Own my very own armour......CHECK! I am in a work trade and I own a chain mail upper body suit...a "hobbert"? I am not having luck with the term online. It is a full sleeveless shirt with hood that comes to roughly me knees. About 1/4 mile of galvanized fencing wire. I am sure pics will happen. Needless to say, I have wanted my own armor ( Read more... )

"Life is the most fun you will ever have."---Tyler C. Dones

So, I have been looking for inspiration in my work....many of you know what I do. Most of you know I ma a media junkie. I read, watch movies, listen to music, ad nosium and in quantities that might kill the average person ( Read more... )

From Jen:

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horace Mann

So. it has been about 4 days since the neighbours fencers decimated my laurel trees, raising the temp in my home by about 10 degrees. Tonight, I couldn't take it anymore, I had to go talk to them ( Read more... )

According to Webster, circa 1962, synthesis is the opposite of analysis. Meaning to synthesize is to assemble the whole, or even the whole it's self. So, in a way, to create. But to analyze.... as the opposite? Does that imply that by looking at it, I am disassembling it from it's whole? Come now my friend Webster, what are ye doin' to this ( Read more... )

In case you have not heard, Les Paul has passed http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE57C3TI20090813

A great man, that one.

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being
can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

-- William James

"Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human ( Read more... )

Of all the crazy things, I just learned that today, In 1999, the FBI unveiled its $640 million digital fingerprint system, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, shortening the time it takes to search fingerprints from several months to a couple of hours ( Read more... )