[TheForge] Re: Madison

[Mike Spencer]

> Wife said if I had'nt touched it in 5 years , it goes.

Golly, Dan, what a horrifying policy!  In the last year, I've used a
whole bunch of tools (not to mention pieces of weird scrap) that I
haven't touched in 20 years except to move them out of the way. [1]

I'm in the process of making a new steel-reinforced red oak hand rail
for the old house.  Set up band saw that last ran in 1971.  Used
catgut last used in 1978 to lace the belt.  Block planes last used in
-- I forget, early 80s?  Broad axe last used in late 70s. Etc. etc.

On one of my visits to MIT, I attended a seminar at the Media Lab
because my MIT host was a regular participant.  The presenter that
evening said he stuck PostIt(tm) notes to everything in his apartment,
changed the color of the notes he was using every 6 months.  If
something had a PostIt 2 colors out of date, he disposed of it.
Boggle.  

Did you see the piece about the guys at the Stanford Linear
Accelerator using it to read a (previously unknown) math treatise
written by Archimedes (yes, THE Archimedes) 2300 years ago?  It had
been scraped off the parchment and overwritten with a prayer book only
1000 years ago.

Geez, Never Throw Anything Away.  :-)

- Mike

[1] And to move them from the old shop to the new one, of course.

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