Friday Links: Reptile Care and an Italian Film of 1968

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Laid_an_Egg

https://zoosnippets.com/post/environmental-enrichment-diversity-checklist

https://reptifiles.com/reptile-care-sheets/

Bonus Link! A nifty looking rental cabin in NE Alabama:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/749841315052135433?adults=1&s=42&unique_share_id=2FEDA4EE-B126-4E80-A317-92E2A91DC58D&_branch_match_id=1157002784934182089&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXT0zKS9LLTdXPdMqPigoLCk8qSwIA0xRsohsAAAA%3D&source_impression_id=p3_1677089187_sfPtkwkfeHYiWK0Z

Friday Links: Pizza Dough and a Good Poem

 The pizza expert in this video has some great, refined tips on dough handling. Definitely will improve my technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjsCEJ8CWlg

In the "long list of advice tidbits" genre, with a few good slightly out-of-character items: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/how-to-be-perfect?fbclid=IwAR2m6Fy06qUPy8NEniPFRYLOkHSmeGf9l5MUmqZ4yQzaOdlRR4gCA7ty6m8

Friday Links: German Expression, Knife Sharpening, a Recipe, and Atlanta

I know that the principles of this knife sharpener are sound, I don't know if this version works well. At this price I'm tempted to try. A company called "Wasabi" has been selling the same thing at a multiple of this price.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002806278575.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.100009.1.6013e215hW2M1i&gps-id=pcDetailLeftTopSell&scm=1007.13482.271138.0&scm_id=1007.13482.271138.0&scm-url=1007.13482.271138.0&pvid=5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc&_t=gps-id:pcDetailLeftTopSell,scm-url:1007.13482.271138.0,pvid:5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238108%231977&pdp_ext_f=%257B%2522sku_id%2522%253A%252212000025558963981%2522%252C%2522sceneId%2522%253A%25223482%2522%257D&pdp_pi=-1%253B30.8%253B-1%253B-1%2540salePrice%253BUSD%253Brecommend-recommend

A varenyky recipe. I think this is too much sour cream but I haven't tried it yet. Let me know if you do!

https://www.allthingsukrainian.com/Recipe/Varenyky/VarenykyRecipe.html

Did you know? One German near-equivalent to "painting the town red" is [literally] "letting the sow out."

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/die_Sau_rauslassen

Here are some good local writers and reporters making their suggestions for improving Atlanta. I am in strong agreement with Andisheh's.

https://austinlouisray.com/#/how-id-fix-atlanta/

Random Friday Links: FAO Blacksmithing Manual

 An FAO publication: Agricultural Engineering in Development: Basic Blacksmithing: A Training Manual. Might be worth getting a hard copy of this one.

https://www.fao.org/3/ah637e/AH637E00.htm

Friday Links: Diet for a Small Planet at 50, Scythe Resource, Farm Tractors in Forestry

 Diet for a Small Planet is being issued in a new 50th-anniversary edition: 

https://www.dietforasmallplanet.org/

I have unexpectedly become interested in working with a scythe. I own two, a heavy one for brush and a very light and slim one for grass. Turns out you can still buy all the parts and maintenance tools, and there are modern-day experts ready to train you. This seems to be one of the good sites for both:

https://www.baryonyxknife.com/scac.html

And here's an English translation of a Swedish government publication about using a small farm tractor in the woods. There are still forestry winches being made for tractors, so this is all of interest to me:

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/general_publications/farm_tractor_in_the_forest.pdf

Friday Links: an Onion Video Series, Axolotl Husbandry, a Woodworking Blog of Note

 Amusement:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C7941B0228E0240

Axolotl information:

http://www.axolotl.org/

Jack Plane's sister blog, Orson Cart, is building a vardo (house on wheels):

https://orsoncartatlarge.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/a-vardo-part-one/

Friday Links: Some Raw Climate Data, a New Art Gallery, BWCA Trip Planning

 Weather averages for Tomahawk, Wisconsin, 1980 - 2010.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/orders/cdo/2691475.pdf

 

The art gallery  of my retired colleague Tom Zarilli:

https://gallery378.com/about/

A good site with resources for planning BWCA (and other) canoe trips:

https://www.paddleplanner.com/default.aspx

Friday Links: an Interior Wall System, Bowl Gouge Sharpening

Just a pair of YouTube videos this week.

First, I like this approach to paneling an interior wall, as demonstrated by Mr. Chickadee. I will be using rigid foam to insulate the Rib Lake shack , and I had planned on horizontal wood paneling nailed to battens nailed along the inside faces of the timbers. The added step of screwing the paneling pieces to their own battens to form larger, removable panels strikes me as a huge boost to subsequent repairability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fdm9R1Cbm0

Next, one of my current obsessions is bowl turning. I have watched many, many hours of YouTube videos on turning techniques, sharpening techniques, and pretty girls in tight-fitting tops that somehow end up covered with shavings as they turn giant bowls. As far as fine points of technique go, I find a couple of low-quality vids of David Ellsworth and Stuart Batty demonstrating to woodturning guilds quite enlightening. However, the champions of cramming pertinent information into the least time with the best videography are Dictum Tools, in a series of videos showing Nick Agar sharpening various gouge profiles and then demonstrating the geometry of the different cuts each can make. I can picture myself actually calling up this video on my iPhone while standing at the lathe for a quick refresher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMzNN_IMhUE

Friday Links: Freelance Writing, Tabletop Radios, Movies Within Movies, Romanian Village Photographer

 Only a few this week.

A nuts & bolts look at the world of writing for money:

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/everything-ive-learned-about-being

Some good-looking radios from a brand I hadn't seen before. I have one on order, I'll let you know:

https://www.sangean.com/products/all_products.asp

Nestflix: a directory of movies-within-movies (and tv shows). Yes, they have Logjammin'. Yes, they have McBain. But you can submit any they don't have.

https://nestflix.fun/

The photographs of Zaharia Cusnir. A village photographer in the Romanian/Moldovan border region from 1955-1970, Cusnir lived and died in relative obscurity. His negatives were found in an abandoned house, scanned, and now some are on this website. Some of the images are quite powerful: your heart goes out to the subjects. I will be spending more time with these over the weekend.

https://www.zaharia.md/en/about/

Friday Links: About Tabs, Citizen Science in ATL, MEI Packs, Wood-Fired Ovens

 First, a tab about tabs and tabbing:

https://dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-the-season-of-tabs?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzI5NzkwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozOTUwMzAxOSwiXyI6ImxhdlFlIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI3OTA5ODYyLCJleHAiOjE2Mjc5MTM0NjIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMzIxODciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.64QlW_nl-AdQCVALWma1__jJDvrWBuQCExTjM9yjI00

(Some of our clutter is there because it's stuff that reminds us of who we want to be.)

An opportunity to do citizen science here in Atlanta:

https://urbanheatatl.org/

MEI makes the Voyageur, my favorite carry-on with backpack straps. I have ordered these as gifts several times and gotten excellent feedback each time:

https://www.meipacks.com/collections/carry-ons/products/deluxe-voyageur-new?variant=29110618751056

An old-school website on old-school woodfired ovens:

https://www.traditionaloven.com/

Friday Links: Rhetoric, Plant Preservative, Tandoors

 

Some rhetoric, some plant preservative, some good music, some instructions on building a clay tandoor. What else do you need?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

 

https://www.mckenziesp.com/Plant-Life-Preservative-C4150.aspx

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKDxxJ6rI8

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZBwAG54iY 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyOSXRCJlIg

Friday Links Come Early: July 2021

 Friday links are early this week. I'm taking Thursday and Friday off, so I'm turning off my desktop today.

https://www.musserforests.com/prod.asp?p=SMR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ge6f3bDmWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yielLYZ5lo

 

https://www.timberlinesharpener.com/?doing_wp_cron=1626872506.8145170211791992187500

Random Friday Links July 2021

 

Here's an anticipated new feature: Random Friday Links

Every week at work, I leave my computer running, only turning it off on the weekend, for reasons having to do with the age of my computer and the amount of time it takes to boot up.

I am in the habit of not closing browser tabs I am intrigued by, or interested in. But then on Friday afternoon, I shut down the computer, only to start up the process again on Monday. I feel like it might be worthwhile to preserve these links in this ephemeral form. Here's the first entry.

I anticipate no annotation, to explanation, no explication for these links. Just check 'em out. Or not.

https://ashesstillwaterboats.com/making-a-canoe-paddle/

https://ensorings.com/products/elements-classic-silicone-ring-gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKmX40HA6Y

https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/6D4r2QfF7N

https://www.qajaqusa.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=349669&module_id=358631

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ifqKK_voU