I just woke up in the middle of the night. And I have a sudden idea for an artsy-craftsy project.
OK, I need a plastic hemisphere. Sorta like if you cut a softball in half, but a little bigger, solid and hollow. Perhaps Lexan or some other sort of plastic.
OK, that's the easy part. The hard part is I need some printing on the hemisphere. Numbers, in particular. I suppose I could print them on a flat piece of paper or plastic, but then that'd need to be formed into hemisphere shape and applied (sorta like how a globe can be printed on something flat, which is then cut and formed to cover the sphere). But I'm not sure how well that would work - I still think it'd be easier to print directly on the hemisphere. Perhaps applying numbers to the sphere with a stencil and paint, or stick-on numbers? Dunno. The main criteria is it has to look nice.
Tomorrow morning (i.e. later this morning) I'll probably look back on this and think, "Oh yeah, that."
Oh, it's for a clock. There would be a whole series of times printed on the clock, and the hemisphere would tilt up and down and simultaneously rotate from side to side to tell the time. (There would be a fixed "target" or "bullseye" in front to show what numbers comprised the time.) The mechanics/electronics of this is actually the easy part.
I just started talking to the website I was indexing, telling it what I'm thinking about it. This is not the first time.
HELP.
Skipping-to-post that, according to Raq "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Mar 20, 2005 11:43:42 pm PST today is Mallory's third birthday. What a big boy!
Happy birthday, Mal! And lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year with you for your mom, as well!
Happy Birthday Mal!
So, the other day mr. flea dropped a good quality paring knife (Henckels or Wusthof) and the blade broke in half. WTF? And, should we consider taking this up with the manufacturer? The knife was 10 years old; it was a wedding present. But I still don't expect knives to just break like that!
I had a Wusthof chef's knife do just that when I dropped it. The knife was probably close to 10 years old at the time. I was able to take it to be replaced at a Sur la Table store (I had not bought it there) and have it replaced by the manufacturer.
So yes, absolutely take it up with the manufacturer.
Happy birthday, Mal!
The Aerogardens are kind of small, and pot plants are tall, last I checked. Unless there's now a dwarf breed of them, suitable for small spaces and decorative planting, et cetera.
I've had to skip about 700 posts, so just wanted to give my sympathy to Scrappy and her niece.
Happy Vernal Equinox!
Yay!
And Happy Autumnal Equinox for those south of the equator. Lets not be hemisphereist here....
Ooh, maybe it'll be light when I wake up sometime soon??
