[TheForge] Re: Madison

[Dan Tull]

I didn't say I honored her wishes.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Madison


> 
>> 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 something had a PostIt 2 colors out of date, he disposed of it.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.  :-)
> 
>