Canoe: Episode 8 - "Testing"
Two weekends ago I had a quick test to see if we could get the canoe onto the car. It just fits. It is a two-person job due to the...
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Dan
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
Website logo - post 2
I took this picture of a monkey in the road when I was on a local bus in Sri Lanka a few years ago... I started using it as an avatar on...
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Dan
- May 15, 2019
- 2 min
Canoe: Episode 7 - "Runners, ropes and seats"
Back from Dublin it was time to add the runners to the underside of the hull. The runners were attached to the hull with a layer of...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Painting: "Emmy Noether"
I like pictures in the house to have a story to explain their presence. For example i have this picture in my lounge next to the fire...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Painting: “Hip-hop-a-potamus”
Painting is a good way to get extended conversation with the kids, flick paint at each other and do silly stuff. Agent K is already quite...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Make your bed!
There's 'making your bed' and then there's actually making your own bed from wood, glue, screws and hard work... Step 1 get the kids to...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Zebra table
I found a drop-leaf table that fitted in the space beside the chimney breast in my lounge and also opened large enough to serve as a...
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Dan
- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
Canoe: Episode 6 - "Outwales and seat dowels"
Spring has arrived at last. It's Easter weekend and it's 21 degrees. Canoe building time! The job I've not been relishing -- fitting...
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Dan
- Apr 24, 2019
- 2 min
Canoe: Episode 5 - "Waterproofing"
With the weather worsening, the wind blowing the canoe off its stand, the constant rains and temperature dropping i had to get one last...
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Dan
- Apr 24, 2019
- 2 min
Canoe: Episode 4 - "Glass taping"
Last time I had fitted the inwales to help stiffen the rim of the hull and keep it's shape better. The internal seams had also been...
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Dan
- Nov 14, 2018
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 3 -"Inwales"
All the seams on the exterior have been filled and I’ve now made a start on the walings as shown above. The inner walings are glued and...
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Dan
- Sep 24, 2018
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 2 - "Filling the cracks"
Have at last filled all the cracks between planks, inside and out. It’s made quite a mess as you can see. I’m toying with the idea of...
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Dan
- Sep 14, 2018
- 2 min
Colourful music
I was frustratedly peering at some music score — I’ve always been slow to recognise notes that are extended above or below the stave — I...
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Dan
- Sep 12, 2018
- 1 min
Website logo - post 1
Was thinking about a logo for my website. —I like the black cat but it’s not my logo so it has to change :( What I like about it is that...
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Dan
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 1 - "The planks"
Our homemade canoe has been progressing. Cutting the planks proved to be quite tricky and required the patience of an adult. All the...
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Dan
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Finger painting
Boring flights are great opportunities to try out new apps. On the flight home from a holiday in Naples, I tried out the Paper app for...
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Dan
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Doodles
Sometimes meetings are just too boring to do anything else...
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Dan
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Coneland: The Prequel
Coneland: The Prequel will serve as an introduction to the Cone characters and be exceedingly simple in concept. The idea will be...
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Dan
- Sep 9, 2018
- 2 min
Do my own animation in code?
The first Coneland executable that I compiled animates the cone characters using my own wobble.cs script written in C# to wobble the cone...
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Dan
- Sep 9, 2018
- 2 min
Release something simple
Development of Coneland has stalled because I have been spending time learning about animation mechanisms and trying out both Blender...
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