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web site

Don, if you click on "My Settings" on the top left of your page and then click on "Edit Profile" also on the left, you can add your website under "home page URL". Then whenever anyone clicks on your name they can travel to your site.

Add it like this, Don:

http://www.dreamwooddesign.biz
 
"most unique"

Don, Looks like your new website will indeed be a lot of fun. Please do not take the comments which follow as personal criticism of you or your website. The quote just struck an already irritated nerve.

There are no degrees of "uniqueness", no sliding scale from "sorta" to "very" to "extremely" to "most". Widely misused by thousands (millions?), such phrases would be better and correctly served by use of the word "unusual" or some other adjective. The word "unique" means there is only ONE (of whatever it is) in the known universe. It either IS unique, or it ISN'T. With respect to woodturning there are undoubtedly many millions of turnings that are unique (no two are exactly identical), but not a single one of them is "more unique" than any other.

End of rant and thanks for reading it.
 
O.K., Texian....thanks...I got lots to learn (maybe the spelling should be "yooneek"?), but I accept any and all critiques, good or bad. I do appreciate your input. 😀
 
You're welcome Don. Critiques are good. Criticism is bad, and as mentioned I did not intend my comments as criticism. My father was an editor with a major metropolitan newspaper, a strict diciplinarian regarding correct use of language, and my first wife was an english teacher, so sometimes just can't help myself.
 
Grammarians?

Are you guys turning into grammarians or just gouging each other because you have slightly skewed outlooks? Me, I'm just scraping by while I hone my skills with my nose to the grind stone.

Jerry

ps: I have a professional copy editor in the family, also.🙂
 
Naw...just one turner helping the other.....as I stated, I accept any and all suggestions. Why not have a bit of fun along the way?? BTW..have had a lot of hits on my site...makes the old ego swell a tad! I try to give an occasional pat on the back to some of you in return...some real pretty work out there!!! Nobody is above learning a thing or 3.....😀😀
PEE ESS::: Steelguy...your words "bowl" me over..went with the "grain", but I was never bored, knot for a segment.
 
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I have given up on "most unique" as a lost cause and decided to throw in the towel, stop tilting at windmills, and spitting into the wind. Now, instead, I have focused my attention towards avoiding cliches like the plague (after I use up my existing stockpile).
 
Good Humor

Glad to see that turners are not humorless!

Jerry
 
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