Stickers & Thanks & Books, Oh My!
Added 2021-02-02 20:48:53 +0000 UTCHey Patrons! End of the month here at Blondihacks Galactic Headquarters, which means stickers and credits time. If you joined as a Rockstar Patron in January, the next video will include you in the credits, and blog credits are already updated. Stickers are in the mail, and as always, please let me know if you don't receive them. Within North America, they typically under a week. Europe is a little longer, and Oceania can be a few weeks. The USPS has been very problematic the last couple of years and I have lost of lot of mailings, so please let me know if you don't receive them so I can re-send.
The easter egg book in this month's photo (below) is a 1976 reprint of an anthology of Model Engineer Magazine articles from 1899. Yes, 1899. This was an amazing gift from a viewer and it's a joy (though a challenge) to read. Parsing posh 19th-century Queen's English is not for the faint of heart, but it's chock full of engine builds, angry (but posh) letters to the editor and so forth. This is Volume II. If anyone ever sees Volume I around, please let me know. I would *love* to have the first in the series.
Thanks as always for your support. Blondihacks exists on the backs of you fine humans (literally- it's why your shoulders are sore all the time) and I'm so grateful to have you all on board.
Comments
Love those angry pixies and tilt to AvE for his frequent use thereof.
Richard Morton
2021-02-03 18:52:32 +0000 UTCThe electrical articles are especially fascinating, because they speak to how new electricity was at the time. The articles focus on how to wind a motor, how to build a dry cell, that sort of thing. You couldn't yet go to the store and buy that sort of stuff I guess, so if you wanted to play with angry pixies, you had to make everything.
Blondihacks
2021-02-03 17:01:15 +0000 UTC"Amateur Electrician" *shudder*
Christoph Moench-Tegeder
2021-02-03 13:59:22 +0000 UTCI second that
Brendan Gill
2021-02-03 13:18:44 +0000 UTCI think a dramatic fireside reading of some grumpy letters to the editor would be quality content.
John Riney
2021-02-03 01:09:17 +0000 UTChttps://books.google.com/books?id=bRkjAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Model%20Engineer%20Magazine&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
Peter Laws
2021-02-02 23:16:05 +0000 UTCYea, verily. Indeed I should also contribute thusly in order to create a scan of thy newly acquired literature.
John Kolman
2021-02-02 23:13:12 +0000 UTC+1 on a scan. I would be more than happy to chip in a fair bit to that end. Anyone else?
Gary R Hallenbeck
2021-02-02 21:20:46 +0000 UTCWOW! I'd love to read through a copy of that book and Volume 1 as well. Any chance that it could be scanned and posted as a PDF for Patreons? Not sure how far back a copyright can go on a magazine, but 121 years is along time!
Earl
2021-02-02 20:53:38 +0000 UTC
