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New From Lea Vally Tools: Grinders Overalls

Courtesy of Doug Berch, we have the scoop on what will be the must-have clothing for the serious tool grinder of 2012.

Lea Vally Tools has determined these to be the most effective tool grinders overalls made, patterned after the traditional overalls of the Shropshire Tool Grinders Guild.

Advance orders will be accepted for those who simply cannot wait to be parted from their hard earned cash.

The Unicorn Water Spout Headpiece is still in production stage but is planned for release in the very near future.

Our thanks to Doug for his digging up the dirt on this news, vital to grinders everywhere.

Till next, Gary

Fine Joinery From Canada

Courtesy of Trevor Walsh comes this amazing video of Canadian joinery. Forget about English joinery, Newport Highboys and all that stuff. This is joinery at it's finest!

Canadian Joinery

Till next, Gary

 

Windows 7 Made Me Bald

Yes, it's true. Windows 7 made me bald. After much hair pulling, I've eschewed the Dark Star, the Evil Empire, the abode of The Dark Lord Gates and I have returned to the Tree Of Life, Apple.

Boot Camp. Parrallels. Fusion. Be damned to ye all! In my multitude of failed attempts to run various programs on NTFS partitions via any one of the aforementioned software band-aids, I have continually run into problems. Slow systems, buggy responses, no responses, hurricanes and landslides will bring you down. I tell ya, it's been hellish. Things work for a bit, then the ravages of hell break loose and the daemons descend upon my poor Mac Pro Tower, reducing it to naught but a hunk of gibbering piece of plastic, silicon and aluminum, begging for mercy yet again.

I have capitulated and did the only humane thing one can do for the Mac in ones care. No, not that, not the Mac graveyard in the sky. I partitioned a disk and loaded Snow Leopard (10.6), replete with Rosetta Stone. Now, in peace and tranquility, those orphan programs that long for their Rosetta can operate with the assurance that the Lion will not be waiting in the woods, drooling in anticipation of the next bloody meal.

Take that, Microsoft!

Till next, Gary

A Pox On Both Your Committees!

I hate committees. I really don't like committees. I avoid anything to do with committees. I break out in hives when someone mentions committees. I worked for the State of Massachusetts for ten years and had to be on committees to discuss what committees we needed. I worked in an institute and we had committees do discuss what our committees were accomplishing. I worked for the DoD and thankfully, I didn't have to be on any committees. Finally.

Somehow, committees and boards seem to follow me. It must be a plot. It must be something I did in a former life and now I must do penance through dealing with committees.

I am seriously considering hiring a Wiccan to cast a spell banning all committees from my immediate vicinity. Or wearing a necklace of committeebane around my neck. Maybe that might work.

Thank you for listening to tonights tirade. I return you to your previously viewed channel.

New Wenslof Saw!

Yes folks, you read it and saw it (ha!) here first, this is a sneak peek at the new Wenslof AeroDynamic Low Drag Panel Saw!

I don't have all the details as of yet, but as soon as I do, I'll post them here.

Till next, Gary