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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Shipping Container Home Layout (Work in Progress)
Google 3D Warehouse is an immense resource of free furnishings for your shipping container home layout. Here is where I ended up after playing for a couple of hours. It certainly looks nicer than my first feeble attempt at this, … Continue reading
Classics Illustrated Martian Tripod
Today’s Sketchup practice session was to make a Classics Illustrated Martian tripod. It’s not quite right, especially the tentacles, which are as yet a skill too far. But I exported this image, then loaded it into Paint to crop, and … Continue reading
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Beijing Egg versus Shipping Container
An architectural student in Beijing has built a ‘mini-house’ in the shape of an egg. The link is here. I wanted to compare it to a shipping container, so I did the following: Shipping containers, by the way, sell for … Continue reading
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East link is coming! (just not soon)
Seattle will get a light rail system in 2020, except of course there will be political and financial delays, so we’re looking at 2030. For a light rail. Meanwhile, China is building 300 mph maglevs today. Or should I say, … Continue reading
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Weird cloud formation (Not UFO)
I was out walking in the park and saw a circular hole in the clouds, so I took this picture with my phone camera. I’ve got Mary Hopkin’s cover (no pun intended) of Clouds on my MP3, but I didn’t … Continue reading
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Fantastic Plastic x-37b model kit
This is cool, but sixty dollars is a bit out of my budget.
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How to tell if gold coins are real
Place your cursor over the slideshow to stop or reverse it. Where do you get a coin balance? Not from me, since I’m still waiting for the world to make a machine that instantly converts Sketchup designs into real products. … Continue reading
Dragon spacecraft in twenty minutes
I made this sketchup model of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in twenty minutes. With another hour I suppose I could try details and maybe even photo-wrapping. Also, I now notice that the solar panels appear to emerge from holes within … Continue reading
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Engineer Zero 