From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Ready for sanding

05.31.2008

Snapped these last night just before getting busy with the sanding. I tested things out with the belt sander using 80 grit, then got more ambitious and went down to the extra-coarse 36 grit. Worked ’til midnight last night, focusing on the quarter-inch deviation between the living room floor and that ripped border.
Getting there. This [...]

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Binary Pre-finish Line

05.29.2008

Okay. Got the tiles in. The three-day weekend continued all three nights this week, spending a few hours a night getting that last row of squares in there nice and tight. I had the chop saw out on the porch, and must’ve done a thousand laps from the floor to the saw, shaving off millimeters [...]

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Hyphens with Phrases Containing Numbers

05.29.2008

From Edward Johnson’s The Handbook of Good English:
Phrases containing numbers follow a few special hyphenation conventions. For example, prefixes that would normally be solid with the word described are hyphenated with numbers, as in pre-1980, the 8-fold way.
Exceptions from standard rules
Five hundred men modifies men with the adjective + noun compound five hundred, and normally [...]

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Master class

05.27.2008

“I am still learning.”
– Michelangelo

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Binary Memorial Day

05.26.2008

I trust you had a good Memorial Day. Along with paying some silent respects, I spent the entire weekend getting busy with the setting of the wood tiles. After ripping the two 1 5/16″ borders, we nailed in the first one on the soffit side. Then, starting at 00001 in the sequence, I did half [...]

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True, man. So true.

05.24.2008

“Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.”
– Harry S. Truman

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It’s just a Spring clean for the May Queen.

05.23.2008

There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West, and my spirit is crying for leaving…

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Vive Under Angels

05.22.2008

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Punahou #1

05.22.2008

Sports Illustrated has ranked Punahou the #1 athletic program for 2007-08. Punahou, the oldest school west of the Rockies, has a rich athletic history with a Hall of Fame that Dad was inducted into last month. SI’s Austin Murphy also ripped out a nice six-page spread on the Buff n’ Blue, along with an interview [...]

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On variations

05.21.2008

“Self-plagiarism is style.”
– Alfred Hitchcock

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Rip Greamer

05.20.2008

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Noah Edward Camarena

05.19.2008

Uncle Eddie and Auntie Mary’s first great-grandson (and Pudge’s first grandson) crashed the party this weekend, Saturday, May 17th, 2008. Noah Edward Camarena, 6 lbs. 15 ozs. He and his mom are doing great.
If my math is correct, that makes this little guy my third cousin once removed. To add a little piece of boxing [...]

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Nick

05.18.2008

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Wright now

05.17.2008

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

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Honolulu residential flashbacks

05.16.2008

While in Honolulu last month, Dad, Mom, and I spent a few hours driving around the old stomping grounds in the Manoa valley. Included in our stops was the house I was brought home to on 3017 Manoa Road*. We drove by it a few times; it took several takes for the kids to realize [...]

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Right Tools

05.15.2008

Right tools for the job:
Saws, hammers, chisels, brushes,
And some sort of plan.

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