Prepared some Cedar and European Walnut for dulcimer building:
We felled a tree at Neumühle and it was exciting!
This big fir was a perfectly nice tree in a completely ridiculous place. Out with the chainsaw!
The tree is replaced by our new firepit, made out of an old cast iron turbine bearing from the mill.
The tree’s legacy lives on in eight log stools made out of the trunk.
Wien.
Today: supported two of my favourite web publications (The Toast and Serious Eats) and cleaned a lot of chimneys, with predictable results:
Spent this morning doing maintenance work on this very old hurdy gurdy with a very interesting history, which I shall be writing more about soon:
Spotted this nice lichen-covered stone hiking near Meðalfellsvatn this weekend:
😂 HA HA HA HA HA no. Absolutely not, Duolingo:
Jeb: “It was you, Certrix, wasn’t it. You painted my visor. Again.”
Certrix: “hahahaha”
Gildon: “hahahaha”
Suspiciously tidy newstatesman.com page footer — how many of these staff were hired to make the columns line up?
#KSP scientific instrument malfunction gives insight into Kerbin’s internal structure; continents rest on dense mushroom soup layer; nature of lower levels still unclear:
I’m not sure any of my bowls are profound enough for this soup recipe:
Send a one-line drawing to the moon! I drew a hurdy gurdy: http://www.moondrawings.org/drawing/ubuafrct surprisingly difficult with only one line of finite length.
Graph showing anticipated success of silly plans in DnD:
Added the dove and Ecuadorian fragrant wood to my Wood Is Good shrine back home in Iceland:
(The lego figures are of a scientist and pizza delivery person, representing wood science and delicious wood-fired pizza ovens, respectively)
This is the view from our hotel in Istanbul. Apparently it’s also the site for the 2016 world satellite dish counting championships.
Valley near the Midas Monument, Central Anatolia, Turkey
Getting ready to leave Eskişehir @ Rixos Hotel. Thanks to everyone at ICWS and to all the wonderful people I met in Eskişehir for making this part of the trip such a great experience! Next stop: Istanbul.
Planet Külliye:
Some exposed cob+timber frame construction in Odunpazari, Eskişehir:
My geeky system datetime format: longnow variant ISO8601 dates with ordinal day of year:
Protip: leave out the longnow preceding 0 in the short/medium formats as otherwise the created/modified datetimes in the Finder column view will be truncated to just the date by default.