It’s the only way to be sure

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Mucking About With Things
Recently, I bought a sound-playing children’s book and another with grating-based animations and dissected both of them to see precisely how they worked and what materials had been used.

Fiddling with the packs of velcro-backed felt letters I picked up yesterday

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Spitting Images

Japanese cat litter packaging. Totally not bizarre-looking.

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Tygers, Tygers!

Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero

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All My Friends Are Insects
Little Fly Thy summer’s play, My thoughtless hand Has brush’d away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing; Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath; And the want Of thought is […]

If only we could all, like the cicada, draw our sustenance from the dew

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All My Friends Are Insects

First-ever soldering experience! Why did I wait so long?

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Mucking About With Things Personal Firsts Sodding soldering

The ship is always off course.

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Sassafras! Horsefeathers! Fiddlesticks!
I swiped the title of this post from a longer quote: The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about. Michael Meade It gives a bit of the flavor of what I think is a useful approach […]

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Sassafras! Horsefeathers! Fiddlesticks!
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