Once upon a time, there were two demons talking. One of them looked at the other and said, “whoah, you’ve got the ‘made the damned suffer’ award, how did you earn that?” The other demon replied, “I made the integral bolster knife popular, and the overall suffering in the knife-maker community went off the charts.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not a book I have read. Naturally, parts of it have leaked into my consciousness from various sources – it’s a remarkably pervasive fountain of memes.
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.