A Sunday Financial note: the price of Bitcoin dropped to $17,986.50 overnight as the digital tulip wilt continues in the summer heat. Because the stock market is locked in a decline mirroring the 1929 -1933 collapse to a high level, we therefore anticipate a continuing decline before a washout in a week or several. Problem … Read More
There’s not a hell of a lot to yammer about this morning. So let’s! We could talk about real estate changing hands in eastern Ukraine I suppose: Russia-Ukraine war: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk being ‘levelled’, says Luhansk governor, as Russian shelling intensifies. Real estate values seem to be dropping? Or, we could talk about the Israelis … Read More
Play before Work, I always say. (But never actually do.) Where is the Welder Review??? There’s a “dog ate my welder” story in here… Today was scheduled to be a review of that Chineseum knock-off of the Smith Little Torch. That one retails on the Zon for (take a look). While the Chineseum was under $25-bucks – … Read More
[Exceptionally long (for the free side). But go ahead, take some time and relax with it… Holiday, and all.] Today’s coffee klatch of day-traders and tool sluts is now in order! Our usual dose of news, but then back out to our shop as the weekend enters its final hours. (Gimme a chorus of “Damn!) … Read More
Since this is a holiday weekend, and except for go-fast cars and boozing it up a bit, and not much else going on, I thought we could spend today on Tool Slut Education. So, people new to (pissing away ungodly amounts of money on) vintage tools will get to know some of the makers and … Read More
Early futures were still pointing up when I first checked on them about 3:30 AM. Apparently, our “pre-holiday” blow-off is continuing. Although the mania formerly known as crypto mania is missing the boat. BTC was under $29,000 last time I checked. Here’s the latest from the Economics Desk of Rip N. Reed: GDP Important to … Read More
If you have ever tinkered with any kind of serious welding gear, there’s one simple – inescapable fact – that we can’t get around. Stuff’s heavy! You need a cart. Now, not everyone has a poured and polished leveled concrete shop floor in their home. Out here in the woods, my shop is a “redneck … Read More
With no major financial stories to parrot, (Dow futures +236) we find ourselves, once again, stuck in “The Investor’s Dilemma.” Which happens when we have “conflicting inputs” for investment decisions. You see, just as the (bicameral) brain often operates like a deadlocked House vs. Senate, and just as duality appears in poetic as compared with … Read More
Once you know that there is essentially no difference between what the social conventions call “WORK” and what some of us call “PLAY”, then term “workstation” becomes interchangeable with “playstation.” [Sony lawyers notwithstanding, but our use is in the generic sense, not the product anchored wordmark (2 cap letters), and there is plenty of prior art. … Read More
Oh, boy. This morning’s report will be a “two cupper” – and maybe three cups – if you study the ideas, problems and pictures of today a little bit. There is so much going on around here it’s, well, amazing. This writing less and doing more is turning out to be most agreeable. We’ll get to … Read More
A friend of George, II’s was down for a week. You know how that goes, what trying to be the “good host” and all. When in the “useful parent mode” I don’t wake people up until they get up on their own accord. But, let me tell you something, oh my God, can people sleep. … Read More
Our normal Sunday fare is foregone today in honor of the solemnity of the day, and its meaning, worldwide. Easter Confessional: I found a great deal on a Wen 6510T spindle sander on eBay overnight. So, we haven’t lost sight of what really goes on in the shop… It’s a dandy time for us Junior … Read More
Reader note: 7:12 AM. Bit later than usual with our Sunday Epistle. But there have been some strangish things afoot here… Texas Twilight Zone Yessir, fine Saturday in the outback, until we got to the power outage part at about 4:20 PM lasy night. Right in the middle of cocktails (champaign or rum) and the … Read More