Comments for NEW DUNBURY

Comment on It’s Decoration Time by Bob

Bob — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:11:20 +0000

Whyfore you need pictures? You can see in person in a couple of days.

Comment on It’s Decoration Time by Eric

Eric — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:06:22 +0000

Well? Pictures? Well?!

Comment on Seven Weeks Gone By in a Flash by Liz

Liz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:34:13 +0000

We got the cat scanner from LT and it works very well; there doesn’t seem to be any reason to complicate the tech beyond what’s meeting our needs quite adequately. It’s just the numbers of books (and my OCD need to have the right cover on old paperbacks) that make it a big job.

Comment on It Should be Called the Dumb-Bell by Bob

Bob — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:14:42 +0000

We actually considered a mechanical system, but wasn’t sure it would be loud enough to reach the basement.

Also we want to add some functionality in the future if I need to make lights flash when it rings ’cause I can’t hear it at all.

On my way back this weekend, I stopped at a big box hardware store and picked up a cheapo bell to butcher for parts. They weren’t exactly the same as the parts we have, but I was able to get the bell working again.

Comment on It Should be Called the Dumb-Bell by Scott Nolan

Scott Nolan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:19:13 +0000

How about a big bell on a pull chain or rope?

No technology at all, you can make them pretty loud, and it would be very cool.

Comment on Seven Weeks Gone By in a Flash by Scott Nolan

Scott Nolan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:58:51 +0000

As far as LibraryThing scanning/data-entry; Erci and I stumbled on a trick that may help. Delicious Library (trialware) is cheap, and facilitates using a bar-code scanner or iSight camera on the computer to scan the UPC code of most books.

Delicious Library cannot inventory libraries the size of yours or mine, but you can do smaller batches, scanning into it say, 100 books at a time; then dumping the list of ISBN numbers into a plain file, and importing that list of ISBN numbers into LibraryThing.

If you want to tag, you still have lots of work to do; but at least the batch loading of ISBN numbers is a bit quicker.

I simply type in the ISBNs if the stack of books is fewer than 10 books tall; but if larger - the DL trick does help.

Comment on Let There Be Light by Eric

Eric — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:34:00 +0000

If we have to, we can countersink the hole from below.

Ha! Counter . . . sink. HA!!!

Comment on One Step at a Time by Bob

Bob — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:25:04 +0000

hey, it was true.

It’s not anymore though.

Comment on One Step at a Time by kate

kate — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:33:36 +0000

“He’s about three short of a flight.” - You shouldn’t say such things about people building your house.

Comment on Rainy Days and Mondays by Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:03:07 +0000

All volunteers welcome.

Looks like painting weekends will be February 16/17 and 23/24.

Of course, I’ll be doing work inbetween, but there’s plenty of “fun” for everyone.

Signed, Tom Sawyer