Some books I read in 2009
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Mortar in Albert Lea
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colgaffneyis at the Big Island Rendezvous, Sunday afternoon. twolodge and tmancer were the gunners.
Airships
Airships
The dead hand
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It’s Still Alive
led me to Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
That’s right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called “the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination.” Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Dead Hand is continuously being upgraded.
The dead hand
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It’s Still Alive
led me to Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
That’s right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called “the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination.” Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Dead Hand is continuously being upgraded.
The Short and Violent Life of a Knight in Scotland
From Science Fiction to Colgaffneyis
Convergence is coming soon and colgaffneyis, as usual, will be well represented there. I wonder how many of my fellow members have read Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. I read it in High School, more than 40 years ago. I was immediately fascinated by the pike-and-shot era, and soon afterwards read Oman to learn something of the real history. I have been reading more ever since. It was all started by science fiction.
Making a knife
I am making a woodcarving knife. I started with an old file. Continue reading
Cold war tech
Soviet nuclear detonator console used in the fifties and sixties
Part of the Equipment from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site.
Via Make.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 