Desk Update

My half-made secretary desk project was occupying space I needed for other urgent projects, so I hurried things along and glued up the lower carcass and drawer dividers. I still need to build drawers below and a bookcase above, but I have been successfully using this as my daily driver for the past few weeks,…

Morning Bike Ride

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Resuming the Secretary Desk Project

About 9 or 10 years ago, I read The Anarchist’s Tool Chest, and built a miniature version of one. not long thereafter, I read Campaign Furniture and became very excited about the idea of building a campaign secretary desk. Look how cool that is! It comes apart into two pieces, there’s a lid to hide…

Reblog via AgrarianAnarchist I heard of this book from an episode of the Upstream Podcast (www.upstreampodcast.org/). I’m not very far...

Reblog via AgrarianAnarchist I heard of this book from an episode of the Upstream Podcast (www.upstreampodcast.org/). I’m not very far into it yet, but it is fascinating. Lots of discussion so far about the extent of racism and organized crime in the early Jazz scene. (comment on Jazz and Justice)

I’m fat and technology is dumb

Lately, I’ve been debating different methods to log and track various things. Keeping a log of bike rides and food and whatnot is kind of nice. I use Strava and MyFitnessPal, Garmin Connect, FitBod, etc. All of these things are nice, but the integration between them is terrible. I briefly flirted with FitTrackee, which I…

Reblog via AdamPlaysTrombone I scored some old books on Ebay. Just look at these endpapers! Why is new stuff cheap and shitty, but old stuff...

Reblog via AdamPlaysTrombone I scored some old books on Ebay. Just look at these endpapers! Why is new stuff cheap and shitty, but old stuff is beautiful? #books #oldbooks #everyman #everymanslibrary

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I am experimenting with integrating my various federated social media crap to my blog. Things may look strange for a while.

Reblog via AdamPlaysTrombone Any of you weirdos using #bookwyrm ? I set up a profile because federation is cool. Also because Amazon owns...

Reblog via AdamPlaysTrombone Any of you weirdos using #bookwyrm ? I set up a profile because federation is cool. Also because Amazon owns Goodreads and Amazon is the devil. Anyhow hmu if you read books and stuff. agrariananarchist@bookrastinating.com

Blues Improv in F

I record some of my practice sessions because it’s really hard to critique my own playing while I’m playing. In this clip, I’m trying to use the F minor pentatonic scale to spontaneously compose a melody. In the second chorus, I am trying to adapt the head to “Eastern Standard Time” by Don Drummond before…

Comment on Hello Blog People by Doug Robertson

Thanks for the reminder. I should do my annual blog post.

Comment on Remember Blogs? by David Crowell

In reply to <a href="https://blasphemous.bike/2018/07/18/remember-blogs/#comment-203200">Adam</a>. I've said the same thing many times.

Comment on Remember Blogs? by Adam

In reply to <a href="https://blasphemous.bike/2018/07/18/remember-blogs/#comment-203190">Jessi</a>. Me too. I'm going to make an effort to start writing in mine again. This time I mean it.

Comment on Remember Blogs? by Jessi

I do miss them.

Comment on Wheee!!! by Doug

Now there's some fun!!!

Comment on N=N+1 by doc

Whoa! You were serious. Awesome!

Comment on Update From the Garage by Adam

No, It's going to be a tool box for my planes and chisels and stuff like that.

Comment on Update From the Garage by Amaroussi

Is it a bird box? Because spring comes earlier than I usually remember... I'm not sure.

Comment on Dovetails by Adam

In reply to <a href="https://blasphemous.bike/2014/12/28/dovetails/#comment-79795">doc</a>. The Dewalts are there to keep the board from falling on the floor every time I reposition it in the workmate. I'm sure there's a better way, but I really have no idea what I'm doing :-)