The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Song of the day

Another technical problem

Why doesn't the picture above do this? 


Sunday, February 12, 2012

This may save some trees

There is a free drawing software program TWW finally heard about from the Google people as they try to take over the known world. See: http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/index.html





TWW may start using this to make bowls to give to people.  The basement at GM is not heated too well but still much warmer than the garage in winter. Above is TWW's first try to do a bowl for enhanced life enrichment.  If you want to draw stuff see the link above.   

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Commies are trying to hack TWW's computer

TWW got a message from his security software saying a certain web site was trying to break into his computer. He used a search engine to find the stuff below. Didn't our leaders say we were safe from Communism years ago?




95.168.173.155 is from Russian Federation

An Internet Protocol address (IP address 95.168.173.155) is a numerical label that is allocated to a computer (can be any electronic device) which is part of a network (NetDirect) that utilises the Internet Protocol. Every IP address does the following: (1) location addressing and (2) host or network interface identification.

  
e.g. 209.62.45.34 IPv4/IPv6 format for an IP Address, or maxmind.com for a website

Compare to another IP
IP Address:95.168.173.155
IP Address Country: Russian Federation (RU)
IP Address Region:48 Moscow City
IP Address City:Moscow
IP Postal Code
IP Address Area Code0
IP Metro Code0
IP Address Latitude:55.7522010803
IP Address Longitude:37.6156005859
IP Address ISP:NetDirect
Organisation:NetDirect
IP Address Proxy:
IP Address Host:95-168-173-155.local





Friday, February 10, 2012

Maple burl donated to Garbin Moraine

Same stopper different views


Forecast:

"Today: A slight chance of snow showers before noon, then a chance for flurries. Mostly sunny, with a high near 12. North wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%"

Reality is 3" and counting





Thursday, February 09, 2012

Not good enough to give away but not junky enough to throw away

Notice no TWW on the bottom


Trail camera is out

Results of the first day solve the missing candy mystery. 

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

First Donation to Italian Dinner


Garbin Moraine received the first donation to the Italian last night from JAJA the Elder in Denver. The family thanks JAJA for the donation.  A little mouse got into the package last night and one box was empty today so we are going to lock the basket up where the mice cannot get at it. If you want to donate to the Italian dinner use the Donate button. If you have donated to previous dinners please do not feel obligated to donate again.  

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Odin and Sputnik Bowls

 These three are going to be given to Odin (Wikipedia says " Odin is a principal member of the Ã†sir (the major group of the Norse pantheon) and is associated with war, battle, victory and death..." so TWW hopes to pacify him.)


The bowl below is a Sputnik bowl since it bring back of memories of Butterfield where a Sputnik fell from the sky and landed in a tree on a farm near there when TWW was little.  This bowl is meant to be put on a table and filled with wrapped candies.  Next you get a  mark to pick up the bowl and all the candies fall through the open bottom. It is best not to do this when there is anything near the bowl on the table in case the mark panics and starts flailing his arms to stop the candies from falling out.  This type of bowl get high marks from the renew, reuse and recycle crowd since it is junk to throw away caused by a lack of attention on the part of a lathe operator.   




Six deer in the valley



Spring must be coming

Paranoia or narcissism?


As gray February continues TWW still is searching for his name in the recall petitions.


Friday, February 03, 2012

Dulute billboard message mystery deepens

(refers to post below about trip to Dulute)

"THREE JUVENILES accused of assaulting a cabdriver and his passenger in Center City Saturday night while shouting racial slurs will not be charged with a hate crime, the District Attorney's Office said yesterday.......The teens, who are black, were not charged with hate crimes because there was no evidence that the assault had been motivated by the race of the victims, who are white, said Tasha Jamerson, D.A. spokeswoman. Just shouting racial epithets during the commission of a crime doesn't rise to the level of ethnic intimidation, she said."


source:http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120203_No_hate_charges_in_attack.html?c=0.14090962996337186&posted=y&viewAll=y#comments

Update: The scales have fallen from TWW's eyes. He now realizes the prosecuting attorney in Philadelphia who did the work so they could make the comments above was a white person who could not see racism. That is the only logical explanation.  

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Enlightenment from a trip to Dulute

A billboard in Dulute said "If you are white you cannot see racism".  


TWW got to wondering what this meant.  It is logical to then ask if your father was black and your mother white (or vice versa) does that mean you cannot half-way see racism?  

Where's TWW ?


TWW thinks his name is somewhere on one of the Walker recall petitions.   He is offering a free custom bowl in the wood of your choice if you can find his name.

See this site  to start your search: http://webapps.wi.gov/sites/recall/Recall%20Petitions/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2Fsites%2Frecall%2FRecall%20Petitions%2FGovernor&FolderCTID=0x01200044C3FE66B345E0409188D04555A38D8A&View={6050034D-9036-45DA-8E19-D6F84AC9A9AF}

Gray February Begins Again


Saturday, January 28, 2012

No more illegal wine at the cabin

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20120128/WDH0101/201280502

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Barkless natural edge oak firewood bowl

This odd-shaped bowl was hard to get a good picture of.  The flattened edges are the outside of the now deceased oak tree.  The bowls are made by turning the chunk of wood upside down on the lathe when starting out. 






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