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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:30 AM

Lulu

Two years ago, I raved about Lulu.com as I finished publishing a hardcover book for each year of my blog going back to 2002. It’s time to give them another plug. As you saw in the moblog, I just published volumes 2008 and 2009 of my blog book series....
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Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:30 AM

Grammar Be Hard

I’m finishing up the editing for blog volumes 2008 and 2009. The technical process is pretty quick because I have a tool that does the following: Connect to the database behind the blog. Pull down each post and figure out which categories it belongs to...
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Monday, January 04, 2010 12:30 AM

Fireplace Shelves

I’ve had the last 1.5 weeks off from work, and other than a three day trip for Christmas, I spent most of it at home. My project over the break was some new shelves to go above the fireplace. I was no longer happy with the look of the old ones, and with...
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Monday, September 14, 2009 12:30 AM

Garage Shelves: Part Deux

Ever since I did the first set of garage shelves , I’ve wanted to extend them. Tim came over and we were able to do just that. We tripled the previous surface area and even added a ladder to make it a bit easier to get up there. The end result is...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:30 AM

Ski Geek

Somehow, every activity I participate in is turned into a geek project. Skiing is no different. This season, I have been carrying around the Garmin GPS that I purchased earlier in the year. It keeps a signal inside my coat and dutifully tracks my position...
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Monday, January 26, 2009 12:30 AM

VHS to WMV

We never had a camcorder when I was growing up, but we have a couple dozen VHS tapes in my parents’ basement from various childhood events. I’ve always worried about losing those memories since VHS isn’t a very stable format. I was personally responsible...
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Monday, November 24, 2008 12:30 AM

Scanning Photos

I finally finished up a project that has been on my mind for years. I scanned in most of the photo prints that I have collected in my life. Here are a few things I realized through the project: Keeping photos in print form is extremely unreliable. Any...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 8:30 PM

Topographic Wallpaper

Export a JPEG from TOPO! It seems to have a problem if you try to export the entire state, but you can split it up into fairly big chunks. Download GIMP Choose Image > Guides > New Guide By %. This splits up the photo for printing, and you can break...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:30 AM

Published Author

I've finally finished the book project . All in all, I'd say it took about 40 hours to get these six books edited and published. These new books are pretty substantial and have 450-600 pages each. If you're ever looking to publish any type...
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 6:41 PM

Building the Chair

I headed to Home Depot this afternoon to pick up some wood to build a base for the lift chair. The project went relatively smoothly, and while it's not the prettiest bench in the world, it has a lot of meaning and I love it. The extra depth in the...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:02 AM

Books Completed

In February, I completed The Life and Times of Ben Martens: 2002. Lulu.com did a great job printing off the hardcover book for me, so I went ahead with books for 2003-2007. I have been spending ~5-10 hours/week for the past two months and I'm finally...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 1:30 AM

Garage Shelf

One of the biggest (by physical size) projects that I've ever undertaken also turned out to be one of the quickest. I have a very tiny garage. It was a struggle just to get the motorcycle and the car in at the same time. Over the last two years, the...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:31 AM

The Life and Times of Ben Martens: Vol 1

About two weeks ago, I sent the first volume of my book series to the printer. I'm going to print one book for each year of the website, but I wanted to see one volume in person before paying for all of them. The package arrived today and I'm...
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Monday, February 04, 2008 12:30 AM

Mundane

This weekend wrap up isn't terribly exciting. I had hoped to go skiing on Saturday, but that fell through. I-90 was still having issues, the ski resort didn't have power, and my back was still feeling a bit sketchy. I decided to sleep in which...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:30 AM

Studio711 - The Book

I've hinted at my newest project a couple times since last fall, but the first stage is finally nearing conclusion. As the title of the post implies, I'm writing a book. More accurately, it will be a series of six volumes - one for each year of...
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