Rsser's accident.

Oooh no, those spinning machines can bite back too.

In the days when tie-dye and cheesecloth reigned, I assembled one from a kit for a girlfriend.

Gave it a casual spin when all together, forgetting where the other hand was resting.

Yoww! One crushed fingernail.

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Originally Posted by NeilS

Think it would need a second wheel and handle bar to raise any interest....:U

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I've got an electric one. At least it has a motor.:rolleyes::D

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I'll get down to the open days of Woodworksupplies and Machinery Warehouse this week so I promise to earn a hernia picking up some specials. Will also be demo'ing some Easy Wood tools for Grahame of Woodworksupplies. Should be a good selling point: see what the lame and infirm can do with these tools :wink:

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:oo::C why has no one told me. Not they a REALLY need anything.:doh::rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by tea lady

I've got an electric one. At least it has a motor.:rolleyes::D

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Add a solar panel to it and you will be super green..:rolleyes:

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TL, under Announcements:

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f12/ap...bourne-116198/

Update: the 2x weekly massage and manipulation have helped increase joint flexibility nicely. Can now bend the hand forward 45* to the forearm which is defined as the functional minimum, and can squeeze to 38kg. More improvement should follow.

Apparently a big thing separating us from the apes is that our hands can also move side to side in relation to the forearm and theirs can't.

You heard it here first folks ;-}

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Originally Posted by rsser

Update: the 2x weekly massage and manipulation have helped increase joint flexibility nicely. Can now bend the hand forward 45* to the forearm which is defined as the functional minimum, and can squeeze to 38kg. More improvement should follow.

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Good to hear! Any improvement is good improvement:2tsup:

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Apparently a big thing separating us from the apes is that our hands can also move side to side in relation to the forearm and theirs can't.

You heard it here first folks ;-}

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So have your arms evolved to human again, or still stuck in 'ape mode'? :D:D:D

Cheers,
Dave

Oh, forgot to mention. I took the kids to the Royal Easter Show in Syd on Monday, and had a pretty good time. The precision driving team seemed a bit more tame that previous (not sure if my memory is skewing that one), but the real highlight was the MotoX riders. My girls loved them too (:no:). We were sitting front row really close to the landing ramp and it was just amazing.

As a rider was doing a graceful backwards somersault (actually, all three - one after the other), I was sitting there thinking "I wonder which bones would break if you get this even slightly wrong???" :o

Then they had an interview of a rider just coming back from injury. In his words 'I kinda got it all wrong'. He broke a leg in 7 places:o

I tell ya, these motor bike riders are insane!!! Looks fun though :D

Cheers,
Dave

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So have your arms evolved to human again, or still stuck in 'ape mode'?

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Nah, knuckles still dragging on the ground but the therapist says to speak to Mum about that ;-}

Oh those guys make me feel sick. Even MotoGP riders are full of metal plates and pins. They're back riding before properly recovered since a series win comes from points from each race.

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Originally Posted by rsser

.Ah, the days of running multiple stats procedures on big data sets, just to see what might pop up, and to hell with the $$. But you paid for it with strict adherence to command formats and no help when you got it wrong ... which was often!

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Do I know that problem, SWMBO is in the hopefully last few months of her PhD. She "wasted" a month recently using a stats package noone at Uni Tas could help her with, normal rescue line had gone of to Antarctica rsearching. She spent weeks performing repetitive tasks coverting data from one format to another only to eventually find out it wasn't needed. Let's just say she got "a bit tense", I wasn't too happy as I was on childcare for the whole summer holiday (not that I objected but you'd think with 8 weeks off I could have got some real shed time in.
She was reading someone elses thesis from the 70's or 80's and she was so happy that she is doing hers nowadays, there is normally help out there somewhere.

Sorry to hear about your accident, as a former cycle tourist I know what near misses are like. Fingers crossed never been taken out at speed, so far.
Hope a speedy recovery is on the way.

Chris

Thanks; getting there.

Yes, 'puter programs can be a trial, esp. the powerful ones.

When I was finished qualitative data gathering for my Doc there were 750,000 words of interview transcripts. A bit more than butcher's paper could handle so I wrote a free text indexing and retrieval program to run on the PC. That was part diversion behaviour and mostly useful aid. This was in the 80s when the only equivalent ran on mainframes and I wanted something to work with word processing files on my own machine.

There was some interest from folk in buying it so I beefed it up with error routines - that took about 3 times as long as the basic coding - and sold a few copies. Big market now; if only I'd been entrepreneurial ....

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I started with Fortran and it made me the man I am :rolleyes:

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Fortran & edlin; who could ask for anything more.:rolleyes:

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Fortran & edlin; who could ask for anything more.:rolleyes:

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When I were a lad...... :D

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When I were a lad...... :D

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...it was clay tablets and cuniform and the abacus was still a twinkle is someones eye:D

cheers
Michael

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Originally Posted by mic-d

...it was clay tablets and cuniform and the abacus was still a twinkle is someones eye:D

cheers
Michael

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