Shop Class as Soulcraft

Anyone in the market for a good used machine tool should talk to Noel Dempsey, a dealer in Richmond, Virginia. Noel’s bustling warehouse is full of metal lathes, milling machines, and table saws, and it turns out that most of it is from schools. EBay is awash in such equipment, also from schools. It appears shop class is becoming a thing of the past, as educators prepare students to become “knowledge workers.”

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What can we learn from the secret habits of genius? | Aeon Essays

Yes, I know you needed to see the latest from the Capitol storming, the impeachment hearings, the Republican backlash, and then you’ll need to know how it’s all going down with the new administration in the first 100 days, and then perhaps you’ll want to check in on the stalled Covid-19 vaccination effort. And then poof, before you know it, midterm elections will be ramping up and you’ll need to scroll and scroll and scroll.

What can we learn from the secret habits of genius? | Aeon Essays

12 Ways to Use Your Phone Less | Forge

Yes, I know you needed to see the latest from the Capitol storming, the impeachment hearings, the Republican backlash, and then you’ll need to know how it’s all going down with the new administration in the first 100 days, and then perhaps you’ll want to check in on the stalled Covid-19 vaccination effort. And then poof, before you know it, midterm elections will be ramping up and you’ll need to scroll and scroll and scroll. 

12 Ways to Use Your Phone Less | Forge

Are You on ‘Clock Time’ or ‘Event Time?’ | by David Kadavy | Forge

Before moving to Colombia, I spent my first winter here. Once I arrived, I quickly found just how different the pace of life is compared to Chicago. People talk slower, walk slower. The U.S. custom of standing on the right side of the escalator so people can pass you on the left? Yeah, that’s not really a thing. People stand wherever they like. It’s rare to see someone in such a hurry that they’d want to climb an escalator that’s already moving, anyway.

Are You on ‘Clock Time’ or ‘Event Time?’ | by David Kadavy | Forge

At the lake at dusk looking for treasures

A couple testing a metal detector pause for a photo at the end of their search at Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for Nov. 19, 2013.

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How an Exploding Meteor Turned a Great Shot Into a Once-in-a-Lifetime Photograph

I’ve been shooting photos for 20 years. I’ve made my living in the profession for the last 15. I can count on one hand the number of times that everything lined up perfectly and a truly rare image was created.

Now, I don’t want to toot my own horn about this shot, but the fact that, during a 30 second exposure, after a 10 second timer (during which I hopped down from the roof of my truck where the camera was on a tripod, and joined the scene by the fire), a meteor (or so they tell us) would enter the sky EXACTLY in the corner of the frame and explode in the very part of the frame that needed balance, just as I had finally worked out the correct exposure and lighting to match the foreground with the night sky, is beyond rare. It’s a non-chance. There is no way to plan for something like this. No way to even hope for it. Source: How an Exploding Meteor Turned a Great Shot Into a Once-in-a-Lifetime PPublish Posthotograph

News agencies secure 50,000 Euro payout over image theft in bid to tame 'Wild West' of online copyright theft | Press Gazette

A group of news agencies has settled out-of-court with a Croatian website for more than 50,000 Euros after it lifted their pictures and re-used them online without credit.

The ten independent agencies, all members of the National Association of Press Agencies (NAPA), sued www.tportal.hr after finding photographs had been lifted directly, mostly from Mail Online, with no attempt having been made to obtain a licence or pay for usage.

The usage was spotted by a NAPA member news agency which invoiced and sent numerous reminders for the usage but was constantly ignored. Source: News agencies secure 50,000 Euro payout over image theft in bid to tame 'Wild West' of online copyright theft | Press Gazette