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[Happy Monkey]

One more spiky tape ball. This time you can see the process.

1) Fold a piece of tape about 60 degrees.
2) Fold one end over the triangle. If it doesn't line up, peel both folds back and try again.
3) Continue to fold the ends over the triangle until there isn't enough to make another triangle, and cut the extra off.
4) Color the triangle with a permanent marker.
5) Repeat steps 1-4 120 times.

6) Tape 5 triangles in a row, with an extra triangle's worth of tape on each end. Tape the non-colored side.
7) Tape a triangle to the middle one of the 5, with an extra triangle's worth of tape on both the sixth triangle and the other side of the row of five.
8) pull the middle three of the row of five up into a pyramid, fastening with the extra tape flap.
9) Connect 5 pyramids into a star, cutting off flaps or adding new ones as needed.

[Happy Monkey]

10) Continue adding pyramids around the edge. It starts to curve back in on itself.

[Happy Monkey]

11) Attach the last pyramid by sliding it in, then sticking a paperclip in the joint and pressing the flaps until they stick.
12) Cover the outside with tape. Otherwise it is too fragile.
13) Recolor it with permanent markers, since the last step obscured the color.

[Happy Monkey]

And here it is, backlit.

[Elionwyr]

I have a short story in the current issue of Cthulhu Sex Magazine, which is the first bit of creative fiction I've had published in some time.

(My mother is so proud..)

http://www.cthulhusex.com/ - "Cursed" be the tale.
(There's no actual link to the story on the site, dang it all, but if you click on my name, the story *is* on my website..)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Great story, Elion. I think I was married to her.

[Elionwyr]

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Great story, Elion. I think I was married to her.

**d'oh**!!!

[Nothing But Net]

and win an ear

[wolf]

Originally posted by Nothing But Net
and win an ear

What?

[Nothing But Net]

It was yours!

<img src="http://eva.alexandersguns.com/cellar/salt.JPG">

...and the ear thing was just VVGish, you know!

[wolf]

Tee hee ... gotcha!

(i recognized the bricks immediately, wanted to let some other folks have a chance. But my TRUE triumph here was to catch you with the old "make you repeat yourself when you make some refererence to ears or hearing". This was a geek-amusement from my college days. We were very good at it, and would always reprocess a statement when someone said "what?" before a repeat to make sure we hadn't been caught. One of the best gotchas involved a trip to a drive-thru safari park where someone pointed out a herd of antelope, was "whatted" and repeated. hmm. guess you had to be there, and it is a lot funnier in a verbal exchange).

Your image is VERY cool.

[lumberjim]

Originally posted by lumberjim
gorgeous!

I have a pine bookcase all cut awaiting time in my schedule to assemble and glue it up. It's a big one though, and I'm afraid that if I put it together in the basement, it will never come out. I built a "treasure chest" for the kids' costume collection this xmas....I'll try to get a good pic of it up here later.

[lumberjim]

open:

[lumberjim]

and the bookcase/ it's 7 1/2 ft tall by 45" wide

i'll be painting the sides and trim around the front " queen anne's lace" ( offwhite) today while i watch football.

[lumberjim]

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