May 15, 2008

• ...to get rid of the porosity, the airspace that remains in the piece will be replaced with liquid bronze. To do this the model is heated again, the stems are dipped in a crucible of molten bronze, and capillary action causes the bronze to wick throughout the piece. It's completely counterintuitive that this works -- I think this must be the main reason why Ex One has this patent, and we don't. This is very, very good.
• This is what the Industrial Revolution was all about.
• art good math evil art good math evil As a liberal arts major, I'm so confused.
• BlueHorse: Seven liberal arts = 1. grammar 2. rhetoric 3. logic <----- !!! 4. music 5. astronomy 6. geometry <----- !!! 7. arithmetic <----- !!!
• Ha! Speaking as one who just had a math final tonight, which included logic tables and geometry, I'm here to tell you that we can subtract two of those subjects from the list. What did the ancients know anyway? *mutters buncha old farts...damn that Pythagoras!
• When do we get the Feed? I want my Primer.
• 3-D printing is very nifty.
• Seven liberal arts = 1. grammar 2. rhetoric 3. logic <----- !!! 4. music 5. astronomy 6. geometry <----- !!! 7. arithmetic <----- !!! I believe this list is biased because it was drawn up by the Ancient Geeks (e.g. Socrates, Milkcrates etc)
• Yes, definitely a biased list. In the same way the Parthenon is biased because it was constructed by the ancient Greeks. And don't even get me started on the Peloponnesian War. Biased up the wazoo, that one was.
• I went to a prestigious liberal arts college, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree....in Chemistry. I still can't figure that one out.
• I think 3D printing is awesome. But the further I get from college, the more I hate math. And I used to love it. Am I just getting old and cranky?
• Yes.
• Fascinating, beautiful and brilliant.