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	<title>Austin Antics &#187; Ron&#8217;s Rambling</title>
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	<description>The Adventures Of Ron &#38; Evelyn</description>
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		<title>Remove Before Flight</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/10/10/remove-before-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When building doors for our Chicken Coops, we use a biscuit joiner. Now 99% of the time we use #20 biscuits for our work.  But while building the models for our Monster Mayhem display I had to switch to small #0 biscuits. And when I put the tool back, I left it at that position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop Cat</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/10/08/shop-cat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He needs a home. Old neighbors left him (a year ago). Then someone was taking care of him, but over the past week he&#8217;s been very needy. So I think that whomever was taking care of him moved away. An outdoor cat, but craves to go inside. I&#8217;ll have to build him a condo.]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween 2011 : Garage TV : Part 1</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/10/08/halloween-2011-garage-tv-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how you turn your garage into a TV. A SONY, of course.]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween 2011 : Monster Mayhem</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/10/07/halloween-2011-monster-mayhem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ron's Rambling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme this year is Monster Mayhem. Think: 1950s Japanese Godzilla movies. Here are some early shots of work in progress: Above we see Evelyn working on our version of Godzilla and Gamera. Godzilla is about 4 feet tall and over 4 feet wide (including his long tail). The &#8220;core&#8221; of his body is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WP Needs A Social Media Plug-In</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/10/07/wp-needs-a-social-media-plug-in/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/10/07/wp-needs-a-social-media-plug-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ron's Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my daily conversations and projects have been happening less on this blog and more on places like Google+ and Facebook. (Though, to be honest, much less on FB recently.)  For the benefit of those not found within those walled gardens, I wish there was some sort of social media aggregation software. Heck, I just want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What? No Woodworking?</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/08/21/what-no-woodworking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, no woodworking projects recently. It&#8217;s summer in Austin and my shop/garage does not have air conditioning. It&#8217;s been a brutal summer, with weeks on end with temps 100+. So, no fun to be in the shop, even the night is still too hot &#8212; 90 at 11 PM. Even if the heat wasn&#8217;t so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saw Till and Small Shop Storage</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/02/09/saw-till-and-small-shop-storage/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/02/09/saw-till-and-small-shop-storage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shop Talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have a small (1 small car) garage which houses our shop. In total square feet, our shop is fine. The trouble is that we also build chicken coops &#8212; and they take up a 3&#8242; x 6&#8242; footprint &#8212; therefore, we have to keep the front 1/4 of the shop clear as a work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Piano Stand &amp; Bench</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/01/27/digital-piano-stand-bench/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2011/01/27/digital-piano-stand-bench/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking at digital pianos for a while now. Since I wanted something I can learn piano on, a couple of things were important. First, it had to be full-sized (88 keys). Second, it had to have &#8220;real&#8221; piano action (with full-sized keys). Third, it had to fit into my budget. I ended up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palm V and Palm Desktop 4.1</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/09/01/palm-v-and-palm-desktop-4-1/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/09/01/palm-v-and-palm-desktop-4-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;Summer Reading List&#8221; has been getting a bit long, with Post-Its everywhere. So, I decided to pull out an old Palm V that my friend mailed to me a while back. As my brother Dave would say: Perfect for what it does. It&#8217;s small, it&#8217;s light, and it still works after 10 years. Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Month</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/07/12/the-lost-month/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/07/12/the-lost-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forgive the slow posting. Our summer vacation turned into an exercise in illness, and we&#8217;ve both been sick since late June. With any luck, health will return, and with it innovation.]]></description>
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		<title>The Survey Is Wrong</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/07/12/the-survey-is-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/07/12/the-survey-is-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron's Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While scanning through the blogs today I saw the results of a survey. The survey asked what people would like robots to do for them. People wanted robots which: Clean the floors Clean the windows Clean blah blah blah In other words, people wanted a maid. What didn&#8217;t they want from a robot? Driving Helping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycle Beer Box</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/06/09/bicycle-beer-box/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/06/09/bicycle-beer-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shop Talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about my Dahon Folding Bike before. It&#8217;s the one that I configured as a city apartment bike (read more here). The Dahon is a fun bike to ride. With its tiny tires you feel like you&#8217;re on a kids bike. It has a three speed hub gear system, so it&#8217;s easy to use. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plugging Along</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/06/03/plugging-along/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/06/03/plugging-along/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a good deal of IT work, so nothing exciting to report there. It has kept me out of the shop, but is necessary to get food on the table and rent checks paid. The coop stuff has tapered off a bit since the pre and post tour rush. This is a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access 2007 : Slow Report Builder</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/06/03/access-2007-slow-report-builder/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/06/03/access-2007-slow-report-builder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ron's Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Boring, but useful for anyone writing Reports in MS Access 2K7. I found that the Report Builder was VERY slow. Every time you moved a field around, resized, etc it would lock up for a few seconds. Extremely annoying when you are trying to organize a new report. I found that if I turned off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Your Hearing: Buy Better Tools</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/05/06/save-your-hearing-buy-better-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/05/06/save-your-hearing-buy-better-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shop Talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been busy. About a coop a week through most of March and April. And the IT work. So I&#8217;ve unfortunately not had a lot of time to blog. Ah well. One think I&#8217;d like to mention: If you want to save your hearing, buy better tools. You see, we&#8217;ve been gradually upgrading our shop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miter Saw &#8220;Wings&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/16/miter-saw-wings/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/16/miter-saw-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I removed my &#8220;old&#8221; scrap wood boxes from the sides of my cart, replacing them with some new &#8220;wings&#8221; for my Makita miter saw. Actually, more like re-purposing. I took the boxes apart and used them for the wings. They were 1&#215;12 material, so gave me the size I wanted. Here is the left-hand (feed) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multitasking Is A Curse</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/16/multitasking-is-a-curse/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/16/multitasking-is-a-curse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a line in a Doctor Who story which goes something like: Immortality is a curse, not a blessing. I feel that way about multitasking. You&#8217;d think that computers and smart phones and whatnot would make people better at multitasking, but then you&#8217;d be looking at it the wrong way. Those devices don&#8217;t make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movin&#8217; On Up &#8211; Makita LS1216L Miter Saw</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/15/movin-on-up-makita-ls1216l-miter-saw/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/15/movin-on-up-makita-ls1216l-miter-saw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shop Talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I realized that our miter saw was on the way out. While the &#8220;old&#8221; (10 months) Skil saw did a good job, it just isn&#8217;t able to handle production work. It was getting sloppy on 45 degree miters &#8212; which was deadly to us, since our coops use those cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DeWalt Cordless Brad Nailer</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/10/the-dewalt-cordless-brad-nailer/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/10/the-dewalt-cordless-brad-nailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shop Talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are three tools in my shop that I never thought I needed, but now find indispensable. The Band Saw, the HVLP Sprayer, and the Brad Nailer. Why are they so important to me? Because, in a production environment, every minute counts. Saving a minute here or there doesn&#8217;t sound like much &#8212; until you look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rikon 10&#8243; Band Saw</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/10/rikon-10-band-saw/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/04/10/rikon-10-band-saw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shop Talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February I picked up a new saw for the shop. I already have two portable circulars, a miter / chop, saber, reciprocating, scroll&#8230;the list goes on. But let me say this: I should have gotten a band saw a LOT sooner. It has quickly turned into my second most used power saw in the shop [...]]]></description>
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