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  • July 27, 2022
    https://newyorkthegoldenage.tumblr.com/post/690952252231385088/a-kid-takes-a-30-foot-dive-off-the-canopy-of-an
  • 15 years…

    April 18, 2022
    Next year my blog can drive
  • Our collective hallucinations

    July 3, 2021

    An interesting piece at The Atlantic on how link rot is affecting everything.

  • Pulleys are cool

    June 1, 2021
  • Center is IN

    May 27, 2021

    A neat insight into the early days of CSS from Eric Meyer.

    I first saw CSS in a technical writing class at umich (TC450 with Rod Johnson & Kara Heinrichs). Like Eric, I found it very exciting, but yeah, nothing actually worked.

    We’re getting there.

  • History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme

    April 26, 2021

    This was no idle threat. Lysenko’s powerbase was well known: “The whole country knows of the debate taking place between Vavilov and Lysenko,” one his cronies stood up and announced at a meeting. “Vavilov will have to change his ways, because Stalin said that things must not work the way Vavilov says but as Lysenko says.” Within a few years, working with Stalin and others, Lysenko was well on the way to purging Mendelian geneticists from the ranks of Soviet science, having them fired or thrown into prison if they did not swear allegiance to Lysenko’s views. He had also, for all intents and purposes, removed all mention of Mendelian genetics from biology textbooks at every level from grade school on through university.

    The Botanist Who Defied Stalin
  • Steel

    April 24, 2021

    Extend your arm out until your elbow is straight, and hold your thumb and index finger about four inches apart. That’s a little wider than a credit card. A little less than half the width of a piece of notebook paper. Got it? Cool.

    Now read this.

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    Now look back at your fingers.

    Go read Steel at MGoBlog. What an amazing story. Congrats to the 2021 Women’s Gymnasts on the first national title in school history!

  • ‘Jennie-isms’ from ‘Make a Chair from a Tree’

    April 21, 2021

    William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of 1,700 words (or at least his plays are the first known printed use thereof). Jennie Alexander can be credited with just a few less – and we even left some of them in the third edition of „Make a Chair from a Tree“ (if their meanings could […]

    ‘Jennie-isms’ from ‘Make a Chair from a Tree’
  • On Concurrency

    April 1, 2021

    Some developers I’ve known seem to think that being good at concurrency makes them badass. Others seem to think that senior developers must be great at concurrency, and so they should be too.

    But what senior developers are good at is eliminating concurrency as much as possible by developing a simple, easy, consistent model to follow for the app and its components.

    Brent Simmons on How NetNewsWire Handles Threading
  • Tesla Model Y Temperature Efficiency

    March 23, 2021

    We’ve had a Model Y since last September and have been tracking drives with TeslaFi. It’s been interesting to see how much the ambient temperature affects the range of the car. Preconditioning the battery helps a bit, but there’s still a pretty sizable fall-off when it gets cold. Known and expected, but fun to see the actual data.

  • “I thought you were supposed to be good at this…”

    January 12, 2021

    “Today it was my turn, the joke was on me. Tomorrow it could be you. It comes to us all at some point.”

    PETER FOLLANSBEE: JOINER’S NOTES

    I decided today to assemble the undercarriage of the next Windsor chair in my pile of projects. My goal was (is?) to go through the process a number of times without great spans of time between efforts. We’ll see. Today turned bad even sooner than I thought. This was the 2nd mortise I bored:

    a re-creation of the moment of doom

    I’ve made lots and lots of chair joints; ladderbacks & Windsors. As I have mentioned here, this recent re-introduction to Windsor chairs is after a hiatus of over 26 years. So I’ve been rusty at it. That’s what I suspected was behind me splitting the legs. The first 2 I made last year had splits in several of the joints, though none as bad as this. But today I decided I’m not that clumsy or “un-crafty”. It’s the auger bit – that’s what’s different.

    thick lead screw

    I never…

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  • First Snow 2020

    October 30, 2020

  • Libraries of the Future

    October 17, 2020

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    It's time to dive into those databases again! Saratoga Springs Public Library now offers access to Ancestry® Library Edition to our patrons AT HOME! Distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, this resource delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more from countries all over the world. Get started today! Visit: https://www.sspl.org/ancestry.html #HangingatHomewithSSPL #SSPL #SaratogaLibrary #LoveYourLibrary #SSPLGenealogy #SaratogaStrong

    A post shared by SSPL (@saratogaspringslibrary) on Oct 16, 2020 at 8:11am PDT

  • Libraries of the future

    October 12, 2020

    Now I have my materials in hand.

  • How to adjust your car mirrors

    September 23, 2020

    I’ve been doing it this way for ages and it works quite well. Though recommended by the SAE, it usually pushes the mirrors right to their adjustment limit. Apparently the car makers don’t read the SAE journal.

  • RZA, Ice Cream Man

    September 22, 2020

    In case you’re wondering why…

  • Today is Sept 21

    September 21, 2020
    That’s today!
  • Custom Painting a Car

    September 14, 2020

    File this under #oddly-satisfying. Fun watching a master at work.

  • YouTube intros

    September 12, 2020

    This may be the finest intro yet.

  • How has it been 19 years

    September 11, 2020

    Never Forget. Support our first responders.

  • The Beaten Path

    August 20, 2020

    I remember when I first started Ruby; we were using JRuby in the early days of CircleCI, and also Mongo. Both of those were well supported, with many people using them. However, we seemed to be the first to ever use them together and I quickly put together this rule of thumb:

    You can go off the beaten path once and be OK, but not twice.

    Paul Biggar, First thoughts on Rust vs. OCaml

    Also this gem:

    Programming in Rust reminds me a lot of programming in C++: you add a const to one function, and then you have to follow that const around the entire codebase until you finally get to the place where you learn it actually can’t be const, and so fuck you.

  • The Maker lifestyle, summarized

    August 19, 2020

    Bosch sells a similar vacuum hose adapter for $50. I said screw that and instead spent $300 on a new 3D printer to design and print my own. from woodworking

  • Fishing A Duck Lure For MONSTER Pike!

    August 8, 2020

  • Open Source Woodworking

    August 5, 2020

    Some excellent thoughts from Chris.

    When I design and build a piece of furniture, it does not belong to me any more than the birdsong of the warblers outside my shop door.  Since the start of my furniture career in the 1990s, I have never claimed ownership to a single design. The world is free to copy, adapt, interpret, sell …

    Give it Away. Now & Forever
  • Population density of the USA

    July 27, 2020
    Population Density USA from MapPorn
    Cooooool
  • RT: Grace at the Bench

    July 27, 2020

    One of the many ways you can judge a person’s woodworking experience is watching them at the bench. Beginners move a certain way – too fast, too slow or they look like me at a junior high dance. […]

    Grace at the Bench
  • How to make a cocktail

    July 26, 2020

  • Tornado Omelet

    June 30, 2020

    This looks amazing

  • [|87

    June 24, 2020

    This.
    Is beautiful pic.twitter.com/76UnvZolNd

    — P.M. Seymour, BLM (@PatMSeymourVA) June 24, 2020
    meta: this is a post on a WordPress site embedding a tweet on Twitter that’s a screenshot of a Tumblr post.
    All things serve the beam.

  • Paddling in the ADK

    June 17, 2020

    Andy takes the best photos.

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    A quiet celebratory paddle, the fitting end to 2020's topsy-turvy school year!

    A post shared by Andy Retzloff (@aretzl) on Jun 17, 2020 at 4:26am PDT

  • The sound of sharp

    June 13, 2020

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    Blending the chamfers on the heel of a drawer bottom plane. . . #planemaking #planemaker #toolmaker #moldingplanes #finaldetails #handtools #woodworking #handtoolwoodworking #chisel #handtoolthursday

    A post shared by Dan Schwank (@redrosereproductions) on Jun 12, 2020 at 9:04am PDT

  • Sadly Evergreen

    June 8, 2020
    This is from 2016. Feels like it was shot yesterday.
    This was today.
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    June 4, 2020

    Love Gil Scott-Heron

    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqxU6PTRZk&feature=share

    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOp507HJMA&feature=share

  • this-is-fine.gif

    May 29, 2020

    [mildly hysterical laughter, slowly building in volume and pitch] https://t.co/AaFfIxZEtV

    — Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) May 29, 2020
  • The more things change…

    May 29, 2020

  • progressions

    May 11, 2020

    Back at the beginning of April, I started taking screenshots of the reports on covid19.healthdata.org. Here’s how things progressed:

    first capture, april 9, 2020. expecting ~800 on may 1
    mostly following the median of the projection
    still mostly following, a tick past median
    on track
    now at 1250 may 1
    added smoothing and a 3 day smooth because they realized reporting isn’t instant.
    now at 2250 on may 1, nearly a 100% jump
    the predicted downward ramp isn’t ramping down….

  • Feeling your oats

    May 4, 2020

    The expression dates back to the early 19th century, used for the frisky, energetic movements of a horse when it has a belly full of oats. The earliest example recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary comes from the Boston Transcript in 1831: “Whether the pony felt his oats…he took a frightful canter.”

    Wall Street Journal
  • Nicklaus & Snead at Pebble

    April 18, 2020

    Remastered in HD. Love seeing the classic conditions with slow greens and natural fairways.

  • Happy Easter

    April 11, 2020

  • Listen to The Police

    March 22, 2020

    This is good advice. If we both reach our arms and we can touch, we’re too close.

  • Another convert to Detroit-Style Pizza

    March 21, 2020

    He even says Detroit mostly right.

  • Pantry Raid: Popcorn Edition

    March 21, 2020

    Alton Brown unfiltered is my favorite Alton Brown

  • Wash your damn hands

    March 20, 2020
  • That last eyelet hole on sneakers

    March 12, 2020

    I never knew what it was for. Now I do.

    Ever Wonder What That Extra Lace Hole on Your Gym Shoes Is For? We Found Out

  • Motivational Lizard

    March 4, 2020

  • NYC 1911

    February 26, 2020

    So that’s what the world looked like before smartphones.

  • Cyclo-knitter

    February 9, 2020

    What the Dutch!?

    Someone invented a Cyclo-Knitter; a pedal-powered machine that weaves a scarf in the 5 minutes you are waiting for a train.pic.twitter.com/9Zod5C0QtM

    — Cycling Professor (@fietsprofessor) February 9, 2020

  • Tom Bihn Synik 30, Guide edition

    February 5, 2020

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    A little video we made for the Guide’s Edition Synik 30. Remember: we’re good at making bags, not necessarily videos! There’s a noteworthy interloper in the video who is responsible for the camera shakes you’ll see… some of you may remember him from when he visited the factory and was Instafamous. Many thanks to @motleyzoocrew for saving him so he could steal the show…

    A post shared by TOM BIHN (@tombihn) on Feb 3, 2020 at 6:56pm PST

    Drool….

  • Q-Tip needle dropping

    February 4, 2020

  • A Bad Day at the Ballot Box

    February 4, 2020

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