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Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog?
bigattichouse asks: "Having just finished my first batch of home-brew beer, I've been thinking about my attraction to 'lost arts', and collecting books on 'how to do stuff'. Some I try, some I just read: metalsmithing, sewing, baking bread, making soap, knot tying, brewing beer, woodcarving, yogurt and cheese.. there are so many skills 'lost' in the modern 'american' lifestyle... but I find my fellows tend to have books on these subjects lying around, too. Is this common in geekdom? Is this an expression of 'hacking' outside of machinery/engineering?"
"Having just finished my first batch of home-brew beer, I've been thinking about my attraction to 'lost arts'
Drinking a skinful of beer will put these thoughts in your head. I usually solve all the worlds problems after a few. Can never seem to remember the solutions the next day though
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
We're all preparing for Y2038.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
They're pretty much the only people left in the world who make battle-quality chain mail, scale mail, and plate mail in the medieval style.
Though a lot of people do make battle-ready spam mail. Unfortunately.
Hacking is just like being the One. No one can tell you you're hacking, you just do it.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
Slashdot staff taking some time out to seek the lost art of a decent Slashdot article?
I thought geeks did these sorts of things because they couldn't get laid....
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
... that the Amish are the 31337est hackers?
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Figured out what?
How to turn the US into a Socialist Commune as quickly as possible?
That's not the first skill I'd associate with the SCA.
What happens when the whole system breaks down. (When was the last time a complex system like the ones we have today didn't break down).
Yesterday.
Back to the stone age! Cool!
- I'd be the first stone age hacker^h^h^h^h^h^cracker: I'd wait until you invented something really useful, then creep stealthily up and use my stone age nmap (a large club).
When you awoke, you'd see that I'd also defaced your site (cave wall) with crude and insulting cave paintings: "T&K h4s 0wnored ur firez!", "All your fires are belong to us" etc.
I'm so excited I can't wait. When do we start?
T&K.
Political language
Once homebrewing became legal again (which happened in the 80s, if I remember correctly), the homebrew industry started to regain strength. At this point, I wouldn't say that brewing is by any means a lost art...I've brewed hundreds of gallons at this point. The stuff is like zucchini...if you produce it, you produce a LOT of it...and let me tell you, nothing moves your data mining requests to the front of the line faster than giving the DBAs lots of homebrew! :)
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If you live in Wisconsin like I do, brewing your own beer is not a lost art it is required.
Got Code?
Banner: Are you the beer baron?
Comic Book Guy: Yes, but only by night. By day, I'm a mild-mannered reporter for a major Metropolitan newspaper.
Banner: Don't crack wise with me, tubby!
Comic Book Guy:Tubby? Oh yes, tubby.
Hm, I wonder how medieval style chain mail would look like?
And yes, I do know that we are really talking about body armor.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
Brewing beer is an excuse to make your apartment smell horrible, making soap is an excuse to see how quickly various household items dissolve when exposed to lye, and metalsmithing is an excuse to pretend that you're Sauron.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
"banging on a piece of machinery that's older than my grandmother"
... must ... not ... reply ...
... too easy.
Seriously, man
Actually, we have some wonderful hand-made soap that a friend of ours in the SCA made. My wife bartered some caligraphy for it, along with some home-brewed mead.
Of course, what you'll find in the SCA depends on where you are. When you have smaller groups, they tend to focus on fewer things (generally fighting). In areas like Boston, there are people doing all sorts of things.
Not to mention that a tremendously successful pickup line is "did you know that in the Middle Ages people use to have sex just like we shake hands today?"
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Belgian beer is the *WORST* swill I have ever tasted. I have drunk beer all over Europe. Some is good, some is great. Belgian beer sucks.
Not to mention the fact that you said a *VERY* dirty word...
that seems like a dull way to have sex.
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Of course, you could've bought a tap for $10 at the hardware store and done it yourself. It's not rocket science.
Most /.'rs still have 'sex' like they're shaking hands. atleast it involves shaking hands.
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
>> ..things like make soap...
> That's not the first skill I'd associate with the > SCA.
That's because you have to issue make clean as well:
localhost$ make soap; make clean;
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
Well you are talking about Canadian police. The fact that 73 out of 85 missed the knife surprises you?
Baby Bush is a tenor? Given the irritating squeakiness of his voice, I would have figured him for at least an Alto, if not an outright Soprano. ...or did you mean "tenure"?