Blowing the flames

Scavenger writes:

My friend The Feral Man had talked for a while about doing a blog, which touched me off to thinking about doing one as well. But we're both the types that can take a long time putting off a project for various reasons. Don't get me wrong: we do a lot, but we have so many interests that it can distract from focusing on one project enough to start, particularly with trying to fit in school (no longer a factor for either of us) and putting food in our bellies (a very large factor!) with working on nifty stuff. I figured that with both of us sharing a blog it would help to keep it from stagnating as we got distracted by some other aspect of our life, as well as allow us to serve as a spur to each other.

We're quiet, unassuming oddballs. He studies medieval European martial arts; I want to build a roadster pickup based around a Chrysler torsion bar subframe. Many people don't seem to know how to handle oddballs, especially when they are younger. I remember from very early on in school how my classmates reacted with incredulity and then mocking when they found I didn't give a rip about football, basketball, baseball, or sports in general. They had never experienced someone like that before. And yet, The Feral Man and I hold much the same views on high school sports as being a very primitive form of ritualized combat, not appreciably different from stick fighting in Africa or the original bungie jumping from a jungle platform with a vine tied to your ankle. We both grew up in podunk little Texas towns, separated by half the state and a span of somewhere around fifteen years.

We're going to take the kinds of things that we talk about on the phone and put them out there for the world to see, or at least however many of them wander onto this little corner of the web. Conversation that isn't a list of what team is throwing a ball back and forth at the moment, or what the schedule on TV is. Pictures of what we're working on. Philosophy on life, the universe, and everything.

So come pull up a log and share our campfire. It will be different, I can pretty much guarantee you that.