Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. You should see the amazing craftsmanship in the coin collection that I currently have accumulated.
   Quite amazing in miniature detail of every object encased.

2. The thing that always amazes me is the architecture and the construction of the Gothic Cathedrals.

   1. One must remember that those Cathedrals were built over several generations of men.
      As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day.

      1. And they were built by trial and error. Admittedly the masons did apply experience so towers and things only fell down once or twice until they were stable.

      2. Generations? Hundreds of years.

         No TV, video games, interwebs to suck up the time, and minds,back then.

   2. some taking so long , the styles changed as they built them . Barcelona for one

3. YouTube on TV lets you follow the channel. You can see them all

4. The whole “Dark Ages” thing has been a misnomer for decades. Originally coined by Victorian moralists who romanticized the Classical Greco-Roman world and the Renaissance, it continued in the 20th century by historians who used it to refer not to the culture but the paucity of written records from the period. As any serious student of medieval history will tell you, there was no post-Roman “Dark Age” in southern Europe. We just obsess over it because we’re part of the Commonwealth, and Britannia being an isolated frontier province got hit harder by the recall of the Legions.

   1. In a way, I would call the 20th. century the darl ages because of the 100s of millions killed by totalitarian states driven by socialism. The ideology was from the 19th. century but the ability to control and kill en masse was definately 20th century. I was hoping we had passed through that era but we still have the CCP and now “democracies” are flling prey to the mass techniques employed by the CCP.

   2. An elite morning the haunting loss of the great Roman administrative state into the many local Deploribals.

5. I appreciate the time and effort it takes to make something so beautiful that you question how the craft person could have such a fine eye to the details it takes to turn an object into a thing of beauty.

   I was very fortunate to have been able do many projects that increasing safety laws now deem them illegal as the tools needed had to have their safety guards removed. Which some safety inspector could fine our company boss for if we were caught.
   I created jigs for the saw mill that I could use to angle the wood in a productive way to do a couple pieces at a time to make real wood siding. Octagon the posts so to have a truly accurate measurement to recreate the blue print drawings that I was given to have to the sixteenth of an inch accuracy.
   If I could snap a line on a piece of wood, I could fulfill whatever my boss gave me to do. And at times had to interconnect to the other workers staircase and stay within our mandated rail safety laws that inspectors were sure to measure.
   Some of the most demanding and interesting was a round rail, upper and lower piece that looked like a single piece of log with posts on each end to fit a floor opening to a spiral staircase.
   Another was 360 feet of Cedar fencing that had to interconnected to stone pillars angled in and two sections going down a slight inclined which changes the angle of the rail lines. I adjusted this so that everything by eye looked level and correct with the rest of the fence logs being installed.
   So, yes, our politicians did kill our ingenuity and creativity by making everything illegal.

6. Some of us yearn to be Irish monks.