http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%20message%20to%2012,000%20a_d.htm
Box Number 3
A few years back, I became a little obsessed with woodworking. This is a perennial obsession, thwarted for years after my first visit to a Woodcraft store full of massive machines costing many hundreds of dollars.
Then I discovered the PBS program, The Woodwright’s Shop, specifically the episode where one Christopher Schwarz climbs out of his Anarchist’s Tool Chest and speaks the words I needed to hear. The tool chest (I’m paraphrasing) is just big enough to hold the right tools for the woodworker, and nothing more.
A table saw doesn’t fit.
The Internet led me to Schwarz’s printing company and blog, Lost Art Press, and this led me to his book The Anarchist’s Chest, and the whole world of hand tool woodworking. This world can be a bit overwhelming, too, and hand tools can also be very expensive. But you can start with some basics and build your tool collection as projects dictate. I started with two Craftsman panel saws, a Stanley miter box and backsaw, a block plane, and some clamps. My most expensive tool is a Veritas dovetail saw I’ve yet to use.
After a first failed project (a TV cabinet that was too ambitious), I’m starting again. Starting small.
Age and Progress
My son is reading beside me and he just turned to me and said, “What’s a Twinkie?”
That is what progress sounds like.
Emma Ruth Rundle has become one of my favorite discoveries since taking the plunge on Apple Music.
She plays a moody guitar and her vocals are full of emotion. Give her a listen.
Office
Perspective
Saturday Night Live’s Beck Bennet
Shirtless Vladimir Putin is the role Beck Bennett was born to play.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/beck-bennett-15166/impersonation/vladimir-putin-285102
Planetary
Yesterday the young man was sick, so, when we were both sick of being inside on an early spring-like day, we made a quick visit to Capital Comics for some new books.
S bought the first volume of the Avatar series. I, feeling bold, took the plunge on Warren Ellis’s Planetary omnibus.
It’s a beautiful book, with a design and heft that befit its modern classic status.
Tickled
Watch this: “Tickled”