No, I haven't
4.11.2007
...posted in a long time. I'm working on redesigning a few people's blog templates, and am very busy and important.
I started a woodworking class. It's not so much a class, in that there's no curriculum, so much as weekly scheduled access to a wood shop. Which is just fine. I'm working on the same freaking joystick I've been building and redesigning for the better part of a year, now, and should finish before too long. In fact, I should have some time left afterwards, and am considering building the bookstand you'll see here.
Hambone's still trying to decide whether or not she likes it, but we have to have something on which to rest that lately acquired holy grail of lexicography, the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. Notice the word "Compact." What that means is that the whole 20-volume collection is reproduced in a single binding "micrographically": that is, in one unwieldy tome weighing in at sixteen stone and boasting print roughly the same height as your average paramecium. Fortunately, it comes with a fat magnifying glass, though.
Anyhoo, the book is big, and really requires a dedicated form of display. I briefly considered a few options:
I started a woodworking class. It's not so much a class, in that there's no curriculum, so much as weekly scheduled access to a wood shop. Which is just fine. I'm working on the same freaking joystick I've been building and redesigning for the better part of a year, now, and should finish before too long. In fact, I should have some time left afterwards, and am considering building the bookstand you'll see here.
Hambone's still trying to decide whether or not she likes it, but we have to have something on which to rest that lately acquired holy grail of lexicography, the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. Notice the word "Compact." What that means is that the whole 20-volume collection is reproduced in a single binding "micrographically": that is, in one unwieldy tome weighing in at sixteen stone and boasting print roughly the same height as your average paramecium. Fortunately, it comes with a fat magnifying glass, though.
Anyhoo, the book is big, and really requires a dedicated form of display. I briefly considered a few options:
- Tasteful inclusion into some sort of dining table centerpiece.
- Suspension from ceiling via virtually invisible threads, to create divine ambience. Perhaps it could be lowered in at appropriate moments from a panel in the ceiling, to an orchestral arrangement of "Dream On." Either that, or a fun slide whistle sound.
- Schroeder-sized faux-piano facade, into which book can be neatly tucked. I got this idea from watching The Myriad in concert, incidentally.
- Large glass covered cake stand, with translucent red Batphone-style slipcase. It could light up in vocabularic emergencies.
