I saw the cover of the latest issue of wired, and had to pick it up. Turns out there’s a very interesting article on the emergence of synthetic diamonds— that is, diamonds that are grown in a lab, but are physically and chemically indistinguishable from diamonds that are mined. This is not your father’s cubic …
While perusing a site about the Illegal Art exhibition (think a Mickey Mouse gas mask, an alphabet made from corporate logo letters, and a “Corporate Whore” parody of the Starbucks logo), I discovered one of the contributing artists, Threadgill, who creates some incredible artwork… very clean and clever, and reminds me in a way of …
Just posted a gallery of photos [Offline —Ed. 2015-08-22] from our trip to the Packard museum this weekend, as part of our family trip to Ohio.
Well, looks like I’ve got a buyer for the Saturn (our friendly neighborhood Airborne Express-Man). He and his brother (who is, apparently, a Honda mechanic) hame by this afternoon, looked it over, took it for a spin around the parking lot, and said they’d be back for it tomorrow afternoon. And, now that I’ve spent …
1992 Saturn SL2 Blue-green metallic Beige leather interior 4-cyl. 1.9L 5-speed manual Front wheel drive 201,000 miles AC Power steering Power windows Power locks Tilt wheel Cruise control AM/FM stereo ABS Leather appointments (steering wheel, shifter knob) Moon roof Premium alloy wheels. Needs work on Exhaust system (failed emissions) Coolant system (leak, currently stemmed by …
Just another day of cleaning and watching my eBay auctions go down in value because some asshat retracted his bid… Yep.
