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Well I made it – a total of 26 hours straight travel, from the moment I left my house, to arriving at the Hotel Monaco where I am staying. All up, a very pleasant trip, except for one notable exception. Met a really nice young (born in 1988!) couple on the plane (Scott and Lauren [...]
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Some more (low quality) iPhone photos. The first is cool – the A380 has a webcam in its tail, and can be viewed at your seat. Very interesting for landings/takeoffs. Lots of snow – amazing landscape.
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Did the airport thing- didn’t miss the flight which I guess is a positive. Got through all the various security checks and got to see the A380-800 for the first time. Got to shake one’s head at the size of thing that can get off the ground. Full double-decker aircraft. 21 hours or so of [...]
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About now, in 12 hours time I will be sitting in my seat on a Qantas A380-800 taking off for LA. The adventure begins! 14 hours in the air to LA, about 3 1/2 hours on the ground, then 2 1/2 hours to Denver. Hope there is some snow on the ground, and more-so, hope [...]
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While I’m on Denver, visiting Rockler (on Wednesday), their sale-to-end-all-sales will have just commenced. Damn – hate it when that happens! What’s my baggage limit again? Oh for goodness sake – they have blast gates for dust extraction designed to fix to the wall. Why don’t we have things like that? That is a perfect [...]
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Bi·ble n. A book considered authoritative in its field There are many, many (many, many, many!) books out there about aspects of woodworking. Only a very few are worthy of being elevated to the point that they can be regarded as a bible in their selected field. Ron Hock is one of “The” authorities on [...]
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Starting to put together a bit of a shopping list for when I get to get into the candy store, and (hopefully if they have stock!) pick up some things that I can’t get here. I have some Bench Cookies, and now I see there is a storage rack – yup, that’ll look good on [...]
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out when you read the manual (or in this case, watch the DVD). Yes, yes, I know – reading the manual is a Code Violation, but I was far from the shed, so felt it was justified. I was watching the DVD that came with the Tormek T7 (from Carroll’s), and had one of those [...]
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ROCKIN’!! What am I talking about? Incra. The Incra LS Positioner is now available in a metric version, and for people in countries that primarily use a metric system, being able to get what I consider the best router fence out there in a metric version just makes the best system even better. The big [...]
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Hearing on the radio this morning that with the current collapse of the roof insulation scheme that we may find companies physically ditching batts that they just cannot store now the demand has suddenly dropped to virtually nil. Can I just say that if anyone is planning on throwing away bundles of roofing batts that [...]
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One of the great Australian inventions/products that I have been a strong supporter of (and still remain so) has left our shores, at least as far as the company is concerned. Before even stating the name, let me be clear that the product itself remains (and will continue to remain) available in Australia. MagSwitch Australia, [...]
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