Saturday, January 14, 2017
Mechanized negotiation
Latest item at Kans State Hist Soc is a pipe tomahawk. Made in France around 1700. Excellent metal work, especially the ferrules around the shaft/stem piece.
We talk idiotically about replacing politics with computers. Injun had better idea.
Pipe tomahawk = mechanical instantiation of 'trust but verify', all in one compact device.
"Mmp. You smoke peace pipe with me. You not smoke peace pipe, me use other part of pipe."
Smart.
Later, equally irrelevant: Youtube always "recommends" clips for me based on what I just wrote here. Now it's "recommending" a sciency clip about exploding a Pepsi can with liquid nitrogen. I haven't been writing about Pepsi or nitrogen, but I've been writing a LOT about supercold and ice and snow, and the picture on the clip shows a frozen Pepsi can along with an ax-like tool that closely resembles the pipe tomahawk. 
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