Wow. Impressive, but I think I admire the craftsmanship of the woodwork more than the riding.

Thanks, appreciated!

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That's some *quality craftsmanship!

That's some *quality craftsmanship!

Damn awesome. I love that movie, one of my favourites just through brilliant editing and craftsmanship of an entertaining tale.

This song is a great song, she does a great version... love it.

That's what I call craftsmanship. Incredible.

Upon second viewing, I have to say that this is one of the better trailers that I have ever seen. The sound, editing, and cinematics are really beautifully done. It's hard to imagine this movie being terrible if this level of craftsmanship is consistent throughout the movie. But a trailer doesn't tell you that much.

They should really let the people who make trailers make feature length movies. You let a director shoot a 20 hour movie, then edit it down to a 90 minute trailer

Only a masochist would custom build something so diabolical. Unless of course they have some friend that's good at rubix cubes and just wants to torture them.

Either way, damned impressive work and craftsmanship!

Knife choice and use like any specialized discipline requires interest in the overall process, and some major woodshed action(practice)...djsunkid???
Comfort, Balance, Ease of use-materials & craftsmanship, always-

definitely a great piece of *rocknroll craftsmanship.

Transfixed by transistors. A fascinating look into the secret life of vacuum tubes. Soon, this will become a lost art, and all of this archaic craftsmanship will be a thing of the past. Nice sift -- beautiful.

(So glad I paid attention in high school french class)

johny,

You really need to check out google news, it has like articles and stuff.

The video did not say that the police stopped her because they saw putty, nor even that they saw it prior to arresting her. She walked into Logan Airport with a blinking breadboard on her chest.

Ok, look at the picture again. Tell me how this thing is "blinking"! I could draw you a schematic, but here's a hint, there is nothing on the back side, and nothing on the front side but hot glue, tape, wires, leds, and resistors. There may be one pnp, but it looks like a shadow to me. Her craftsmanship doesn't scream, "I can make an astable RC oscillator".

At any rate, this is just a little lighted star. You know they SELL BALLCAPS WITH THE SAME LEDs AND EVEN A 9V iN THE BACK. Is wearing an ornamental LED badge really akin to klan robes? Or anything resembling, gee I had better not wear this to MEET SOMEONE AT THE AIRPORT.

She wasn't even going through security. Just standing around the terminal checking the arrival times.

I have no idea how she was handled after apprehension, and if she was not basically immediately released upon realization that she was simply stupid, then yeah, the cops went to far.

She was arrested and held in jail overnight until she appeared before a judge. She was charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a hoax device. At the airport the counter person asked her what it was and she said it was art. The MSP then ascended upon her and if you make one false move they shoot you.

Why are airport security walking around with sub machine guns??? Are you for real? In Logan Airport? Do I think it's right? Of course not, but it's certainly understandable if not legally defensible. And where the hell were sub-machine guns mentioned anyway. Furthermore - a sub-machine gun is essentially nothing more than a pistol that shoots really fast and has a bigger clip. It's not even close to something like an M-16A4, which I have seen carried by several agents in several airports (and scares the living shit out of me).

They carry submachine guns (not fully auto pistols) since the Mossa.d has helpfully revamped and retooled airport security.

<A HREF="http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/ny-usbomb0922,0,6326257.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines">"If she had shown any</A> indication of not responding, the probability of her being shot was very high," said Rafi Ron, an Israeli security expert who helped Logan overhaul its procedures after two of the 9/11 hijackers flew through that airport. ...

Ron cited the fatal shooting of a mentally ill male passenger at Miami International Airport in December, 2005, by two federal air marshals, which he described as an "unavoidable tragedy." The man, who wore a backpack across his chest, threatened to detonate a bomb.

In another recent case, in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, he said a man wearing an overcoat with wires coming out of it on a summer day narrowly avoided being shot."

If you have any wires hanging off of you in the airport, you are near death. (What about headphones??)

and while given the right parts and a big enough board, I could likely work out a 4 stage pipeline, I have never once successfully soldered a circuit together. Soldering if for technicians.

Ok.. technicians and plumbers. Just so you know, soldering is pretty easy: apply heat, apply solder, remove heat.

As to the playdoh, the only person who has made this claim was the State police at a press conference. Maybe they just made it up because they realized they were caught with another moonite moran episode, or maybe it was in her pocket, or maybe she doesn't smoke and passes time waiting by making little playdough dudes. My vote is that they made it up completely. FYI, she also made the star for the day before this was a career fair and it's actually a pretty good gimmick and conversation starter. (As long as the attendees don't have machine guns)

It's a small detail, but I love how Glamdring, Gandalf's sword, sings to him as he dives toward and catches it (it's hard to make out on the youtube version). It has this hum that sounds like menace and doom.

The craftsmanship that went into these movies is simply stunning.

This is incredible craftsmanship...I would love to get into this if I had the talent.

Nordlich, I shall attempt to enlighten.

1. "Firstly, One never cuts to cleave an opponent into two pieces! Why?"

Exactly! but comments on the sift regarding this topic, and in almost every other discussion of Katana's, Often claim that the Katana was tested by cleaving convict bodies in twain, through the hips, crown to crotch, etc. etc. I suppose it is to prove the swords superiority and craftsmanship.

2. "You never ever thrust to the body, because the katana can be broken, by lodging the blade int he ribs, and having the now mortally wounded opponent screaming in agony, and throwing his weight around."

Well, if you say so. But if it is so easily broken, by a rib, one should then assume that only unarmored opponents were valid targets, because that lacquered Japanese armor is far too tough for a mere Katana. Why, you might even chip the painstakingly crafted, razor sharp, waterstone sharpened edge.

3. "The katana is a strong weapon, but can be broken easily."

Hmmm......I suppose Samurai were incredibly brave, nay, fearless. But easily frightened.

4. "Killing people with a katana is a lot more fine compared to hacking away with a European great sword."

Really? I sense a little of the familiar Japanese superiority complex in that statement. How is killing with a sword "fine", in any sense?

5. "You do not stab with any sword lest you have a back up weapon. "

Perchance, have you ever heard of a Rapier, or a Gladius?
And, any damn warrior worth two shits and with a choice would have a backup weapon.

6. "All the weapons created in ancient time are powerful no matter what they are what matters is the skill level behind the weapon."

OK, I'll wholeheartedly agree with that.

Background to clip:

1958
17. January 26 - The Crickets make their second and final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing only one song, "Oh, Boy!"

Further stuff from R&R Hall of Fame:



Buddy Holly


Buddy Holly played rock and roll for only two short years, but the wealth of material he recorded in that time made a major and lasting impact on popular music. Holly was an innovator who wrote his own material and was among the first to exploit such advanced studio techniques as double-tracking. He pioneered and popularized the now-standard rock-band lineup of two guitars, bass and drums. In his final months, he even began experimenting with orchestration. Holly's catalog of songs includes such standards of the rock and roll canon as "Rave On," "Peggy Sue," "That'll Be the Day," Oh Boy!" and "Maybe Baby." Though Holly lacked the arresting sexuality of Elvis Presley, he nonetheless cut an engaging, charismatic figure with his trademark horn-rimmed glasses and vocal hiccup. His creative self-reliance and energetic, inspired craftsmanship prefigured the coming wave of rock and rollers in the Sixties. Holly was a professed influence on the Beatles and Hollies (both of whom derived their names from his). Even the Rolling Stones had their first major British hit with Holly's "Not Fade Away."