Wheat decadent bone multi-layer

Published on 2/25/2010 in Funny. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Here’s a really long bit of insane Engrish from a box of Chinese candies. Just try to understand this, I defy you.

Wuxue city (old name Guangji county) the Guangji crunchy candy, origins from the Ming Dynasty wanlinian, because hands down a loyal son the mother to dye cold illness, by fries ripely the sesame seed, mixes by the sucrose, the mother eats on severalth to cough stops is restored to health, latter improves unceasingly after all previous dynasties famous teacher, chooses a name officially in the Qing Dynasty Daoguang Dynasty as the Guangji crunchy candy, spreads until now. [Ok, now breathe.]

But the Guangji crunchy candy assumes the wheat decadent bone multi-layer, the pine crisp tasty, sweet is not greasy, includes the protein, the carbohydrate, the meals textile fiber, the calcium, the phosphorus, hard, the manganese, the zinc and many kinds of nutrition ingredient and the trace element. Is the leisure, the traveling visits friends, the high quality goods. Burden sheet: Sesame seed kernel (ripe black hemp), white granulated sugar, fine bread flour, wheat tooth syrup, sweet-scented osmanthus.

.NET Garbage Collector making me batty, again

Published on 11/19/2009 in Tech. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

I wrote previously about two things I had learned, through great pain, about the .NET garbage collector.

Now I have another lesson to add to that.

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Lazy “homebrewing”

Published on 10/25/2009 in Homebrewing. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

I don’t really have nearly as much time for brewing as I would like.  So, my kegerator tends to go long periods with no beer in it.

Until now.

If you have a kegerator, but no time for brewing, and happen to live in the Southwestern Ontario area, then take up thy Corny keg and hie thee hence to Grand River Brewing in Cambridge.  They’ll fill up your keg with 5 gallons of your choice of professionally-made craft beer.

I’ve only had their Hannenberg Pils so far.  It’s quite fine, and definitely the fastest and easiest “homebrew” I’ve ever “made”.

Welding Cart

Published on 7/26/2009 in General. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I completed an introductory welding course at Conestoga College last year, and bought myself a small oxy-acetylene torch outfit.  I figured my first real project should be a welding cart. I had my gas cylinders freestanding up against a wall, and that’s just not very safe. I try to cultivate a healthy fear of compressed gas cylinders. Especially cylinders containing oxygen and quasi-stable fuel gases. There are very good reasons for being afraid of gas cylinders.

I know you can buy a welding cart, and it would probably cost a lot less than I spent on materials alone. But if I did that, I wouldn’t have learned anything. I thought it would be useful to gain more experience before I embarked onto some of the projects that I learned welding for in the first place. And good thing I did, because one of the things I learned is that I’m a piss-poor welder.

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Welding

Published on 7/26/2009 in General. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Last year I took an evening course in Basic Welding at Conestoga College. It was just an introductory course for people who want to learn how to weld for their own projects. No credit toward welding as a profession.

It covered oxy-acetylene and a bit of GMAW (aka MIG). I like oxy-acetylene, but i didn’t really care for GMAW. With GMAW, I felt like I had no control over the process. I couldn’t get an intuitive grasp of the effects of all the variables (voltage, current, wire feed rate, arc length), and the welding gun nozzle is so big that I can’t see what’s going on in there. With oxy-acetylene, everything is right there in front of you.

Besides, when it’s time to go buy yourself some equipment, an oxy-acetylene rig is cheaper than a reasonably-capable GMAW machine. And a decent GMAW machine may require a new electrical circuit to power it. And you can cut with oxy-acetylene: it’s two tools for the price of one.

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