Oddments For The Weekend

Including a tempting offer; an overload of pleasure; a brief history of linoleum; a guide to illegal Lego building techniques; and when you almost certainly need a bigger boat.

All this and more.

5 Replies to “Oddments For The Weekend”

  1. Seeing the video of the bird that falls off its perch and the one with the dog and the chick reminded me of something I saw at my house in B. C.

    One of my next-door neighbours has two birch trees along the back part of the fence between our yards. One of them may become home to a pair of chickadees.

    I was outside one morning and I heard some tapping coming from it. I looked up and I saw that they were burrowing into the dead part of the trunk, leading me to believe that they were hollowing part of it out for a nest.

    I hope that neighbour doesn’t decide to cut it down as it sure would be nice to hear the sound of nestlings near my house once again.

  2. “Smaller than is normal”. One of my grand daughters made miniatures as a child, she was extremely good at it and is now at university studying the use of such things in film and advertising, not sure what the course is called. Apparently there are jobs out there for that interest.

  3. So after looking at the seals on the Sailboat, 3 seconds of that “thing” in the car talking, I had to stop on the LEGO Thing.

    The worlds’ gone to shit, but “illegal” lego is a Global issue…??
    Demonstrating, that YES Alvin, the Worlds’ truly gone completely Crazy.

  4. Wasn’t able to read all the article about linoleum, but do remember that – way back in the day – there was something called “battleship linoleum” which was virtually indestructible. Unfortunately, it was also – as then produced – very ugly, which is why people changed it out as soon as they could afford something better.
    Fast forward, and we’re having a reno which includes kitchen. Can’t afford the fancy tiling so are going with “lino” picked to co-ordinate with countertops. Installed floor nothing like sample, and some serious swearing between tones. Fortunately, I mentioned problem to an architect friend and he said the manufacturer was notorious for having insects embedded in flooring as plant located in swamp or near offer. Sure enough, when spouse minutely inspected our new flooring, there was a wee bug with – a rotation along – some bodily fluids practically in the middle of the floor. Actually, we saw a couple of bits of bodily fluids, and can very accurately give the circumference of the rollers. So we went back to the supplier and decided that – with an adequate discount – we could put up with the “swearing”. Some years later, we did replace floor with tiles, but spouse took care to cut out the section of lino with bug and juice. We figure the grandbrats can use this as a good “show and tell” exhibit.

  5. The Lego one broke me.

    In the Day Job I am a Design Draftsman with the vast majority of my background in mechanical.

    So I am torn between the professional design considerations of good engineering practice and the fact there is actually a Lego Police out there somewhere.

    So… yeah… broken.

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