The State of The San Mai

San mai is Japanese for “three layers.” A few years ago, one manufacturer sent around “cease and desist” letters to many bladesmiths that were using that architecture, since their company felt they were the ones who made san mai great again, or something like that. They were roundly told to shove it, and it stuck because the manufacturer was not willing to spend Disney-amounts of money on lawyers.

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Constant Revolution

My mind has been jumping around a lot, lately, between the swirling politics going on around us, and the earthly pleasure of trying to bend difficult materials to my will. This is a great example of someone using technology to do the latter (and some of the former) very effectively, and it makes me glad at many levels.

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I Wonder

I wonder if we’ll find out that the twitter hack was an exploit based on stealing credentials using google voice services to capture SMS authentication codes. Probably not; that would be too serendipitous.

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