Archive for December, 2009
Notable Neckbeard: Robert Browning
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Linux Filesystem Tour
Posted on December 30, 2009 - Filed Under Article, Link, Linux | Leave a Comment
NERD ALERT!!!
This link will lead you to the best description of the linux filesystem that I have come across. Honestly, its not too heady, and if you are not entirely comfortable with computer science, this is a pretty great insight into where all the 0’s and 1’s are stored that allow you to look at [...]
YOU, America, are the Military-Industrial Complex
Posted on December 30, 2009 - Filed Under Article | Leave a Comment
Here’s a cool article, from the Economist, that talks about thet movement of technology between the American people. It used to be that we got a great deal of our stuff from technology based in the military. Consider the Hummer. Short aside, the single reason that the Hummer is relevant today is because Arnold Schwarzneggar [...]
Eat Taco Bell: Lose weight
Posted on December 30, 2009 - Filed Under Link | Leave a Comment
Some woman just lost 45 pounds by eating Taco Bell. Basically she replaced her fast food with items from the “fresca” menu and lost a lot of weight, in a year. I don’t really eat much fast food, but I could definitely get down with the Taco Bell diet. Here’s the link, decide for yourself:
Dieticians [...]
Suck it Hippies
Posted on December 30, 2009 - Filed Under Article | 2 Comments
The NYT is reporting that some hippy in New England got anthrax while she was in a drumming circle. The drumming lead directly to the ingestion, as traces were found on the drums, and were probably only consumed because they were put in the air by the drumming.
This is not the first time that hippy [...]
Notable Neckbeards: Albert – Prince Consort
Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Cool Picture | Leave a Comment
How I spent my Christmas Vacation
Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Article | Leave a Comment
Hello all! A few weeks ago at Eastern Market, I picked up in old disassembled, brass lock (missing only 1 screw) for $1. I took it apart (the insides of locks are awesome) and put it back together again. Great work. The next step was to mount it on something, for practice. So I just [...]
Backyard foundry update
Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Metalsmithing | Leave a Comment
In my christmas vaykay, one of the things I was hoping to get done was some casting with my ghetto backyard foundry. But things went wrong, horribly horribly wrong. Not really, but some pretty simple stuff went bad.
The major problem was that I changed up the air source for the foundry. Until recently, I had [...]
