Nice work, John. I too love spending time in my shop, making things both useful and sometimes not-so...

I totally take your point about challenging yourself and learning new skills. Recently I've been flogging myself thru learning sketchup 2015 so i can create handrail brackets for the reno we're doing on our 150-yr-old house. our local library can 3-D print them for me, and we're fortunate enough to have a foundry in the area that still does small batch casting. i love being able to add personal touches like that to our place.

keep up the good maker-work, and keep having fun!

I want one of the cat translators! Reminds me of Unkie Herb's baby translator from The Simpson's.
Maggie (barfing on his nose)
Unkie Herb: "Eureka"!

This picture - remarkable as it is - really only gives the faintest impression of how BIG these guys actually are. My wife lived in the Arctic for many years and regularly saw polar bears in the wild. She heard a banging on the roof of her house one day and opened the door to find herself starting at a bear's belly: it was on its hind legs trying to claw its way up onto the roof! These guys have paws the size of a nacho platter, and their claws are much longer and thicker than a man's fingers. They're the only animals known to regularly stalk/hunt humans, and are incredibly stealthy for something so big. They've even been observed to cover their black noses with a paw to conceal themselves even better against the white snow. Oh, and they can run at around 40kph, even in deep snow. Yikes!

My mom had one of those lipsticks! My dad brought it back for her from a trip to Italy when he was in the navy, and it sat on her dresser for ages. i don't know if she ever used it, but we loved to play with it when we were kids.

Cool! And he still has eight left!

Meh - I dunno: there's inspiration, and then there's slavish imitation.

Some of these look like he literally scanned a bunch of Roger Dean's covers, cropped a few elements out of each one and then collaged them together.

And the red beach balls? C'mon - we've all heard of Hipgnosis.

"Then we sat on our own star
and dreamed of the way that I was for you and you were for me.
And we longed to dance the night away..."

I actually clicked on the link to her website, just out of curiosity. 10 or 15 seconds was enough to make me want to claw my eyes out.

god, i wish computers came with an "awesome!" button. i'd hit it a million times for this!

Mama sez Knock you Out!

I love the guy in the sedan who comes out, looks at the SUV like "what the HELL are you doing?", jumps in his car and casually backs out & pulls away in one smooth move while the dumbass in the SUV is still backing and forth-ing. Makes you wonder how some people actually manage to get a license in the first place!

Boy, those gun-totin' gals look like they're not to be messed with!