-Jul-2022: 8. Books do furnish a life: Reading and writing science by Richard Dawkins
Fave! A compilation of book reviews and the like by the Dawk, my fave writer.
"And the point has often been made to me that if you call somebody an idiot you're not going to change his mind, and that's possibly true, but you may change the minds of a thousand people listening in and so I'm less inhibited about calling him an idiot."
"It is possible to take a robust view of extinction, even mass extinction. We can tough-mindedly point out that extinction is the norm for species throughout geological history. Even our own swath of chainsaw and concrete devastation is only the latest in a long series of cleanouts from which life has always bounced back. What are we and our domination of the world but another natural process, no worse than many before? The catastrophe that ended the dinosaurs had a consequence that might lead us to take a positively cheerful attitude towards it: us. From a more dispassionate point of view, every mass extinction opens up yawning gaps in the market, and the headlong rush to fill them is what, time after time, has enriched the diversity of our planet.
Even the most devastating of mass extinctions can be defended as the necessary purging that makes rebirth possible. No doubt it is fascinating to wonder whether rats or starlings might provide the ancestral stock for a new radiation of giant predators, in the event that the whole order Carnivora was wiped out. But none of us would ever know, for we do not live on the evolutionary timescale. It is an aesthetic argument, an argument of feeling, not reason, and I confess that my own feelings recoil. I find my aesthetics incapable of quite such a long view.
The dinosaurs are gone. I mourn them and I mourn the giant ammonites, and before them the mammal-like reptiles and the club moss and tree fern forests of the coal measures, and before them the trilobites and eurypterids: but they are beyond recall. What we have now is a new set of communities, our own contemporary buildup of mutually compatible mammals and birds, flowering plants and pollinating insects. They are not better than the communities that preceded them. But they are here, we have the privilege of studying them, they took agonizing ages to build up, and if we destroy them we shall not see them replaced. Not in our lifetime, not in five million years. If we destroy the ecosystems of which we are a part, we condemn not just our own generation, but all the generations of descendants that we could realistically hope to succeed us, to a world of devastation and impoverishment."
"I was invited by the world's largest computer company to organize and supervise a whole day's game of strategy among their executives, the purpose of which was to bond them together in amicable cooperation. They were divided into three teams, the reds, the blues and the greens, and the game was a variant on the prisoner's dilemma game which is the central topic of Axelrod's book. Unfortunately, the cooperative bonding which was the company's goal failed to materialize – spectacularly. As Robert Axelrod could have predicted, the fact that the game was known to be coming to an end at exactly 4 p.m. precipitated a massive defection by the reds against the blues, immediately before the appointed hour. The bad feeling generated by this sudden break with the previous day-long goodwill was palpable at the post-mortem session that I conducted, and the executives had to have counselling before they could be persuaded to work together again."
Aaaaaaand… In passing, he mentions an evolutionary biologist called Malte Andersson. This… happened… to… be… the… name… of… my… thesis… examiner… in… 2008. :O Erm. Andersson is a supercommon name; Malte isn't. :B Basically, we can assume that the Dawk mentioned someone who read my craptastic little biology thesis "Breeding requirements of neotropical birds at Universeum science centre, Göteborg"!!!!!!!!!!!11111!!!1 In the same sentence as the great Steven Pinker and 19 other names. He referred to them as "distinguished". Sooooo… THE DAWK THINKS MY THESIS EXAMINER IS DISTINGUISHED! MAYBE THAT MAKES ME APPROXIMATELY 0.00000000001% DISTINGUISHED! THANKS I CAN DIE NOW ^_^
PS. IN OTHER NEWS, THE DAWK GAVE A LECTURE AT THE GOTHENBURG SCIENCE FESTIVAL ON 3-MAY-2022 AND I WAS THERE AND HE SIGNED MY COPY OF "UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW" AND I TOLD HIM HE IS MY FAVE WRITER! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Will upload the pics soon-ish.
14-Aug-2022: 9. Tempelriddaren by Jan Guillou
Fave! And a re-read. Book 2 in a trilogy about a knight in the 1100's.
10-Sep-2022: 10. Rationality: What it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters by Steven Pinker
Both this book and "The language instinct" where OTTFMDA (Often Too Technical For My Dumb Ass), but had many bits my little brain could enjoy as well.
"A major theme of this book is that none of us, thinking alone, is rational enough to consistently come to sound conclusions: rationality emerges from a community of reasoners who spot each other's fallacies."
"And ultimately even relativists who deny the possibility of objective truth and insist that all claims are merely the narrative of a culture lack the courage of their convictions. The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child's infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman. And though relativism is often adorned with a moral halo, the moral convictions of relativists depend on a commitment to objective truth. Was slavery a myth? Was the Holocaust just one of many possible narratives? Is climate change a social construction? Or are the suffering and danger that define these events really real – claims that we know are true because of logic and evidence and objective scholarship? Now relativists stop being so relative."
He quotes Spinoza: "Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not also desire for the rest of humankind." (Though I, of course, corrected "humankind" to "sentient beings" - and btw, there should be a catchier word for the latter.) And he quotes Kant's Categorical Imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." :) Good, eh?
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead. Since news is what happens, not what doesn't happen, the denominator in the fraction corresponding to the true probability of an event – all the opportunities for the event to occur, including those in which it doesn't – is invisible, leaving us in the dark about how prevalent something really is.
The distortions, moreover, are not haphazard, but misdirect us toward the morbid. Things that happen suddenly are usually bad – a war, a shooting, a famine, a financial collapse – but good things may consist of nothing happening, like a boring country at peace or a forgettable region that is healthy and well fed. And when progress takes place, it isn't built in a day; it creeps up a few percentage points a year, transforming the world by stealth. As the economist Max Roser points out, news sites could have run the headline 137,000 PEOPLE ESCAPED EXTREME POVERTY YESTERDAY every day for the past twenty-five years."
"Trump told around thirty thousand lies during his term…"
"So much of our reasoning seems tailored to winning arguments that some cognitive scientists, like Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, believe it is the adaptive function of reasoning. We evolved not as intuitive scientists but as intuitive lawyers. While people often try to get away with lame arguments for their own positions, they are quick to spot fallacies in other people's arguments."
"My greatest surprise in making sense of moral progress is how many times in history the first domino was a reasoned argument." :O
8-Nov-2022: 11. Riket vid vägens slut by Jan Guillou
Fave! Book 3 in a trilogy about a knight in the 1100's. I… read about half of "Riket" in 2000! Then was interrupted for some reason (maybe a library deadline) and never got around to finishing it until now. :B
2-Dec-2022: 12. Arvet efter Arn by Jan Guillou
Fave! A 4th book in Guillou's "trilogy". The hero from the first 3 was fictitious. This one is about his grandson, who existed, and kind of invented Sweden.
"Mest angelägna var männen, föga överraskande, att finna en rik änka. Svårare att begripa var vad de sade sig kunna erbjuda i gengäld för denna rikedom de ämnade inhösta. Om detta som verkade svårfattligt för åtminstone de två Ceciliorna berättade Ingrid Ylva lustigt och i ogudaktigt tal att männen för det första var förvissade om att ingen kvinna kunde leva utan manlig lem och för det andra lika förvissade om att inga små söner kunde fostras utan man i huset."
"Ingrid Ylva kväljdes något av att se människor med gott lynne syssla med denna vedervärdiga djurföda. Ingen människa åt svamp utom fordom när det varit flera års missväxt och svälten härjade i landet. Så mycket visste dock de flesta att svamp var ett osäkert sätt att rädda livhanken även för den mest utsvultne. I värsta fall kunde det leda till döden och i bästa fall klarade man sig med några dagars feber och rännskita."
3-Dec-2022: 13. The return of the native by Thomas Hardy
An audiobook, read by… Alan Rickman, who had THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VOICE IN THE WORLD! D': I actually listened to maybe half of it in… 2007. o_O Usually after my nightly paper round, so I kept falling asleep in the middle of chapters and… Meh… Of course I always meant to finish it, though. :D And of course I now listened from the beginning. Haven't finished it yet. I only listen to it at home where I can properly hear and fully concentrate on THE VOICE. :q
24-Dec-2022: 14. Galileo's daughter: A drama of science, faith and love by Dava Sobel
I had never heard of it until it was recommended by Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Startalk" podcast. :) (A 2009 ep that I listened to in 2022…)
"In 1604, five years prior to Galileo's development of the telescope, the world beheld a never-before-seen star in the heavens. It was called 'nova' for its newness. It flared up near the constellation Sagittarius in October and stayed so prominent through November that Galileo had time to deliver three public lectures about the newcomer before it faded from bright view. The nova challenged the law of immutability in the heavens, a cherished tenet of the Aristotelian world order. Earthly matter, according to ancient Greek philosophy, contained four base elements – earth, water, air, fire – that underwent constant change, while the heavens, as Aristotle described them, consisted entirely of a fifth element – the quintessence, or aether – that remained incorruptible. It was thus impossible for a new star suddenly to materialise. The nova, the Aristotelians argued, must inhabit the sublunar sphere between the Earth and the Moon, where change was permissible. But Galileo could see by comparing his nightly observation with those of other stargazers in distant lands that the new star lay far out, beyond the Moon, beyond the planets, among the domain of the old stars. /…/ Having thus impugned the immutability of the heavens, Galileo further attacked the Aristotelian philosophers by turning the telescope on their territory in 1609. His telescopic discoveries transformed the nature of the Copernican question from an intellectual engagement into a debate that might be decided on the basis of evidence. The roughness of the Moon, for example, showed that some of the features of Earth repeated themselves in the heavens. The motions of the Medicean stars [some of Jupiter's moons] demonstrated that satellites could orbit bodies other than the Earth. The phases of Venus argued that at least one planet must travel around the Sun. And the dark spots discovered on the Sun sullied the perfection of yet another heavenly sphere. /…/ Galileo rued the stubbornness of philosophers who clung to Aristotle's views despite the new perspective provided by the telescope. He swore that if Aristotle himself were brought back to life and shown the sights now seen, the great philosopher would quickly alter his opinion, as he had always honored the evidence of his senses."
31-Dec-2022: 15. Den fräcka kråkan by Ulf Nilsson & Eva Eriksson
Fave! And a re-read, as it's a kiddy book that I used to have read to me in the 80's and that I vaguely remembered. IT'S FUCKING SAD :'(
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Vegan FAQ! :)
The Web Site the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See.
Please watch Earthlings.
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You can reach me at yoze83 [AT] yahoo.com
Yeah, just open the front door and throw it all out!
Life, of course, tends to be a spectrum. On one end you have, say, Martha Stewart and Marie Kondo. On the other end ... this guy. The former occupant that is. His house was declared a Public Nuisance by the city. Wonder what happens next. A big yellow rolloff dumpster has been put in place though. We'll see.
Oh, and this isn't the sum total. A good bit of stuff was removed earlier. This may be the final eruption.
A couple pairs of old boys nylon soccer shorts I bought and they never got used. So into the trash they go. They aren't nice enough to even give away.
www.recyclart.org/2016/08/hand-crank-wash-tub/
There are many hand-crank washing tubs out there, but they cost money. Heck with that! I made my own Hand-Crank Wash Tub out of recycled and upcycled bits & pieces lying around my shed for FREE! The motivation behind it is that I like to do basic maintenance on my cars and motorcycles, and it always generates a lot of dirty, greasy rags.
I don’t like to run them through my washing machine because of the risk of spreading grease to my regular laundry. I also don’t like to take them to the laundromat for the same reason. It’s not fair to the next customer to ruin their clothes! So, I decided to make something that would at least do a good job of a first wash so that I could then use my own washing machine.
When I looked around, the cheapest ones were around fifty dollars. I looked around for plans, and the most prominent ones were basically versions of wash boards or the style that uses a plunger in a lid. I didn’t want to sit around and basically “churn butter”, as agitating washers work better. So this is my version of an agitating washer!
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – supplies & tools needed:
Supplies needed:
5-gal. bucket (like a used latex paint bucket that you’ve cleaned out)
Two 2x2” pieces of wood, approx. 18” long (I used redwood pallet boards for all wood on this project)
Two 2x2” pieces of wood, approx. 4 to 5” long
One 2x2” piece of wood, approx. 6” long
Front fork set from a kid’s BMX bike (don’t need the handlebars)
One piece of 6” black PVC pipe (the type used for sewer cleanouts, etc), approx. 8” long & cut into two pieces vertically
4 sets of nuts/bolts/washers – approx. 1.5” long (enough to go through forks and piece of PVC pipe)
2 sets of nuts/bolts/washers – approx. 4.5” long (enough to go through your 2x2 boards to clamp together)
4 wood screws, 2.5” or 3” long
1 pallet block (ensure all nails/screws are removed)
1 set of nuts/bolts/washers – approx.. 6” long (enough to go through hand crank and the 2x2 board
1 piece of wire (heavy gauge – like fence wrapping wire), enough to wrap around the bucket a couple times so you have places to hook bungee cords to. I used approx. 4’ of wire
Tools Needed:
Band Saw
Reciprocating Saw
Draw knife
Drill press
Drill & a few different drill bits
Hole saw bits (optional – can use the band saw too)
Impact driver
Circular Saw
Chop/Miter saw
Wrench & socket set
Utility knife
¼” chisel
Pencil
Tape measure
Sand paper (from 80-grit to 2000 grit)
Hand file
Small wood lathe
Sanding sponges (medium and fine grit)
End cutting pliers (dull is fine – you’re not cutting anything – just prying nails from blocks)
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – A BMX bike front fork set:
We had a leftover kid’s BMX bike that my husband had picked up at a used store for 8.00. He used the crankset for another project he made. The front fork set had been sitting around, so I thought I’d use it, as it has free-spinning bearings. I used a reciprocating saw with a metal-cutting blade to cut the front fork set loose from the frame just behind where it was welded together.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Tub & Supporting Frame:
My wash tub is a leftover, heavy-duty 5-gal bucket. I happened to have an old Behr latex paint bucket that we’d used up, let dry, and then peeled out the dry latex paint remnants. The frame is made from pallet wood. To begin the frame, I started with with the two 2x2 x18” pieces of wood. I placed them across the top of the bucket, side by side and used clamps to hold them together. I marked the outside and inside diameters of the bucket with a pencil on the bottom sides of the wood. Next, I used a band saw to cut notches into the wood along the cut lines, approx. 3/8” deep. It just needs to be deep enough to create a channel so the wood frame will sit securely on top of the bucket. I used a chisel to clean up along the ends of the curves that the band saw couldn’t cut.
Find the approximate center of the two boards, and if you have them clamped tightly, you could use a hole saw to drill one hole down between the two for where it will clamp around the top tube. If not, you can use a band saw and cut the half-circles out. My cut was a little crooked, so I just notched around my bad prep job. I’d suggest you cut it more evenly, haha! Then I re-clamped the boards together and drilled two holes, equidistant from the center hole. The bolts will clamp the top tube in between these two boards. Sand the boards down the way you want. They don’t have to be perfect.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Correcting my error (do yours right and skip this step):
I test-fitted mine, and because of the crooked frame cut, it caused it to slip a little when I tried it, so the two shorter 2x2” boards were my solution. If you cut straight, you may not need them. Repeat the hole cutting process, as these two smaller boards will squeeze tightly around the top tube, basically clamping all 4” of the top tube. I screwed these two smaller boards together and then down on top of the longer boards to anchor the tube tightly.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Woodturning!
To make the handle, I used a pallet block. It is CRITICAL when using a lathe, or most of your saws, to remove any nails or screws. I used a circular saw to make shallow cuts around the nails that were cut flush when I dismantled pallets with a reciprocating saw. After cutting close to the nails, I made more cuts around the edge that I just sliced across so I’d be able to chisel the wood away easily to expose a bit of nail top. Next, I chiseled the wood away, exposing about ¼” of the nail heads, and used an old pair of end-cutting pliers. The rolled cutting end does a great job of clamping onto the exposed nail, and then allows you to roll the pliers over and pull the deeply-embedded nails out easily.
Identify the approximate centers of your block. Use a ruler and draw a line from one corner to the other diagonally. Do the same in the other direction. X marks the spot! Do this on both of the end-grain ends of the block and carefully center it into the lathe. I used a draw knife to round over the edges. You can use a band saw or other tools if you choose, but a draw knife is fast and convenient for me. I turned the wood into the shape of an old-style hand-crank drill. Those old handles are a good fit for my hands, and I know my husband won’t be doing it, haha! I turned it, smoothed it down, starting with 80-grit sponges, all the way down to 2000 grit paper while still on the lathe. I removed it and cut the excess wood off, then sanded the ends. Next I turned the horizontal piece of handle from more pallet wood – the last piece of 2x2x6” wood. Find the centers again and load it into the lathe. You could chip or sand down a dowel instead, but I didn’t have any leftover dowels. Besides, I only needed about 2-3” of round wood that’ll fit into the round-shaped clamp at the top end of the top tube – where the handle bars clamp in. I turned it down to the size I needed, and then rounded over the edges just so if I hit my knuckles, it wouldn’t be too uncomfortable.
I used a drill press and a wood-boring bit to drill a centered hole through the handle knob and then through the location on the horizontal piece of wood. Cut it loose around the size of your bolt so it’ll turn freely like a drill handle.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – hardware stackup on crank knob assembly:
The hardware stackup is as follows: Long machine bolt, large washer, crank knob, large washer, connecting wood piece, large washer, and either a nylock or, if you don’t have those, I just used two bolts and tightened them against themselves so that the handle could turn freely. Bolt the crank knob assembly into the handlebar grip point and secure.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – wash paddles (the agitator):
To agitate the dirty rags, I had to come up with something that would be a little flexible, but very durable. So, I used a piece of large, black PVC pipe – I think it was left over from when we installed a new cleanout drain on our 1920’s home. I cut a short piece off of the long tube – approximately 8” with the reciprocating saw, and then split it in half. I used the band saw to round over the corners, and then a hand file to smooth over the edges. It doesn’t have to be perfect; just not so rough that it’ll snag and tear your terry-cloth rags.
Next, clamp them onto the forks, in whatever pattern you want. You can stagger the height, or change the curve directions; it’s up to you. I put mine the same direction, but staggered the height. Drill two holes through the paddles and all the way through the forks. Hardware stackup: Bolt, tooth-washer, paddle, fork, tooth washer, nut. Repeat for the 2nd paddle, so you’ll have four holes to drill total (or more if you make your paddles bigger).
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Putting it all together:
Final assembly begins now! Install your top tube in between your first two boards you cut, and secure tightly with bolts/nuts. Ensure that your tube assembly is level, or the paddles will slap up against the sides of the bucket and create drag. Put the entire assembly into the bucket and align the grooves on the two mounting boards onto the edges of the bucket. Secure with bungee cords. I did a non-permanent mounting so if anything got tangled, I could just unhook the bungees and pull it all out easily. However, you can mount the assembly any way you choose.
Now, time to give her a twirl! My assembly WORKED – other than the oops I listed above. With the extra little corrective boards I added, it stays level and slaps the dirty rags around. This probably seems like an excessively long post for such a little project, but I wanted to make this and not spend a single dime, and accomplished it! Are there other ways to make hand-crank washers? Sure. But I’ve got one load of rags that have been washed already so far. :D
So I soaked a xs goodnite, and smushed it with other trash. Other trash was baby blankets and stuffies.
Why do we have such passing fancies on our dolls?
I was sooo in love with this girl Since 2011... and then one day I just kinda went Meh... Why does that happen?
Im hesitant to kick my JB girls out because I love them so much in Pictures, but maybe thats not enough? And Im starting to look at them like Pocket money kwim?
So yea I really need to do an Epic Cleanout but Im trying to make my decisions very carefully :)
Just thought this was a good topic of convo, why do we have such passing Fancy when it comes to our doll love?
I recently scored a HUGE PILE of 1980's vending prize plush, from an Estate sale cleanout, and these are my favorite monster weird ones. Alof of these are super super rare, and I could only find a few or none at all! The best and most rare are the Alpha Critters knock-offs.
She's getting a minor facelift with replacement LED lamps and organ cavity clean-out. Need some extra help clearing out the dust. Gotta go get me some compressed air.
1862 and 1863 coins that were found during a house cleanout of a deceased relative.
Obverse
Head of King Vittorio Emanuele II left and the name of the engraver below the neck
Script: Latin
Lettering:
VITTORIO EMANUELE II RE D'ITALIA
FERRARIS
Translation:
Vittorio Emanuele II King of Italy
Ferraris
Engraver: Giuseppe Ferraris
Reverse
Value and date within two branches, one of laurel and the other of oak and the star of Italy above and the sign of the mint below
Script: Latin
Lettering:
10
CENTESIMI
1862
M = Code for Minted in Italy
The pile of garbage waiting for the truck in the morning. No longer will I trip over and be hassled by this! All going away forever!
Bobbie...Only this name popped up and I wanted a cute, sweet name for her...
Bobbie is wearing DarkFairyByJanky and Pomponette, we're doing a closet-cleanout..:-D
I'm so busy last days, will try to catch up tomorrow!
Adad 2011-240
56110 in Loadhaul livery awaits it fate in the demic lines at Healey Mills Yard.
Built at BREL Doncaster Works and delivered on 03/10/1982
With 11,128 hours on its engine from its last overhall, it was stored on 12 July 2002 from the WGAT Pool at Thornaby.
Sent to Immingham TMD for storage, it stayed there until the depot cleanout before closure in 2005.
Moved to Healey Mills overnight on 4 May 2005, it sat there for 5 years (engine hours too high for the French contract and not needed as a parts donor).
Finally put up for sale in April 2010, 56110 and some others of the Healey Mills demics, were dragged to Doncaster Belmont Yard to await their sale and removal.
Sold on 1 July 2010 to the scrap dealers EMR, it was taken in October to Doncaster Wood Yard for road removal.
Removed on 15 October, it was transported to EMR's Attercliffe.
Demolition started on 20 February 2011 and was finished by 23 February 2011.
I did a cleanout and sold or gave away all my Bratz and Moxies and I sold my My Scenes that I bought just for their clothes. Now I have 9 My Scene girls and 2 My Scene boys. Had to make room for the 2010 dolls coming my way!
Melrose was able to FINALLY get some articulation when I got rid of the Delancey head that had it earlier. She one of my all time faves and really deserves it. :)
BOX DATE: 2006
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
DOLLS IN LINE: Genevieve; Prince Derek; Blair; Ashlyn; Courtney; Delia; Edeline; Fallon; Hadley & Isla pack; Lacey; Janessa; Kathleen
VARIATIONS: Caucasian; African American
RELEASES: 2006 "2 Pack;" 2006 "3 Pack"
BODY TYPE: 1999; molded dot panties; articulated elbows; straight, non-bending legs with molded ballet slippers
HEAD MOLD: 2005 "Isla/Hadley"
PERSONAL FUN FACT: To be honest, I always have trouble remember which of the sisters is which. I got both my Isla and Hadley dolls together in 2015. I suppose I never made the extra effort to sort out their identities. Not to mention, I used to have them photographed together, so that muddled my memory even more. That's why Isla's photo is taken in 2019--four years after I got her....Colleen and I decided to separate variants and pack dolls that were previously photographed together. Normally I'd say that I prefered the brunette doll over the blonde. But Hadley is SO stunning, that I might favor her slightly more. Plus, I like the shade of blue she wears. But this Isla is also a knockout. I adore her petite frame and sweet face. I got her in the "Free Friday Finds Bin" of May 2015. Colleen and I were fortunate enough to find a massive Barbie house, vintage Strawberry Shortcake dolls/stuff, and loads of Barbies and extras outside one of our neighbor's houses that spring. They must have been doing a cleanout of sorts, and not felt like dealing with the cumbersome load of dolls. I was very excited to add several 12 Dancing Princesses dolls to my collection that day. I was particularly intrigued by Isla and Hadley, due to their smaller stature and younger facial screenings. I'm so glad that I was able to keep the two sisters together, and that they are both in impeccable condition!
hat: Innocent Smoothies Big Knit bottle topper!
scarf: Shazdolls
Jumper: not known, aquired from someone's closet cleanout! (would love to credit the maker if you know who it is!)
Leggings: FakeBlondie
this was from the cleanout/estate sale I set up - there was a whole bunch of new-ish beer bottles and etc - but I spotted 3 of these - they have a great "Win a 1990 Chevrolet Corvette" contest on the back
I decided to do a cleanout today and let Guava and Paris model te clothes we took out of the wardrobe. More soon...:-D
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It's a potpourri.
Desperately in need of a cleanout and trim.
Some inappropriate plants in there to be potted up.
‘George Wilson & Sons. Boat builders. Moorings. Storage. Boats for Hire.’ Sunbury, England, 1980s photo.
2015 GW&Sons update information...
www.villagematters.co.uk/sunbury-matters/sunbury-matters-...
1980s film camera prints found in a bookcase cabinet cleanout. Digitally photocopied with an iPhone 6s. JPG image tweaked in Photoshop Elements with NIK Dfine, DxO ViewPoint, and Anthropics Smart Photo Editor plugins.
Final result of week 1. All ready to be set out as trash. I'm committed. It's going to happen. 18 items, including the broken laundry basket they are in. Not bad...
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Unit Number: ?
Body: Fort Fabrication
Chassis: Isuzu NPR HD
Vehicle Type: Junk collection dump truck
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One of several junk cleanout companies serving the Vancouver region
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Stored Z for Scrap 04/09/2011 (REV & Verls expired).
Stored at SSM Mukran from at least 19/08/2012 to 04/2018, when it was moved to SSM Chemnitz with the cleanout of Dloks from Mukran (still at Chemnitz July 2020).