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The warming Arctic
The limits of being period correct
After 2 feet of ripping the 5″-thick cherry, I gave up. I am generally a stubborn person, but the sawing was too slow-going to be practical. It was going to take an hour of ripping for each slab.
Senior Editor Glen Huey came into the shop. He raised one eyebrow, but he didn’t say anything about the sweat drips all over the slabs.
“I’m gonna cheat,” I said, “and I need your help.”
We humped each slab onto the band saw. In less than five minutes the deed was done. I can rationalize this a million ways: This is work for a pitsawyer. The lumberyard would have dressed these slabs for the pre-industrial woodworker.
But the bottom line was that ripping these slab[s] wasn’t fun. And that’s where I drew the line. The purists can feel free to throw stones now.
A Clockwork Orange — Now for real
This is weird and scary.
Weaponizing Mozart: How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control
Via Slashdot
The unmaking of history
The Skansen Bench
Popular Woodworking – I Can Do That: Skansen Bench
Note that the design is period for Clann Tartan, though it is a little heavy for transporting to events.
The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated
US Manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity.
We are what we eat
Monday night Irish class, March 1, 2010
Irish Class, March 1, 2010
Rang Gaeilge, 1ú lá mí na Márta, 2010
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From JS’s fable.
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The shoemaker’s children go barefoot
The Google Toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox. So far there is no version for Google Chrome, the company’s own browser.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 