Patrick Stokes

“You get those camels I asked for?”
“Sure did, boss,

Fourth bowl, plus first bowl for comparison. Same timber (camphor laurel). Still some problems (small tenon -> flew off the lathe = dings and chuck marks) but it feels good to actually make progress! #woodturning

Jess watches this religiously and is sad that Sister Monica Joan nears death, and I was all “she’s canonically had dementia since the 1950s, how is she still alive at this point?” anyway that didn’t go down well

How your email finds me.

#woodturning

Yeah Waters is a jerk but damn if the man doesn’t have a turn of phrase

It’s a perfect distillation of what Gilmour does best: solos that are deeply expressive without being needlessly flashy

That’s commitment! (I saw Waters play The Wall in Melbourne in 2012, which was great, but would have preferred to see Gilmour live which I never have)

Oh wow!!

Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones) End Solo YouTube video by Negative_plane

I further put it to you that the outro solo on “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” is drastically underrated and is right up there.

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Live at Knebworth 1990) YouTube video by Pink Floyd

Happy 80th birthday to the man who wrote the greatest guitar solo ever, then thoughtfully threw in another (excellent) solo after the first chorus just so you’ll be warmed up and won’t injure yourself on the second one.

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO MAKE A KRISTI NOEM JOKE STAY IN LINE.

I will sit in this man's car saying gross things every morning, and I will do it for substantially less than $10 million per annum over ten years.

K.E. Løgstrup on the experience of war and occupation: life depends on default trust in the people around us. We assume people mean us no harm unless they show otherwise; without that background trust we can't live well, and that's precisely what war and occupation destroy.

On an unrelated note:

[to the tune of 'My Wave' by Soundgarden] Markwayne

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

The boners are like the least annoying thing about that genre of video

Oh so in australian radio you can be racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist, record your employees pissing and use a lie detector to publicly expose and humiliate a child for being a victim of sexual assault, but they will draw the line at directing any of that energy at your cohost

Ah ok! Those three are more spread out: Nixon was about 5 years older than Kennedy, Reagan two years older again.

I was thinking of quite a different 'it'...

If 'it' is just 'didn't complete his term', then it didn't happen with Reagan. (The thing that did happen to Reagan also happened to Teddy Roosevelt, who not only finished his term, he finished the speech he was giving at the time it happened...)

When we talk about the end of the 'rules based order' we also need to consider that Hegseth, more than anyone, embodies a repudiation of a key norm of that era: killing is inherently bad and you must do as little of it as you can. That's a bigger worry than whether the UN or WTO still matters etc.

*three of five. I forgot Joe Biden ever happened. Mind you, so did Joe Biden HA-CHA-CHA-CHA

(The odd thing is if you say 'name the four Baby Boomer presidents without looking it up' I can all but guarantee people will wrongly think the non-boomer is Obama rather than Biden)

*three of five, not four

Ah yeah shit Biden

These weren't all "Honey I'm home from war" Baby Boomer conceptions: Clinton was (his father came back from war, and died 3 months before Clinton was born), but Fred Trump was a civilian, while Bush Sr flew combat missions but was living with Barbara while training in Maine when the war ended.

They're literally in the first generation of baby boomers: assuming he was carried to full term, Trump was conceived within a week of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.

It's an extremely weird thing, the implications of which are not commented upon often enough, that three of the four men who have/will* rule the US in the 36 years between January 1993 and January 2029 were born within 66 days of each other.

*unless, etc.

You're not going to like the answer. :)

spent this evening re-organising screw storage from the previous "by gauge" method to a radical new "by frequency of use" method. 3x12mm screws now share an organiser tray with 4x30s, 5x40s, and 4.5x85s, madness

form an orderly queue, ladies