Comments on: Random paragraphs of crap

By: Cougar

Cougar — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:14:27 +0000

I recently helped a friend move out of a third-floor place with *narrow twisty steep* stairs, and a while back I moved her into that place too. I don’t mind, I’m always up for a moving party. Of course your local friends might feel differently — it’s easy for me to say at a safe distance. A lot depends on how many friends you can gather at once. With six or eight people a moving party is fun. With only two people it’s not always so much fun.

By: parodie

parodie — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:39:25 +0000

Your friends won’t mind, I think. Provided you provide enticements (hot chocolate would be appropriate at this time of year, right?). Most of your friends have moved thanks to the goodness of friends themselves…

By: wolfa

wolfa — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:33:22 +0000

So I’ll take that as an offer of help from you two, then? Great!

By: ACW

ACW — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:22:25 +0000

Is the lightshade hard to design from scratch because the geometry is hard? If so, you have lots of mathy friends among your readers who would be pleased to help. Well, I would be, anyway, and probably so would Rudbeckia H. and Moebius S.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:45:10 +0000

Yes, that is it, in part. But in other parts: I do not have the ability to make the electrical stuff, so I need to find the base etc, and they usually have standard pattern shapes that go with them — so I don’t know, eg, if it should be 4-sided or 6-sided, and I don’t know what angle it should go back from the centre — 15 degrees? 30? Plus there are matching sides etc — I could probably do it, but it’s easier to start with a pattern then fiddle, especially my first time.

I have never made anything 3d that didn’t use right angles, so this could be a fun new thing. It will certainly improve my skills at being perfectly accurate with sizes.

By: ACW

ACW — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:50:36 +0000

Oof, a long time since you answered me, and I never re-responded.

If you want to go in the direction of the fun new thing, I’d recommend playing with cutting out bits of cardboard and taping them up with masking tape. That would give you a cheap, easy way to mock up your ideas. When you start to get close to something you like, you can continue to zero in on the right measurements by using cardboard, or just post a picture and one of your mathy online friends will give you the measurements.