Further Bad News
I am currently down a laptop.
It simply will not accept the power cable, so it’s knackered. Kev carried the ram over to an old toshiba carcass, and the hard drive so all my information is still with me. But all of this is putting a serious crimp on my ability to post, and do the things that I want with this blog.
All of these things suck. If anyone wants to help me out head to the Donations page, located at the link below. Or the link above that says “Donations”.
http://www.themadcarpenter.com/donations/
I’ve got it all worked out though, and it’s probably possible to get back online, with a new machine, in about a month, if I save as much as I can.
With a little help I could probably have it in two weeks. I’m not one to ask people for money, but this is a serious interruption to the mad carpenter service.
Any and all donations will be greatly received.
An Update From The Silence
I know, I know….I’ve promised big things and I have yet to deliver anything. But I am working on it.
Doing a project with Frank, drawing up plans for other things.
What I’m mainly here to tell you is that I’m not doing a second 365 project this year. Though I’m thinking about not shaving for a year. We’ll see.
Also, I’m sick, so updates may or may not be shortly forthcoming. I’ll update when I can. Thanks again to everyone who followed my through to this decade.
January First Two Thousand and Ten
I’m not saying that I’m doing another 365 project, but I’d like to keep myself covered. Top ten of last year shall be online in a few days.
Friday
Threw my leg out when we went bowling on Wednesday. Been hobbing around on the cane all day.
Forgot to mention that we saw 500 Days Of Summer on Wednesday too. I’d highly recommend it to everyone. It’s been branded as a romantic comedy for men which I think it is. And if it is then it’s the first romantic-comedy aimed at men. Shaun of the Dead doesn’t count because it was more of a zombie comedy than it was anything else.
A certain Kimberlee that shall remain nameless thinks that Wedding Crashers was the first ever romantic comedy aimed at men but I disagree. Any thoughts out there in internet land on the situation? Comments welcome below.
A Quick Update
I haven’t update the site in a few days, but never fear, I’m actually building something.
I’m making the prospective project #2, the desk for my room. It’s going swimmingly and I love being back making something again.
If you need a fix in my absence, then go to youtube and search for the wood whisperer. That’s what I’m doing with my time. He’s great.
BP Thursday
So today is bit devoid of information, so I’ll give you something else:
Autocad design after the Jump.
It’s a coffin.
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Google employee
Hey there guys. Google gave me a 100 euro voucher for free advertising with them. I use analytics, adsense, their search engine, their email service… lots of stuff.
And they sent me an email today, for 100 euros. Must be for all the traffic that’s coming to the site, and all the products I’m using. Like a loyalty voucher. Thanks guys, you got me some free advertising. It’s just like those links you see to the right of this page, and the bottom of this page. They are sponsors of The Mad Carpenter and when you click those links you’re helping me out, and it doesn’t cost you a single cent.
Thanks for all he traffic guys, and thank you google for the free money.
Sunrise Thursday
So I was awake around sunrise again today, and it is a pointless time to be awake. Unless you’re a jogger. But then again, I see jogging as pretty useless. You always just end up back at home again.
Edit: I should have titled this before posting
I’m doing a lot of back posting. Up to the 3rd of June. Get off my back, I’m taking the pictures every day aren’t I? Man, you hardcore fans are ravenous. I might be coming out with a line of t-shirts soon, so if anyone wants to pitch me some ideas I’m in a receptive mood.
Monday again? It never ends
Damn it damn it damn it. Once again I forgot to do the meatball dinner as the next post in the Zinc Saucier series about my meatball dinner. Someone text me while I’m making it next time. Seriously.
A little background info on the posting schedule of the mad carpenter, if I can’t remember what I did on a certain day, I’ll discuss the picture from that day. Keep an eye out for it.
EDIT: Happy Birthday to my brother, who’s 18 today.
Happy now Eamon? And besides, I called you.
Pffht. People.
To the person visiting the blog from Sligo, or anywhere in County Donegal
You’re using the google chrome browser.
You landed directly on the front page and maybe refreshed once.
You visited between midnight and 1.30am, and stayed for 20 minutes
Congratulations.
You are the 1,400th visitor to the site.
Well done. If you’d like, comment on this article and I’ll throw your picture up here.
Become mildly famous on the internet with The Mad Carpenter.
Statistics Thursday
Some new table polishing details for you faithful readers today, all 54% of you that keep coming back, and those special few fans that have visited the blog every single day since it started. You know who you are.
Some statistics, licks pencil because I have them at my disposal:
1. It was today that the blog received it’s 3,000th pageview.
2. I have made 138 posts to date.
3. 1,387 people have visited the blog.
Thank you to all my loyal followers out there.
The above reasons are justification enough for my smile.
Tight Tuesday
Yep, you’ve guessed it: It’s going to be a lean Christmas at the dragon household. Name the reference in the comments. Lean, lean, lean.
However, Ralph at Paypal sent me back the 10 euros that had been lost in the aether, which meant that I could go down to the ATM and take out a 20, rather than having to go down to the bank and get a 10. When did ATM’s stop giving out 10’s? Seriously, I’d like to know.
The local shop sells a bag of potatoes for 3 euros, and 1/4 pounders for 80 cents. So it’s home made burgers and fries for dinner. Roll on Thursday when I get the government bread. Or at least the dough.
Oh yeah, speaking of paypal head over to the donations page and help a mad carpenter out. Any donations welcome.
The Other Mad Carpenters
In a moment of idle contemplation, I googled “The Mad Carpenter” and apparently it has shown up in a lot of places before I got to it.
I don’t see this as ripping off someone’s idea, I see it in the way I see many things: Good ideas never die. Two totally separate people invented the television at the same time, coming up with the combination of words “The Mad Carpenter” has obviously struck several people throughout time, and I’m just one of them.
Want to meet the others?
1. The Mad Carpenter Inn. If I’m ever in Laramie Wyoming I’ll be sure to drop in to them, get some pictures and spend the night.
2. Serology: It’s in the blood. A tale of a killer carpenter from Germany in 1901. It’s a true crime forensics deal.
3. Mad Carpenter: A Spanish Fantasy. An ebook titled Mad Carpenter. It’s a little uncanny though, in the blurb it says:
[...] who is the mad carpenter, to collect timbers for his making of her coffin
He’s a mad carpenter, that’s making a coffin? Like the coffin I made?
Spooky.
4. A piece of fractal art. Speaks for itself really.
5. The Mad Carpenter by Jalan Crossland. A song and everything. That video is not actually 20 minutes long. Check out the hat on that guy. I’m starting to think that us mad carpenters are of an ilk.
Jalan Crossland “The Mad Carpenter”
Oh and by the way, the reason I chose “The Mad Carpenter” is because I’ve always liked the idea of being a “Mad Scientist” but I was never any good at science. What I am good at, is making things out of wood.
So there’s my top 5 other Mad Carpenters. Obviously, I’m number 1.
Zinc Saucier Edition 1 – Biscuits
Why hello there and welcome to Edition 1 of…
The Mad Carpenter cooks. Or – The Zinc Saucier.
Name the reference, get a shout out.
I’ve wanted to cook home style southern Biscuits for ages. It’s something that’s been cemented into my cultural knowledge of America: Biscuits and gravy.
After much research into the subject I found a recipe I could follow, and that would explain that shortening was hog fat, and I could just use butter instead.
Don’t they look fantastic? Sin and I also made some home made fried chicken, which didn’t turn out fantastically, but it was still good.
I didn’t find out what the “gravy” part was until after we had eaten, and apparently it’s sausage grease, with flour and milk in it. And chunks of sausage.
The cost of all the stuff for the biscuits was less than 7 or 8 euros, and the batch of 12 biscuits did 3 people for one meal, and the rest did me another 2 meals. They’re tasty, but I imagine since I didn’t use buttermilk or hog fat, they were just big tasty scones. It took me an hour, and I’ve never really baked before.
So go for it. Make some biscuits.
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These Zinc Saucier posts could very well be few and far between, but they’ll build up over time. Catch you next time.
Easter Monday
So today I had a big fat steak with barbecue sauce on it. Much like Barbecue Tuesday.
And here is [theoretically] the 105th picture of the year. I started posting pictures here on the 5th of January, despite having started the project on January 1st.
Today is a rather special because today marks the 100th day that themadcarpenter.com has been online!
More info and the introduction of another family member after the jump.
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Hat Week Day 10: Straw Hat
We’re chugging into April now, meaning that the spring/summer hat season is upon us, and I’ll have to stop wearing my heavy felt, fur and wool hats and start wearing straw. Check out your local Dunnes, Wal-Mart, Marks and Spencer, whatever you’ve got and you’ll notice that they’re selling less beanies and warm hats, and more straw sun hat things. Go on, check. I’ll wait…
Did you check? Welcome to straw hat season. This is my straw hat, it’s a fine wee piece and it’s gotten a fair share of compliments.
Really and truly I fancy a straw gambler hat. But they’re a tad hard to come by over here.
Which reminds me! Some table polishing children:
http://www.themadcarpenter.com/donations/
It is now possible to donate to The Mad Carpenter via paypal, and if you do donate, you can put a link to your website underneath the paypal button. Cash would be very much appreciated to fund my various endeavors, such as Project S, which I’ll let you know about in the coming days.
The Saturday of a barking cough and not making a movie
Planned on making a fake movie trailer today.
It was a trailer for the hotly anticipated “The Daughter of the Son of Lawnmower man”, the mowingest movie of the summer. Just when you thought it was safe to go back among… well, very near to the begonias in a striped pattern.
Never mind. When I’m better, I’ll do that. It’ll be low budget, well no budget. We didn’t do it today because there was no gasoline in the lawnmower… so another day? We’ll do lunch. Don’t call us, get the fuck out of my house.
Remember a while ago when I said you’d be meeting people over the coming weeks? Well her right there is the most important little person, to me, in the world. I call her The Child Woman, because she’s never really been a girly girl. See the plaid shirt for evidence. She collects hats and by gum she’s like a daughter to me.
Hope you all have a great Sunday, or whatever day you read this. Now contact your younger sister and tell her you love her. Because I love mine.
Oh and on a table polishing note, themadcarpenter.com saw it’s 1,000th visitor today, and the page they looked at was the 2,000th pageview in the short 77 day history of this blog. Thanks for all the support.
By the way, the individual visitor that was number 1,000 was from Sligo, or accessing it from the Sligo server. 7 people visited today from Sligo, so if you’re one of them drop me a comment and I’ll give you a little prize.
The Mad Carpenter: tech hacker
Ok, so I’ve been geeking on tech-hack all night, and I’ve been reminded of something I’ve wanted to do for months.
I bought an old camera in a charity shop, and was devastated when I found that they no longer made film for it. Hours of searching on the internet revealed that some people modified the old film canisters to take 35 mm film. Now, for a camera designed to be ridiculously simple, that seems complicated.
So I came up with an even more complicated idea! Why not strip out the innards and replace them with the innards of a digital camera? Then you’d have the look of a classically designed old camera, with the functionality of a digital camera.
I’ve never tried a tech hack before, but it seems right up my street. As soon as I gather all the relevant materials: digital camera to be wrecked, jewelers tools set, super glue and the instamatic body.
I’ll keep you posted as soon as I get started.
The mario cube project is still on hold, I don’t have paint supplies or a work bench…
Also planning on building a workbench. And I’ve been commissioned to build another coffin, so it’ll be fancier than the first. I’m thinking gold accents. It’ll be great
Seems like the mad carpenter is going to be very busy in the coming weeks and months. Thanks for the support.
February 4th
February 4th. Busy, busy day. Started out getting a lift to a government office so I could sort out my social welfare payments. Soon as I arrived in, I was told that I was in the wrong office. My lift was gone, and I couldn’t afford a taxi (thank you very much social welfare) so I had to walk clear across town to get to the right place. Which was actually the place I had first visited, that told me to go to the other place, across town. Nice job on the crossed wires.
Got everything sorted out though (hopefully) and managed to buy a little clobber for the house with some money mema sent me.
Walked a few miles today. Stopped half way home to have a beer lunch. Nothing like a few pints of harp to sooth your ills.
