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is it cold in here or is it just me..., 2008-08-18 23:15:07 | Main | coulda woulda shoulda..., 2008-08-20 21:23:16 my imagination is turning into my father: The more I delve into the intertubes' enormous DIY community, the more I feel like I'm living in the world described in Player Piano, and understand the bare necessity of owning a garage and a woodshop, nevermind a kiln and a specialmatic. Bumbling suburban apes the world over are building absurd, rudementary contraptions that just barely work, and like any other monkey I can't help but want to imitate them. update: I haven't found a DIY plan for a specialmatic, on the one hand, but here's a how-to for building your very own numerical control machining tool. :: posted by buermann @ 2008-08-19 00:44:46 CST | link Comments: If I could write, I would write a book called The Fatuous Faust. Its protagonist would be a happy-go-lucky, techno-utopian warrior manager who loved his workers, and gadgets, but loved artificial scarcity and stupid corporate infantilization tricks much more. His workers keep making gadgets that would save them all, but he rises to each occasion, in spite of his happy-go-lucky ways, and turns them into means for further undermining the basis of production. He eventually becomes dimly aware that something is going horribly wrong. So he sues the workers for using company intellectual property in their DIY shops. posted by Zomg @ 2008-08-19 05:49:09 | link Ha ha. Next you'll be moving to the 'burbs. Come and fix my blender, while you're at it. posted by leahaz @ 2008-08-19 07:47:13 | link Can't help with the blender. In the settlement agreement I signed, after the being sued, I promised never to fix anything ever again. Ironically, my eagerness to sign got me promoted to middle management, in the cheese-moving division, where I bundle the anticipated yields from lawsuits into bonds, the sale of which has returned the company to profitability. We don't actually make anything more, I'm sorry to say, but my star is rising and my ARM doesn't reset for another year. I could sell you a subordinated blender repair voucher... posted by Zomg @ 2008-08-19 08:16:02 | link Thank God we live in an apartment. Even you have to admit there's no room for a saw mill in an apartment. posted by Hecate21 @ 2008-08-19 12:27:36 | link I've been thinking about how I could run it down the back porch as a gravity mill, actually. posted by buermann @ 2008-08-19 12:29:23 | link Yea I envy such things, until I remember that I live in an apartment and can't afford otherwise. Why hello reality, nice to see you. posted by js @ 2008-08-21 10:13:15 | link go ahead, express that vague notion Name: Email: Homepage: Comment your turing test: