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I dug up some clay in the backyard and I'm learning to write cuneaform by sharpening a stick on a rock.https://t.co/Qn26BObqTI
I'm I was going to fire it in my own home built clay kiln, but the weight and size of the kiln wasn't ok with the land owner, so I decided to use a toaster oven instead.https://t.co/7e9W6bf2D2
The first thing I hoped to write about is how to translate it from other languages. Then I'm going to write about how I'd build the kiln and dug up/filtered the clay, and ways of making fire.https://t.co/OrqTOZDZtM
People worship these information storage artifacts like some golden idol, not realizing you could just make your own.We lost skills in book binding when books turned into a commodity. At best we have replaced this with plastics.https://t.co/JFodcRjmP8
Those fancy plastic disks that they sell at a premium can be made for free using a milk carton.https://t.co/kROiDyuigC
I used to write on my jeans. My father was always mad about it.I showed him a version of this technique of paper making using old jeans: https://t.co/yeRj3EBaVk that I saw on PBS as a young child.He understood.https://t.co/5jlMxCXFIG
I consume information like I eat books.Pica makes me crave paper and glue.it goes away if I eat vellum.I think animal collagen ferments into butyrate & heals intestinal inflammation -> reduces pica.Irony is that everyone eats woodpulp based celluose.https://t.co/YkciIotul2
I learned how to make glue by reading an old roman grimoire on uses of animal collagen, while trying to find out what to do to reverse Crohn's associated intestinal degradation. I am made of glue, lol.https://t.co/ue2HZGAesJ
Ancient Chemistry is cool. So much can be made out of burning some cowbones (or lampoil) and boiling hide.https://t.co/JVEMWZuIP7A form of ink used on Ancient Chinese paper was basically exactly that.https://t.co/xCsJJR3BpXWith similar used by Greek, Roman, and Egyptian.
What is this, a Grimoire for dolls?https://t.co/MszK44oh5o