For those of you who think that 2020 is the worst year ever, consider the possibility that there is no bottom to how bad things can get.
For those of you who think that 2020 is the worst year ever, consider the possibility that there is no bottom to how bad things can get.
It appears that an ancient smith in Persia was making steel that was close, in today’s terms, to what we’d call “stainless steel.” The question is whether that was lucky, or intentional, or both.
I don’t like to paint. Yet, so many times, I start a project the ends with a couple of coats of paint.
Donald Trump is so ignorant and illiterate that apparently his aides read their briefing notes aloud, to him, like he’s a child with no attention-span. So, I can be sure that – if he’s ever held a copy of a book – he probably hasn’t delved past the cover.
When I started seeing stories about this, my immediate reaction is “someone’s lying.” That’s a given, because exaggerating things just a bit is built into every part of the fabric of US military procurement. As is secrecy, greed, and other bits of Lovecraftian evil. So, take everything here with a grain of salt because public information is mighty thin, right now.
Currently, I am in the process of making a small batch (4) of kiridashi. It’s a pretty strict design and, while it probably looks like it’s easy to just make a single large flat bevel, it’s not.
I suspect this is not the first such incident, but it’s the first that anyone has been willing to cop to. I also suspect that, somewhere, a lawyer is screaming, “NO SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!”
I did most of my growing up in the 70s, when telephones were a mysterious and interesting thing and long distance calls were expensive.
I had the idea of making a large composite resin egg with a theme inside. Like, the ‘Dune’ egg (still in progress) this is a resin-dunked homage to literary pretensions.
Looks like FTB is going wild! I see a ton of great shameless commerce going on, out there. So I’d like to tease a bit of what else is coming down my auction pipeline.