
This is a weird job sometimes....


Got 5 little statuette figures to make this week, making them in maple, roughed out on the CNC and finished by hand


Such a threatening energy, I love it

Ahhh les petites cellules grises 🧠

Led me to this wonderful list
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names

When I was about 4, I was jumping on the sofa, back and forth from one arm to the other (because the middle was lava, obviously)
Misjudged it and ended up going headfirst off the end into a china cabinet next to it, glass doors and all - I ended up missing the first month of school, 32 stitches and basically half a Glasgow smile to show for it, I'm told it looks very cool

"Clarence, I have a slight headache"
"Me too, Geoffrey"

Conversely, spotted this recently


NGL I kinda forgot about rugby, fair point

Europeans: call a game where you kick ball with foot "football"
Americans: call a game where you throw ball with hands "football"
One of these makes more sense to me... :p

Beaney museum in Canterbury

For anyone who grule up in the UK in the 80s or 90s - met a few celebrities today




Sometimes more than one 🤮

Turns out it's a lot harder to do this with a whale

E2E:U, unofficial re release of Enigmatica 2 Expert

I always use fusion to power my Christmas tree 👌



Why not Zoidberg?
(V)(,;,,;,)(V)


Welcome to one of the big unsolved problems in physics

Went to see Randall doing his book promo and being interviewed by Matt Parker (in the UK) recently and this was his exact position on it
The audience were not on his side 😆

Yeah it's all wood - they're attached to the top with dowels and glue

Looks like it yeah, found other seals in the sealbarrow on their Twitter

D'oh yeah should've put that in the post - walnut for most of it, sapele and ash for the accent strip

There's a furniture makers a short drive away with a container full of their offcuts for cheap, spotted this guy right away 😁

Walnut monitor stand I just finished, I love the figure in this one




Sigh


(all the pictures in the slideshow are of tower bridge too)

Every rule, we stray further from god


(NGL it's actually not bad though)

"The Looping Boat" sculpture, just installed on the Sheffield-Tinsley canal



It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring
Like engagement rings denote the engagement... Maybe it's just English being its usual mess

Hey late-stage capitruleism, how's it going? Oh cool even worse then


(also this feels hella iffy legally speaking)

I do not own a cat, but after defrosting my freezer and noticing this, I suspect someone who lived here before did...



Should a 3D printer be used for making unnatural Franken-drills? I dunno but it absolutely can


(for various reasons I needed to join a mismatched pair of 18v drill and battery, annoyed at how much fun it was)


Desk riser thing I just finished for a comish, really happy with it and now I get to never see it again yay!


Oak top, oak faced ply shelf with walnut edge, and sides made of something from an old table

