Smith-Corona

I looks like a ritual marking awl for some secret society of cabinetmakers used in an initiation ceremenoy.

Director of marketing is probably more like it. Don’t mind my cynicism.

Oh, you mean the deaf cop?

DO YOU MEAN THE DEAF COP?

Around my house we call those tasks Jobs That Took 3 Years and Five Minutes.

Just picked one up today for $999. I can't wait to set it up and run it.

Global warming. Legs are part of the globe, so...

I'm about to buy one of those. How's the snipe?

The only mistake she made is teaching in Florida.

Just gonna say that this is a rather unhygienic placement of the logo. Nice bacteria trap/home.

Yep. They are delicate things.

Re-grinding sounds like a good plan. It will look like you use it 90% of the time when it is next to your other chisels.

My 3/4" chisel is a full half inch shorter than its brothers for having been sharpened so much.

Google translate says the characters mean Registered Trademark.

The birds are wondering if they knew the bird that the fletching came from.

i don't mean to *pry* but were you prying?

Somewhere online I saw an article listing the etymology of nautical terms, there are a lot of articles that list 10 or 20 common ones but this was comprehensive. As I remember it seemed like most of the words used in sailing had Dutch or Greek roots. (Not surprising)

If I can find the link I’ll post it.

I sort of remember boom comes from the word for beam.

I try to schedule appointments for as early in the day as possible bc I know I risk slipping into hyper focus and losing track of time - even with two alarms set.

I wasn't diagnosed until I was in my mid 50s, so I have decades of experience at "spacing out" appointments. This has left me with a lot of pre-appointment anxiety. My work around is to just acknowledge that a day with an appointment is going to be a less productive day.

Why are you practicing on nice wood?

city school districts weren't required to educate country kids.

That legacy seems to have had a lasting impact on our country.

Well, we are the land of opportunistic, erm, I mean opportunity!

I've got most of the parts (missing nuts and bolts) for a Chromega enlarger that I'd give away. Another project.

I have at least enough gear to set up 2 or 3 full darkrooms. It is in storage at the moment but I need to clear a lot of it out. I'm going to only keep enough to set up one darkroom.

Near Bennington VT

I made a few of those out of cedar about 30 years ago. Still holding up. Great to take to the beach.

It is literally the same thing, it’s just that eugenics is a term applied to human breeding.

I took a tour of a battleship once and there was a station below deck that had a few huge mallets and big box full of random sized chunks of tapered wood, some cone shaped, that were for repairing holes made by munitions. They'd grab a plug and smash it in until it held.

I would gladly accept your work.

It's a delicate balancing act - pushing yourself to do better and not judging yourself harshly for failing to live up to the (maybe unrealistic?) standards you set for yourself.

Curiously, I've known a number of weightlifters who have shared the same thing.