Dispatches, sent irregularly

Reports from work, thought, and the far reaches in between.

Filed under whichever heading fits best, the way a field log is kept: not tidy, but findable.

Misc
No. 212 · 20 August 2026

Instructions for subsurface development in the Last Caretaker

Hard lessons learned whilst constructing where the old ones lurk.

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Exposures

Extension of the family dwelling as recommended by the sanitarium

Photographic documentation of the extension of a solarium to promote mental well being.

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Exposures

On Mechanisms Whose Purpose I Cannot Fully Account For

A collection of devices, gears, and apparatuses gathered over recent months — some inherited, some found, some sent along by correspondents who seemed glad to be rid of them. I have photographed each as faithfully as I am able, in the hope that a careful visual record might succeed where my own understanding of their mechanism has, in every case, eventually failed.

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Misc
No. 221 · 12 July 2026

Rendering test

Test to confirm Obsidian to Eleventy conversions

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Misc
No. 222 · 12 July 2026

Why I Publish What I Ought Perhaps Burn

It is not without considerable private debate that I have resolved to make these papers available to all. They were not written for a particular audience; I publish them now for reasons that will, I trust, become apparent to the patient reader: not for entertainment, and certainly not for credit, but because certain things once observed have a way of being quietly forgotten by everyone except the one who observed them — and a record, however incomplete, however unwelcome, seems to me the only honest defense against that particular kind of forgetting.

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Projects

Restoring a 1930s Field Radio

Found dead at an estate sale. Three replaced capacitors in and it now produces something closer to sound than static.

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Projects

Building a Weather Station from Salvaged Instruments

Two barometers, a broken sextant, and a lot of solder, assembled into a mounted instrument panel that mostly agrees with the forecast.

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