Archive for August, 2006

Vonnegut: Jeremiah

Monday, August 28th, 2006

One of the more lucid bits I came across in my early grappling with the concept of Peak Oil was Kurt Vonnegut’s Cold Turkey. Go read it if you haven’t already, or if you have. I think it’s perfectly spot on. Me and Kurt, we homeys.
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Cleverchimpgate

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Not a scandal, but the yard-cum-business gate of Cleverchimp, by Matt Cartwright:

The hinges are headsets in headtubes; the latch is a crankset, and various Stokemonkey mount prototype parts are welded in.

Just a couple more eons of work on the shop and access to it and we’ll get serious about developing a local business instead of [...]