Last night was my first Wheelthrowing class at Kentucky Mudworks. Wheelthrowing is spinning clay on a wheel, hopefully turning it into something desired.
It was me and 9 women, counting the instructors. Strangely it all seemed to come kinda natural to me but the women taking the class for the first time were having lots of trouble. I did have a problem on my first bowl. At first when getting it all centered the wheel has to spin pretty fast. When doing the shaping the speed needs to be dropped or eventually as the sides of the bowl get higher it can spin out of shape. Damm that centrifical force!
It was lots of fun. There is something rather relaxing about playing in mud and making something with your hands. Looking forward to the next 5 weeks of classes.
Month: November 2004
Wheelthrowing
Last night was my first Wheelthrowing class at Kentucky Mudworks. Wheelthrowing is spinning clay on a wheel, hopefully turning it into something desired.
It was me and 9 women, counting the instructors. Strangely it all seemed to come kinda natural to me but the women taking the class for the first time were having lots of trouble. I did have a problem on my first bowl. At first when getting it all centered the wheel has to spin pretty fast. When doing the shaping the speed needs to be dropped or eventually as the sides of the bowl get higher it can spin out of shape. Damm that centrifical force!
It was lots of fun. There is something rather relaxing about playing in mud and making something with your hands. Looking forward to the next 5 weeks of classes.
links for 2004-11-18
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Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to you
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Grouper is a new Windows based application that allows users to share their personal media within private groups. Grouper uses P2P technology connecting you directly to your friends’ hard drives where you can share large files in a safe, encrypted envir
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Too cool
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(categories: Music)
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I wrote the popular evolt.org tutorial PHP Login Script with Remember Me Feature mainly as an introduction to user sessions and cookies in PHP. Since it was created as a learning tool, many advanced features were left out of the script. By popular demand,(categories: PHP)
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What’s the difference between a cipher and a code? Encryption schemes explained.(categories: Encryption Security)
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Announcing AzBlog 1.0, the MetaWeblog-compatible plugin for the popular Java cross-platform and multilingual Azureus BitTorrent client.
links for 2004-11-18
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Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to you
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Grouper is a new Windows based application that allows users to share their personal media within private groups. Grouper uses P2P technology connecting you directly to your friends’ hard drives where you can share large files in a safe, encrypted envir
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Too cool
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(categories: Music)
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I wrote the popular evolt.org tutorial PHP Login Script with Remember Me Feature mainly as an introduction to user sessions and cookies in PHP. Since it was created as a learning tool, many advanced features were left out of the script. By popular demand,(categories: PHP)
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What’s the difference between a cipher and a code? Encryption schemes explained.(categories: Encryption Security)
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Announcing AzBlog 1.0, the MetaWeblog-compatible plugin for the popular Java cross-platform and multilingual Azureus BitTorrent client.
links for 2004-11-17
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This article describes how to configure the Microsoft MSDE database engine. Below you will find an overview of the topics.
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A general overview of Internet technologies including what the Internet actually is, what HTML and XML are, using Web forms, CGI/MIME, IIS ISAPI, ASP and creating HTML based front ends to databases via ODBC32, OLE DB, ADO and ASP.NET
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Some of the Classics from TSR
links for 2004-11-17
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This article describes how to configure the Microsoft MSDE database engine. Below you will find an overview of the topics.
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A general overview of Internet technologies including what the Internet actually is, what HTML and XML are, using Web forms, CGI/MIME, IIS ISAPI, ASP and creating HTML based front ends to databases via ODBC32, OLE DB, ADO and ASP.NET
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Some of the Classics from TSR
links for 2004-11-16
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(categories: Photo)
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File Sharing through GAIM proposal(categories: InstantMessaging P2P)
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The 686 tool belt has an integrated set of screwdrivers and wrenches, thus eliminating the need for storing a ratchet driver in your pocket. The newly designed buckle now incorporates a sleek bottle opener for access to on and off the hill refreshments. T
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This is where we’re getting ready to release the Frontier kernel under the Apache license.
links for 2004-11-16
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(categories: Photo)
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File Sharing through GAIM proposal(categories: InstantMessaging P2P)
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The 686 tool belt has an integrated set of screwdrivers and wrenches, thus eliminating the need for storing a ratchet driver in your pocket. The newly designed buckle now incorporates a sleek bottle opener for access to on and off the hill refreshments. T
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This is where we’re getting ready to release the Frontier kernel under the Apache license.
links for 2004-11-14
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“Warning: the tracks on this album do not all sound the same. There are fast songs and slow ones, dark moods and dance tracks, sung in many languages, hardly any in English.”
links for 2004-11-14
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“Warning: the tracks on this album do not all sound the same. There are fast songs and slow ones, dark moods and dance tracks, sung in many languages, hardly any in English.”