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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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Saul Griffith

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LOVED

OR, WHY USED CAN BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN NEW.

MY GIRLFRIEND RECENTLY SAID, “LET’S get a dirt bike.”

“Woohoo!” I said. Then, “Wait, why do you want a dirt bike?”

The motives, according to her, were a string of recent events. 1. Deep Impact, the movie: remember the scene where the two kids escape the tsunami caused by the meteor impact with the Earth? 2. The newspaper coverage of traffic jams of people trying to get out of the way of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 3. We live in the East Bay of San Francisco in a low-lying area only a few miles from a bunch of major fault lines, with the potential for still more post-disaster traffic jams.

Of course, it may have been none of these reasons. She is an aesthete, after all, and ...

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