The Tinbasher

How many bags of shopping can you fit into one apartment?

Posted on 12, Sep

Blimey. I’ve got my dear old mother visiting at the moment, which means it’s not really fair me leaving her unattended while I bash about on my keyboard. It’s not that she’s infirm and is likely to go careering down some steps, nor that I’d feel particularly rude leaving her to watch Big Brother 8 [...]

RoboGames: Sponsor a Robot.

Posted on 24, Aug

I got an email yesterday from a young upstart after a spot of sponsorship for himself and his mates to help them build a middleweight combat robot for RoboGames. I presume he’s not meaning one of these fellas. As his email goes: Hello, my name is Trent Brown. I’m a 15 year old Homeschool student. [...]

Sculpture Classes Anyone?

Posted on 3, Jul

Ask-a-Basher

Here’s an email I received asking for a bit of help and have been given permission to replicate it on here to see if anybody has any idea. I have always been interested in metal sculpture and I am having a really tough time finding any education in this area. I would appreciate any advice [...]

Wheeling and a Dealing

Posted on 27, Jun

The Tinbasher

Well as far as moves go this has so far turned out to be a belter. And I’m not being remotely facetious either. Wheeling, West Virginia I obviously could’ve done without trailing around Walmart on Saturday night as the mother-in-law piled up two trolleys with cleaning gear worth over $200 of which I had to [...]

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation

Posted on 22, Jun

The Tinbasher

Apologies for things being a touch quiet but I’m just in the middle of relocating to West Virginia as I’ve managed to find gainful employment in Wheeling. I’ll have to go in to the wherefores and whatnots at a later date as Steph isn’t prepared to accept me blogging about packing as a suitable trade-off [...]

Top Corporate and Anti-Corporate List of Blogs in The Times

Posted on 13, Jun

Both the print and online editions of The Times have a list of the top 50 corporate and anti-corporate blogs and The Tinbasher is in there under the ‘Industrials’ section. My only question is whether it falls into the corporate or anti-corporate category? For me personally, writing The Tinbasher is a bit like being in [...]

Ask a Basher #4 – What is a true 45 degree elbow?

Posted on 15, May

Ask-a-Basher

Once in a while, the transatlantic language drift grates along its respective fault lines and induces a bit of a cross-cultural brain fart. For example, this weekend somebody suggested a game of Clue, which I assumed was the same as Cluedo. It is. Not only that, but for the sake of bragging rights, we invented [...]