Sorry livejournal, it ain't 1995 no more.

My weekly schedule goes like this: During the week, I ( Read more... )

One of the founders of RPOZ has a dad named Mick, and ( Read more... )

The invention of the shipping container has changed the world. Previously ships were unloaded by stevedores bit-by-bit: Casks of wine, crates of goods, etc etc. Now a universal container can be loaded onto ship, train, or truck with relative ease. This has resulted in such phenomena as a) Garments in the Garment District of NYC can be made ( Read more... )

Things are pretty uprooted in my life. After almost three years, Pot'n'Rox is dead. Good times and bad times, but memory only retains the good. I lived there longer than anywhere else except my parents'. I packed my stuff into Greg's attic and hit the road, maybe for six months ( Read more... )

I was asked by Steampunk Magazine to write an instructional article on pennyfakething construction. See it here:

Steampunk Magazine

issue #2, page 34

Chicago public radio covered the Guerilla Floatilla, I got a mention. listen to it here. Also, the first segment was an excellent story about the Chicago Flood, you should listen to it too.

Butler Street Foundry

I have tried to share the environmental setting of my own Chicago-based steampunk lifestyle in my posts about the steam workshop of my Employer, Bubbly Dynamics, and the general steampunk setting of Chicago:

http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/bg-forum/index.php?topic=258.0
http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/bg-forum/index.php?topic=961.0
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I've had fifteen bike punks staying at my house all week. They came from as far as Portland starting Friday and have been drinking up a storm. On Wednesday, we went on a ride that ended at one of the large bascule-trunnion bridges that Chicago is so famous for. Well, I say the ride "ended" there- but only because "the broken leg hides in the ( Read more... )

Kasey has been my homeskillet since 3rd grade. We grew up in a college town without much for kids to do except explore the steam tunnels and blow stuff up down in the creek. I lived in Oxford, Ohio for 14 years, age 9-24, high school and college. After college he and I spent an amazing summer getting drunk, grilling out, boating, and chasing ( Read more... )