Notices by Rusty Swarf (rustyswarf@refactorcamp.org)

@nindokag I'd consider boring out the center before it dries. A round of wood will split while drying, leaving a cross section that looks like a 98% full pie chart. That split will be a problem for you.

If you intend to make a cylindrical drum roughly the diameter of the original piece, cut out the center leaving a ~4" thick ring on the outside.

The wood may be more forgiving to shape while it is still wet.

Just watched a squirrel bury a walnut. He really took his time covering it back up with dirt, tamping it down, and arranging the grass so it was invisible afterwards.

Are there any published Amish tech journalists?

The only MTV cribs episode I really want to see is Werner Herzog.

Going through old Bruce Sterling talks, found this:

"The easiest way to predict the future is to predict the present — just tell people stuff they should know already. Stuff you know to be actually true — for them that’s the future. If they haven’t heard about it yet it doesn’t matter that it’s objectively factual — that it’s happening somewhere. As long as they heard it from you and they never heard it from anybody else you have in fact told them the future."

@riga Check out Mushi-Shi. Very slow and contemplative.

@Elmkast It sounds like you would really enjoy "The Timeless Way of Building." One of his fundamental points is that great architecture evolves in societies where people build and design their own living spaces. Cultural iteration over lone genius.

@riga Mohawk Ironworkers

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/j6075/edit/Mitchell.html

Young sciences are so much more fun. Trying to identify a mushroom, I come across this:

"At the time of this writing (April, 2015) the genus "Polyporus" is headed for major changes; DNA studies (for example Sotome et al., 2008) have made it clear that the genus we thought we had a handle on is actually fairly incoherent, requiring a number of taxonomic changes."

@nindokag Well, in the sense that we're letting our infrastructure decay we're shutting down highways in the most eco-friendly way possible: by doing nothing!

@Elmkast Pro: Good source of motivation.

Con: Potential for dangerous self-delusion.

@Elmkast No AC here either, I just rigged up an irrigation hose across my roof peak to cool it down today. Now I'm looking forward to some hot days so I can test out the system.

@machado I'd love to hear the thought process behind this.

Are there poisonous snakes native to Europe?

@alper It sounds like the book failed to identify real software design patterns that are in use. I'm not a computer person, but I would imagine these are things like library, table, menu, archive, etc.

I'm just getting around to reading Christopher Alexander for the first time, so this kind of thing has been on my mind.

@Elmkast In almost any bike crash, car-related or not, there's no time to honk.

I think the safest thing to do is really learn to anticipate what directions blind traffic will come from. This source is really good: https://bicyclesafe.com

@alper Why? Is carbon a particularly characteristic German material for bikes?

@nindokag Hehe, I got a funny vision of youtube stars as renaissance courtiers.

Velvet curtains close on a vlogger in a grand castle hall. A voice booms

"The Algorithm is displeased with you!"

Just learned that Archilllect is a bot. I'd assumed it was just a prolific hipster. Spooky.