The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.
Karl Marlantes – What It Is Like To Go To War – p 119.
Not very far from:
– “There are no ‘mitigating circumstances’ when it comes to rebellion against a liege lord.” [Yoshi Toranaga]
– “Unless you win.” [John Blackthorne]
James Clavell – Shogun – p 199.
If you wait until you’re fully prepared to do something, you’ll never do it because you’ll never be fully prepared.
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Very few machine tool and precision tool manufacturers started out in the business of machine tools or precision tools.
- Starrett realized the need for a better square while building his vegetable hashers.
- Pratt and Whitney started as a job-shop in a rented room.
- Bridgeport started with a hedge clipper which failed to sell due to the Great Depression.
- Brown and Sharpe began after David Brown failed to make a go of repairing clocks.
[x]
John Paulding, machine shop owner from Southern Illinois
It is 10 times more secure to use « this is fun » as your password, than « J4fS<2«
[@baekdal]
See also « Crypto Haiku« , at The Secret Life of Passwords – NYTimes.com
Thanks Kottke
Scott Rumschlag is a builder. Who earned two engineering degrees from UM, a BSE & MEng in Civil Engineering, before discovering his aversion to office work, and switching to carpentry. One of those US « remodeling, repair and home improvement contractor » (his words), who can do (nearly) anything out of wood.
While running a 2-men job specialized in bath and kitchen remodeling, he designed and build (over several years of trial & error) an amazing rotating expandable table. Check the Backstory.
Reminds of Matthias Wandel.
[profiled on Hackaday]
The Economist : Computerised espionage: The spy who hacked me
More about RegIn
[via Bruce Sterling, who introduced me to SmartPipe]
Sizing chart, courtesy Running Warehouse
Based on shoefitr, available at Univers Running
…le temps consacré à la construction proprement dite est toujours une fraction du temps travaillé. [U]un jour il faudra l’écrire en rouge et en travers, surligné sur la page de couverture de tous les ouvrages d’auto-construction…