“He started 50 minutes late and he mispronounced approximately every other word.”

— Althouse notices the emperor's wardrobe

Cheesecake: ninja & animal ears


“Ninja” was obviously too broad a category, but “ninja cat_ears” wasn’t quite enough. Besides, you can’t have too much Yuki, so I expanded the search to include all animal ears, real and fake.

No red half-rims, so let’s start off with a little Nonsense:

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Second impression


I decided to see how much detail I could get with the 20-degree v-bit. This was carved out of the end grain of a generic hardwood 1-inch square dowel.

Update: I shined a flashlight onto the seal to get a better look at it.

First impressions


This is a 2-inch square seal created in Illustrator with my script, imported to VCarve Desktop, and cut from a mounted linoleum block on my Nomad with a 20-degree v-bit. The hardest part about getting a good firm impression on paper is that my stamp pad is too darn small; I’ll have to buy an uninked pad at an office supply shop and load it up with the good pigment.

Zettai Ryouiki Seal of Approval

Also making a good impression is glamour model Meru Tsujimura, who cannot be found at office supply shops…

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A long time ago...


…in a Republic far, far away:

"The more you lose your grip, Left-wing, the more our systems will slip through your fingers."

Webley-Fosbery action


(via, and he’s got lots more!)

Paying tribute


Joan Jett singing the Mary Tyler Moore theme:

In other news, the recent “women’s march” on DC featured a speaker who got 25-to-life for her active role in kidnapping, torturing, raping, and murdering a 62-year-old man.

Which feminism do you prefer?

Finding the perfect woman...


On seeing the contents of the Amazon package that she’d brought over from the other building, the cute glasses-wearing female engineer said:

"You have a cordless circular saw? Cool!"

…and now she’s going off to assemble a CNC router kit…

Source-crowding


Controlling the narrative isn’t as easy as it used to be…

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