Dirck Van Lieu

Nantucket Workbench is a collection of images and observations about carpentry and tools new and old by a 3rd generation woodworker.

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I thought perhaps the President was going out for coffee when I heard the sirens, but the motorcade was for the football team after they beat the Vineyard at Fenway. 😜

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While I’m home talking to my cats, little brother is lecturing at the University of Copenhagen this week.

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@82ndABNDiv My wife has one of the original prints of this photo from her father, 2nd Lt. Robert B. Bales, standing at the far right.

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@EvitorialPage @BruceArchives @RutgersU Yup.

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@bkrimpet @BruceArchives We're scattered. Paul is in New Jersey, Arnie is in California, Sid is in Connecticut, and I'm in Nantucket.

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@johnedwinmason New-fangled nail guns and old fashioned rope drums.

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@johnedwinmason I’m a working carpenter at 73. Don’t make me stop!

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@gathara @Alonso_GD Last year was 2023, not 2014, but point taken.

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@davissturg @ACKCurrent I strained to keep myself from commenting on that phrase. Fer cryin' out loud, people, there are no degrees of uniqueness. "There can be only one."

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The third parade in two days.

[Michael Podhorzer @Mike_Podhorzer]

1/ At long last, can we all stop pretending that Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh are legitimate jurists? They are politicians who were effectively “appointed” to the Court by the Federalist Society, which has turned the Supreme Court into an unaccountable super-legislature.

Their mission is to repeal and replace the 20th Century—to destroy the guardrails protecting Americans from civil rights violations and corporate predations. #Immunity

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@johnedwinmason Maybe a rope-tensioned drum. But probably knot.

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@inthesamedevice @tjsleakyroof That's what I was thinking. The debate as to whether Pluto is a planet goes way back.

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@PowerToolMan
Congratulations! 💪

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@SamuelIse3 @RpsAgainstTrump Look! Squirrel!

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On our bookstore crawl in Dallas today, I saw seven typewriters. This one is in Deep Vellum. What a great store and staff!

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@johnedwinmason @LPOrchestra Love the rest count!

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@johnedwinmason It must be challenging to pigeon-hole a carpenter living on Nantucket. One cancels out the other.

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@MakitaTools What is the heated area of the blanket?

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@BUILD_OR_DIE @hblodget That explains the hair cut.