[video]
Ukulele #1: Lusitania (Taken with instagram) (1 of 7 first-batch instruments)
Finally, one of them is done! It’s no Kala, but like Ira says: “It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”
Round 2 will be happening in the fall!
What.
[video]
“Larry the Cable Guy, Actual User”
After writing this, I realized it comes off a little negative, so let me preface: I’m a Guy Who Likes Sports. Sports are the best - I love the narrative of a season, the excitement of a game, the steamy laziness of a late afternoon baseball game in August.
—
There’s a particular type of sports fan that really fascinates me: The Playoff Theorist. The comments section of this article about “meaningful games” is full of people arguing about what are the fairest ways to increase meaningfulness, is that a good metric, how should we align incentives to improve the sport’s performance for fans.
If only we could stir up the same kind of theorizing and passion for reform about government: What are the best ways to select legislators? What does the structure of a good legislature or executive or judiciary look like? It’s amazing to me how much the structure of the US government is calcified - we must vote in a single round winner-takes-all two-candidate district process, we must have a bicameral legislature, we must use “states” as the avenue for most lawmaking. Where are our James Madisons and Thomas Jeffersons? Arguing on the internet about how David Stern should improve the playoff selection process.
Sports somehow makes people feel like they have a stake in the process - an arbitrary process dictated by millionaires in order to sell Budweiser commercials - while government doesn’t. I don’t understand that one yet, but I’m working on it.
Marking off fret distances - I had to buy a ruler graded in 1/100 of an inch. (Taken with instagram)
Staining a few necks, putting polyurethane on all of them. (Taken with instagram)
![gifolas-cage:
… [T]his tells you everything you need to know about it.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2wkus8ilr1r4etbjo1_r1_500.gif)
… [T]his tells you everything you need to know about it.
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Al Pacino and Christopher Walken
Amazed.