Category: ResearchList

Trying to do these more regularly. Though I’ve no idea who (besides me) finds them useful.

Current Research:

• Mechanical Keyboards (as in mechanical-switch actuated vs membrane switch)
  • 35% vs 40% vs 60% Keyboard form factors
  • Custom Keycaps for said mechanical keyboards (for mounting on Cherry MX Clear switches)
  • Fully custom aux keyboards for media keystrokes
  • Aesthetically pleasing USB -> Mini USB cables
• Alternate graph paper patterns
• Curing Air-drying clay without cracking
• Sizable Mid-Century Dining room lighting
• TIG welding rigs (110v units)
• Military Nose art

I haven’t done one of these in entirely too long.

Current Obsessions:

• Desert Storm Night Camouflage
• Document Boxes (aluminum)
• Rack Mounted Firewire 800 (or, maybe USB 2.0) Storage solutions
• New Shoulder bag design parameters, referencing
  • TOPO Designs
  • Able Archer
  • The Hill People
• Air-Hardening Clay
• Custom Palet racks

Current Obsessions:

• Brunley Kwaiken (and the offshoots…)
• Kodachrome processed via Caffenol (weird cyanotype effect)
• Caffenol recipes (and the best uses for each…)
• Reloading 126 film cartridges
• Workflow for a BMPCC into FCPX
• Vintage Russian 35mm lenses
• Building a new fly fishing bag (NF-P-126)
• Waterproofing/resisting cotton duck cloth
• Better sourcing for ITW GT Cobra Buckle (black, 1.5″)

Things I’ve been looking into and/or have been fascinated by:

• Wardrobe trunks (generally) and Goyard trunks (specifically)
• Bubble and Squeak
• Montana Gold spray paint
• Carhartt B01 (made in USA version, new “original fit”)
• Squirt.io speed reading bookmarklet
• Manfrotto model 209 tripod
• the Ambitious Card
• as always, looking for better small part storage
• Principles of building a RPG (a game, not a grenade)

Things I’ve been looking into:

• Paetron
• Better sourcing for Really Useful Boxes
• Durability of 10oz Duck cloths vs. 300d Codura
• Kong’s survival pack from Dr. Strangelove
• Jax Blackener
• AluBoxes
• Longitudinal palm
• MOLLE sunglass case
• Strikingly web hosting (for future project)
• Better source for plastic/metal harness hardware
• Konica Rangefinder cameras

Things I’ve been looking into:

• No-No (a documentary about Dock Ellis)
• Our Magic (a documentary about… magic)
• Mamiya Press Camera
• 3.5mm 4 pole extension cable
• Bonding Cuben Fiber
• Diamond-pattern ripstop lightweight Codura
• Feasibility of iPad Air2 as my only computer
• 205/60/16 winter tires
• Konica Hexanon glass
• How to mold Kydex
• Finding a satisfactory camera strap
• MOLLE construction specifications

Things I’ve been looking into:

• “The Straight Line is a Godless Line”
• Pinball legend Roger Sharpe
• Purchasing Bulk (100′) 35mm film rolls (and loading)
• Josh Long’s 8-Day book “Execute”
• Citizen AW1360-04E Aviator
• Tellason T-Shirts
• Sourcing Carpenter’s pencils
• Sourcing think Black felt (for re-lightsealing a camera)
• Nikon Nikkor 50mm 1.8 AIS (later version)
• Better sourcing Uniball Signo 207 Micro (0.38mm) refills
• Better Shemagh sourcing
• Better Washi tape sourcing
• Better small parts organization (less expensive than Sortimo)
• Sourcing material for camera straps (via tripod mount?)

Things I’ve been looking into (with new expanded explanations!)

• Omnifocus for taks management
• “The Manual” a design magazine
• Makeshift magazine – Intended to foster creativity
• French Cleat systems – for better flexible organizational systems of storage
• GoRuck DIY Moral Patch Kit – for easier labeling of gear bags
• Baron Fig “Confidant” – high quality journal (maybe for replacement Bullet Journal?)
• Leuchtturm1917 – high end journal (sz medium dots) (maybe a replacement Bullet Journal?)
• Kiridashi – seems to be a type of Japanese knife, but very little documentation
• Gravity Pockets – gravity actuated pockets in jacket sleeves
• TAD Denim – performance designed raw denim

Things I’ve been looking into:

• William E. Fairbairn
• Alternatives to Moleskine Extra Large Soft Cover notebooks (ideally, dot-grid)
• Motion-picture film stock re-cut to 35mm still film
• Usenet Killfiles
• Konica AR lenses (wide angle & fast)
• A better digital photo workflow
• Sourcing HDPE (ideally in 1” thick slabs)
• Bullet Journalling
• Welding Classes (ideally, for TIG)
• Alternative Replacements for CountyComm EOD bag (seems to be out of production)
• Better automation of my primary Tumblr
• Hosting for future nothingfuture.com (currently redirects here)

Things I’ve been looking into:

• Sensor-only HDMI video cameras
• IRC Education channels (there seem to be… none?)
• Hobonichi Techno cover (Nock Co, maybe?)
• Better sourcing of Plastic Storage containers (straight sided only)
• LED driving lights
• NOS Mil-Spec brass zippers
• Better sourcing of zipper pull ends
• Installing Chromium OS on older PC’s
• Finding a reprint of “The Long Tomorrow”
• Better automation/curation of my primary tumblr
• 1/2 Gallon wide mouth Ball jars
• Sourcing Kydex
• DSLR car mounts (interior)