tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52629418250206392024-02-20T20:34:57.997+01:00The Torrible ZoneMusings on architecture, urbanism, literature, and motorcyclesClipstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08885774459080813040noreply@blogger.comBlogger390125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-22805448592145042702021-02-24T17:16:00.005+01:002021-02-24T18:27:10.596+01:00Most people don't know how to falsify or verify hypotheses"The thing about the flat earth [theory] is that it is the hypothesis is formally falsifiable even by the individual and the alternative hypotheses is formally verifiable with the best methods we have with the highest confidence we can have. Now one thing that I would still say is interesting is I know many people who refer to flat earthers as the monicker of maximum stupidity who [themselves] Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-56718444643667627542019-06-19T15:33:00.001+02:002021-02-24T18:32:34.898+01:00Sterilizing Development Arrives in GoshenGoshen has seen a remarkable renaissance over the past 20 years, not just in its downtown, but also in the community as a whole. Art, entrepreneurship, food, entertainment, retail commerce, and recreation are blossoming in the city’s rich culture. As such, Goshen has become a model of success among northern Indiana municipalities and an increasingly vibrant destination. Much of this success is Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-76118856556086724772019-06-15T21:25:00.000+02:002019-06-16T03:28:37.121+02:00New Model of Design for a Proposed Orthodox Temple
My friend and iconographer, Brian Whirledge, recently built a model of my proposed temple design as we begin to plan the iconographic program for the interior. It is exciting to see the two dimensional drawings and watercolor renderings take three-dimensional shape.
The foam-core model constructed from plan and elevation drawings
The same view as a watercolor rendering
Views of the Clipstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08885774459080813040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-30886270495329302192019-04-05T16:02:00.000+02:002019-04-05T16:02:10.921+02:00The Status Quo of Electric Cars: Better Batteries, Same Range
"The 2010 Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i-MiEV have exactly the same range as the 1908 Fritchle Model A Victoria: 100 miles (160 kilometres) on a single charge."
A very interesting article from Low Tech Magazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/05/the-status-quo-of-electric-cars-better-batteries-same-range.htmlRichard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-72635113391753939292019-03-05T17:16:00.000+01:002019-03-06T16:32:16.194+01:00Classicism and Orthodox Christianity
Classical architecture describes a tradition of design and building that looks to the greatest examples of architecture as a means of accessing an intrinsic, transcendent truth. Over time, a long sequence of unique buildings and their designers were able to apply the concept of an ideal to particular and often wildly different places and circumstances around the globe and over thousands of Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-88117341292930108192019-02-24T03:19:00.000+01:002019-02-24T03:22:18.596+01:00Milan Trip
Roof of the Duomo
Palazzo dell'Arengario begun in 1936 under Mussolini
One of the oldest portions of the Duomo dating to the 1380s
Inner courtyard of the Sforza Castle
The apse of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Interior of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Cloister of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Courtyard of Sant'Ambrogio
Choir of Sant'Ambrogio
Teatro alla Scala
La Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-52431333628169326552019-01-01T23:00:00.000+01:002019-01-02T07:19:08.329+01:00Time and Tide Wait For No Man
I have been thinking of two poems on this first day of the year 2019. I started by thinking of an old Thomas More College classic, The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy, but for some reason my mind ran to some lines Richard Wilbur uses to describe what he calls "pilgrims of defeat". In his poem for the newly built Statione Termini, he laughingly rebukes them with almost Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-41464848050482402172018-12-17T16:37:00.005+01:002018-12-17T16:37:43.673+01:00God Is In The Machine
Carl Miller on the terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms
Algorithms have changed, from Really Simple to Ridiculously Complicated. They are capable of accomplishing tasks and tackling problems that they’ve never been able to do before. They are able, really, to handle an unfathomably complex world better than a human can. But exactly because they can, the way Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-86616250636167852162018-12-11T03:49:00.001+01:002018-12-13T04:38:11.680+01:00Starving For Time
From L.M. Sacasas' The Frailest Thing:
“American Society is starving,” not for food, of course, “but for the ultimate scarcity of the postmodern world, time.” “Starving for time,” they add, “does not result in death, bur rather, as ancient Athenian philosophers observed, in never beginning to live.”
https://thefrailestthing.com/2018/12/09/digital-media-and-our-experience-of-time/
Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-23434931275022695342018-12-10T22:49:00.001+01:002018-12-11T03:40:28.664+01:00Speedometer Design
Some wonderful speedometers, gauges, and watches from the last 100 years:
Two designs for a new Janus speedometer from our own senior lead speedometer designer, Grant Longenbaugh:
The rectangle at the bottom is for a digital odometer, trip meter, volt meter, and temperature guage.
Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-47379877122582757802018-12-09T20:53:00.003+01:002018-12-09T21:49:43.071+01:00Ancient Greek Technology and the Antikythera Mechanism
I just stumbled across this New Yorker article from 2007. The discovery and X-ray scanning of the Antikythera Mechanism highlights the French sociologist Jacques Ellul's argument that our modern relationship with technology is fundamentally different from how man has encountered technology in the past--that the ancient Greeks possessed a much more developed Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-32130350961140859172018-11-19T18:32:00.001+01:002018-12-13T05:02:48.264+01:00The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
For a full version and transcript of the video click here.
Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-5004244299812634152018-11-05T21:51:00.001+01:002018-12-13T04:59:54.640+01:00Maps From Books: A Review of a New Book
Well, someone has beat me to it, but maybe that didn't get everything? From the linked Weekly Standard review:
"Barring some unforeseen miracle of publishing occurring in the next few weeks, The Writer’s Map will be my book of the year for 2018. It gathers intelligently charming meditations from writers and festoons them with map after map after map after map of imaginary, and Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-39238060393726469742018-10-16T02:30:00.002+02:002018-11-19T18:10:26.605+01:00Watercolor Wash Renderings For a New Antiochian Orthodox Temple in Indiana
It has been a wonderful to get back to watercolor rendering. This is a design for a new temple for my home parish of Saint Mary's here in Goshen. I look forward to the possibility of seeing this temple built in more that paper, pencil, and watercolor pigments.
Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-54314284680264964532018-09-19T14:29:00.000+02:002018-12-13T05:07:50.402+01:00DirectiveBy Robert Frost
Back out of all this now too much for us,Back in a time made simple by the lossOf detail, burned, dissolved, and broken offLike graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,There is a house that is no more a houseUpon a farm that is no more a farmAnd in a town that is no more a town.The road there, if you'll let a guide direct youWho only has at heart your getting lost,May seem as Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-49681382753938000392018-06-28T01:05:00.000+02:002018-07-01T01:06:46.110+02:00Bottom Paint on the MarinerAnother great day of work on the Mariner with a special visit from Mariner Class Association member John Davies, #3337. John drove up from Traverse City with his wife to take a look at my boat and offer his extensive knowledge of the Mariner and personal recommendations on the condition of the boat and the repairs I am undertaking. I am very grateful for his generosity.
John told me the repairs Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-61204076292757747442018-06-27T00:59:00.000+02:002018-07-01T01:07:10.704+02:00Fiberglassing the MarinerI spent the day grinding out a bit more in the target areas and then laying glass. The cracked area on the starboard side where a bunk had pressed in turned out to be much larger than I realized. The area had multiple weak points, damaged areas, and was completely waterlogged. I ground out all the bad glass tapering the edges back and dried it out as best as I could before glassing over the hole.Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-42032485265412574042018-06-25T00:55:00.000+02:002018-07-01T00:56:17.845+02:00Centerboard Trunk CracksI spent 4 hours sanding to the bottom yesterday and got the majority of the existing paint off and established an even roughed up surface. I focused a bit more on the damaged areas and tried to get them down to bare glass.
One thing I noticed during my prolonged time on my back under the boat was that there were quite a few hairline stress cracks all the way around the CB trunk right at the Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-66855911158309014582018-06-08T00:45:00.000+02:002018-07-01T01:07:32.362+02:00Mariner 19 "Grebe" 2018 Season
It’s been a busy year and I am finally getting around to thinking about putting “Grebe” back in the water. I bought my ’81 Spindrift Mariner last spring. She was in pretty rough shape. Luckily I didn’t pay much for the boat and trailer as the previous owner had let it sit uncovered for a year or two and the boat had filled with water (and probably frozen). One of the side effects of this was Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-90967601928600817862018-05-19T01:33:00.003+02:002018-05-19T01:33:56.109+02:00Across America on a Janus MotorcycleThis post was originally published on the George A. Wyman Memorial Project blog:
A virtual interview with Richard Worsham, co-founder of Janus Motorcycles, conducted by Tim Masterson, project manager for the G.A. Wyman Memorial Project.
Tim Masterson and Richard Worsham pose in front of the George Wyman Waypoint at Janus Motorcycles in Goshen, Indiana
Tim: We are pleased to have Janus Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-67123248119168028822018-04-27T03:19:00.000+02:002018-04-27T03:19:42.200+02:00
From the George A. Wyman Memorial Project Blog:
"With the help of the California Motor Company and Goodman publishing, Wyman was finalizing preparations for his epic motor-cycle ride across America. It is likely this two sentence news clipping was the first public notice of Wyman's attempt. It would be the beginning of publicity designed to launch The Goodman Company's new Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-37916446599845180612018-04-16T19:43:00.000+02:002018-04-16T19:43:49.996+02:00Janus Fork Top Plate Machining
A short video showing the highlights of the machining process for the Janus Motorcycles fork top plate.
Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-75110558135294064132018-03-28T06:38:00.000+02:002018-03-28T06:38:49.687+02:00View of Cloister for Proposed Dominican Priory in Columbus, Ohio - 2009Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-71285388842698386412018-03-12T17:29:00.000+01:002018-03-28T06:07:32.734+02:00A Very Short Guide to Places to Not Miss in Rome
This short guide was originally written 01/05/2017 for friends planning a week long trip to Rome.
Se non è vero, è ben trovato!
There is so much to see and do in Rome that it is with great difficulty and some remorse that I have compiled this small and abridged version of the city. I have excluded most of the palazzi, many of the museums, all but one or two of the Richard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262941825020639.post-13212757572761319022018-01-21T04:39:00.002+01:002018-01-21T04:47:47.057+01:00Winter KLR 650 Maintenance & Upgrades
It's the dead of winter here in northern Indiana and I have a couple of task that needing attending to on the old KLR as well as a few upgrades that I have been collecting parts for over the past few months. If you get a part here and a part there and can manage to be patient, winter updates and repairs don't have to be that painful. Of course right when I start all this it's going to break intoRichard Worshamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506216069153805493noreply@blogger.com