Trolley car experiments seem to be a rich topic for “memes.”
Trolley car experiments seem to be a rich topic for “memes.”
Boingboing published a piece [boing] looking at US police budgets.
The hamon-making class is over, and I’m home and digging out from under the things that piled up while I was away.
The United Nations needs to quit, and reconstitute itself without its structural flaws – namely the US, Russian, and Chinese veto. That’s an embarrassment and the veto reveals that the nature of the body to be a puppet, always trumpeting the interests of the rulers of the world.
I know a few people who were home-schooled as kids, and who grew up to be fine, decent people. I even new one who was incredibly precocious and was tutored (in addition to a good private school education) by both father and mother. Everyone in my high school class knew he was going to be somebody in the sciences and, he is! Yay!
When I bought my farm, it included 20 acres of old coal mine.
Crip Dyke takes up the clubs, here: [pervert justice]
This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, I will be up in Rome, NY, taking a class in how to pull hamons [temper-lines] out of mono-steel, taught by journeyman bladesmith Greg Cimms.
I mentioned this in the comments of my last posting, but I think it’s worth going into a bit more detail.
If any ad can impress me, it’s impressive; I am a hard target.