Just got a picture of the sign we created for a dentist that is now hanging in San Francisco.
From Grabill To San Francisco
The sign was created for the Dentist above from his logo.
I had to take the image of the logo and blow it up in photoshop to the size we needed for the sign. Then I loaded the raster image in Autocad and redrew the image using polylines and arcs to create the vector image. It was a challenge to get the image created and in a way that none of the inside parts like the shoes would fall out after all the cuts were made. Getting all the letters to cut is one of the worst parts but the shoe laces were just wicked.
Beaming with pride now as I look at how well it turned out. Our Security door team did the cut out from my pattern on a 3 axis CNC plasma table. The sign was then ground smooth and sent to powder coating for a layer of clear power coat. We have found when coating bear metal with clear powder coat the material turns a bronze color.
I hope Dr. Rothman enjoys his one of a kind DDS sign.
What is she doing now? I sit back and look at the photo and just have to wonder where she gets the time to shovel that much fertalizer for her mushroom garden. I know Charcole provides a steady supply but still you need a lot to grow them this big.
Carla's prize winning mushrooms
The Thinking Peanut
I was stumbling around the web last weekend when I found images of various items posed with hands and feet made out of wire. With a little google help I found the creator of these items and his blog bentobjects.blogspot.com The man behind these very fun and creative moments in time is Terry Border.
I was so taken by some of his work I had to try creating some of my own. So here is Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker “Peanut”.
Mr Border has a book out called Bent Objects that I am going to be looking for the next time I am in Barns and Noble.
These little Peanut people are great fun to make. I have been using a box of Large paper clips I picked up at Office Depot. They are excellent for legs as they have a bit of strength to them for the arms and hands I just picked up a spool of 20 gauge beading wire much easier to manipulate. Next time I will get black as the silver is rather hard to photograph as it just picks up to much of the color around it.
Look for more for these little peanuts in the next few days. I am quite addicted to creating them for the moment at least.
Docwert
That is the way the cookie crumbles
It’s not offten I get called out on what I write here in the wort zone blog. I sometimes think it does not get read at all. I know I have a few family and friends that enjoy my images and humor and I must say thank you to them. THANK YOU!
I was given a copy of my article “Setting up Fenevision Sucks” . poor title I admit. So I changed it. to “Setting up this ERP Software Vacuums with Extreme Predigest!” much better I believe.
I must say I was shocked a bit that one someone from Fenevison actually read my article. They must of not liked it from what I understand.
First let me apologize for the title of the artcle that was juvenile.
Second I am sorry that when I work with software vendors like Autodesk, Accpac and others that they have set a standard of suport that I expect from all vendors.
I am sorry if I ofended you pointing out practices that I find frustrating and offensive.
To be fair Fenevision has helped me a great deal in the last four months. They really have stepped up to the plate.
They gave us a new contact / project manager. John is GREAT! and very responsive to our problems. He has cleared many things up that were not addressed before. He has taken an active roll in getting the system up and running like it should be.
They have supplied RDL training with Lynne that has helped a great deal. I can not say enough about Lynne and the help she has been.
Yes we still have some things to work out but it’s so much better.
By the way I ate the cookie!
Did someone say Mommy?
Roberta was gone for a week . She was staying with her mom and dad helping out a bit to give her mom a break from taking care of the kids and Fred. I did not realize how much the dogs missed Roberta untill she called one night and I was not able to get to the phone before the answer machine picked up. The announcement ‘recorded by Roberta’ played and the dogs did nothing. One was sleeping on the floor the other sleeping in a chair. As soon as Roberta’s voice said hey its me anybody home. I had two dogs searching the room for their favorite person in the world. As I picked up the phone and the disenchanted voice stopped the two dog moped back into the living room. Both of them going back to their respective spots and flopping down hard enough that I could feel the vibration accross the room.
If you're a pig and you like being a pig then enjoy it
Hello World
My name is Baby. Why Baby? Well it’s because the lady who found me and her daughter were always holding me while I was recovering from some rather nasty moments in my short little life. They would always say give me the baby, or here hold the baby and it just stuck. So now My name is Baby.
I was born is the small town of Grabill Indiana. The first few weeks of my life were warm and wonderful with my brothers and sisters and mom. But shortly after I got my first look at the world things got kinda bad. I lost my mom and my family and I was stuck out in the rain. I don’t even know how I got there. I ate anything I could find because I was so hungry. I lost weight and caught a cold. Then when I thought things could not get any worse a man came up and kicked me just for asking for a little help. After that I could not walk very well. My cold got worse and I was just about to give up. It was cold and raining and I could not even meow. That was when the nice lady found me. She picked me up wrapped me in a towel and took me to the grabill vet. He did not think I was going to make it. But the lady she had them dry me off and give me some medication and took me home. Then she took me to the Hickville vet the next day. The Vet lady looked me over gave me some more meds and trimmed my fur off my butt. I was so embarrassed, but She had to because I could not stand or walk to my potty box. My new mom took me home and fed me good food and bad tasting medicine and soon I could stand. Within a few days of standing I was able to pull my self over to my pooh box so my towels would stay clean. Today I am walking. It maybe that I am not the best walking cat but I can walk again. Things are looking up.
If you want to know more about Baby she will have more of her story posted in the blog at mental polar bear
I knew sooner or later January would show her true colors. This bouncing warm cold warm cold is driving my sinuses crazy. I guess I should be happy that we have not had a lot of snow yet, but I still worry that it is on its way.
TGIF!
BAD DOG BAD!
We just updated Fenevision so the web center would be a bit easier to use. Of course that means web center crashed and was down all night and most of today. I know you have to have patience with people your working. Some times I think the people at Fenevision just do not understand the amount of time and cost that this program represents. When I was talking to the tech that did the update he told me he about the problems he was having with a image table. Basically we have so many images in Fenevision for the entry doors that it is causing a problem for the server. The bigger problem is were not even half way through with all the images we need to add. He talked to his support people and there only feed back was do they really need that many images? For a company that provides no way to set up images for doors and two of their people have been asked more than once about the way to do this and the amount of data it would create to have the nerve to ask do we need that many images?
It’s like this when you pay nothing for software like libre office and it tosses and error. Darn that’s life.
When you pay $500.00 for Ms office it had better not crash. but if it does well it happens right what are you going to do.
When you pay $150,000.00 for software that shit had better work every time all the time! When it does not it’s time to kick ass.
It’s all in the price tag people. If you want to charge for ambrosia it had better be ambrosia!
It’s like paying for red robin burger and getting a happy meal without the happy.
Roberta received a pillow pet from her mother about a year ago. It “lives” in our little yellow car ( see here) that Roberta calls her little bee. Now if you would not bee moan a few puns then please just buzz on down the page.
this I bee queath to you
Brian you asked if I had a clear background with the gun metal wing well here you go.
This is a png file with a alpha channel (clear background) to down load the full size image just click on the image a new tab will open with the image. just right click and save image
HGI WINGS
