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random musings ·

the finch

I'm still amazed at the zoom of this camera. When I walk by the finch no longer flies away. It sort of sits there wondering if I'm going to mess with the nest. If I get too close she will take off. Think there's eggs in that basket?



Where's the man? Haven't seen him lately. Maybe he's as vacant as us dudes can be some times.
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Goods ·

flash with LEGO®

I just made this for fun. Found a broken 256 and made this. It wasn’t as easy as I hoped. 1) I used a dremel and dug all kids of plastic out. That’s easy, but hellish too. The plastic kept falling apart, since I used so many pieces. 2) The 256 is old, so it’s big, that’s why this thumb drive is huge. 3) I had to support the many pieces by adding more pieces. That sort of sucks, but I can do this better with a better thumb drive to start with. The length is actually the size of the thumb drive, the width is right too. But the height, that was necessary to hold this together. 4) I know what to do next time.
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Goods ·

flash with LEGO®

I just made this for fun. Found a broken 256 and made this. It wasn't as easy as I hoped.



1) I used a dremel and dug all kids of plastic out. That's easy, but hellish too. The plastic kept falling apart, since I used so many pieces.

2) The 256 is old, so it's big, that's why this thumb drive is huge.

3) I had to support the many pieces by adding more pieces. That sort of sucks, but I can do this...
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