Biography:grew up in San Luis Obispo, CA and moved to Phoenix, AZ in 1992 to attend schools for architecture and autocad.
relocated to Las Vegas area in 1999 to follow career prospects.
I have a "thing" for Hawaiian and other "tacky" shirts
the more over the top the better.
hence supertackyman.
just far enough from sin city to resist temptation
Interests:
my hobbies include photography, fabrication, photoshop and, how to combine all 3.
i am also hopelessly addicted to all music.
Occupation:
cad operator/project engineer for a custom precast concrete shop.
Computer Specification:
newer system now.
intel celeron @ 2.6 ghz with 760 mb ram
oh and it's hooked up to a jvc cassette tape head unit so that i may record and backup onto cd's my old cassettes and lp's
camera specs. sony mavica cd-500 with lots of lenses.
a macro lens stack that can see hairs on an ant.
and a homemade riflescope attachment for an effective optical zoom of 36X
Software Interests:
photoshop 7
autocad
Signature
"making the colorblind queasy since 1970"
Latest Blog Entry
getting comfy and shiny Posted on: May 26th 2009, 05:47pm5 comments
Well, this weekend my motorcycle finally passed the line...
the duct tape to actual seat material ratio reached critical mass and I couldnt take it anymore. I took apart an old pair of black jeans, and made a new seat cover. now i have a nice new denim seat.
As I was cleaning up, I found some polishing compound and gave it a go on one of the engine panels (they were a dingy aluminum color) and had some acceptable results. so, I set to work pulling off all the panels and polishing them on my polishing wheel. now it looks all shiny.
next I have (want) to polish the aluminum wheel hubs and the forks. but that will have to wait until i can get a dremmel attachment to get the small, hard to reach [read more]