After we’ve collapsed our civilization and made huge swaths of the planet uninhabitable, it’s just going to open up new opportunities for others. They won’t be others that are interesting, in the sense that we are (in the sense that we mine oil and burn it and fly through the air and argue about going to Mars) but life’s going to be hard to completely eradicate.
Not that we aren’t trying.
I haven’t said much about the doors because the project has been lingering on the edge of done for days.
A friend of mine wants to make a Naruto-style ‘kunai’ knife out of damascus. Sounds like a fun project!
I’m a hoarder of certain things; I admit it. Somewhere I have source tapes for Peter Langston’s Empire game, just in case someone wants to reconstruct that piece of history for a modern system.
The first time I saw this, I mis-read it as “Lemmy”, which – as you will see – would be double plus epic. But it’s still pretty good.
I’ve been sweating getting the doors for the shop done, which has been an emotional nightmare for me (strong sense of failure) as I watch my self-imposed deadline for getting the shop online recede into the distance.
Photographer Ryoto Kajita photographs methane bubbles making patterns in frozen lakes.
When I was a kid, one summer, they cut the roadway along the side of a limestone hill. Suddenly, there were all these bullet-shaped things in the dirt. That was how I learned about fossils.
I screwed up one of my pieces of rosewood, so I can’t present all three of the chisels as finished work. Unfortunately; but that’s just how things work out, sometimes.
I wish you could smell this wood. It’s sugar maple; my neighbor had a tree blow down and was out chainsawing it up. [Read more…]