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This clapper bridge has been here for nine centuries. It was built 200 years before The Black Death, 400 before the birth of Shakespeare.

It spans the East Dart River in Devon (one of the thundering, irascible rivers that inspired those in my novel, Villager) and was built from local granite so packhorses could transport tin from the near…

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

~ David Lynch

New Zealand is better than all the other zealands and I don’t give a damn what people say

It seems like all of Substack world is cozying indoors. Down here in New Zealand summer is in full swing—tis the season for drawing outside.

software guys reading about this dude’s literal aircraft design: he is just like me fr

Early design choices can REALLY impact iteration speed.

For my VTOL, I did not consider:

- how to make components like my flight controller easy to access

- delaying selecting a battery pack until after I knew what the weight and center of gravity would be

Note from my journal (2017).

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