Author Archives: Andrew Reynolds

About Andrew Reynolds

Born in California Did the school thing studying electronics, computers, release engineering and literary criticism. I worked in the high tech world doing software release engineering and am now retired. Then I got prostate cancer. Now I am a blogger and work in my wood shop doing scroll saw work and marquetry.

Friday Wisdom – English Major

Posted on 05/20/2016 by Andrew Reynolds

On announcing to my father that I was going to get a BA in English, he replied: “Well, an English Major is better than being a Canadian Captain.” Thanks dad. More wisdom next week, Andrew

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Wednesday Woodworking – little libraries and little books

Posted on 05/18/2016 by Andrew Reynolds

Well, I got sucked into the little library vortex. Here’s a picture of the prototype: Then my brain went a little sideways and I thought, “If we have little wooden libraries, we should have little wooden books.” Okay, here you … Continue reading →

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The Weight of Clouds

Posted on 05/15/2016 by Andrew Reynolds

I’ve been thinking about clouds a lot lately. It started with a line on a blog (WordDreams By Jacqui Murray) about a metaphor telling me not to use “hard as nails.” Of course not. It should be, “hard as a … Continue reading →