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Comment on How to make an engagement ring by Ring DIY – How to Make Your Own Engagement Diamond Ring!

Ring DIY – How to Make Your Own Engagement Diamond Ring! — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:46:43 +0000

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Comment on Project Idea: Dasher for Android by robket

robket — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:46:32 +0000

Just a thought? Do most android touch screens include pressure sensitivity? The way i would do this is have your finger on the left going only up or down. The speed would start slow and auto increase. As soon as you feel it getting too fast you could "apply the breaks" by applying slightly more pressure which would slow it down slightly. No idea how well this would work in practice but I feel it could work.

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by A cœur brisé rien d’impossible | ChicAndGeek.com

A cœur brisé rien d’impossible | ChicAndGeek.com — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:37:47 +0000

[...] (il n’avait pas été quitté mais peu importe, c’est une idée et voici le mode d’emploi !)Enfin, l’homme qui n’a ni les qualités physiques, ni artistiques, mais de [...]

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by An Engagement Ring Will Mean More When You Make It Yourself

An Engagement Ring Will Mean More When You Make It Yourself — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:51:18 +0000

[...] can use this instructional page to try your hand at a DIY engagement ring. Either it will look like the white gold and moissanite [...]

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by Peter Brown

Peter Brown — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:15:02 +0000

Excellent step-by-step guide on making an engagement ring! Just imagine the look on her face when you get to tell her how much thought, time and energy you put into making her a ring.

Oh and think of the money you'll save too :) Of course it helps that you're using recycled white gold and Moissanite…

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by jpa

jpa — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:15:58 +0000

Great end result!

I tried to do something similar, but my goal was to cast a ring. No luck, I had problems with both the mold and with melting the metal. And that was just the brass testing, I didn't buy any gold yet.

Making the ring from a gold bar and solder is definitely a better idea for DIY.

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by Aeiluindae

Aeiluindae — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:15:57 +0000

Wow. That is amazing. That's kind of been my dream proposal idea, to make her the ring.

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by Bill Moran

Bill Moran — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:36:24 +0000

A couple things Matt. Firstly, for never being a jeweler, nice job. Secondly, Pickle is to remove oxidation and firescale, not flux. Flux would easily come off in an ultrasonic machine. A pickle pot can easily be made using a small crock pot. The more firescale you remove in pickle the less metal you file away. (All those shavings are very valuable) Thirdly, some files would probably speed your process. And most importantly, chisels around a stone are asking for trouble. Setting a stone is difficult enough for a beginner especially without using proper burs to seat it. I always used a prong pusher to set a stone the way you are. It had a handle to tap on, but it also had a very flat contact surface for the setting. Any piece of metal about the diameter of a pencil would work if you could tap on the top of it and the contact surface was smooth.

Oh, and one more thing, if you're buying gold solder already, make your life easier by buying hard and soft solders. That way you can solder the head in with hard solder, then solder the rose gold on with soft solder. There are more solders in between, but not really necessary in what you're showing. Like I said, nice job and hope I wasn't on a soapbox, I just hoped some extra tips would contribute.

Comment on The Fish that Fell in Love with the Moon by Contra Current

Contra Current — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:14:00 +0000

wow…fables are still alive … write a book please

– thanks for the praise. I’ve approved it but deleted your spam links – Matt Katz

Comment on Tweetability and Readability by Connor Tomas O'Brien › Tweetability and Readability

Connor Tomas O'Brien › Tweetability and Readability — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:40:42 +0000

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Comment on Satoshi Kanazawa cannot think. by Megan

Megan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:24:59 +0000

Satoshi Kanazawa tends to write racist and sexist driven statements. He uses spurious correlations (eg two objects that have no causal relationship). For instance, the size of a city's zoo tends to correlate with the murder rates in that given city. Just because there is a correlation does not mean that there is a cause between the two.

Comment on LibraryDroid tracks your books by Trix

Trix — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:27:22 +0000

I'm also having this tuple not being integers error, with an HTC Legend, which is pretty close to the Desire (Android 2.1 – I downloaded the script environment today). I've tried to tidy up the code given above, since it's appearing with a lot of extraneous HTML for me.

import android
droid = android.Android()
code = droid.scanBarcode()
isbn =int(code['result']['extras']['SCAN_RESULT'])
url = "http://librarything.com/isbn/%d"&isbn
droid.startActivity('android.intent.action.VIEW', url)

Any tips appreciated!!

Comment on How to elope by @drdpj

@drdpj — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:49:15 +0000

Congratulations! Absolutely brilliant, we're so stoked for the pair of you. Project Vulcan… hahaha. I don't think it would have been possible to do anything that was more you. Much love and speak when you get back.

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by Tat

Tat — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:12:21 +0000

Wow Matt! Congratulations, in advance.

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by cdacton

cdacton — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:36:54 +0000

Yeah, this is pretty much the epitome of awesome.

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by Brittany

Brittany — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:24:58 +0000

Beautiful.

Comment on How to keep a secret by Georgia

Georgia — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:15:10 +0000

You forgot "deliberately mislead innocently interested parties by telling them the exact opposite of the truth."

Comment on How to make an engagement ring by Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:38:59 +0000

Superb, nice job. End result looks great. I attempted to do something similar but failed to find the right place to do it, and then made one out of origami instead. Which my mother-in-law accidentally recycled.

Comment on links for 2010-07-10 by snarkyboojum

snarkyboojum — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:22:55 +0000

"The best part of this post? The end. The big big blank end."

Then why delay it so long? :P

Comment on How to show WordPress page hierarchies by mattkatz

mattkatz — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:47:12 +0000

You would put this in a template file where you want those hierarchies to appear.
Have a look through the php template files, they are very informative!