Technology !

I bought a maker-bot. It is awesome, even though it doesn't work reliably at the moment. More pics here.

Update : I am aggregating resources I've had to read to get the thing working here.

The more things change...

"[T]hus it is, by slow steps of casual increase, that our knowledge physical, metaphysical, physiological, polemical, nautical, mathematical, enigmatical, technical, biographical, romantical, chemical, and obstetrical, with fifty other branches of it, (most of 'em ending as these do, in ical) have for these two centuries and more, gradually been creeping upwards towards that Ἀκμή of their perfections, from which, if we may form a conjecture from the advances of these last seven years, we cannot possibly be far off."

[Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)]

"When that happens, it is to be hoped, it will put an end to all kind of writings whatsoever;—the want of all kind of writing will put an end to all kind of reading;—and that in time, As war begets poverty; poverty peace,—must, in course, put an end to all kind of knowledge,—and then—we shall have all to begin over again; or, in other words, be exactly where we started."

(de)composition

Maybe it a bit tacky for a home decoration, but should be good come halloween.

Mildly ashamed self-promotion

Why has "shameless self-promotion" become such a long-winded mindlessly ironic cliché?  I'm ashamed of my self-promotion, but I'm doing it anyway.  It's like alcoholism, or something.

So I'm not sure what percentage of this blog's readership cares, but I've started a blog all my own.  Its goal is more to be a blog than to impart any sort of information.  Its aesthetic is more fuzzy than shiny.