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Monthly Archives: October 2013

He’s back …

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Orson Scott Card, right. Source: Wikipedia If you’re at all familiar with science fiction and with movies, then you know that Orson Scott Card is a controversial writer of science fiction who won both the Nebula and Hugo awards in 1985 for Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game has finally been made into a movie, and it […]

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Did you change your bookmarks?

Saturday, October 12, 2013

This blog has been copied — lock, stock and barrel — from crippledcollie.com, where the blog was started in 2007. This will be the blog’s new home, though I’ll update both domains in parallel (probably for months) to give everyone time to move here. Eventually, crippledcollie.com will be retired, and all the new material will […]

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Portable sawmill

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Click on images for high-resolution version A neighbor hired a portable sawmill operator to come in and saw up his hyper-local poplar and oak. He’ll use the lumber to build a new shed. Note the steam-punk control panels.

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