Coronavirus can be thought of as a dry run for how well organized human civilization responds to a global natural disaster. I’m not counting WWI and WWII as “natural disasters” – in fact, they were more like dry runs, too; another chance for concerted and sensible human response to a crisis and another opportunity lost.
We continue the saga of the splintered resin/wood bowl.
Resin and wood make pretty neat effects, so I’ve worked on more than just the red resin/bog oak bowl, which is sitting on my desk next to me as I type this. [stderr]
But I think it’s OK to gloat about some really fine, distilled, coronavirus irony. I guess I’m just a nasty person; well, that’s who’s running the world today so I’d better jump on the bandwagon.
In an earlier posting, I asked “why does coffee work for etching knife blades?” It’s all the rage and it does work. [stderr] [Read more…]
This is translated by me from the French; dad forwarded it from one of his European friends. I guess that’ll tell you something about how they feel in some parts of France.
One of the things I loathe is America’s infatuation with its military.
The Romans’ advice was characteristically succinct: “divide et impera” (divide and rule)
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Prince was notoriously careful with any media that leaked from his clutches. He wanted everything to be perfect, and it was according to his vision. But now some things leak out.