As I mentioned [stderr] my first attempt at feather damascus was a bust, and left me with a half-split half-welded block of many-layered metal. Some gears in my subconscious clicked and I realized there was some symbolism there in the metal.
Somewhere, in a darkened office-park, the spam author works late into the night, spinning a complex narrative of survival fear and toxic masculinity. Did they find this career, or did it find them?
Macarons (which are different from Macaroons) are these ridiculously expensive little meringue and almond flour cookies. There’s a secret, which is that the are ridiculously easy to make.
Mind-boggling surrealism is the order of the day.
In an odd move, the Trump administration today declared “bump stocks” illegal. This was a perfectly common-sense response to a technology that was designed in order to bypass restrictions on automatic weapons.
Trying to make sense of the story of Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn is hard; trying to look for the angles in the media’s reporting of the story is worse.
Heaven is everlasting and earth is enduring.
During the big government shutdowns in the Clinton Administration, I remember thinking, “what a great way to get rid of government. Just stop paying for the useless !*!&#!!”
For those of you that enjoyed [stderr] the podcast episode about snakes and ebola, here’s something related.
There are a variety of patterns in damascus steel-making, each of which represents a different way of laying up the bars, and manipulating them afterward. Each step brings with it a unique opportunity to fail: if you work too slowly, things may oxidize and not weld cleanly anymore. If you work too fast, you may wind up with inclusions or a mis-aligned weld. Two bars the have been forge-welded together are now one bar; you can’t re-position things.