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OK, so John takes dead cars and turns them into super-cars, I take wood and make houses/furniture/absolutely anything out of it, and DD takes suckers and makes money out of them (tres tory); but we're extremes, and this place is full of analytical brains that should be able to turn their associated hands to anything, so what is it that you actually, physically make, when not sitting at a computer?
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Music, and occasionally paintings.
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I have a very particular guitar style.
It's called "cr@p".
I should have bought a violin.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I should have bought a violin
What you have is actually a violin. You should try with a real guitare.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I wondered what had happened to the other two strings...
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Tried the violin once but the cat thought there was a fight coming. Went back to the guitar and made slightly less painful noises.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I will suggest a ukulele or mandolin. Both have only four strings so much easier than a guitar. The ukulele is brilliant for getting going with chords and singing. A mandolin has the same tuning as a violin, so you can get reasonably good before attempting the other.
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Tried both. Actually I once possessed a Banjolele which is a small banjo like instrument with four strings and uke tuning. I also spent several years torturing a mandolin. These days I am firmly glued to my guitar.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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It is also a style I enjoy playing!
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Tried with a saxophone, but the German Shepherd keeps wanting to join the band. 
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I used to build tall bikes (and other strange ones) when I lived in France. Would still do it but don't have the resources at the moment to run my own workshop back here in Germany.
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A guy I knew in Massa, Italy, made bespoke racing bikes.
When I see bikes nowadays with those godawful machine-welded joints, it makes me want to cry. Even my latest Koga has welded joints -- but at least they took a file to them!
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I in the middle of building a tadpole. Trying to figure out how to do lean-able with individual suspensions is not easy with just muscle powered.
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Work with boys grade 1 to 6 to teach them how to work with their hands: bird houses, tool boxes, lamps, lazy susans. And, in the process, learn how to do it myself.
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Great stuff. Someone doing that for me was how I started; now I can make just about anything.
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I take time and make it disappear!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I can make replies disappear.
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Whoopee, hanky-panky, and mayhem.
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: hanky-panky,
Whoa hold on now... 
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BillWoodruff wrote: Whoopee, hanky-panky
"with your own two hands?"
Ewwwwww!
Never mind the pic! I don't want to know if it really happened!
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My surprise ranges spectrally from infra-dig to ultra-violent at your response, Sir W.
I expected something that at least made me consult my dictionary once  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have wore many hats over the years but 2 of my most personally rewarding were;
I created a C++ program that ran on a VAX that communicated with an automatic call distributor that handled the routing of incoming and outgoing calls for a call center of 350 people that handled ~5K calls per day.
For about 13 years I got out of programming and started my own construction company and remodeled many houses but I did one for a guy that flipped them and he had bought a house for ~24K that hadn't had a roof on it for 3 weeks during the rainy season. He and his partner tried to reframe the interior but decided it was to much for them so they hired my partner and I. When we finished it was appraised at $120K.
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Mike Hankey wrote: For about 13 years I got out of programming and started my own construction company
I did it for about eight years.
Damned if they weren't eight of the best years of my life, for two reasons:
1. You really can see what you've achieved after a day's work. That's unbelievably satisfying.
2. Office politics? Like f***. If someone's pissed off, everyone learns of it in honest terms.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Damned if they weren't eight of the best years of my life, for two reasons:
Yeah it was pretty great.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
1. You really can see what you've achieved after a day's work. That's unbelievably satisfying.
You work hard and it is satisfying to see what you've done. I still go by places I've done and think about the job.
Mark_Wallace wrote: 2. Office politics? Like f***. If someone's pissed off, everyone learns of it in honest terms.
Stress was a lot less and I didn't do jobs where there was liable to be politics involved. Although I did paint a porch for some rich people 4 times because when one or the other would come home they would tell me that's the wrong color. So I finally sat them both down and said listen...
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Mike Hankey wrote: I still go by places I've done and think about the job.
What gets me now is how much you forget.
I've all but rebuilt the house I'm living in now, but it's been a struggle, sometimes, to remember all the little details of how to do stuff that I've done easily in the past.
Plus: if you're not getting paid for it, it can be hard to find the willingness to pay so much attention to detail (e.g. saying "oh, it's near enough plumb/square" or "oh, it's not worth scribing" have been things I've regretted more than once!)
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