The innocence will never last

When I was in my teens I used Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, by Led Zeppelin as my alarm, over 15 years later and I can’t help but feel like I’m being yanked out of dead sleep every time I hear it.

Nope, not even once. I find the idea of circumcision really bizarre.

Have you informed the elders of the internet about this?

I use Technitium, for that purpose. You can set up DNS records easily and it still has blocking like pi-hole. You can log DNS requests if you need to track down where certain requests are coming from or which devices are making lots of requests. It has quite a few features but I only need a couple.

Hmm, let’s work shop this. Slice out the island bit and let’s make that into its own move.

• Get rid of the cannibals, let’s make the island deserted, there’s no one left for the unlimited chess games, so let’s have him just go a bit nuts for a few years.
• Exchange the baboon with a volleyball.
• Let’s get Tom Hanks back.

Oh wait…

I love this time of year for the wattle flowers.

I bought the biggest column mill I could afford, a HM-48B and bench top lathe that had the features I wanted, an AL-320G. Given I intend to mainly make model steam engines they should be more than enough. What sort of things do machine?

I only took up manual machining this year, there are a few of us young ones, but not heaps.

My work requires edge 🤮

In New South Wales Australia, back in the commercial whaling days, a pod of Orca used to help the whalers round up the big whale species the whalers were after so they could be easily harpooned, once they had the whale back to land and cut up they would gift the tongue to the Orcas as payment.

I’m a big fan of manual machining over CNC.

Nah, power off the oligarchs too

Slater.