Ramping is the increase of heat inside a kiln. A Ramp Rate is the speed at which this occurs, it is messured in Degrees Farenheight per Hour. to calculate ramp rate: Final Temprature (or estimate) of chamber – Original Temprature of Chamber __________________________________________ Time to Complete (in hours) for example, the kiln completed firing yesterday […]
A friend sent this to me, decided to share it with the blog. Why did the chicken cross the road? Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference. Freud: The […]
I just took a look at a list of local eating establishments for my county, and I am not impressed at all. See The List. There are all of 5 resturants listed for Bessemer City, of those, there are only three I would actually eat at. First is The Family Pizza Galli, then Gondola and […]
The title says it all…. I went to Concord Mills on Tuesday with no real objective, but for some reason I felt the need to enter Black Lion… not really sure why, it just sort of happened. I had looked at the swords and daggers two weeks ago when I was there, but they hadn’t […]
In my March 7, 2005 blog entry I discuss eros/love, but several events have lead me to determine that I am not very good at expressing my emotions, especially when it comes to love. Two instances on Wednesday shine brightly as to how bad I am at emotional stuff sometimes. Chris and I went to […]
Woke up this morning and my neck was sore, this aging thing really sucks…. At the moment I have about 38 mintues to go until I am officially 20, but the many people around me found it neccesary to wish me a happy birthday already (you people suck, wait until it’s time). I don’t want […]
On Friday I will turn 20, two decades, one-fifth of a century old. In the past few days I have been analysing my life and trying to determine what I can do to make my 21st trip around the sun better than the first 20. The only thing I can determine is that I should […]
I would like to appologize to anyone who has ever had contact with me that has been hurt by my stupidity, ignorance, insensitivity or general selfishness. I only recently realized how damaging my brief contact with the world has been. I have no mountaintop to retreat to, so I don’t know what i’ll do to […]
My perfectionistic nature finally caused me problems tonight. In an attempt to create a ceramic piece on the wheel tonight I managed to make an almost complete piece collapse into absolute ruin. The piece was taking the shape of a bowl, and getting to be almost completely symetrical and smooth, except for a small defect […]
I just completed my first thow on the new wheel, it went fairly well. I had minor issues getting started on the new wheel during the centering phase. The bat came off of its mount (I guess I didn’t have it secured well). I considered removing the bat all together (as is reccomended when getting […]