It is better to support your body with little means than to support your spirit with little worth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?pagewanted=all
The worth of a job cannot be measured by degrees
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Author Archives: chicken man
Reality Video Games
Wait, isn’t that a game called “The Sims”?
Emergency Carbon Knife
An explanation of the principle of making a knife from a cigarette. The demonstration does not go so well but there were some distractions that probably didn’t help.
This is not a hunting knife, but if you just need a little extra edge it can come in handy.
Dolphin stampede
I never heard of such a thing. Nevertheless I like it.
H/T Hip And Thigh.
Changes in management
When I wrote here more frequently, one of my inspirations was watching the interaction between management and workers. My first work for hire was alongside workers, and the cultural background of my family would have a blue collar if it wore collared shirts at all. But I have always favored ideas that look neat on Click Here to continue reading.
Always wanted to know
Someday I want to learn all about lock-picking. I think it would be terribly fun.
Actually, I will try to be sure never to learn more about lock-picking because I am not sure I could stop from picking locks once I knew how. Just for fun.
H/T Hip And Thigh.
Get over it
Evidence suggests that grief counseling may not be helpful. What a shock. Better talk this over with my therapist.
Sell me my own hat, will you?
I had pulled up a sales order for one reason or another when I notice on the order header:
Sold To: Friendly Neighborhood Distributor
Ship To: Recently Acquired Subsidiary of Acme
When I say “recently,” I do not mean last week. I mean a major acquisition that was announced, reviewed, and has been in place for at least Click Here to continue reading.
How much is a trillion?
There are numerous people on the internet trying to help us understand the magnitude of the money that’s been talked about these days. I found this illustration helpful. It helped me visualize the order of magnitude shift between billion and trillion.
Taking stock of the situation
Acme Tool Co. is not especially vulnerable to the current economic climate, supported as we are by a repair industry, and repair being a fact in a cynic’s life and not just a realtor’s dream of an ever-exploding house value. But the collapse of unbounded optimism is sucking quite a lot down the drain with Click Here to continue reading.