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.
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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Kestrel made me a neck gooby out of the mokume-gane I sent her!
I’ve spent a bit of time in search for steel wire rope to weld into sharp, pointy things. It’s been a fun quest. I assumed for a long time that the stuff would be all over the place, up here, because of strip-mining and logging.