as you likely know, i’m a teacher. what you may not know, however, is that i am a native french speaker and this means i am sometimes asked to teach french language. it’s not something i do all that often, though i have created a series of curriculum guides for… Read More »en français, svp!

modern languages are contingent fucked-up messes of historically-motivated arcane idiocy that must be stripped and upgraded to make them functional in a post-religion, post-uneducated world or we are destined to continue to wallow in the mindless communication quagmires of the past, something most people seem more than happy to do.… Read More »the case for simple numbers

(this was written as the answer to a question from a dear friend and i thought it was worth sharing because there’s so much talk about the other side of this argument and the other side is relatively silly if looked at anything but hormonally. please enjoy.) children are a… Read More »the case against motherhood

perhaps the most confusing set of questions most beginners have when they decide to adopt the woodworking obsession (or craft if you prefer) is about what to do with the wood when the project is ready from a physical perspective to make it look its best and protect it from… Read More »start with finish

we think. it’s something humans do. most of us in the modern world think nearly constantly and the vast majority do all they can to avoid it. but thinking — truly thinking — is the hallmark of humanity. there is nothing more human than thought. while there are other lifeforms… Read More »thinking with words and images

there are various major moments in modern woodworking tool development, times that have shifted the whole framework of what it means to do woodworking. let’s take a look at a few (in no particular order) that i think were particularly significant. stanley’s popularization (not invention but definitely popularization) of the… Read More »trim goes unplugged