Going for a Record

I’ll go months and not post anything on this blog – and then post a ton as I work through a project or just need to get something off my chest.  There’s usually an uptick around the time Maker Faire applications are opened and most years I have a few dozen posts with the notable exception of 2020.1

Publishing my old blog posts might get me in striking distance of a personal best from February of 2010 of 106 posts2  They weren’t all bangers.  Here’s the last one from that month – a haiku:

Clear PLA sits
Mendel languishes alone
Plastruder hates corn

MakerBlock – 02/28/2010

Beating 106 blog posts this month seems entirely possible.  Even if I try to beat my record and fail, I’m already way ahead of my usual blog post count.  MakerFaire is coming up, the kids are out of school, and, as always, I’m working on a bunch of random projects.  Right now I’m at 28 posts for the month of June 2026.  I’ve got 20 more days in the month to go, 293 unpublished draft posts of varying degree and quality, fresh page in my notebook, a strong internet connection, a quarter tank of gas, and a credit card.

Let’s fucking go.

  1. Just the one!  I can’t imagine what was going on in the world back then… []
  2. With so many posts during that month, it’s almost unbelievable that 8 of my unpublished posts were from February 2010! []

Printing mendel parts

I’m not even sure I would build a Mendel if I had all the plastic parts.  But for some reason I still want to have all of those parts.  I have no idea why.  :)

I printed up a single spring out of PLA before my extruder got clogged up.  It’s my one and only Mendel piece.

Having this one piece languish next to my MakerBot strikes me as funny.

I think there’s a haiku in there somewhere.

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