Jim MacLachlan
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Inkle Loom Design & Construction
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Horses and Farms For Fiction Writers
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Handyman Tools: A Primer For Remodeling & Woodwork
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that was interesting, Peter. Thanks. Reshoring industry is fantastic, but what really caught my attention was digitizing parts as Cat is doing. So muc
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“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
― Artist Descending a Staircase
― Artist Descending a Staircase

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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We do have books/genres in common! I look forward to reading your reviews! :)


Glad to, Luffy. Good reviews have me reading a lot of good books. I can now find more good books than time, even with audio books.

I told GR not to shout it out, but it listens as well as my teens did. It was probably that batch edit that hung up & kept giving me an error. I finally went through & just changed them individually. Turned out to be faster.
I went through & made sure they were all on fiction, nonfiction, or 'sort-of-nonfiction' shelves. Then I exported them to an Excel spreadsheet & ran a macro that broke out the shelves for each book & counted them up. I was curious to see my trend in reading & this allows me to graph it quickly.

Dang! You've been busy. Even when I was going through adding the bulk of my collection, I never got that much in a day!

I don't go through friends reviews often enough, Tish. I'd like to more often, but too many groups & other stuff to do. It's friends' reviews that make GR so great for me, though. I rarely read a bad book any more.


I've put it on my list to get. Thanks."
If you don't like it I'll eat my hat. :D

I've put it on my list to get. Thanks.


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Regarding Robert A. Heinlein's "A human being should be able to.... Specialization is for insects."
Polymaths, like Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Jose Rizal, are a rarity. Two of the advantages of living in a good society are division of labor and trade.
An individual with a mind capable of producing a cure for cancer should be concentrating on such a task.