“When I stroke the beard thusly, do I not appear more intellectual?” ~Data from Star Trek Next Generation I’ve been clean shaven pretty much forever. Dear Old Dad had a muschtache and looked a good deal like Juan Valdez from the coffee comericals. One of my older brothers has a goatee that he has had forever. My boss has one of those neat and trim little goatees that he keeps at a constant quarter of inch length. Whenever I have tried to grow a beard or a goatee or anything, I have been unhappy with how it has looked. That…
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Made by Hand-Is This How Tom Good Would Do It?
There’s something fun about the idea of a gazillionaire taking up the DIY craze by doing such things as organic gardening and making his own cigar box banjos. He explores the many benefits of knowing how to build things, modify things, and create things out of the odds and ends most people toss out for the trash collector. It’s clear from the introduction that boingboing founder Mark Frauenfelder never read The Sex Life of Cannibals, a wonderful book about what a living hell the islands along the equator are. Mark and his wife decide to move with their two small…