The US has always been a racist apartheid state; it’s just been trying to claw its way from that abyss for a few decades and has been back-sliding pretty badly lately. The recent kerfuffle about the Trump Administration’s adding racially charged questions to the census is not even remotely new.
Blockchain! It’s the latest thing, except that that it’s not really that new. Someone, back in the 80s, was doing successive hashes of a dataset and publishing them in the New York Times “personals” page, to guarantee retroactive non-tampering. [reference below]
This is my implementation of an idea that I first encountered from Sandy K. M. who made one for my horse P-nut. It’s an absolutely brilliant thing, and very simple to make.
Resin infusing wood (“stabilizing”) is all the rage in some parts of the knife-maker community. I used to impregnate all my handles with linseed oil and slowly dry them – same effect, just a different polymer.
The Guardian has a thought-provoking article about the race to develop a replacement for Viagra. [guard]
The theist exclaims, “Be careful not to worship the ferocious and strange God of theology; mine is much wiser and better; He is the Father of men; He is the mildest of Sovereigns; it is He who fills the universe with His benefactions!”
Your host, Jean Meslier
We can program ourselves to be so scared of something, that it’s a struggle to overcome the programming even when our mind knows that it’s OK. Sticking my hand into the forge and rummaging around is an example of that – I had to force myself to relax and reach inside.
There is enough F-35 news to justify an entire F-35 blog, except the blog would suffer from severe cost overruns and its first posting would be almost a decade from now. And, naturally, it would consist of a fragmentary paragraph that did not say anything useful. What would we call such a blog? Perhaps “This is going to be great but it will cost a lot.”
One of the coolest aspects (to me) of mold-making is that we can alter objects in the course of duplicating them.
I’d insert an animated .GIF of MC Hammer doing his thing, but let me try to keep this a bit more sedate.