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I have subscribed to this work working site for years. He has updated and sorted the information to a new site. He is offering a free course and resources. Rather than post the site, I'm posting his youtube intro. He explains the new site which is posted in the description. I have referred to his material in the past. The new site is large so I'm posting his intro. RJF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wtdLHzqjBQ

Simple hack I found on tape measures. Get some sawtooth picture hangers and nail them to the side of the bench or other areas. Clip the tape measure to the sawtooth. RJF

Its the world of Computer Aided Design software. There is a whole world of software out there for all types of professions. More specific would be 3D 'CAD' SOFTWARE. Everyone has a opinion on one. One that I tinker with is called 'Sketchup'. It has a free download and hoards of teaching videos. What ever you pick you will want the software to be able to covert to the proper 3D printing file. Its going to be like Inkscape, but you can spin the model around and modify it from all sides. RJF

I'm guessing you leave this on a coffee table, people would play with it while your in the kitchen, then claim they were looking at it when you come back. RJF

Then the question follows, does the wood stay fresh and tasty? RJF

There must be a retail brand that is garbage. I moved our family multiple times and bought cases of 3M tape and loaded it into tape guns. Moved over seas, cross country, humid storage for years, repacked old boxes and taped torn ones together. Strapped old lumber together. It survived it all. I would be scratching my head and taking ti back. RJF

I subscribe to an email service that sends 'Daily Hacks'. I don't see any website for the ideas, but get them in email. These came in today, and I liked them to pass them on. RJF Here's your daily dose of life hacks... (2764) Want free software? Never search ‘free‘. You often will just get trials where you have to pay after a week. Always search ‘open source’. You will never be disappointed. (2765) When buying something with a warranty, set an event in your phone a month before the warranty expires. If there's anything wrong with it that gives you time to get it sorted. (2766) Using your email to sign up for something but never want to hear from them again? Add “+spam” to the end of your email username (e.g. 1000lifehacks+spam@gmail.com). This will send all emails from them to your spam folder and still treat it like a real email.

For squash, pumpkins, tough veg I have a thick chefs knife. i cut a small siice off one side the make it flat. The flat side down on the board keeps veg from rolling. I have a small rubber mallet that I hit the knife with to cut through. i always keep my knives razor sharp. I wear cut proof gloves. Sounds overboard. If I'm cut I can bleed to death on the way to the hospital. Pick any idea that works for you. RJF

If you have a sewing machine, you can do your own stitches. Just watch its not set on zigzag. Heal quick. RJF Note, When using a knife on a cutting board, Curl you fingers under, Your chefs knife stays stable and the food is pushed into it. With a chefs knife the blade should slide against the knuckles, the edge , should never touch your fingers. RJF No knife should be used as a tool, such as prying, other then cutting.

Watched everything Norm did and got a few books. Now I need a house to put in a shop. News keeps coming out no one is selling. Been one year in a hotel with Covid lock down. I'm starting to eye the lobby to set up a shop. Check in get a custom key chain. RJF

One shop trick you can use, as you add more machines you will need more space. A little known shop trick. Get 2 sets of pipe clamps and 2 sixteen foot 2x4s. Put each 2 x 4 along the middle of each outside wall. Extend the pipe clamps so they fit across the shop, touching the 2 x 4s on each side of the shop. Now start cranking the pipe clamps so the push out against the 2 x 4s and pushes the outside walls. Keep crankng the pipe clamps til they move the walls. You can keep doing this til you get the additioal space you need. RJF

My professional career was in robotics. Designed various robots for military, hospitals and industries. Back in the 80s and 90s we had to work like heck to get the accuracy to have electronic components placed on a circuit board by 'robot'. The software was backwards and slow to design and the robots took a heck of a lot of alignment to get them to work. I've kept up a bit on the industry with professional magazines and self taught some of the newer computer language.. My original computer languages were Basic, Assembler, Cobal and Fortran. Now I've read the government can't get their computer software updated cause its written in Cobal and no one knows it. Three D printers have updated prototyping to on the desktop rather then a one time expensive outside shop doing it once. Conferences were in person, The design computer was over the top expensive and each engineer had to sit down at the terminal to do their specialty. Now its on the fly online conference with everyone involved from their home. Lots of incredible advancements. Communicating with various professional folks in my field I find they aren't trained to be able to trouble shoot circuit boards. Its either a computer hook up, or pull and replace boards. I started in the field trouble shooting and fixing individual industrial circuit boards. Guess that's 'advancement'. An old friend contacted me several years ago. He works for a company that created parts for the railroad. They had an old computer that got programs fed into it by punched paper tape. They were having trouble finding computer parts or a tech that could trouble shoot the circuit board. They were stuck in a continued loop. They had thousands of designs and programs all put on paper tape and all relied on the computer. They didn't have the money to have every bit of their software redesigned and jump to a modern computer. The industry has taught the newest software, newest circuit design and dropped the basics. Everything is just thrown in the trash when it doesn't work. A lot of these dance moves have been a fascination and study of robot designers. Humans have a great capacity to move and self correct their balance. With high speed cameras and a lot of physics there have been studies of were the center of the weight has to be at any time so the robot doesn't fall over. Seems they solved that bit. The other has been the incredible about of power to drive a computer and move the robot without it dying in seconds. I keep going back and forth on computer generated and real robots. Even if they are real, I'm balancing on a series of videos pasted together with a lot of power replacement or charging in between. RJF

They will be selling tickets to have a dance with a robot. RJF

My uncle was a fire chief and took me to a bakery after the fact. Flour particles had blown up into the factory area, and the building was blown apart. Makes me wonder about saw dust in the air. RJF

If you just use a mask and there is sawdust on the floor everywhere. Just toss a match on the floor on your way out. The sawdust will be gone by the next day. RJF

Did you make a brother that takes turns at the bottom of the ramp and pulls it back up the ramp? RJF

I think if you hook a series of these together with hose they make a bottle version of a bagpipe. RJF

I let him out to do his business and he was SUPPOSE to come right back in! BAD SNUGGLES! BAD! RJF

Borrow Bernies' coat and mittens. RJF

Living in the USA, I'm confused. Do I celebrate today or yesterday? RJF

He won't be any help wearing THOSE MITTENS. RJF

Our family has used a rice cooker for at least 30 years. Most have a warm feature when it finishes. Ours has a button that pops up and stays warm. We pull the plug when it goes in to warming it tends to dry or burn the rice. If you don't find the steamer, crumple aluminum foil and put on the bottom. This works for a pot too. Keeps the food like veg off the bottom and above the water. Mess with the water measurement with a bit less or bit more, it will either cook the rice firmer or softer. Teaspoon of oil or butter will make the grains not stick together. Left over rice can be steamed or microwaved. Container, shot of water, lid sitting on top keeps steam in. Microwave around 3 min 'We have a 1500 watt microwave.' Just a start point. We make a full pot and microwave the rice and left over stir fry. For a single person, sounds backwards, make more of your food, then you have a batch to pull out for a complete meal with less work and cleanup. My wife and I survived living in dorm rooms, learned a whole group of tricks to survive single. RJF

My back goes out. Can you make one for tennis shoes and slippers? RJF

My wife and I used compression socks. They hurt after a while. We both had the same VA doctor. She switched us to a soft type that diabetics use. We have used them for years and wouldn't switch back. RJF

Our ship stopped there, bought a camera tripod still in perfect shape. Made a mistake of eating Indianian food. Was a very painful night. Beautiful country. RJF