i disagreed with my boss today. and i argued with him because i knew i was right and he had severely mismanaged a situation. i have been wondering all day if maybe i was out of line. then i realized that most men probably don’t care. so why should i?
Check out this awesome 1/12th scale replica of an 18th century tool chest. It was created by gifted miniaturist William Robertson, who has been creating incredible miniatures in Kansas City for over thirty years now.
The level of detail is astonishing. Look closely and you’ll see that this beautiful little chest and its contents are all fully functional:
“The chest’s metal lock actually functions, as do all of the tools (note how the mini wood plane has shaved the pencil in the photo above). Robertson spent about 1,000 hours making the tool chest, and he works almost entirely by hand. For more of Robertson’s work, see this audio slideshow by Fine Woodworking.”
holy shit! so this is what it’s like to get a life changing opportunity?!?!
the big leagues finally called! this is freaking crazzzyyyyy.
Oct 10
wowowowowow
i’m now fatter and less fit than my 60-year old mother. what the eff is going on here?!?
Aug 20
Ugh. Can everyone just stop getting engaged and married for a bit? I don’t think I’m asking for much. I just want all of us to hit the pause button on the whole marriage thing for now (e.g. 2-5 years). Let’s be the young, lost and free 20-somethings that we are. Let’s do some ‘irresponsible’ shit like go out on week nights, plan trips to random foreign cities, go to festivals, get blacked out drunk, etc. More importantly, let’s actually take the time to explore what the fuck we want to do with our lives and careers. Let’s fully invest in these formative years of our lives and enjoy the journey. Cause one day we’ll be too old, too adult, too responsible to be able to afford the luxury to take chances or risks, and make mistakes. Which is unfortunate, because some mistakes are the game changers.
It’d just be nice to hang onto this precious youth a little longer.
Taking cues from the firefly, a Dutch electronics company has created a product called “Bio-light”—an eco-friendly lighting system that uses glowing, bioluminescent bacteria. They’re not powered by electricity or sunlight, but by methane generated by the company’s Microbial Home bio-digester that processes anything from vegetable scraps to human waste. The living bacteria are fed through silicon tubes, and as long as they’re nutritionally-fulfilled, they can indefinitely generate a soft, heat-free green glow using the enzyme luciferase and its substrate, luciferin. They’re kept in hand-blown glass bulbs clustered together into lamps, but you can’t light up your house with them yet—the glow isn’t nearly bright enough to replace conventional artificial lights. They do, however, get people to think about untapped household energy sources and how to make use of them. The company, Phillips, also envisions the use of these Bio-lights outside the home—for nighttime road markings, signs in theatres and clubs, and even biosensors for monitoring diabetes.