by DMcGirr | Apr 20, 2009 | Carpentry, Table Polishing, Woodworking
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....
by DMcGirr | Apr 16, 2009 | Stuff, Table Polishing
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...
by DMcGirr | Apr 13, 2009 | 365 project, Table Polishing
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...
by DMcGirr | Apr 4, 2009 | 365 project, Table Polishing
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...
by DMcGirr | Mar 21, 2009 | 365 project, Love, Table Polishing
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...
by DMcGirr | Feb 21, 2009 | Engineering, Photography, Table Polishing
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....
