Oh, the Misery

irishstubborn:

“Do you have   “The Less Miserable”?

“No, but we have  “Les Miserables”

“No, it’s called “The Less Miserable”…..”

(Looking in Amazon) “No, I’m sorry, I cannot seem to find any book with the title “The Less Miserable”.

“They made a book outta the movie already??!!”

I think I dented my forehead on the keyboard again……

This is my sister. She’s a librarian. This stuff really happens.

I captioned all of these, but tumblr lost that part of the post. This is a significant up-grade in price and quality to the hammer shoes that have failed so badly over the last few weeks. I built 4 new ones today, and they will be in use up at Snoqualmie Pass tomorrow. I hope they hold up better than the last batch. (Still no word from the manufacturer of the old ones.)

** The captions DID show up. You just have to click on the pictures individually within the post. Probably everybody on tumblr knew that except for me.)

I don’t know where all the wrinkles came from…. I still feel like I’m about 12.

kustomsteel:

Coffee table

Reclaimed pine and steel. 48”x 40”x 18”

Latest furniture commission from concept drawing to finished product.

Start to finish…. A pretty fine start and a damn fine finish.

October 2011, 3:45 a.m. at the grain dock - Terminal 86, Seattle

The Naked Lady Expert chimes in:

PK Reilly writes:
Just in case you were testing me, the fish school teacher mermaid image was done by Ren Wicks in the early 1960’s. He was a commercial artist who did advertising work, stuff for NASA, movie posters for Howard Hughes (the only one I can think of right now was the b-movie classic with Jane Russells boobs called Underwater), Larry Flint/ Hustler Magazine and even a postage stamp if I remember right.
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BAM. Yep…he’s an expert.

I’m not that kind of girl…

I don’t mind making the call, I really don’t. I know what is right, structurally, and from experience, my first guess is almost always right. But if you have a ‘thing’ about not sharing the prints, then that’s all I can give you: a guess.


So when I call on the radio and ask for location and you send somebody who knows way less than I do and is also bereft of any kind of engineering cartoon, it pisses me off. (I don’t need muscle, for Christ’s fucking sake… I have worked on my own the majority of my career and it has made me a master of leverage, wedging, hand rigging and all manner of other practical physics applications. If I can’t get it done with that and an excavator or crane, you can just pasture me now.)

You yourself need to come down and tell me that this wale is in the right place to take the 140 kp it is designed for. You need to take the responsibility you are paid to take and not fob it off on somebody you think will just roll over. Forget it.

Or, you know, you could give me a print…

Jackass.

…pretty cool internet time waster: geoguessr . com