Please could you explain a bit more about the process you describe, above? Maybe with some simple examples? I'm woeful at maths but really good with mechanical and physical problems. If there's a way I can improve upon the former, I'd love to try.
Thanks in advance!
It was never proven that the baby was Greg's.
Currently putting the finishing touches on a wall-mounted chest of drawers for the workshop, which is holding everything from screws to scrap metal to machinist vices. It's made of scrap pallet wood and ply and totally hand-tooled (planes/chisels/saws). My workshop is very very small (under 8ft by 9ft) and doubles as my home office, so this baby really frees up major space.
Just the rest of the drawer labels left to do. Not sure if these photos will work, but here goes:
Didn't Mythbusters debunk this one?
Stop holding your nose and blowing, to clear your ears. You can burst your eardrum this way. I have a perforated eardrum, myself (though not from this), and getting a subsequent inner ear infection in that ear is the most painful thing I have ever experienced. Worse than the burst appendix or broken ribs.
Instead, try holding your nose and closing your mouth and swallowing a few times. With a big gulp of water might help. Should eventually give you enough pressure to clear the blockage, without risking your health.
Seconding the other chap. There is nothing wrong with your writing. It's a pleasure to read. Keep on writing, tinkering and giving solid advice!
Alexander Berkman - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)
Berkman was in prison for the attempted assassination of union buster Henry Clay Frick, in 1892. He was sentenced to 21 years and served 14. The book is an amazing insight into the American prison system of the time.
Eugene Victor Debs - Walls and Bars (1927)
Debs was a very interesting figure and Socialist leader. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 1918 (under the Sedition Act), for publically denouncing the USA's involvement in WW1, and telling people to stand against the military draft. This is part of his final speech to the Judge. Gives me goosebumps:
"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Technically, I think he wrote this post-release, but it's about the prison system he experienced first hand.
Marco Polo - The Travels of Marco Polo (c.1300)
Pretty self-explanatory.
Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram (2003)
Started in prison, finished and published on the outside.
Does Don't Starve fit your bill?
Also second Submautica.
Obviously an impossible ask, you fiend! Possibly either:
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
or
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
User noted as "Fascist Fuck". Cool feature.
I read that as "...electron deniers" and did a double-take. Now, wouldn't that be something!?
Great info, here. Thanks so much for helping to demystify.