bloggity blog

I made an old bike beautiful again, my wife and a bunch of weirdos are elected committee people now, pigs say ghnot ghnot, union agitation is intimate pastoral care work.

Park benches are God's architecture. Cars are still bad. Links links links.

The octopus is an awesome alien creature, old bicycle pictures, some rants about christofascists and their enablers, a list of highly-recommended children's books, a video of a USPS ebike converted to railroad cart, etc.

Let us begin this blog post in praise of miniature things. Here is my extra small knipex pliers. I use these all the time. I get excited to use them, which is a sign of a good gizmo. More of life should be pleasurable. We should demand tools that are a joy to look at and use and even to fidget with. Too many joyless and/or ugly gadgets and doodads out there. Sometimes I use these pliers, which I keep on a magnetic strip on the wall of my living room along with other frequently-used tools that have enough ferric...

We shouldn't give our attention to contraptions that can't love us back.

Let's love real people and love the real world.

I think that's what the prophet Isaiah was saying.