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Turning a Carving Mallet
I want to share my process more here on the blog, so here is how I made a carving mallet on Sunday. I made this mallet so that I can use it to strike gouges for bowl carving, which I want to experiment with. This style of mallet is easier to use for striking gouges…
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Week of January 1, 2024
New Year’s Day feels like the only real rest day we had during the holiday break. This week was back-to-work. Tuesday night we made pizza and calzones from the extra NYE dough. I’m really getting the hang of shaping the dough and using the Ooni. My daily stretching and drawing resolution is going well. I’m…
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Pingbacks and Personal Connections
Matt Mullenweg’s birthday wish is for people to blog. I thought I’d blog about how blogging has connected me with all different kinds of people, most of whom I’ve never met in person, just through the simple act of writing something on my own domain and hitting “Publish.” Here is a non-complete list of blog…
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Weeks of December 18 and 25, 2023 🎄
The end of both the autumn season and the calendar year. On the shortest day of the year we celebrated our friend Meg’s birthday at The Central, where her husband set up a surprise party and urged us all to get sitters and have a night out. We are glad we did. It was fun…
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2024 Resolutions
I used to be against making New Year’s resolutions (2009). I’ve eased up on that in the last decade and have tried some other methods, such as listing out 20 specific things I want to do for a yearly task list or setting a yearly theme. Both of those worked pretty well. This year I…
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Top 3 (2023)
I started answering the 40 Questions this year, then realized about a quarter of the way through that I didn’t really want to answer them. Not my preferred format. Instead, I’m trying something else: Making a list of Top 3 things in various categories for the year.
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100 things that made my year (2023)
Other years: 2022, 2017
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Learning Card Games: Tunk
Last year we started a new tradition and learned how to play Pitch the week after Christmas. This year we chose Tunk (also called Tonk in some places). Why Tunk? We initially thought we’d try Euchre or Cinch, but both of those needed four players for partner pairs and Amanda was engrossed in a good…
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How to play the Four Letter Word Game
BJ Homer taught a bunch of us Automatticians how to play the Four Letter Word Game at a meetup. I taught my parents how to play today and I haven’t found a writeup of it that I could refer to, so I thought I’d make a quick post on how to play. What you need:…
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Week of December 11, 2023
Christmas tree update: We added cranberries. We consider our tree a work in progress for all of December. I got out in the shop and made some more ornaments on the lathe. That might be it for this year. Charlie’s daycare class had a Christmas luncheon and Amanda made the menus and flowers. We made…
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My WordPress Plugin List
Just like Nick, Jan, and Tracy, I’m sharing the list of plugins I have on this site and what I use them for. I’d love to see your plugin list. If you post one, send me a link!
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Week of December 4, 2023
I’m blogging later than usual because during my normal blogging times I was either out in the workshop turning things on the lathe, baking Christmas cookies, writing Christmas cards, making natural Christmas decorations, or at a Christmas party. All good things. ‘Tis the season. This year we had Emily at Fox Burrow DesignsArchived Link, a…
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Wooden Dreidels
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I turned it on a lathe Not quite how the original goes, but more fitting for a woodworker. I turned three dreidels on the lathe over the past week for Hanukkah gifts. It was nice to get back out in the shop and make a couple things after a long hiatus.…
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Initial thoughts on the Arc browser
I installed Arc today for the first time after hearing about it from a lot of folks over the past month. Here are my initial thoughts:
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Week of November 27, 2023
A first for us: We decorated the Christmas Tree at 7am. That is when Charlie got up and was ready to go. We still need to dry the grapefruits to add to the tree. Every morning Charlie turns the tree on when he comes downstairs, and he turns it off before we leave. He loves…
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Default Apps 2023
I saw this floating around and thought I’d join in. 📨 Mail Client: Airmail 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail 📝 Notes: Obsidian (longer term working notes) and Drafts (short term temporary notes–nothing lives in Drafts long-term, it is more like Grand Central Terminal). Public notes get posted to https://notes.cagrimmett.com/ ✅ To-Do: Things 📷 Photo Shooting: Daily: iPhone 14 Pro. When shooting photos…
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Week of November 20, 2023
I’ve been mostly offline this Thanksgiving. I haven’t checked anything for work, checked Twitter (or Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads), read my RSS feeds, or checked any news sites. I did play Wordle, text some friends, and research microwave sales (the power supply on ours died). This was good for me, and I think I need…
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Weeks of November 6 and 13, 2023
Busy couple of weeks. I didn’t write last weekend because I spent the whole weekend doing work around the house: Putting things away for the winter and mulching in the leaves outside, and moving things in the basement, garage, and attic in preparation for getting foam insulation in those spaces. We were out of the…
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Notes on making a Digital Garden with WordPress
Andy Sylvester wrote me asking about my digital garden: I followed links to your site from Dave Winer’s Scripting News site, your digital garden site is cool! I am interested in what theme you started with to create that site. Andrew Shell has developed some tools for creating feeds for Federated Wiki installations (https://feeds.fedwikiriver.com/). I am interested…
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Apple Shortcuts for posting to WordPress via the REST API and XML-RPC MetaWeblog API
Jim Willis asks, it seems that the iOS WordPress app’s “Post to WordPress” is no longer working, so I’d like to fallback to the rpc endpoint. Any chance you could share a link to your shortcut so I could take a look what you did here? Certainly! I’m replying as a post because I think…