Behold! A light! A halogen light! With an 18 kV battery!
This took 3.5 hours but I learned a valuable Gimp lesson: don’t “erase” by drawing white lines on things – it will end poorly for you. This white line trick caused me to have to re-draw a lot of the internal lines over the coloring, which is ridiculous and take for-ev-er. Also, I had a gimlet in the middle of the drawing. I’m not sure that helped.
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About 5 hours later, I present the Corner Cat mouse sander. I omitted the real logo in favor of this fictional brand because I probably shouldn’t be drawing the actual brand names in preparation for when Realvelour.com gets 10 billion hits a minute after the “tablet-drawn tool” craze kicks in. No but seriously, I didn’t have enough room to write Ryobi so I went off-roading.
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Exciting times in the Sisco household! I purchased two awesome things today, and decided on a rules change for the Daily Tool tablet drawing exercise.
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News flash: it’s difficult to do work of any sort on Friday night. My wife is watching Marie Antoinette on the couch and I’m trying to focus on this drawing with little to no success. That being said – voila! A very tiny brown and orange measuring tape.
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Here’s a picture of Howard, Nala, and I celebrating the completion of the Dremel From Hell. I’m the one in the middle. You know, the human.
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As noted in DT#10, I had some power issues that prevented me from finishing a tool yesterday, so I pledged to not only complete and color the Dremel, but also to complete some Dremel accessories. The Dremel turned out to be a tremendous pain to draw because it’s almost totally black and the tips are really really small. Here’s what it looks like in Technicolor!
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Fact #1: Sometimes I run Gimp on my work laptop because (1) my work laptop has a nice screen, and (2) I do not have a personal laptop, but I like to sit at the kitchen table and watch the cats run amok while I draw. Fact #2: I spent a lot of time working on my laptop in the lab area today; testing the communications module I just finished writing. The result of these two facts is that I left my power cord somewhere dumb and ran out of juice mid-drawing. Now all I have for tool #10 is this ridiculous spaceship/coke bottle/electric-toothbrush looking contraption…
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Ok, this one took me about two hours to complete which is weird because it’s pretty simple. The fact that I kept thinking of funny captions in the form of “staple gun + x = y” and giggling didn’t help…
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I have this pair of what I’m calling “flip-grip pliers” because I don’t know what they are actually called. They have two plier heads joined by a single axle and the grips rotate around the same pivot point so that you can use either of the plier heads. Basically, it’s like a switchblade/plier combo.
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My wife and I went into Ann Arbor this afternoon to see one of my good friends who was visiting from San Francisco. We stopped at Vinology and I ordered a gin gimlet (cuz that’s what you order at a wine bar).
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