Usually when I harden a blade, I let it get its tempering-cycles while I grind it. That can result in disasters, like a work-piece falling on the floor and shattering.
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Usually when I harden a blade, I let it get its tempering-cycles while I grind it. That can result in disasters, like a work-piece falling on the floor and shattering.
Anna and I were talking about my inordinate love of LED blinky things. She says that if something has LEDs all over it, I’ll buy it. That may be true.
This is an idea I stole from michaelcthulu on youtube. He’s the guy who makes gigantic swords from anime shows [youtube] and he’s quite a character.
The establishment mouthpiece New York Times [nyt] reports that Donald Trump was unhappy to be asked flat-out, “are you an agent of Russia?”
If this person isn’t just an ordinary con-ster, then I hope they get medical attention or other assistance as necessary.
The Hu are going to drop their first album in a couple of months; this is good news to anyone who likes epic metal.
The irresistible force that sometimes meets an immovable object.
A recent Washington Post [wapo] had something in it that caught my eye.
When I was a kid one of my favorite museum tours in Paris was the Musée des égouts de Paris – the sewer museum. Paris’ sewers go back a long way; they were semi-open rivers of effluent, like the Thames in London or the Cloaca Maxima in Rome; often these were rivers that were thoroughly ruined then built over and forgotten as long as the nasty stuff flowed the right direction.
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