{"id":132,"date":"2008-12-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/projects_in_progress\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T22:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T05:46:47","slug":"projects_in_progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polymathdesignlab.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/projects_in_progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Railway Station at Perpignan - the December page on our Salvador Dali calendar, which has me entranced at the moment.\" src=\"http:\/\/polymathdesignlab.com\/images\/perpignan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Railway Station at Perpignan - the December page on our Salvador Dali calendar, which has me entranced at the moment.\" hspace=\"3\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>December already?! I can tell that the end of the year is going to be here before I even get the chance to catch my breath.<\/div>\n<div>I spent part of my long weekend sick, so I didn&#8217;t get quite as much accomplished as I was hoping to, but I&#8217;ve still been a pretty busy polymath. It&#8217;s late, so I&#8217;m not going to go into too much detail here, but here are some of the projects I&#8217;ve got going that you&#8217;ll hear more about soon:<!--more--><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>I started infusing two different flavored vinegars for holiday gifts &#8211; Scarborough Fair (parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, of course!) and Pesto (basil and garlic).<\/li>\n<li>I placed my second <a title=\"Ponoko\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ponoko<\/a> order, using their new Prime service &#8211; I got in on their offer of the first month of Prime for free to the first 100 to sign up, with a discounted rate locked in as long as I keep Prime active. This offer has some repeats and revisions on items from my last order, plus one custom order piece, a couple of prototypes for some new ideas I had, and my first attempt at a 3-D piece through them.<\/li>\n<li>I also put together a photography light tent for about $15 to use when taking product photos. I had tried cutting an opening in a white 5 gallon bucket that we had sitting around, but the plastic was still too opaque, and cutting a large enough hole to make it easy to take photos would have likely made the bucket unstable. PVC to the rescue!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m pulling together ingredients to make a variation on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.make-digital.com\/make\/vol16\/?pg=106\" target=\"_blank\">alien projector<\/a> from the most recent issue of MAKE. But more industrial, and probably involving pirates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Note to anyone reading this on RSS&#8230; the HTML is not coming through in my feed, which means that links and formatting are both getting lost &#8211; which makes this pretty hard to read. I&#8217;m working on it! 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