hobby #70
Slide Rule Collecting
Hunting down vintage slide rules — Pickett, K&E, Faber-Castell — and learning to calculate with them. Each rule tells a story: the engineer who wore grooves into the trig scales, the aerospace insignia on Cold War models, the satisfying click of a well-maintained cursor.
Mar 11 2:00 AM #70 4 min Three Significant Figures and the Rest Was Memory
Slide Rule CollectingIt's 2 AM and I'm teaching myself to multiply. The year, somehow, is 2026.