On 27.05.17 00:01, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 26 May 2017 23:22:41 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > Erik
> > (Who's carted some bricks, and quartered a small Blackwood log with
> > the chainsaw today, so will pass on the extra exercise.)
>
> Blackwood? Oh wait, your are an Aussie IIRC. Is that a kin of Ebony?
> Dry, sawdust like sand, fine grained, mills to a high polish if your
> tooling is sharp.
Now I wish it were, but then I'd have to stand in a queue for the trees
which came down along the street in the last storm, instead of having
them to myself. I just have to beat the ones who'd cut it up for
firewood, but they fortunately don't favour green timber.
> I am wondering if it could be used in place of Ebony, which is from
> Gabon, Africa, and about $150 a board foot here in the states for a
> pretty solid black. Getting it past customs takes more weight in paper
> than the square foot weighs. Chain of evidence type of thing.
This stuff is actually dark brown, like walnut, though nearly black on
the end grain when freshly felled. The sapwood is white. Wikipedia also
likens it to walnut, then says it is now used as a substitute for koa.
I've used it for interior balustrading, and plan to make some modular
bookshelves. (Once I've finished the house plans¹ which I refuse to pay
an architect $6k to draw up, built the new house, renovated this one and
sold it, and moved all my klamotten out there.)
¹ Don't tell anyone that I've nearly finished drawing them up via text
input in the Postscript language. I find GUIs perverse unintuitive
undocumented atrocities, and can't abide the learning curve. With a
documented language, I'm in the driver's seat, rather than at the back
of the bus, constrained and thwarted by all the upholstery in the way.
I've defined doors, windows, etc, which auto-abut graphically, so a
wall can be textually created as a list of dimensioned components. No
rat-wrangling required, either.
Erik
--
The meta-problem here is that the configuration wizard does all the approved
rituals (GUI with standardized clicky buttons, help popping up in a browser,
etc. etc.) but doesn't have the central attribute these are supposed to achieve:
discoverability. That is, the quality that every point in the interface has
prompts and actions attached to it from which you can learn what to do next.
- Eric Raymond, in "The Luxury of Ignorance."
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