This is part of a set of walkthroughs I posted on the knifemaking 101 list on facebook. Since I went to the trouble to do all the photography and editing I thought I may as well keep them here, too, in case anyone ever starts searching for this sort of material.
On my trip to Munich, I re-read The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan. [amazn] It’s a depressing read, but interesting, which I undertook to renew my understanding of what Daniel Ellsberg did for a living before he became a heroic whistle-blower.
Warning: I get a bit ranty.
A surrealist is walking down the street, and sees a banana peel in his path; he says, “Mon Dieu! I am going to fall down again!” and keeps walking.
Hallmark denies or downplays whether it had any involvement in the invention of Valentine’s day, though it is often tagged as a “Hallmark Holiday.”
Make the small big and the few many.
Return animosity with virtue.
– Lao Tze
A couple of sheets of 304 stainless steel, perforated, dropped into my mail box this morning. I’m hoping to eventually experiment with bonding it to high carbon steel, but that’s another story. When I unwrapped them, I noticed something weird – I thought maybe I had slipped something in my water without thinking about it, because what I saw reminded me of things I’ve seen while on painkillers or psychoactives.
The New Zealand Police are trying to convince me that they have a sense of humor, are compassionate, (fairly) sensible, and well-trained.
But, it will be said, is not the dogma of the immortality of the soul consoling for beings who often find themselves very unhappy here below?
Your host, Jean Meslier
It’s safe to say that anyone with a shred of sense is horrified by Trump’s idea of having a military parade “bigger then the French one.”
There is a bunch of strange stuff surfacing surrounding the alleged incident in which the NSA allegedly tried to buy back stolen data from an alleged Russian hacker. I’m tracking it, but there are still many shoes that need to drop before the story begins to even make a shred of sense.