Well, crap. I just made a late-night trip out to the garage to unclamp the table legs. One leg is the picture of perfection: straight, strong, and hardly any extra glue to scrape. The other leg, on the other hand, has about a one inch bow from one side to the other. The glue held […]

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One more thing to add to the list of potential additions to the basement: new barstools, or some comfortable sittin’ furniture. I’ve been going to my basement at night to blog, surf the web, and play darts and my butt is paying for it. These barstools are rickety, mostly broken, and have the strange ability […]

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I don’t have any pics to back this one up, but I spent another half hour or so on the aforementioned Longbottom Leaf logo. I’ve got the horn drawn and the arcs laid out for the rest of the lettering. I’m trying to keep the scaling consistant by laying out elements relative to each other […]

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Tonight’s workout was interesting. It consisted of no fewer than three “quick burn” periods of the workout, punctuated by partner drills and some sparring in the second class. The “quick burn” periods are the portions of workout where we are made to do many sets of techniques forward and backward up and down the floor […]

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South Park Josh Originally uploaded by dalcher. Here’s my attempt at recreating myself in classic South Park Style. I also created a karate version of myself. 🙂 Fun site, , thanks for the distraction!

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I am in the process of recreating the Longbottom Leaf logo from one of the Flotsam and Jetsam extended scenes from The Two Towers. This logo is going to reside on the barrel that I am using as a trash can in my basement. I’ve learned two lessons so far: scaling things on round surfaces […]

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owl statue Originally uploaded by dalcher. Tonight my grandparents stopped back by to fulfill their previously attempted goal: to give me this wooden owl. I swear there is actually some sort of museum of the Strange and Wonderful in their basement, and every once in awhile they get the desire to get rid of some […]

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