Category: Life

Nothing lasts forever. Except diamonds of course! Almost everything in life is a wear item if we look at it through a long enough time horizon. Take a hand plane as an example, every time I sharpen the blade, it gets a bit shorter. Once the blade is used up, a new one must be…

Happy Chinese New Year(the year of rabbit)! In the tech world, things are not going great lately. I was laid off October 2022. More mass layoff happened this week. No matter how much mental preparation you do, it still stings when that happens. I have been there. All I want to say is that give…

If you want to learn woodworking, then spend 5 minutes in the shop every day. If you want to be a better programmer, then spend 5 minutes on your laptop writing some code every day. If you want to be stronger, then carve out 5 minutes to do some push ups or some pull ups…

Knife steel specifications: Core steel: VG10 Hardness: 59-60HRC My sharpening stones Ultra Sharp diamond stone: #300, #600, #1200 Shapton Kuromaku ceramic waterstones: #5000, #8000 Leather strop rough side up charged with green polishing compound Plain leather strop smooth side up Sharpening log 3/7/2022: purchased the knife 4/26/2022: initial sharpening with #1200, #5000, and #8000. 7/25/2022:…

Sebastian Vettle is retiring from F1 at the end of this year. I wish I had gone to see him racing in person at least once. Roger Federer might retire in the next 2 years. One of my heroes too. At least I am taking a class with an American master furniture maker Gary Rogowski…

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It is the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert Persig wrote in “Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintenance” It resonated.

Tojiro F-990 Chinese Chef’s Knife – very solid knife, and the VG-10 steel is great at edge holding. The fit and finish could be better but nothing a little sandpaper and time can’t fix. Skylight 7″ Chinese Chef’s Knife – search “NA cleaver” in Amazon to find that knife. It is very affordable. The initial…

Knifes I have tried Mercer M33220 (8″) – returned due to bent blade. Shi Ba Zi Zuo F208-2 (8″) – returned because I didn’t like they hammer bent the end of a full tang to secure the connection between the knife and the handle. It is too rustic for me. *Dengjia M-9080 (7″) – my…

Stationary vs. Stationery Custom vs. Costume Customer vs. Consumer Argument vs. Augment

Definition of Argument – noun the act or process of arguing, reasoning, or discussing a reason given for or against a matter under discussion mathematics: one of the independent variables upon whose value that of a function depends Definition of Augment – verb to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense supplement