Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Radical Software #2

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  Seems like a hippie new media project. At the time, the term radical software referred to the content of information rather than to a comp...

Tatra V8

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  A rather unique Czech car built from 1936 to 1950, with a break for WW2.  The rear mounted 3 litre air-cooled V8 could push the car to nea...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

1986 Suzuki Samurai

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 We need something like this again. 
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Manufacturing processes, metal stamping

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Volkswagen hoods  
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Renovation solutions

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 Here's a hard one. A heritage house comes up for sale and you want it. Price is right but it's rough, nothing is near code... 2nd f...
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Sidecar Sunday

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No, that's not a Zeppelin.  When gasoline got scarce during both world wars, there was a lot of development on wood and coal gas as fuel...
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Saturday, March 28, 2026

Armstrong fork, 1955

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This fork was presented as an alternative to telescopic or Earles forks as manufacturers moved away from girders. Honda stepthroughs used a ...
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Cast iron bench

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Nice lines on this cast iron bench. It looks vintage, or at least old enough for the wood to rot. No name cast in that I could see so maybe ...
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Friday, March 27, 2026

We used to make things in this country, #378 Eskiloos boots

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Eskiloos were a specialized fashionable line of waterproof, fleece-lined boots produced by Uniroyal (often under the "Dominion Rubber...
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How to make a lathe

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 We were talking about the proliferation of lathe manufacturers at the turn of the last century, this Lindsay books reprint of a 1920 South ...
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