| I'm hungry
Several nights each week I can be found working in my garage making nice boards into unusable scraps. Occasionally, with a lot of help from glue and nails something takes shape. Along the way I snort and eat copious amounts of saw dust and get many cuts and scrapes. This isn't the case with Marthaller, his stuff is great.
He starts with something ugly - a wood burl. If I were cutting down a tree burl would be the first piece into the fire pit. His burls are exceptionally ugly. If you're reading Duey - you heard me - you have ugly burls. They are covered with moss and bark and overall look as though they could use a bath.
After Marthaller hacks the 60-pound chunk of ugly down to a manageable size he chucks it into his 800-pound lathe and starts it slowly.
More on this topic
As No. 4 goes, twins Brett, Favre arrive
EXTRA: Playing with pain: Streak shows Favre's determination
EXTRA: End is bittersweet for former announcer Irwin
New or old, Favre items become hot sellers
Packers make it official: Favre retires
EXTRA: Favre fans' reaction: It's a bittersweet day
EXTRA: Mentally drained Favre hangs it up after 17 years
.
Who Has What It Takes to Be Commander-in-Chief?
The presumed recipient of highly compartmented briefings profiling our most secret intelligence, Clinton is far too gifted to have misunderstood that we are at a historical tipping point where victory or a particularly bloody and ignominious defeat looms as an equal possibility. But does she display unblinking courage, telling us which difficult course we should choose and her candid judgment about the consequences for the nation if we do? While she talks a good game about such verities as caring for wounded soldiers and their families, these are easy touchdowns. More fundamentally, Clinton has tied her presidential ambitions to the defeatist MoveOn.org wing of her party. Any flag officer contemplating the prospect of serving under her command can do so only after recalling the icy contempt with which she sneered that the Senate testimony of Gen.
FBI opens inquiry into Roger Clemens
Submit Your Video: Upload your videos and browse others in our video section. Find Activities: What's happening in your neighborhood? Community Calendar. Discuss the News: Talk about the latest news, weather and entertainment headlines in our online forums. Headlines in Your Inbox: Sign up for our e-mail alerts. .
Wowza Reaffirms Streaming Market Price Leadership with $995 Fully ...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Wowza Media Systems, emerging leader in media streaming server software, today made Flash streaming even more affordable with an 80% price reduction for its widely popular Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited. Now priced at $995, Wowza once again reaffirmed its price leadership on a mission to make flash streaming server technology affordable to all. Since Wowza Media Server Pro launched in February 2007, Wowza has taken a leadership role in radically redefining the economics of Flash streaming and rapidly gaining over 3700 licensees worldwide. Wowza's customers have proclaimed its Wowza Media Server Pro "the smart choice" and recognized its value in the 2007 Streaming Media Readers' Choice awards, naming it as a top 3 media server choice along with Adobe and Microsoft.
Police to headline Stormont concert
An open-air rock concert is to be held in the grounds of the Stormont Estate in Belfast this summer, it was announced. The Police are to make what is being billed as their final Irish appearance ever in late June. It is the latest in a series of open-air concerts at Stormont which have seen such stars as Pavarotti, Elton John, Rod Stewart and the Eagles entertain tens of thousands of people. Welcoming the announcement, Northern Ireland First Minister the Rev Ian Paisley said: "This is a fantastic coup for Northern Ireland. An event of this magnitude has a sizeable benefit for the economy, not least our tourism industry. "The beautiful grounds of the Stormont Estate are a fantastic venue for this event and it is fitting that they should be used by the public in this way." Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "This concert will send a message to the world that not only is the North open for business but that it is also a vibrant and exciting place to be.
|
