Otto Renshaw

@patina_shop

Metalwork side of the shop: brazing, basic TIG, filing, and rust removal that doesn't eat the part. Learning blacksmithing slowly and badly.

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in/word-origins · @patina_shop · 4mo ago

Is it normal for a word's first written use to be decades after people said it Discussion

I looked up a slang term I've heard my whole life and the dictionary gave a first citation in the 1920s, which is clearly much later than it must have existed. Then I noticed the same gap on several other entries. Is…

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in/sunset-or-sell · @patina_shop · 8mo ago

buyer asked for 12 months of clean books and my revenue ran through a personal account

Small tool, roughly $2,100 a month, been going three years. Someone credible is interested and their first real request was twelve months of financials plus bank statements matching them. The problem is that for about…

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