coffee table?

Dec 29, 2006 by James B | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

Looking for something to hold the glass on my coffee table top to keep it from moving. Something for each corner to keep it from moving.

most any glass supplier carry a variety of cushioning products for many types of applications.they not only cushion they keep the glass from sliding

Coffee Table Computer

There is a fundamental change occurring in the world of technology! Popular Mechanics shows a new type of computer.

Savages (parts 1, 2 and 3)

. On the caveman scale, the stonemasons rate about an 8 out of 10. Ironworkers and piledrivers might score a 9.  Merchant shipping sailors often earn a 10/10, but more on that later.

One day, a skinny hippie mason named Todd was grouting rock pieces onto the second floor balcony, which we now know is twenty-two feet above the sloping dirt backyard. Todd swung out onto the scaffold…and then the scaffold swung away from the house. The stucco guys failed to wire the scaffold to the house before quitting time the previous day; they just set it up and left it there.  This is an epic failure.  Todd felt it the whole structure coming away from the house with him standing on top, all thirty feet and 1000 pounds of scaffold.   He quickly turned, jumped free, and run away before it came crashing down on top of him.  He almost made it cleanly, but there was a six-foot post firmly planted in the ground below. landed within about eight inches of skewering himself right up the middle, instead catching it under his arm as he hit the ground running.

After we calmed him down and looked him over, it still took us five minutes to convince him to let us bring him in to the hospital.  He refused to consider an ambulance, though his upper arm was swelling rapidly.

Driving him down to the ER, I learned why this was no big deal to him. To paraphrase: “Man, this ain’t nothin. I’ll be back to work tomorrow….yeah, well let me start way back – I guess I’ve had over 100 stitches and staples in my head…..broken a dozen bones, mostly fingers and toes….I was shot through the leg with a .22 pistol, shot through the arm with a nailgun, set on fire twice, (once solo,) …..at the age of seven I got hungup by my ballsacks while climbing over a cyclone fence to get away from my brothers (7 stitches to his “ballsacks”), a shit-ton of concussions, I don’t know…” Last month he had seven teeth pulled because he had not visited a dentist in ten years.

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