Gimp - The Poor Man's Photoshop

Original photo with crazy horizon line framing that gives the impression that boat is surfing down the face of a Tsunami or something. 

Gimp'd version with three corners that had to be airbrushed by yours truly. It wasn't as hard as I had imagined it would be either. I was able to keep a couple of the boats in the distant background as well.

 

List of wikitree profiles you have added.

 Here is how to create a list of all the profiles you hold on wikitree. They list in the order you added them BTW.

Sample profile holder URL - opens a new window

Hint: Copy the link conten above and replace the "Cagle-6222" (the profile-id) part with your own profile-id or someone else's profile-id  to see results. Note that the Cagle-6222 doesn't exists so it will yield?

Grandfather Cagle's Profile page

                Alonzo Cagle's profile on wikitree.com (my grandfather)

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Standard Clamptite Tool Homebrew Upgrade

 Make your bottom of the line clamptite tool (Link here) as functional as the one that costs more than twice (Link here) as much for practically free! Of course I won't argue with anyone that has the money to pay for that much nicer premium model tool. I just don't think it is forty dollars nicer is all!

 

BEFORE

 

Materials: Some scrap handrail dowel rod ( About 1-1/2" diameter piece about three inches long).

Tools required:

• Backsaw, 5/16" drill bit to make the central hole.
• Xacto knife.
•  Standard Clamptite Tool CLT05.
•  Optional ... Drill press (makes drilling more accurate than hand drill).

Steps:

• Drill  5/16" hole in center of your dowel deep enough to accommodate the  fully tightened exposed length of the clamptite tools central screw.
• Cut a 3/16" slot across the open end that you drilled into to accomodate the wing nut's "wings". This will need to be about 1/2" deep measured from the end of the dowel.
• Use your Exacto knife to clearance the opening of the hole at the end so that the tapped part of the wing nut can go more fully into your new handle.
• Now for strength you can use your clamptite tool to reinforce the business end of the handle to resist splitting when you are really tightening something very tight as I needed to recently. I resorted to using pliers on the wing nut which of course was quite awkward and burred up both the nut and the threads of my clamptite tool. This is how I got the idea for making this project.

Finished Handle?

After

 

Extra Credit?

I may drill across the grain on the opposite end for an appropriately sized t-handle dowel rod on the other end and put another clamptite clamp on that end to resist splitting. If I wind up doing that I will probably cover the whole handle with gorilla tape or something so those wire tips won't be able to bite me when I use the handle. I will put photos on here if I wind up doing any of that.

Restarting crashed cairo-dock processes with gksu script

 From time to time it becomes necessary to restart cairo-dock process on my lxde desktop (lubuntu 16.04). Here is how I created a shell script driven desktop shortcut to accomplish that. 

$ cat restartDock.sh 

#/bin/sh

killall cairo-dock 2> /tmp/tim1
killall cairo-dock-launcher-API-daemon 2> /tmp/tim2

gksu -u tim -S "bash -c 'cairo-dock -c 2>&1 | tee  /tmp/cairodoc.log '" &

12/19/2020 The other day I discovered this is inadequate and does not work in some circumstances. I did not document it when it occurred so it will have to wait until the next occurrence in order to put up a revision to address the deficiency. Sorry.

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