Russian style
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:12 am
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“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.”
Cryptonomicon! Awesome read!Greg wrote:Wait. Russian? Style? Does not compute, Comrade.
Well with one possible exception. Makes me think of a quote from a Neal Stephenson book
“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.”
Air Zlatoust Lynx. Bought it for my son as a Xmas present. Incredible quality and painful beauty.Denis wrote:Shiny!
Do tell more about the sharp, pointy thing. Seems somehow too fancy to be Soviet.
FelixEstrella wrote:Cryptonomicon! Awesome read!Greg wrote:Wait. Russian? Style? Does not compute, Comrade.
Well with one possible exception. Makes me think of a quote from a Neal Stephenson book
“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.”
Thanks, Felix. I found somebody in Slovakia selling Air knives.FelixEstrella wrote:Air Zlatoust Lynx. Bought it for my son as a Xmas present. Incredible quality and painful beauty.Denis wrote:Shiny!
Do tell more about the sharp, pointy thing. Seems somehow too fancy to be Soviet.
Nice!Denis wrote: They look really nice. I might treat myself to one of these: https://www.euro-knife.com/air/knife-air-gepard-birch/