I’ve been following Max Action’s stuff since back when it used to get updated regularly.
I wish I were crazy enough to do this sort of thing, too, but I doubt Burlington has either the layout or the size necessary for much of the awe-inspiring.
Flickr Photo Download: Chabad Lubavitch’s “Mitzvah Tank”
Sara sent this and I felt it was relevant to Nick’s Interests, cf. Hebrew Hammer. Sara provides a link as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzvah_tank
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Here, Nick, more things you can do with a hook a/o needle.
Of course, this guy has actually fulfilled concentration requirements (you can take the boy out of Brown, but you can’t…well, never mind) so it’s not a perfect fit.
Land of the Free – New York Times
Nick, Sara found this and wanted some opinions. I figured I’d put it to FTM to ask for yours. In theory our (Sara’s and my) high school was a Dewian progressive one, but today the history of the naturalistic curriculum is sort of taken as a joke covering up for the school’s poor funding. The 1920s mantra “Where students learn in the open air” carries whiffs of “We’re too cash poor to afford walls”. We both wrote our senior theses about the growing push towards modernizing the school’s curriculum in that academic freedom means being able to choose Organic Chemistry or Microbiology to study; the educational goal has changed from “educate yourself” to “get your child into college.”
It’s been a while since my Dewey and I’m sure I’d need to take a class to really apprecate it, but what would a Dewey have to say about this Brookyln Free School (in its own philosophy, and not, as the article makes out on the first page, in opposition to standardized testing).
Zucchini cakes are awesome – Slashfood
Por Nick and Tall, inspired by your handful of latke making sessions. I’m not complaining about the potatoes, but you could expand your repertoire to all sorts of shredded, egged, fried things. For some strange reason I hate the way eggs smell when they’re cooking. I recently learned how to temper eggs (or rather, I did it for the first time recently—its not as difficult as the mac and cheese blog push meme would have you believe). I’m not entirely sure how that’s related.
This feels familiar somehow.
MAKE: Blog: Fable Handknit – Interview with Designer Andrea Tung
Nick. pattern links. Haven’t looked closely, but have you worked with this kind of yarn? Incidentally, what’s a pirate’s favorite kind of story?
Boing Boing: Collaborative project: Crochet an entire coral reef
Nick, you asked what crochet was good for and I answered “Lace”. I was apparently mistaken.