If this was really made in America, that means that someone was employed making it.
If this was really made in America, that means that someone was employed making it.
I met Matt Melis at a USENIX around 2005; he did a talk on system reliability engineering that started with “my job is to shoot supersonic bullets at diamonds.”
Watching industrial processes is a bit of a hobby of mine. I think we often take for granted the level of difficult effort that goes into producing things we more or less take for granted.
It’s got to suck being a Mississippi voter, right now. They’ve got to either look in the mirror and realize they’re a garbage-human, or that a majority of their friends and neighbors are.
Some of the vendors I have occasionally done business with, appear to have decided they’re going to send me a big email every day for several days, with new “black friday” offers.
Back when I used to hang out on deviantart, I encountered a few people who were very interested in swords, but had developed a complete misunderstanding of how they work.
There are many videos of sword test-cutting (“tameshigiri”) on youtube and I generally avoid them. A lot of the time, it seems to be someone who got their hands on something katana-shaped and has decided to risk their, and their friends’ lives.
We’ve all seen footage of things going up into space.
I’m going to be doing the usual drive-pilgrimage that will leave me exhausted, sleepless, and disoriented – but thankful.
Jazzlet’s knife is done.