1. Spaghetti Block Stick a long thin rod into the well and anchor the top end. Repeat until the flow is impeded.
2. Chill Kill Wrap copper tubing around the pipe and pump through a refrigerant cold enough to freeze the oil.
3. Coldmember Combine 1 & 2: stick a long, skinny U-tube into the well and pump refrigerant through it.
4. Righty Tighty Build a giant, fillable ballast cylinder with tangentially and upward firing rockets on the sides and a large tapered screw point on the bottom. Lower it from a ship. Move it over the well with robots. Engage the rockets to spin it and push it downward.
5. Kerjunk Drill radial holes in the pipe wall and push rods through until there is somewhat of a grill inside. Drill one more hole below the makeshift grill and pump in golf balls.
6. Concrete angioplasty
7. Lancelot Build a very long tapered hollow cone. Lower from a ship and aim into the well with robots. Pump in concrete, sinking the plug into the well.

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circle traced from inverted trash can

end parts joined with dowels

modified radial saw for increased ripping safety. twenty-four 4″ lengths of 2×4 got beveled to eight degrees on each side.

these 1-1/2in. sections of pipe and fittings seem perfect for the axels

stationary supports

lifting and simultaneously aligning the axels was not easy. turning this behemoth is also not easy. it will need handles around one end.

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Some thin slices of scrap wood spanned the cutout.

wood filler / sanding / repeat

primer

paint

Not a chance for Clementine.

Gatsby has a safe zone now.

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Louisa is some kind of lamb cake mold extraction genius. There was barely anything left in the mold and the delicate ears didn’t need toothpicks at all. (I still put in toothpicks so I wouldn’t break them in the frosting process.)

Lauren whipped up a super-stabilized whip cream frosting that again had the gumption to reconstruct a lamby nose.

The lamb cake would probably be okay to eat but it always has a way of sticking around. After we abandoned it fully intact at our second easter-day party, the hostess felt guilty enough to snap a photo before they dumped it.

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Some nice folks on comp.ai.neural-nets suggested a few other techniques and I’ve implemented simple routines to perform K-Means Clustering. The categorization of my 3300 documents by 323 keywords now takes less than 10 seconds.

download my k-means c source

(This source uses raw float arrays and includes a function to categorize the vectors in a FANN training data struct.)

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This row encodes the ASCII character “e”. “a” is sitting on the table.

I decided the next cutting boards will be end-grain, so the rest of the letters for this one should be glued from single squares. This produces a less-accurate row but got the job done.

Here are the rows of the word I planned to spell.

I let the last glue setup cure for 72 hours.

Sanded flat, edged on the router table, wetted to raise the grain and sanded to a smooth finish. Then, mineral oil. Extra points if you can tell me what word is encoded.

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