I finally got around to gutting and cleaning up this old, broken German radio. Now it has a HomePod inside. I use the iMac next to it to hold an iPad, so now I have a fun setup in the shop for streaming music. The tube radio parts I removed are fascinating.
December 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I finally got around to gutting and cleaning up this old, broken German radio. Now it has a HomePod inside. I use the iMac next to it to hold an iPad, so now I have a fun setup in the shop for streaming music. The tube radio parts I removed are fascinating.
My wife shot this image of a golden eagle this morning using her iPhone while we were out near Gathland State Park in Maryland. I think it’s an impressive image given the equipment. The most impressive part was the proximity of the eagle, who couldn’t care less that we were so close.
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
My wife shot this image of a golden eagle this morning using her iPhone while we were out near Gathland State Park in Maryland. I think it’s an impressive image given the equipment. The most impressive part was the proximity of the eagle, who couldn’t care less that we were so close.
The trend of using verbs as nouns greatly annoys me, e.g., compute, spend, build.
December 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The trend of using verbs as nouns greatly annoys me, e.g., compute, spend, build.
I switched to Fastmail’s macOS app when introduced a few months back, but I switched back to FMail3. It’s better in many ways, notably not an electron app, small size, and more features/benefits. See: Fmail3
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I switched to Fastmail’s macOS app when introduced a few months back, but I switched back to FMail3. It’s better in many ways, notably not an electron app, small size, and more features/benefits. See: Fmail3
North Point State Park, near Baltimore, yesterday morning. If you look closely, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is in the far distance. Interesting place with remains of an amusement park from the early 1900s.
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
North Point State Park, near Baltimore, yesterday morning. If you look closely, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is in the far distance. Interesting place with remains of an amusement park from the early 1900s.
The bevel kabob. What a clever idea for drilling straight angled cuts: blog.lostartpress.com/2025/11/2…
Mind Upon Mind: Bevel Kebab - Lost Art Press
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward
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November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The bevel kabob. What a clever idea for drilling straight angled cuts: blog.lostartpress.com/2025/11/2…
I’ve listened to Fela Kuti for several decades in total ignorance of his story. Highly recommend this podcast series, I learned so much: Fela Kuti: Fear No Man 🎵
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do?
Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed?
In Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, Jad Abumrad—creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, and Dolly Parton's America—tells the story of one of the great political awakenings in music: how a classically trained 'colonial boy' traveled to America, in search of Africa, only to return to Nigeria and transform his sound into a battering ram against the state—creating a new musical language of resistance called Afrobeat.
For years, the world’s biggest stars made pilgrimages to Nigeria to experience Fela’s Shrine, the epicenter of his musical revolution. But when the mix of art and activism got too hot, the state pulled out its guns, and literally opened fire.
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man is an uncategorizable mix of oral history, musicology, deep dive journalism, and cutting edge sound design that takes listeners deep inside Fela’s life, music, and legacy.
Drawing from over 200 interviews with Fela Kuti’s family, friends, as well as scholars, activists, and luminaries like Burna Boy, Paul McCartney, Questlove, Santigold, and former President Barack Obama (just to name a few), Fela Kuti: Fear No Man journeys deep into the soul of Afrobeat to explore the transformative power of art and the role artists can play in this current moment of global unrest.
An Audible Original presented by Audible and Higher Ground. Produced by Western Sound and Talkhouse.
©2025 Higher Ground, LLC (P)2025 Audible Originals, LLC.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I’ve listened to Fela Kuti for several decades in total ignorance of his story. Highly recommend this podcast series, I learned so much: Fela Kuti: Fear No Man 🎵
We noticed this bee on some woodland sage in our yard. It hadn’t moved in over a day, so we poked at it. Nothing. So we assumed it died and brought it inside for a flower display of sorts. The next day, we discovered … not dead. It bega... https://troykitch.com/2025/11/20/we-noticed-this-bee-on.html
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We noticed this bee on some woodland sage in our yard. It hadn’t moved in over a day, so we poked at it. Nothing. So we assumed it died and brought it inside for a flower display of sorts. The next day, we discovered … not dead. It bega... https://troykitch.com/2025/11/20/we-noticed-this-bee-on.html
Final wood box with removable bottom drawer. Mistakes were made, but made it work. I planned to dovetail the sides, but grain directions were wrong. So I went with mortise/tenons, but they were shallow I worried about strength. S... https://troykitch.com/2025/11/15/final-wood-box-with-removable.html
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Final wood box with removable bottom drawer. Mistakes were made, but made it work. I planned to dovetail the sides, but grain directions were wrong. So I went with mortise/tenons, but they were shallow I worried about strength. S... https://troykitch.com/2025/11/15/final-wood-box-with-removable.html
I’m trying Asahi Linux on an M1 Macbook Air and it’s great, except that the battery continues to drain A LOT during sleep. That’s not so great. In comparison, I have a 2009 Macbook Pro running Peppermint OS that is also great with a battery in sleep that lasts for months.
October 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I’m trying Asahi Linux on an M1 Macbook Air and it’s great, except that the battery continues to drain A LOT during sleep. That’s not so great. In comparison, I have a 2009 Macbook Pro running Peppermint OS that is also great with a battery in sleep that lasts for months.
Cutting the mortises for the hinges to hang the closest door I’m making. I always find this process a bit frightening.
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Cutting the mortises for the hinges to hang the closest door I’m making. I always find this process a bit frightening.
This month, I’m marking four years with Fastmail and two years on Kagi in my ongoing quest to use better services. 🎉
October 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This month, I’m marking four years with Fastmail and two years on Kagi in my ongoing quest to use better services. 🎉
Working on a long, narrow door to cover a narrow closet in our house where we keep sheets for bedding. The closet has a curved top. I’m using parts of a chair I got a thrift store that perfectly matches this curve and plan to veneer i... https://troykitch.com/2025/10/08/working-on-a-long-narrow.html
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Working on a long, narrow door to cover a narrow closet in our house where we keep sheets for bedding. The closet has a curved top. I’m using parts of a chair I got a thrift store that perfectly matches this curve and plan to veneer i... https://troykitch.com/2025/10/08/working-on-a-long-narrow.html
Breaking down a sheet of cherry plywood with hand tools isn’t easy, but it’s mostly figuring out how to hold the work in place.
October 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Breaking down a sheet of cherry plywood with hand tools isn’t easy, but it’s mostly figuring out how to hold the work in place.
What in interesting project. The Library of Time: libraryoftime.xyz
October 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
What in interesting project. The Library of Time: libraryoftime.xyz
This was a fun, quick project: I used offcuts from the midcentury cabinet I just completed to make a small first aid station in the bathroom. This replaces an old, broken wall heater in the bathroom that came with the house. I made it rem... https://troykitch.com/2025/10/04/this-was-a-fun-quick.html
October 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This was a fun, quick project: I used offcuts from the midcentury cabinet I just completed to make a small first aid station in the bathroom. This replaces an old, broken wall heater in the bathroom that came with the house. I made it rem... https://troykitch.com/2025/10/04/this-was-a-fun-quick.html
I completed my midcentury cherry cabinet, made with zero power tools. Here it is in place. The top sides are half blind dovetails, the base full dovetails. The door panels are 3/8 inch thick and slide along grooves. I’m pleased with how it turned out.
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I completed my midcentury cherry cabinet, made with zero power tools. Here it is in place. The top sides are half blind dovetails, the base full dovetails. The door panels are 3/8 inch thick and slide along grooves. I’m pleased with how it turned out.
One of the sliding doors are fit in the mid-century cabinet project, one more to go and then on to the feet.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One of the sliding doors are fit in the mid-century cabinet project, one more to go and then on to the feet.
Years ago, a friend gave me an old wooden filing cabinet that was missing one of its side panels. Yesterday, I finally got around to converting it into a mobile tool caddy I can easily move around the shop.
September 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Years ago, a friend gave me an old wooden filing cabinet that was missing one of its side panels. Yesterday, I finally got around to converting it into a mobile tool caddy I can easily move around the shop.
I’m planning (hoping) to build my own treadle lathe one of these days, but this has my attention.
toolsforworkingwood.com/store/ite…
toolsforworkingwood.com/store/ite…
September 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m planning (hoping) to build my own treadle lathe one of these days, but this has my attention.
toolsforworkingwood.com/store/ite…
toolsforworkingwood.com/store/ite…
I finished resawing the boards for one of the doors for the cabinet - I’m guessing this would take less than an hour or so with a bandsaw? It took me most of the day. I used a ryoba saw and had excellent results. My arm is spent.
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I finished resawing the boards for one of the doors for the cabinet - I’m guessing this would take less than an hour or so with a bandsaw? It took me most of the day. I used a ryoba saw and had excellent results. My arm is spent.
Finished all the dovetail work for the mid-century cabinet and leaving it dry fit until I take apart to cut the grooves for the front sliding doors.
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Finished all the dovetail work for the mid-century cabinet and leaving it dry fit until I take apart to cut the grooves for the front sliding doors.
Finally back to work in the shop. I decided to start with a warm-up project: a cherry tea tray with walnut dowels and wax cord wraps for the handles.
September 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Finally back to work in the shop. I decided to start with a warm-up project: a cherry tea tray with walnut dowels and wax cord wraps for the handles.