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Beginning woodworking

woodgears.ca

A question I’m sometimes asked is how to get into woodworking, what tools I would recommend, where to start.

I can’t really make good recommendations as to what specific brands of tools are better than others. Most of my tools were opportunistic purchases, with little regard to specific brands. More often than not, it’s price and a quick inspection to gauge the solidity of the tool that are the determining factors. My tools are usually not among the best that can be had, but good enough.

This is pretty much my approach as well. I’ve amassed a pretty complete workshop of used, free, cast-off, or otherwise affordable tools that work well.

It's not yet official, but this is the world's smallest arcade machine. Guess what game it plays?

cbc.ca

If successful, this would be Korhonen’s second world record. When she was in high school, she and her classmates set one for longest selfie stick, a record previously held by actor Ben Stiller.

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Korhonen also wants to take her electromechanical skills into her family’s escape room business as a prop builder, attract the attention of the Disney Imagineering team, and may even make a side hobby out of selling her tiny arcade machines.

There are a lot of surprising sentences in this article.

The Political Legacy of Jerry Garcia

nytimes.com

“There’s a lot of us,” Mr. Garcia said, “moviemakers, musicians, painters, craftsmen of every sort, people doing all kinds of things. That’s what we do. That’s the way we live our lives.”

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The government’s power, he insisted, was “illusory,” a myth that took real form only because people accepted it. “The government,” Mr. Garcia said, “is not in a position of power in this country.”

What Andy Kim’s Senate Victory Means to a Hub of Korean American Life

nytimes.com

“Speaking up or speaking out wasn’t really viewed favorably,” said Ms. Choi, 40, who spent her early years in Highland Park, N.J., but lived in Korea as a young adult. “What was actually valued was doing the work.”

Few images better embody that sense of unheralded service than a photo of Mr. Kim on his knees picking up trash in the Capitol hours after rioters had rampaged through its halls on Jan. 6.

The photo became so iconic that the Smithsonian National Museum of American History asked Mr. Kim to donate the suit he was wearing that day to its collection.