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Make your own apothecary (type) bottles
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Absolutely love this idea! I must start hunting through the fridge. Daisies have been my favorite since I was a child.ReplyDelete
All four are just stunning. What a fabulous idea. I love them. Hugs, MartyReplyDelete
I'm loving that heliotrope bottle! Another tip for removing 'goo'. Olive oil, veg. oil or baby oil all do the trick of you don't have 'goo gone'.ReplyDelete
Beautiful bottles and photos. Well done.ReplyDelete
I am so happy you showed the bottles before..they are just so cute!!! DiannthaReplyDelete
Love your bottles! I did some spice bottles too. Addicting isn't it?! =)ReplyDelete
Your bottles are beautiful and simple! I love them! The flowers are so pretty too. This is a great idea!ReplyDelete
This is such a great idea. It's amazing what a pretty label and a few flowers can do! I just love it.ReplyDelete
Man I need to head to the grocery store for some great looking bottles - I so have to try this.
Great bottles and photos. I've been saving some bottles & you just gave me a push to get busy! Thanks. I have happily become your latest follower!ReplyDelete
Your bottles are absolutely amazing! What a clever idea! I am going to have to try this! ~SusieReplyDelete
These look great and I love the flowers. I don't know what the name of those little flowers are either but what a great surprise you got. Thanks for this post I really liked the bottles.ReplyDelete
That is so clever. They are very pretty.ReplyDelete
I love these! Might just be my new b-day present for everyone!ReplyDelete
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This gets a big WOW from me! I have printed off images from Graphics fairy and know how much fun that can be! But you've done something I would really like to do! The perfume bottle is my favorite! And less recycles! YAY! How great! ♥ReplyDelete
What a cute idea for recycling. Thanks for joining, Lisa.ReplyDelete
Ohhh, I'm loving just how adorable these turned out. I picked up some old bottles at Goodwill that I afixed labels to and use them to hold all my makeup brushes : ) I like these together with the flowers. I may have to make a few for a center piece : ) Thanks for the inspiration ~ReplyDelete
~ Deanna
Cute Cute Cute and you saved them from ending in up a landfill.ReplyDelete
This is GREAT!! I will start saving my used bottles. Thanks for the ideas.ReplyDelete
I love this project--so pretty and economical too!ReplyDelete
Love them!ReplyDelete
I did a post on DIY apoth bottles.. but I think yours are far more beautiful!
Lisa, This is such an easy project with a whole bunch of style. I think a little collection on a window ledge would look sweet. Thanks for the inspiration.ReplyDelete
I'm a new follower. Love the glass bottles. I started saving fun bottles for some Halloween 2011 projects... but now I can make some fun ones now. lauraReplyDelete
Another fabulous idea ~ love it ~ you are always so cleverReplyDelete
Wow! Your bottles are so lovely and I can see some in those metal bottle carriers that I really like. I am a new follower and this is my first time to visit your blog. I will be back because I can tell that you have such great ideas.ReplyDelete
this is such a clever and lovely idea! We eat a lot of pancakes too so I'll be sure to keep the syrup bottle next time around! :)ReplyDelete
The bottles look fantastic. Congrats.ReplyDelete
Lisa! Those are so stinkin cute!!! Gotta try the pronto!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the fabulous inspiration!
Lisa those are so beautiful! You are so creative my friend and what fabulous way to recycle! I see many of those little bottles in my future!! :)ReplyDelete
- The Cranky QueenFebruary 23, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Amazing blog! Love the tutorials. The bottles are awesome. I just did a post on a laundry room bottle. Nuts about old bottles. Sneak a peek at my blog thecrankyqueen.blogspot.com. Be kind and follow and leave a comment if you like. TiffReplyDelete
Those are beautiful!ReplyDelete
I love your bottles! so cute!ReplyDelete
you reallly made those bottles look fabulous! ..I also love your photography;0)ReplyDelete
What a lovely idea ~ thank you so much for the inspiration! ;-)ReplyDelete
Hi... Okay, this just makes me want to go in and empty bottles so I can do this too. I LOVE your idea...it's splendid! They look wonderful...can you tell I want some? And you camera work aint bad either. I'd say there is some talent here. I found you somewhere...I get so caught up jumping from site to site I forget where I've been. I am going to be a new follower and visit you often. Hope you will come over for a visit with me and jump on my follow list. Thanks for the idea.ReplyDelete
xoso Sandy O
Thank you for sharing another beautiful "repurposing" idea with us.ReplyDelete
I really love all of your posts & pics!
It's hard to tell that you live in the desert. That's quite an accomplishment.
Thanks again, Lynda from AZ.
Love these jars Lisa,ReplyDelete
I think I might make myself some too.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Donna xx
These are great!ReplyDelete
Your bottles look fabulous! I absolutely adore them!ReplyDelete
Visiting from the Graphics Fairy. TFS!
Thank you. You gave me a bunch of idea of how to use bottles we already have to put the labels on. I have wanted to try this project fora while, but didn't know how to do it or where to get bottles. Now I know!ReplyDelete
What pretty vignettes you created. I love them. What a pretty set of bottles. I see some similar to these at Michaels from time to time. Have to pick up a few for the spring blooms.ReplyDelete
Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. I must get some of these labels.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Just wanted to give all of you "label" ladies a little tip for removeing the original labels easily. Get a product called Goo Gone. It works great for removing label and gooey residue from them. Your bottles turned out beatifully by the way. There were very inspiring for me!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2011 at 2:28 PM
I discover your blog tonight and i find it very nice . The flower in the green taco sauce's bottle is a WAXReplyDelete
( or Chamelaucium uncinatum ).
A new french reader ......
Delightful! GF has such pretty labels, and you've made wonderful use of them. I always love projects that re-use everyday objects.ReplyDelete
Girl . . . you are making me look at bottles in a whole new way!ReplyDelete

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Today's top is sheer black with shimmery black threads. These make the top look almost gunmetal grey with silver shimmers, so it's a great way to get away with wearing all black without causing people to ask why I'm wearing all black.
I bought this skirt at Ross for $10. This one is very similar in style to another I have from Forever 21, but this fabric is nicer for work and it's far more cat hair resistant! It also has four buttons sewn on the front, which you can see one of in the detail below. I thought these were a nice touch.
Today I tried a new lip gloss from Bare Minerals. The line is called Pretty Amazing. I'm not crazy about the color (it's too soft for my taste) but it was a free gift so I wanted to try the texture and staying power. It's not at all sticky, lasts a couple of hours, and fades evenly without getting chunky. I'm looking forward to trying it in a richer shade.
I also did eyeliner all the way around, which is more than I usually do for work. Lining the bottom lid is tricky when you are starting to develop more fine lines, as the color always wants to bleed. I only recently realized (yeah, I'm an idiot) that I could use my eyelid primer along the bottom lash line… I'd say that helped about 50%, so it would probably work for an evening out with just a bit of maintenance every couple of hours.
Ooh, and I finally tried my black crackly nail polish. This is the Ulta brand, over a sparkly magenta (something by OPI; can't remember exactly what color). I actually bought the black crackle months ago but was saving it for the end of the year, as I can't stand wearing black polish too close to Halloween. Now that it's safely past Valentine's Day, I'll gladly rock the black nails. 😉
Have you tried the crackle polishes? How about the magnetic ones? What do you think of them?


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What the WaPo's National Organization for Marriage profile left out
Blog ››› ››› JAMISON FOSER
On Friday, I noted that the Washington Post devoted more than 2,000 words to a profile of National Organization for Marriage executive director Brian Brown -- without ever once quoting a criticism of Brown or NOM.
That's an appalling omission, but it only scratches the surface. The article was an extended mash note to Brown and his right-wing group, describing them as "rational," "mainstream," "sane," people put upon by shrill opponents who irrationally demonize them.
The Post headline set the tone for the fawning that followed:
Opposing Gay Unions With Sanity & a Smile
NOM Head Moves His Cause to D.C.
Then this:
But this country is not made up of people in the far wings, right or left. This country is made up of a movable middle, reasonable people looking for reasonable arguments to assure them that their feelings have a rational basis.
Brian Brown speaks to these people. He has a master's degree from Oxford, and completed course work for a doctorate in history from UCLA. He shoulders the accusations of bigotry; it's horrible when people say that your life's mission is actually just prejudice. He tries to help people see that opposing gay marriage does not make them bigots, that the argument should have nothing to do with hate or fear, and everything to do with history and tradition.
The reason Brian Brown is so effective is that he is pleasantly, ruthlessly sane.
Gee, isn't Brian Brown just swell? Isn't the National Organization for Marriage just swell? The Washington Post certainly thinks so -- and, though it couldn't find any space for criticism of Brown or NOM, it found room for this:
Bishop Harry Jackson, the Beltsville pastor who has been one of the most vocal gay marriage opponents in the area, sees a happy partnership between his followers and Brown's group. Jackson says Brown and NOM "have a sense of dignity about human beings. They simply believe that marriage between a man and a woman is the best for society. But they're not gay bashers."
Not gay bashers? Have a sense of "dignity about human beings"? Oh, really?
If the Post had the slightest interest in a balanced, fact-based assessment of NOM, that's where they would have included some criticism of the organization, and maybe even some facts that undermine Jackson's warm-and-fuzzy portrayal of the group. But the Post article contained nothing of the kind.
The Post did not, for example, mention that in a 2008 fundraising email, Brown approvingly quoted a description of the Prop 8 campaign as "the Armageddon of the culture war," and also included a quote comparing advocates of gay marriage rights to the devil:
As I close, I wanted to encourage you with a report from a pastors' conference call I had the chance to sit in on last week. With hundreds of pastors on the call, I was inspired by their passion and fervor. The mood was determined, confident, and upbeat.
Pastor Jim Garlow of Skyline Church in San Diego told the group of clergy: "One of the dumbest things the devil ever did was attack the institution of marriage." Rev. Jim Franklin from Cornerstone Church in Fresno told the group: "We must be consumed with a holy anger . . . this is the time to fight."
And so we press on. We are in the midst of the biggest fight for marriage our nation has ever seen. But we are confident that with God's help we will prevail. Thank you for standing with us in your prayers, financial contributions, and volunteer efforts.
Nor did the Post mention NOM board member Orson Scott Card, who has a history of rather colorful comments, like referring to homosexuality as a sin.
And like this:
"Only when the father became powerless or absent in the lives of huge numbers of children did we start to realize some of the things people need a father for: laying the groundwork for a sense of moral judgment; praise that is believed so that it can instill genuine self-confidence."
(Really? Mothers are incapable of "laying the groundwork for a sense of moral judgment"? Interesting.)
And this:
The dark secret of homosexual society -- the one that dares not speak its name -- is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally.
It's that desire for normality, that discontent with perpetual adolescent sexuality, that is at least partly behind this hunger for homosexual "marriage."
And this:
If America becomes a place where the laws of the nation declare that marriage no longer exists -- which is what the Massachusetts decision actually does -- then our allegiance to America will become zero. We will transfer our allegiance to a society that does protect marriage.
And I don't mean that civilized Americans will move. I mean that they'll simply stop regarding the authority of the government as having any legitimacy.
Oh, and this:
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.
But The Washington Post insists NOM are not gay-bashers; no, they are sane and cheerful people just trying to preserve tradition. So the Post left out the bit about the NOM board member who thinks "homosexual behavior" should be illegal. It left out any mention of the NOM board member who announces that "our" allegiance to America will end if gay marriage is legal.
All of that -- the Card quotes, the Brown email -- was easily discovered in about twenty minutes of light Googling.
So how did a 2,000-word hagiography of NOM make it into the Washington Post?
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Re: The Original Blockbuster
Love it. Thanks for taking the suggestions! +1 over here!
zekecatz wrote:Purr-fect!!!
Take a look... It's reading a book... It's a Reading Rainbow!
Re: Epic Battle
Books like a winner! Nice! Expelliamos!
Oh, it's still here, well I guess I'll have to vote, then.
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Re: Reading Rocket Ship
GMV as promised. And being on silver gives it more 'pop' than on a darker shirt.
Re: Eight legs good, two legs bad.
We have a winner!
Re: Illiterate rainbow
I would love to see this one along with Robbie's design back-to-back next weekend. That's where the 10th rainbow is, BTW.
I would buy this one! That's great!
Re: Romance Novels
Gotta love a good romance --- or perhaps a "good" romance --- where the men are inexplicably shirtless, the women all have heaving bossoms, and everyone knows the leads are in love .... except them. Or, are the novels just romancing each other?
Well, whichever, you can show your love for books by voting for these book lovers.
Five colors on silver. I hope you enjoy!
Some detail:
From left to right:
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Sea Wolf
Sea Wolf is amazing, if you get the chance to read it
Re: Jealousy
I think it would be better if the book were saying it.
cruelnv wrote:If you couldn't see, you wouldn't know there was Braille on the shirt... unless you were already "reading" it... which is why I included my disclaimer. XD
I dunno. I can see and I still wouldn't know there's Braille on the shirt. The colors are a little too close to the shirt color, at least on my monitor.
And, yeah, it seems to me that it's a text-only design.
Re: London and his Dogs
I like it. Now if only I had money.
sasham62 wrote:I dunno. I can see and I still wouldn't know there's Braille on the shirt. The colors are a little too close to the shirt color, at least on my monitor.
And, yeah, it seems to me that it's a text-only design.
I agree about the color. It doesn't quite stand out enough. But I do like the design. Other than people who are blind, most people don't think of Braille when they think of text, so I really believe this is a valid design for a shirt.
Great submission, hope to see this printed! By far one of the best entries.
Awesome shirt and awesome colors!
Color me ret@rded... I don't get it.
Re: The Owl Brings Me Many Things
Here's an ode to Hedwig - Collab with the infamous Odysseyroc.
Re: Getting Into Character
this is my favorite so far!
Re: Sketchbook
Jellyfish spotting! Jellyfish rule
This is good stuff, man. My pick so far.
uniique wrote:Here's an ode to Hedwig - Collab with the infamous Odysseyroc.
In case you didn't know that means I'm more than famous. Kinda like El Guapo.
Re: poe bird can't read....been rapping since 1845
I like this better than the other raven shirt. No offense to it, but it's really not that great...I'm a little confused as to why it hasn't been reckoned yet.
Re: Face Book Picture
odysseyroc wrote:In case you didn't know that means I'm more than famous. Kinda like El Guapo.
Infamous like Attila the Hun, who was actually a fabulous fine art painter as well as a rampaging warlord. ;P
Re: The Grammarian
Iz can haz ejukashun?
Re: The Lion, the Witch, in the Wardrobe
I LOVE this so much!! Our local community theater group recently performed the stage version of this and this would have been PERFECT to have for our show. Definitely GMV.
Re: Unwritten (Resub)
Decided to resubmit this design again, after making some changes in the proportions, because in my first entry it seemed too "streched".
Here´s also, a link for a larger preview of the design - Unwritten Preview
Re: How to live forever
This one is a how-to manual for books to live forever. By itself, a nice, simple design. But read the electronic reader, and it gets even better.
That's a powerhouse owl right there, I tell ya what...
Yay for Orson Scott Card!!
splendid collab guys! really looks great on the tee and love lighting and mood!!!
Re: Unwritten
Thank you both for your comments, and to everyone that voted for this design so far.
I resubmited this design, after making some changes in the proportions. It´s up for voting here.
jagendorf wrote:Love the design but would have preferred a black shirt to blend the background. Still GMV.
I'm glad this is not on a black shirt. I hate black shirts. Also, I don't think black would really work well for this shirt; even though it is in space. The blue background works perfect; black would be overpowering.
All right, so...second and third place are still open, right? You can't beat a shirt that has Harry Potter AND Gandalf...
Re: Booklyn
This is a very nice, clever idea. I just feel like it's missing something..maybe a little color wouldn't hurt.
If there wasn't a published biography written about me, I'd so wear this shirt. In any event, it's got my vote for awesomeness!
vgpclife wrote:Color me ret@rded... I don't get it.
I had no idea either. So googled it:
Still no idea what the show was, guess it has to do with being European :P, but now at least I know the lyrics
Re: I Love Books
I cannot stop seeing the swans now that someone mentioned it!
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not that i've spent a hell of alot of time on the AR lowers, but i think it's mostly about drilling not milling. you will need a drill jig to complete and AR lower and they run in the 250.00 range.
that and the proper sized bits for the buffer and such.
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Pongu (the Insane) is my first dog, my first sport partner, and my Number One Favorite Dog in the Whole Entire World (as I tell him constantly every day). I adopted him at four months old from a city shelter; he'll be 4 in April. His previous owner, a college kid who wasn't supposed to have any pets, moved out and abandoned the puppy in his apartment. Pongu had a broken foot at the time, so there was probably some abuse or at least severe neglect going on there.
Pongu is a terrible dog. He is severely, genetically fearful. In the rare moments when he's not just scared out of his mind, he is a complete jealous jerkface. We have worked through a full spectrum of behavioral issues together: separation anxiety, fear aggression, fear/anxiety generally. And his underlying personality is still terrible.
He hates other dogs, he hates kids, he hates my husband. He will walk up to my husband and bite him for no reason, just as sort of a "screw you" throughout the day. He regularly raids my husband's trash can and tears up his garbage out of (as best we can tell, anthropomorphic as it is) vengeful spite and a delusional belief that my husband is somehow hoarding up used Kleenexes and discarded grocery-store receipts as precious, precious treasures. Once when my husband was on vacation and Pongu was allowed to sleep in the bed, he tried to rip out my husband's side of the sheets. It was an impressively specific tear pattern.
I don't bother to fix any of those things, because I'm a horrible person and they make me laugh. Pongu loves me, and I love him. He is extremely smart, he works as hard as he can to do whatever I ask of him, and he got me hooked on competition sports. On our good runs, the connection we share in the ring is like nothing else.
Despite his many, many limitations (which I've talked about at length in my dedicated thread o' whines), and despite our shared inexperience, Pongu has done pretty well for himself overall. 2013 was his first full year in competition, and he finished it ranked #1 nationally in his World Cynosport Rally division. He is, provisionally, the #9 WCRL dog overall and the #1 mixed-breed dog in the sport for 2013.
I'm proud of him and look forward to seeing what else we can achieve together. He is my special little guy.
Then there's Crookytail, our Akita mix, who is about three years old. He comes from Robeson County, North Carolina, where he was picked up as a stray and dropped in a high-kill shelter. I adopted him because I was told he was a 45-pound Aussie mix and might be a good sport candidate. He turned out to be an 85-pound Akita mix (although he was 45 pounds at the time he entered the shelter, that was because he was starved down to skin and bones) with zero performance potential whatsoever.
Crooky is a wonderful pet dog. He is sweet, stable, affectionate, gentle. He has perfect house manners, never barks, is happy to play as long as you want or sleep if you're not doing anything. He is a creature of joyful doggy exuberance and love. I wrote him into an upcoming novel as a major character just because he's so darn charming.
But as a sport dog he's a washout, poor guy. He's not smart, he's easily discouraged, he has no edge. Crookytail cannot compete on the level I'd like to ask of him -- he wants to, with every fiber of his being, but he simply doesn't have the ability -- and our relationship is not what it should be, owing to that mismatch between dog and person. My husband loves him tremendously, though, so Crooky sticks around as his dog. Not mine.
So that's my crew: the world's worst dog, whom I love and cherish because he'll do his little nerd sports, and the world's nicest dog, whom I would rehome in a heartbeat if I could.
Tulah is still just a baby at only 4ish months, but so far she is proving to be quite alright She gave me a run for my money in the beginning and really tested my training and my patience, but has proven that sticking it out was worth it. She is my first Malinois and I think will be the dog to really push my training ability to the limit. She fits in really well with the rest of my little family and has so far been the cuddliest puppy and most affectionate out of any of them. She has plenty of drive and a wonderful little personality to match. Carma and Tulah and best friends and get along (and tire each other out) wonderfully. I hope it stays that way, but for now, we will enjoy it while we can. She has started her foundation in IPO, and I'm excited to see what we accomplish together as she grows.
Then came Carma. After all my troubles training with Aiden, I was sure that I wanted a large, strong, male working line dog for my next puppy, preferably black and tan. And I somehow ended up with a tiny, sable, long coated female. I guess sometimes, exactly what you need isn't always exactly what you expected.
This dog is absolutely incredible. She has grown into everything I could have ever wanted and it has been a breeze since day 1. She loves anything and everything and would do anything that involved a toy or a ball or just fun in general. She was made to work. We have gotten a puppy show rating, dabbled in agility, and trained heavily for IPO. I have a whole lot of hopes for this dog and hope we can make it far together. She is everything I wanted in my sport puppy, even though I never saw it coming.
She is so silly and happy, although very serious in her training. You'll be hard pressed to get a tail wag in tracking or protection, because to her it is very serious business. It never stops in obedience or agility though, and she is so incredibly happy working out there with me. She settles wonderfully in the house and recently graduated to sleeping in my bed, because I just can't say no to all that fluff. It comes as a surprise to some people who have met her on the IPO field, because she is so crazy for the work, but she really is an excellent little house dog. I don't think I will ever find another dog who has made training in this sport as easy as Carma has made it for me.
Too many pics, so I will do one for each dog.
Aiden is my heart dog. He is from someone I consider a BYB, and has some nerve issues and had been put through some pretty crappy training before I knew any better. I got him at around 5ish months old while I was working at a veterinary hospital, after he was returned by his first owner. He was pretty sick and had some general behavior issues that he overcame quickly with a little TLC. We've had our fair share of failures, but we managed to get IPO3 two times and our FH this past December at 4 years old. He is now retired from IPO (mostly), but will continue to come with us to club training and get some fun bites to teach new helpers how its done I may decide to get his AD and breed survey for our club's conformation show in the fall.
I love this dog on a level that I can't really relate to my other dogs. He got me involved in sport and training and really sparked a huge passion for something that has become such an important pice of my life, that I can't thank him enough for. I feel an immense amount of guilt for allowing the type of training we had in the beginning go on for so long, but his love for me has never wavered. And even when I know he really didn't want to continue, he has always done so because he knows it is what I wanted from him. He is an absolutely incredible, once in a lifetime dog.
He is incredibly serious. Its a rare occasion to find this dog in a goofy moment. But he is also very, very sweet. He doesn't like to be hugged on all the time, but always wants to be at my feet, always watching. Believe it or not, he is actually pretty lazy. He doesn't have the type of drive that is suitable for sport and makes an excellent house pet. He is protective of his property, but is very happy to otherwise just lie on the couch all day. He will try anything that I ask of him, and hardly acknowledges the presence of anyone else but me.
I'm pretty sure this dog would give his life for me and I will be absolutely devastated when he is gone. He is my best friend.
I've had several dogs, but I'll just do the last one and the current one.
Prior to Rocket, I had this dog. He did not start out as one I ever thought would steal my heart the way he did. In many ways, he will be the single best dog I've ever or will ever have. I miss him terribly. He was a serious working lab, very different from the goofy, brainless depictions you hear of Labradors. This does not mean he wasn't friendly or that he was nervy. He was absolutely ROCK solid. He was an incredible dog, and when I hear the term 'genetic obedience', I think of him immediately. Once you have it, it's very difficult to ever have anything else. He was so fabulous I don't know if I could even find one thing wrong. Well, except his shedding. Oh, and he hated running.
He did my bidding before the words even came out of my mouth. He couldn't care less what was going on around him, who and what dogs were around, he only had eyes for me, and then his family, then our accepted circle. I could trust him with brand new kittens, baby turtles, he even once brought us a baby squirrel that had been kicked out of it's nest; so gently, there wasn't a mark on it. Once a strange dog came silently barreling off the road towards my daughter, at the time about 10, who was out playing football while I watched in the front yard. He shot towards that dog like a silent rocket and shoulder-slammed it to the ground (a big black lab mix) and then stood over it, making teeth visible and low-growling while the owner was freaking out. He used to get between my kids and the UPS guys coming down the driveway--never acting aggressive, not making a sound, just walking alongside the kids, keeping an eye on the dudes. They used to tell me he was quite impressive the way he would eye them. I could have taken him anywhere in the world without a collar on. When he died, we truly grieved. The look in my children's eyes, when they would stare into mine, was one that I'll never forget. He was their first lesson in heartbreak and losing something you loved deeply. My gut hurts still thinking about it. This was him:
Then we got Rocket. Let's just suffice it to say that I wish I'd known then what I know now, but Rocket is a great dog. He is also rock-solid, he is my go-anywhere, do-anything dog. He absolutely is my backpacking, hiking, running dog. He is the best running companion ever. He is appropriately serious, watchful, and confident, but he is trustworthy (as trustworthy as a 2.5 year old GSD can be, heh). He is not one to start fights, but I suspect he will be happy to finish them. He is great at dog language, loves cats (a little too much). He goes shooting with us, thunderstorms are a non-issue, he could care less about fireworks, except for wanting to chase the 'Flowers'. He teaches bite-prevention classes with me for our school district (as did the Lab and my prior dog), can handle a crowd of thousands on Halloween, 4th of July, you name it without batting an eye. Crosses cattle guards, metal mesh staircases way out in BFE, like I said-- we can go anywhere, do anything.
I just certified for our Sheriff's dept SAR. The director of the dog team as well as the head deputy have met Rocket and encourage me to bring him to training and be fully evaluated, (ok, they keep hounding me) but I'm not sure I'm going to do that yet, as it's such a HUGE financial and time commitment with the dog team, and I have three teenagers at home, including a graduating senior and a seasonal job where I work 60 hours a week in season (7-8 months a year). Maybe next fall, or down the road.
That said, he is fun, he is goofy, he is affectionate, and he is not as genetically obedient as my Lab. This has made training more challenging for me, and frankly, I wish I had more gumption and resources to do more with him. I think with a better owner, he would be quite capable of doing many things, but I guess he'll just have to suffice with climbing mountains and running mileage.
( Rocket's first climb, to 7,714 ft)
Echo is my crappy BYB lovebug. He's an absolute disaster, but he's still my heart and soul. He's completely changed the way I see the world. He's four and I hope he lives forever He struggles with some health issues and crappy nerves, but he's the smartest dog I've ever met and a great friend. He also enjoys poetry and long walks on the beach at sunset.
Delta is coming up 16 weeks. She's got a killer nose on her, and I look forward to doing a lot of tracking and IPO with her. She will also actively work livestock on our farm. This is my first really well-bred dog, so watching her progress is really exciting. She's very drivey and a lot sharper than Echo was as a puppy, but she's really sweet and has a huge personality for a little pup.
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LOL!! We were debating between quite a few names when we got him and Sinister stuck! His nickname is "Devil Dog" or "**** Hound".. He is pure mischief!
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Pegasus is my wild child! He is a white siberian husky I rescued off of craigslist at seven weeks. He was knocking on deaths door. He had severe roundworms and was lacking proper nutrition. He was food aggressive when I brought him home. We worked hard to gain his trust and love. He now loves everyone he meets and is thriving!
Athena is my long coat shepherd and my heart dog!! She is truly the best dog I have ever owned. Athena loves everyone she meets and enjoys being out and socializing. We are working on her CGC and hoping to become a therapy dog after her 1st birthday!
Sinister Black is pure landshark!! He is the smartest little burger out there! He loves to train and has a toy drive like no other! I hope to involve him in shutzhund when he is older! He starts puppy class this Saturday, super excited for his future! He is a great boy!
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With rocker centered over valve tip it contacts lock, but if rocker is slid across tip 'til the rail stops its lateral movement the opposite rail WILL contact the retainer. I've got Comp #787 7* retainers for the beehive springs. I trimmed down the tops of a set of the +.050 locks to see if I could skate by, but no go. MOST of the locks are FLUSH with the retainer. On the few where the lock actually sat higher than the retainer this theoretically might have worked. However, trimming ANY material away from such critical components is probably not a good idea. I'd rather spend a bit more money and play it safe than gamble catastophic failure. My initial objective was to upgrade these heads without doing ANY machining (other than screw in studs). Easier said than done! There are a LOT of misleading articles out there on vortec head upgrades which supposedly require no machine work.
I don't recall, what rockers are you using? Agree on misleading info. But there's something that is somehow different about your set up that is causing the problem; there are a lot of guys using everything from stock retainers to the same set up you have to going back to the early-style valves and retainers (less damper) that all work w/SA rockers. So my theory is there is (at this point, anyway) the rocker arm might be the fly in the peanut butter.
Last edited by cobalt327; 01-11-2013 at 03:50 AM.
I drove it for about 4,000 miles using the lash cap keepers but I checked the keepers and rocker rails regularly. I prepared a better set of heads and this time I used Manley Race Master Series valves with .290" tips and used regular Comp Cams 613 (10*) keepers. Now the rocker rail to keeper clearance is .035" - .040" which is the way is should be and the way the SA rocker clearances were designed by GM.
It does not matter whether you are using beehive valve springs and retainers or straight springs and retainers, the clearances or lack thereof are the same. You must use valves with .290" tips with SA rocker arms. I preferred to use Ferrea 5000 Series valves but Ferrea does not offer Chevy valves with .290" tips, at least not in the 5000 Series. So you must use Manley Race Master Series valves with .290" tips and they cost twice as much.
The alternative is to get a flat bastard file and go to work.
My c/n 062 heads have plenty of clearance and the tips are not 0.290- which is supposed to be only on the exhaust, anyway. I suspect the valves were resurfaced and this caused the tip lengths to be shorter than 0.260" intake/0.290" exhaust. The rockers clear them just fine. So the tip length is not ordinarily a problem.
If this was a universal problem, there would be thousands of reports of this being a problem. But there aren't- because it isn't a universal problem. There's something peculiar about HIS set up that is causing the problem, I believe it's the rockers he's using, or the geometry of the valvetrain (which hasn't been addressed AFAIK).
The O-ring groove was eliminated on the 1996-2000 062 and 906 Vortec valves and a different retainer without a shield was used.
The 906 Vortec heads were equipped with hardened exhaust seat inserts which resulted in a increased valve seat margin compared to the intake seats. The increased exhaust valve margin made the exhaust valve sit lower in the head. It was corrected by making exhaust valves with longer tip lengths. The keeper groove was the same distance from the valve seats.
In order to maintain equal valve stem heights , the O-ring groove, O-ring seals and oil shields were eliminated on the Vortec valve stems and the retainer lock grooves were relocated. The tip lengths were changed from .250" intake and exhaust to .289" on the exhaust valves and .260" on the intake valves. The valve face and seat angles should be ground in order to establish the valve margins at .050" intake and .080" exhaust to allow for the difference in valve tip lengths.
So if you still have the problem let me state my understanding, or lack, of it.
I take that you have self guided roller rockers and the self guiding guides that are like washers located to either side of the roller which contacts the valve stem are themselves touching the spring retainer. Is this correct?
The other choice open to interpretation is that the body of the rocker contacts the spring retainer. Is this what's happening?
Neither situation is desirable, nor acceptable, but the causes and solutions of each are different.
Neither of these problems have much to do with the installed height of the valve, not that this can be ruled out but for the valve to be sitting deep in the seat from an exuberance of seat grinding to the head or valve, or both, would have to be very extreme to have such a huge effect on the angle of how the rocker address the valve stem as to put parts of the rocker into contact with the spring retainer or the locks. Sinking the valve seats (head and valve) forces the stem to ride higher in the guide. This moves the lock position (thus the retainer) further from the spring seat resulting in the installed length of the spring to be longer than specification which in turn relaxes the spring reducing the forces it will generate toward keeping the valve train following the cam lobe and holding the valve in the closed position. Typical flat rate shop work for this situation would be to shim the spring between the spring pocket and spring is the usual solution toward making the effective length of the spring shorter so the correct spring length is established between the bottom of the retainer and the top of the shim. The valve tip is often ground to restore the installed height of the stem to the valve spring pocket to restore the rocker angle and position to the stem tip. But this shortens the clearance distance between the lock grooves and stem tip; thus also ,where the retainer positions from the stem tip, this can get you into clearance problems between the retainer and rocker or in the case of self guided rockers the lesser distance could put the guiding bosses or washers into contact with the retainer. As an aside this is a common problem with older Ford SBs where rocker tip and stem tip wear closed the clearance till the rocker guides rubbed on the retainer, which risks pushing the retainer low enough to allow the locks to pop out dropping the valve into the cylinder.
Obviously trying to avoid shortening the Vortec's tall guide boss to provide additional lift clearance between the assemblage of the retainer, stem seal, and stem guide by sinking the valve deeper in its seat is not the way to solve this clearance problem as it gets you into the problems I describe above. When I read your comments through this; I get the feeling that this approach could be involved. Did you do this?
It is always possible that the lock angle of 10 degrees or 7 degrees does not agree with the interfacing angle of the retainer. This would cause the retainer to sit improperly as a position to the stem tip and affect spring installed length. Did you check these parts to be sure they have matching angles?
Roller rockers especially cast ones tend to be fatter than stampings; it is not unusual to have to grind a clearance into their body to clear the retainer especially where oversized springs are used.
The angle the rocker makes with respect to the retainer can also be an issue; if the studs are too short there usually isnt enough bite for the studs threads into the retaining nut which can result in thread failure. Solution is a longer stud which for sure will force a longer pushrod. Or if the pushrod is too short because the valve stem sits higher than designed then the rocker sits at a low position with a sharp angle between the push rod and stem tip that can get it into contact with the retainer. The solution is a longer push rod.
If everything is dimensionally correct and the witness marks on the stem show the roller to be properly positioned on the stem sweep but the guide washers are riding on the retainer then one can consider several possibilities are causing the stem clearance distance to be incorrect:
- This can be a result of the lock's location of the tang being other than what you expect; there are locks that move the tang up or down .050 inch being typical from the OEM position. These are often relieved for lash caps which will allow their use with roller tipped rockers. You also need to be sure the locks are the proper diameter for the valve stem. Between .310, 8mm (.3150), .3437, .375 inches there's getting to be things that are close but not necessarily correct for what you're using, so you've got the check stuff before using it.
- The distance between the lock groove and the stem tip is insufficient. Typically the SBC valves come in a .225, .250, or .290 inch clearance. Don't go by what documentation says should be there use what provides the needed clearance. Often the overall length is held at a constant and this clearance is moved by relocating the lock groove, this is done to play with spring length as a means of adjusting pressure between the weight differences of intake and exhaust valves. More engineering refinement than is probably necessary for anything short of a race engine. Use this to get the rocker correctly positioned. Keep in mind that longer valves does not mean the relationship between the lock groove and stem tip changed but is just moved further from the valve head and seat. Some heads are .1 or .2 inch taller between the seat and the spring pocket and need an overall longer stem to restore the spring length to retainer relationship. This doesnt change the groove to stem clearance aside from placing that relationship further from the valve head. This will require longer pushrods because it changes the rockers position from the head deck (makes the engine taller is at were) but does not necessarily change the dimensions between the bottom of the spring retainer and the top of the spring pocket, I mean it can, but doesnt have to. The production Vortec head should require this kind of messing around unless youre trying to get space for more lift without grinding down the guide. In that case you get into a lot of problems not unlike where youre at. Did you do this?
- The guide washers are too large, given the quality issues I see almost everywhere anymore it could be that the guide washers are bigger than needed, I guess I could say grind them down, but I wouldn't do that except as a last resort after checking and adjusting everything else first.
I know its hard to believe, but Im out of words and will be out for the weekend. So good luck with this.
By the way, a hydraulic lifter will chase any gap that opens up in the valve train parts till the plunger runs into it retainer (bail or clip). This is what a pumped up lifter is all about. A space appears between the parts for any reason, the lifter closes it. If it was adjusted properly there's about a .020 to .030 gap between where it's running position is and its retainer. When it closes that space the next time the valve goes to close it can't, it's hanging .020 to .030 off its seat till the lifter bleeds down and returns to its normal preload clearance.
My heads are 062 w/induction hardened exhaust seats. It may be that standard Vortec tip valves were used in non hardened insert Vortec applications; there's no sense in using a too-long tip to correct for a problem that doesn't exist on non hardened insert-equipped heads- this would be as bad as using a too-short tip on an insert-equipped head.
However I believe discontinuing the O-ring/metal shield was unrelated to going to a single groove stem; the O-ring/metal shield simply isn't needed when using the Vortec valve stem seals. I believe they opted for the better seals for emissions and cost savings as much as anything, secondarily for any other reasons.
Well, after much thought heres what I've decided to do. I'm gonna ditch the +.050 locks in favor of standard locks. This gives me plenty of valve tip to work with. I'll machine the guides down a bit to give me the necessary retainer to guide clearance, and live with the slightly increased seat pressure( up from 130# @ 1.80" installed height to 145# @ 1.75" installed height). I'll still be safe from coil bind and my open pressure will be in line(342# @ 1.20") A guide cutter and new seals is a helluve lot cheaper than the new valve order I cancelled. That and I had just gotten a valve job done on them a month or so ago. The proverbial "fly in the ointment" was the +.050 locks. They just won't work with .25" valve tips and self aligning rocker arms. Dare I ask, anyone see issues with this or does it seem the logical thing to do?
BTW Cobalt, the stamped rockers were contacting locks/ retainers also
The +.050" locks will shorten the effective valve tip length.
If you do not want to go to the expense of purchasing valves with .290" tips, use locks designed with a recess for lash caps...... but do not use the lash caps. The lash cap recess will proved a little more clearance for the self aligning full roller rocker rails. I ran those type locks for about 4,000 miles with Scorpion narrow body, self aligning, full roller rocker arms before I installed better heads with Manley SS valves that had .290" tips. I inspected the locks and rocker arms regularly because I realized that was not the best way to solve the problem. Unfortunately, lash cap locks will not help if you are using stock self aligning rocker arms. The alignment nubs on the stock self aligning rocker arms are too large.
I would probably have still been using the Comp Cams 10* Super locks designed for lash cap locks if I had not installed the better heads I had prepared with Manley valves. I replaced the 10* lash cap locks with standard 10* Super Locks and have .035" clearance between the rocker rails and the locks. .
Last edited by MouseFink; 01-13-2013 at 03:41 AM.
I've got the Comp pro magnun chromoly self aligning full rollers. #1317 if I remember correctly. These went out of production some years back but I found a set of NOS at a reasonable price.
The Comp Cams 1317 rocker arms have the alignment tabs on the rocker arms rather than on the roller tips. That makes them about .020" wider between the alignment tabs. That will cause the rocker arm alignment tabs to contact 7* retainers rather than the locks. The alignment tab location and not being narrow body for center bolt valve covers were the reasons they were taken out of production. They are rebuildable but apparently that was not a good selling point.
If you use 10* locks with a lash cap recess (and 10* retainers), the 1317 alignment tabs would fit inside the lash cap recess and may offer a bit more clearance. That is not the best way to get more clearance but it is cheaper than buying a set of Manley SS valves with .290" tips or buying a new set of aluminum, narrow body, self alignment rocker arms.
I used Scorpion 1073BL full roller, self alignment, narrow body, aluminum rocker arms. Those rockers have the alignment rails on the roller tips. They measure 0.350" between the alignment rails and better fit SB Chevy 0.343" (11/32") valve stems with negligible (0.0035") side to side movement. I am using Manley valves with .290" tips. The rocker arm alignment rails have .035" clearance from the 10* locks.
For comparison sake...
In any event, those rockers have wider alignment rails compared to a rocker like the Comp p/n 1015:
After I shave the guides down to .530" should I use the Comp #503 PTFE .530 seals or the #529 viton .530 seals? Or #518? I read somewhere that the PTFE (teflon) seals require a crimping tool? Does one seal have a lower profile than the other?
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'"When you've got three losses in a series, there is always pressure on you," Manderville said after the Flyers defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 3-1, at the First Union Center last night. "I don't know how much [the pressure] shifts to them."'
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Volvo-The Passion
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Volvo Cars Heritage publishes a book every year on different Volvo related topics. They are edited by Claes Rydholm, senior manager of Volvo Cars Heritage. Last's years book was called Volvo Prototypes. This 112 page hardcover book is filled with historical photos and information about Volvo's many prototype, concept, and show vehicles.
This year the title is Volvo-the Passion. It covers many people around the world whose hearts beat for Volvo. Irv Gordon is naturally included and so is Joe Lazenby.


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Tooele • Park City's Michael Self hopes the fifth time is the charm.
Self has driven in four previous NASCAR K&N Pro Series West races at Miller Motorsports Park, with disappointing results.
"This race has plagued me," Self said. "It's been horrible. Every single time out, we've had mechanical issues."
Self has managed only one top-10 finish in this NASCAR race, but he's hopeful of an improved performance Saturday at Miller Motorsports Park.
"We have put those [bad] races in the past and knock on wood know we have a good car," Self said. "I have high expectations for our team. I have high expectations for myself."
Why not?
Self, 22, is an emerging star in his sport. In 53 starts in the K&N series, he has six wins and 18 top-10 finishes. This season, he has three victories in 10 starts no other driver has won more and he's third in the championship standings.
This summer, Self was selected for the NASCAR Next program, which helps promote the careers of young drivers who are considered the next generation of stars.
Self's season got off to a disappointing start at Daytona, when he rallied from 27th place to take the lead. Late in the race, he "got spun" and ended up eighth.
"We had a unbelievable run," Self said, "and it was the biggest heartbreak ever. But I knew we had momentum."
Self won consecutive races at Brainerd, Minn., Lebanon, Mo., and Newton, Iowa, to put himself in season-long contention for a championship.
"For me it's not about the fame or the fortune or anything," Self said. "I don't care about that. I want to make a living as a race-car driver. That's all I've ever wanted to do.
"That's why I get in the race car. There's nothing that makes me happier it clears my head, almost than being in a race car.
"I love the speed. I love the competitiveness of it. As frustrating as it can be, winning a race is the most incredible feeling in the world."
Self was born in Birmingham, where his father was a friend of NASCAR's famed Allison family.
"Down there," Self said, "racing is a way of life."
When his father moved to Park City, however, Self's interest in the sport waned. He tried motorcycles and dirt bikes, but ended up underneath them one too many times.
Eventually, he tried karting and fell in love with racing again.
After two successful years on the local, regional and national level, Self decided to "return to my Southern roots." He turned to NASCAR and, ever since, has been on the fast-track toward racing's highest level.
For now, though, Self is concerned about finishing well in the final five races of the K&N season.
"I don't need to think down the road next year or what's going to happen with my career," Self said. "My focus needs to be on this year, being competitive and trying to win a championship. If we do that, I think good things will come."
Michael Self file
Profession • NASCAR driver
Hometown • Birmingham, Ala.
Residence • Park City
High school • Park City (2009)
Age • 22
Hobbies • Skiing, biking, dirt-biking, working on cars
Weekend schedule
The schedule of events for races under the Utah Grand Prix umbrella at Miller Motorsports Park:
9 a.m. • Practice for the Discount Tire Invitational and the Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series
12:20 p.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, Race 1 qualifying
12:45 p.m. • Discount Tire Invitational, practice
1:20 p.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, Race 1
8:30 a.m. • NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, practice
10:35 a.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, practice
11:10 a.m. • Discount Tire Invitational, practice
12:40 p.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, Race 2 qualifying
1:30 p.m. • NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, qualifying
3:15 p.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, Race 2
4 p.m. • NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, pre-race ceremonies
4:30 p.m. • NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race
9 a.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, practice
9:15 a.m. • Discount Tire Invitational, practice
10:10 a.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, Race 3 qualifying
10:35 a.m. • Discount Tire Invitational, qualifying
12:15 p.m. • Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West series, Race 3
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I first encountered zines around a decade ago (can't remember whether it was the Tasmanian 'The fall of because' or the mid-90s black metal relic 'Eternal damnation zine' that got in first, but they were near each other at least) when I was completing my VCE in rural Victoria (South Gippsland, to be precise... where the cows are). I wasn't sure whether I was heading toward photography, writing, or film-making, and thus applied for courses in all three areas. Writing, it seems, was the only discipline that would have me.
Around late 2001, I was completing a desktop publishing class, and wound up making my first zine. Didn't really properly grasp the term then, but it lit a bit of a fire in me. I printed out about 10 copies, forced them into the vaguely petrified hands of my TAFE friends, and then promptly went about other endeavours for the next year or so.
After finishing my second zine - a collaboration between a new writerly friend and I that took around about a year to get together (a production rate I sadly still adhere to at times) - I wound up in a very young Sticky nervously asking Luke if my friend and I could stock our lowly zine in there. He said yes (in hindsight, possibly bemused and amused - at the same time - at our youthful trepidation), and six months later I was one semester into my BA, and volunteering on a weekly basis in said awesome zine outlet. I learnt much in those days.
Sadly, after 3 1/2 years, I had to depart Sticky to make way for full-time work as a librarian... and for some silly reason, I had only produced one zine in that time (with the exception of submitting some pages to 'The fall of because' zine, queer collaboration zines at uni, and other places I can't clearly recall).
Two years after that, having talked about doing a mix-tape zine pretty much since leaving Sticky's volunteer ranks, I managed to churn out D90, which was quite distinctly different from my earlier efforts... and very, very badly photocopied. But, it got some positive reactions, and that kept me going. Around Valentines Day the next year (2009, that is), I churned out issue 2, and set about starting up a weekly zine called 'Dilettantes & heartless manipulators' (or 'd&hm', for short), which was based around a mixture of my love for music, eccentricly cryptic anecdotes, and mailing lots of letters on a regular basis.
Now, I'm glad to say that I'm at it quite regularly with d&hm, even if a fair chunk of the issues do sound/look/feel about as rushed as my earlier efforts have been (last minute person, sadly... well, it's not unheard of in the zine-iverse, but... ah well). Anywho, it's weekly, so, ya know... with any luck, the crap period will at least be shorter... right? (EDIT August 2011: D&hm is now no more, ending on the last Monday of July 2011).
More came after... like D90#3, my Target 168 zine 'Moldovan Metal', my WeMakeZines mini zine folks group swap #2 zine 'True', and more thought on an elaborate one-off project I've been vaguely talking about for a little while now.
Since April 2009, I've been doing keyboards, programming, bass, and spoken word for Melbourne-based zinester shitcore noise punk outfit The Church of Hysteria. Recordings have thus far been quite frequent.
Since November 2009, I've been doing much the same duties for Melbourne-based gore-doom noise-metal group Colostomy Baguette?
In August 2010, I started a solo noise project called Shallow.After releasing three business card sized CDrs in 2010, a 7" was made in 2011 in a small run of 21 copies. All releases have been given simple number according to when they were released.
All musical recordings will eventually be held at the Australian National Film and Sound Archive.
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A selection of zines of my making (excluding most group efforts I added to):
NOTE: For more info on each title, click on the thumbnails in my Zines photos albums. Click on the titles themselves to track down copies of the zines in libraries around Australia (all of them should be available within the State Library of Victoria's Rare Printed Zine Collection in Melbourne, Vic, Australia and the Octapod Zine Library in Newcastle, NSW, Australia).
Strap and buckle - spring edition
As yet untitled
Asinine - issue 1
D90 : a mix-tape zine #1
D90 : a mix-tape zine #2-3
Dilettantes & heartless manipulators #1-43
'I know everything'
One dollar pornography
Moldovan metal
Travesty : musings on being a transvestite metalhead #1
Dilettantes & heartless manipulators #44-95
Travesty #2 : more musings on being a transvestite metalhead
Note to self
Is this still you today?
Blue floral gusset
Dilettantes & heartless manipulators #96-120
8 jokes that end in violence
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Hey Guys, ive tried both techniques listed below, the spray and the dab on, and neither seems to be making the armor any darker. Ive used a wash of black acrylic with water and RAF Green with windsheild washer and neither is taking to the armor?
What is going wrong?
Hey guys just wonderin if this would work to get the wash on my armor.
First do I need to put a clear coat over my water slide decal or will it be fine after it dries overnight.
Put my wash into a spray bottle. Then mist the wash onto the armor and dab it off with a dry paper towel.
Will this work with good results if not what are some good steps to take. Ive read lots of tips but havent found any good step by steps.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Slippy, Jul 10, 2009.
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What Happen in Vegas...Is on HoopsTV: Summer League Day Eight | Bleacher Report
Last Day of the NBA Summer League Raises Question Marks for Former Zags - The Slipper Still Fits
Cautious optimism is good, but when was the last time that our draft picks did even this well in the Summer League?
Amir Johnson?
I think the year Acker and Maxiell did really well in SL. 2005 or 2006.
2005 Max and Ack Attack made the VSL 2nd Team Allstars. DraftExpress: All Las Vegas Summer League Team
Wow now that just depressed the hell outta me. Although its not like the summer league is the end all be all for telling if a guy can make it in the NBA. Just take a look at what guards made first team and second team, and then look at the 3rd team guard. I think I would trade every player on that list for that last 3rd team guard.
Max and Ack didn't look nearly as good as these guys.
I agree. Maybe it's revisionist history on my part, but I don't remember such consistent performances from those guys compared to what we saw from our guys this time around.
FoxSports running a special 7/26/09 at 8 p.m. eastern time called 2009 Summer League Recap. Just thought those of us that didn't see the games my want to tune in.
Someone should record this!!!
There's also a special on Chuck Daly right after it. PISTONS: Pistons Specials Premiere Sunday Night On Fox Sports Detroit
If anyone (like myself) missed the SL special, it'll be re-aired tonight at 10:00 followed by the Daly special at 10:30.
Dammit! I don't get FSD here in ATL. Can someone record both programs and utube it? :D
Re: Vegas Summer League!!!! DVD's This is the address of the guys filming the LVSL. 1108 Masonic Ave San Fran, CA 94117 ph. 415 431-7772 fax 415 431-7774 Individual games $20 - $25 ea. email@example.com cell 818 400-1554 one of those # should work.
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Update: how to remove tach drive gear from distributor
I got it out tonight, here's how; ~ ground down one side of a stainless flat washer to effectively create a very wide flat blade screwdriver tip. Then I cut a slot in a 3/8" bolt from the top of the head, through the head and into the shank nearly the diameter of the SS washer when measured from the flat edge. I then tapped the washer down into the slot in the bolt so that the only part of the washer that stood out above the bolt head was the flat edge I ground, about 1/32". Chucked up the bolt (ground edge down) in the drill press, the distributor in the drill press vise, a wrench on the bolt head and applying downward pressure so the home-made wide flathead screwdriver tip wouldn't jump out of the slot, I put a little pressure on the wrench and the tach drive connection came loose almost immediately.
Glad I did too as I found the bottom bushing in the distributor was really chewed up.
how to remove tach drive from distributor ?
Hi All,
I recently picked up a stock GM distributor with the mechanical tach drive take-off. I know it's a mid sixties Corvette app, but I don't know specifically what year as the ID band is missing.
Anyway ~ I want to go through the distributor before running it and have been told I have to unscrew the brass tach drive take off before I can remove the distributor drive, but how ?
The threaded brass connector has a flat blade screwdriver slot across it's face, but since the tach drive cable enters in the center of this connector, there is a big gap in the center where there is no slot, and consequently none of the flat blade screwdrivers or impact bits are wide enough to reach across this gap.
I thought I was clever by taking stainless flat washer & cutting it in half, so that the edge made by the cut was wide enough to reach across to both sides of the slot on the connector. That part worked, but the washer started to bend before the connector started to turn.
I've tried strap wrenches on the outside of the connector, but it's dia. is so small and it is located so close to the underside of the distributor base that that didn't work.
The only other thing I have thought of is chucking up the wides flat-blade impact bit I have in my drill press, put the distributor in the drill press vise, and turn the bit with a wrench while applying downward force to keep the bit from jumping out of the slot. (I got the idea from an old picture in an article about servicing a generator, where the field coils where held in the case by big flathead screws and the extractor tool looked like an arbor press with a screwdriver blade on the end.
Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated ~
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Darwin Award candidate IMHO, yikes!
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
Pardon my ignorance. Who?
hmmmm I saw something crash into boxes an guy crawl out form boxes . This would be easy to fake ? LOL
I suspect its real an boy there is not a lot of room for error .
now how cool would it be if we could set up our troops with a specai tube with wings that they could land in a lake or even a field . talka bout getting en onthe ground fast . we need sort of a small personal glider like a mini space shuttel were we drop guys from high altitude an get them down fast .
Now that is just good clean fun! I wanna do that!!!!!
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Cal Thomas takes a stand against freedom of religion
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Rabidly Islamophobic conservative columnist Cal Thomas weighs in with another doozy:
We are doing a poor job of fighting the terrorists at home if we continue to allow Muslim immigrants, especially from Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, into America. We won't win this war if we permit the uncontrolled construction of mosques, as well as Islamic schools, some of which already have sown the seeds from which future terrorists will be cultivated. We won't win this war if we continue to permit the large-scale conversion to Islam of prison inmates, many of whom become radicalized and upon release enlist in al-Qaida's army. [Emphasis added]
Thomas doesn't indicate how he would prevent prison inmates from converting, but one thing is quite clear: He wants to tell American citizens what religions they are allowed to practice.
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Hello, fellow zinesters! Just wanted to get the word out that I have a new issue of my zine 'Bird Shit' available for sale on Etsy. You can also order back-issues from the Etsy site as well. I'm pretty excited about the current issue. It's a different approach than my previous zines in that this issue takes place over only a week's time whereas my previous issues span over the time of a few months. It's about a cross-country road trip spent staying in hostels and living in a completely bare-bones fashion. If you're interested, here's a link to the Etsy page-- Bird Shit on Etsy.
For other information, randoms, and updates on the zines, visit my blog Great White Appetite.
Does anyone else have any experiences about selling zines on Etsy?
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I've had lots of luck selling zines on etsy. Etsy is cool, in general. especially if you are constantly uploading new things. there is also a group on there called "Team Zine" that helps you find other ppl. I've bought a lot of zines off etsy as well.
my etsy shop: http://etsy.com/shop/TheUselessDress
i've had a good experience trading zines on etsy. i just look for zines made with similar cost & effort to mine (24 pages, small) & contact the shop owner about trading.
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selling on etsy can be tricky, seems like etsy is better for people selling larger items as they take 20 cents from every item. (a lot when items are 1.00)
everybody else search up rochester teen set outsider on etsy!
hey there! I'm the Team Captain for Team Zine on Etsy. Here's a link to it: www.etsy.com/teams/6488/team-zine
We don't do a lot and the Etsy team system is sort of weird. There is no way to message all the members and we just haven't been very active. It is nice to see that so many people support zines on Etsy.
I also have my own Etsy page. I started it in 2006 for my zines and called it Brainscan but I'm now transitioning to call it after my button shop and zine distro, Portland Button Works. I'm not putting the distro zines up, just my zines and lots and lots of buttons, magnets, and bottle openers. A lot of them are even zine related!
I used to do very well selling zines on Etsy. Since the policies have changed, and it's been flooded with third party items, sales have gone down across artisan shops. There's still some great stuff available there, and it's a great supplement to distros, particularly if you pen a bunch of different zines.
I used to sell mostly via my zine shop: stubbornbinding.etsy.com but have since transitioned to a new one: wickedlittleheart.com which carries mostly OOAK journals and sketchbooks, lit mags, chapbooks, micro chaps, and a couple of zines.


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Sadly, the built-in speakers lining your laptop or monitor are rarely worthy of praise. With those chintzy stock speakers, you're missing out on all the nuance that goes into the creation of your favorite songs, film scores, and, of course, Overwatch taunts. So a quality speaker system is essential if you want to make the most of your media.
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