As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more fond of using sensible leverage and supporting systems, instead of just lifting things into place and holding them with brute force as I fumbled for fasteners.
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more fond of using sensible leverage and supporting systems, instead of just lifting things into place and holding them with brute force as I fumbled for fasteners.
After we’ve collapsed our civilization and made huge swaths of the planet uninhabitable, it’s just going to open up new opportunities for others. They won’t be others that are interesting, in the sense that we are (in the sense that we mine oil and burn it and fly through the air and argue about going to Mars) but life’s going to be hard to completely eradicate.
Not that we aren’t trying.
I haven’t said much about the doors because the project has been lingering on the edge of done for days.
One of the big surprises of the cold war was how effective the Soviet intelligence apparatus appears to have been.
This, from Malcolm X:
The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is scary and, having been in the path of a near-lethal coronavirus, one of the worst parts is wondering, “how much worse can this get?” and suspecting that the answer is “a whole lot.”
[Warning: Torture]
It’s all the rage: “Sure, I killed some folks, but we’ve got to move on.”
A friend of mine wants to make a Naruto-style ‘kunai’ knife out of damascus. Sounds like a fun project!
A few weeks ago I mused out loud about some weird symmetries regarding emails. [stderr]
I’m a hoarder of certain things; I admit it. Somewhere I have source tapes for Peter Langston’s Empire game, just in case someone wants to reconstruct that piece of history for a modern system.