There have been other Pit threads addressing Zenster’s attrocious behaviour. I haven’t seen any on Tuckerfan. In light of what the two of them just did to me, I don’t know how Tucker has remained unscathed so long.
They sent me The Boy Mechanic.
Those bastards!
I know some moron will say that they did it out of 'the goodness of their hearts':rolleyes: . And some goat-felching moron will point out that Zenster asked for my snail mail address in an e-mail rather than a post. And that neither of them has made any mention of the gift on the boards. 'If they were such bastards,' the goat-felching one will say 'why did they give privately? Wouldn't they want to do it as publicly as possible so everybody could see them being big men?'
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Yeah, like I'm supposed to believe that Zenster is actually a nice guy just because he did something nice for me without asking for recognition or anything in return. For the second time.
Or that Tuckerfan is a decent human being for giving me a book he obviously would have loved to keep for himself.
Ban them, I say! Ban them now!
Considering that I don’t want to google for “Boy Mechanic,” could you be so kind as to explain what the hell that is, maybe a cite to the offending thread.
I meant to include a link explaining The Boy Mechanic but I was blinded by rage, disgust. and visions of various wondrous projects.
http://www.freckleface.com/boymechanic.html
I didn’t include a link to a specific thread because there isn’t one. Just many threads where the three of us discuss science and various projects.
I hadn’t had much interaction with Zenster. Then, I post why I had to drop out of college. He sent me an e-mail offering financial help if I wanted to go back. Since then, I’ve paid a lot more attention to his posts. I’m still shocked that he was Pitted.
They sent me a hardback of the 1952 edition. WAG is that any recent edition would be editted heavily due to liability concerns. EG one section involves several fascinating motors that involve a small pool of mercury. I doubt very much those motors are included in current printings.
Even if the new editions haven’t had large bits removed, they don’t have the magic an older copy does. This isn’t some sterile thing of ink and pulp. Other owners held this book in eager hands. The sawdust has been wiped off. But, the awe of those other tinkers still clings to the book.
That’s what I thought it was when I saw the title. I thought it was the story of Mario, the sexy Latino inventor who runs a profitable business building robot love slaves. But then, one day, his T-1000 Ass Master prototype goes crazy and begins shooting people (taking time out to occasionally enjoy some hot gay sex, of course).
Now slowly back away from your hare brained flying contraption and start having some real fun, Doc. Good old Tuck and myself were ruminating over how to distract you from your life threatening pursuits when we came up with a hare brained scheme of our own. I recalled his mention of the book in your IMHO thread. One look on eBay and we knew it was a done deal.
Now you have to tell us which project you’re going to do first.
And that one paragraph, right there, makes it all worth it. Doc, your words are so eloquent, that I wish I’d written them myself. You have perfectly captured why I own so many old books. Many of my over one thousand cookbooks have smears and blots from their duty on the counter top. I can’t begin to tell you about the odd recipe clippings and shopping lists I have found tucked into their pages. Books like this are alive, they live and breathe of aspirations and dreams their owners have had over the decades.
I’m getting together with friends this weekend and there are some parts of the project I have questions about.
And you’ll be happy to know that I currently am reading up on PA boating laws.
I should be able to find a cheap(yet legal and effective) life jacket. I don't mean one of those blue vest things either. A real life jacket is day glo orange with a huge pad behind the head. If it won't keep an unconscious person face up, it ain't really a life jacket.
But, I’ve wanted to build my own pedal boat for some time. Many of the materials are cheap or free(bike frames are regularly thrown out in suburbia. Goop makes wonderful adhesives in general and sells a formula especially for use on boats). And I have a relative whose basement is filled with lathes, tablesaws and all the other tools I need to cut and shape wood for the pontoons.
