Kurt Gray's Journal: Just a good ol' boy

I'm not a country music fan but sadly today Waylan Jennings has died. Waylan is all kinds of famous in music circles but he's better known as the narator and theme music composer for the favorite TV show of my youth, "The Dukes of Hazard". When I was 10 years old Friday nights was "Dukes of Hazard", and Saturday morning was "Super Friends", then Saturday afternoon we'd run around re-enacting those shows as well as "Smokey and the Bandit", "Cannonball Run", "Any Which Way You Can". Ahhhhhh.... to be 10 years again, only next time with a little more money and a better BMX bike. That's all I ask: to be 10 years old back in 1980 with a pocket full of cash, and riding a Mongoose or Red Line with long cranks and mag rims. Then again I should be careful what I wish for.

Best web log I read in a long time: http://dnalounge.com/backstage/log/

Over at the workshop I am currently turning a vase on my lathe. The work material is three kinds of wood: maple, walnut, and oak. To make the blank I sandwiched a few long strips of walnut and maple together, then cut the sandwich into sections at 22.5 degrees, glued 8 sections into an octagonal ring, then glued 3 octagonal rings together to form the blank for the vase. I'm learning that once the shape is roughed out I can run the lathe a few speeds faster than I have been.

At work I'm working on compiling browser and domain stats for all OSDN sites. It's pretty amusing what some people set their browser ID strings to be, "grep [obscenity] agent_log" always yields interesting results.