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Me - not much.
Well, I wrote a little on a story of mine, and I watched about an hour's worth of Vanilla Sky (fairly boring movie unfortunately, since I bought it on a hunch on DVD only because Tom Cruise's cute and Sigur Rós has two tunes in it - stupid me LOL). Then towards the evening, I went outside to "steal" some concrete drill-cores from a concrete wall below where I live.
Apparantly, groundwater started to leak into the lowermost apartements (only meant for handicapped people), so they had to dig up an area next to these apartements down to the bedrock to install a drainage pump. They also took up a doorway in the wall that had held in all the rocks and dirt they just dug up, and they did so by drilling lots of cylindrical holes in it. These cores look very interesting, smooth on the surface, with embedded stones and those inner bracings made of thick iron wire that provide structural support. Damn, they were heavy too! LOL, I brought home five of them, they're maybe about 30-35cm in length (thick wall!) and a bit over a decimeter in diameter.
I'll clean them off in the shower a bit later after I've had dinner, then I'll snap a pic of them and post up here for you to see. 
Take care everyone!
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I used to make those. Way back when I was in college (actually when I dropped out of college for a couple years), I worked for two years for the Dept of Transportation. They trained me to be a concrete inspector and my job was to test concrete as it was being poured into roadway, bridge abutments, footers, retaining walls, sidewalks, curb, etc. One of the tests was the "compression test." For this I had to make cylinders that were about a foot long and 5 inches in diameter (similar in size to your cores). This was the only test I couldn't perform onsite and had to send the cylinders to a lab where they were placed under compression until they broke. This helped to determine whether or not the concrete was strong enough. Looking forward to the pics, they should bring back some memories.
Think good thoughts,
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This is seriously heavy stuff! Really...! I mean it. I measured them, and each block is about 14cm in diameter and about 34cm tall. They're not completely cylindrical, since they were drilled out with some overlap there's a crescent-shaped chunk missing where part of the previous cylinder was. They're still pretty massive, and the odd shape actually makes them more interesting to look at.
The colors that appears in the rocks when they're wet are almost spectacular, when dry the rough-polished (yet mostly smooth) surface unfortunately turns rather dull and grey.
Lookit the pic! 
Cool, huh?
Hugs!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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they are impressive, but what are you going to do with them? I think they are a bit bigger than the ones I used to make and more interesting too. the rock we used was limestone and it was dull and grey whether wet or dry.
Think good thoughts,
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I think I'll just have them as decorations. They're not much use for anything else really (or much use for anything I suppose - hehe), but they're big, and I like the way they look. I have some unoccupied shelf space I will use for the purpose.
I mean, I have opened-up harddrives as decorations, so why not concrete cylinders?
Just for kicks, I've been taking quite a lot of photos with my rotten phone cam, and as it happens I have some pics of what it looked like before and after. I'm posting the pics below. First is what it used to look like. Then, after it's been dug up. Also, note the doorway down there; that's where the cylinders were drilled out. Finally, we have the machine causing all this mayhem, hehe.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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You shoudl use them as like mini tables, or like plant holders. It would be very stylish. Cuz I know damn well that I want big hunks of cocnrete in my house!!! (Seriously)
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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