--- template=post title=Scrap style=scrap.css style=/styles/post.css --- [@paragraphs off] <p> I walk around a lot. Quite a bit, really! And I tend to notice weird little bits on the ground. I pick these things up and cherish them. And I'll catalog them here. My good little bits of scrap :D </p> <article id="wrench_2023-08-07"> <header> <h2>Wrench</h2> <time datetime="2023-08-07">Aug 7th, 2023</time> </header> <img src="wrench-2023-08-07/wrench_third.jpg" class="left" alt="a half-inch wrench sitting on an open palm." /> <p> look at my wrench! I found it in a crack! Where a parking-lot-blacktop met the concrete transition from the road. I'm quite surprised I saw it; It was very well hidden. While I was walking over it I noticed a glimmer, kept walking, and then double-took with a sort of "what was that?" And there it was! </p> <p> It's of the half-inch variety, a crescent on one end and a box-head the other. Oh, it's just so good! A proper spanner! This find elates me so. </p> </article> <svg viewBox="0 0 1000 20" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid slice" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="height: 2em; width: 100%;" role="heading" aria-level="2" id="prehistory"> <!-- aria match h2 --> <style> .text { font: italic 16px sans-serif; } </style> <path d="M 0 11 L 1000 11" stroke="var(--text)" stroke-width="0.5"></path> <rect x="462.5" y="0" width="77.5" height="20" fill="var(--background)" stroke="var(--background)" /> <text x="465" y="16" class="text" stroke="var(--text)" fill="var(--text)" stroke-width="0.1">prehistory</text> </svg> <article id="aeropostale-prehistory"> <header> <h2>Belt Buckle</h2> <p>time forgotten</p> </header> <img src="aeropostale-prehistory/dramatic_third.jpg" class="right" alt="a belt buckle branded Aeropostale in cursive, stylized writing sitting on bricks." /> <p> This little guy I found next to a brick, industrial building in Bensenville, Illinois. I was very excited to find it! It's a belt buckle! That's so weird! How was it separated from it's lengthy leather companion? </p> <p> The body of the buckle seems to be some kind of stainless steel, but I can't be sure. It has "AĆ©ropostale" written on the frame where you might thread the belt material through. The branding appears to be cast into it. The bar is very rusty and I would guess is a kind of mild steel. </p> </article> <article id="grace-prehistory"> <header> <h2>Grace</h2> <time datetime="2022-09">Sep, 2022</time> </header> <img src="grace-prehistory/top_third.jpg" class="left" alt="a small, metal placard with the word grace written on it haphazardly in varying tones of grey. there is a color test chart in the top-left corner." /> <p> I found this walking through an under-construction bike path. It was mysteriously lying in a mound of dirt along the path. </p> <p> The metal feels lighter than steel and it's not magnetic; it might be made of aluminum? The writing feels rough. I think it's an etching or engraving. </p> <img src="grace-prehistory/testchart_quarter.jpg" class="smright" alt="The top-left corner of the placard cropped on the colour chart" /> <p> The little colour test chart is very interesting. Along the top it's labelled A through D and the side 1 through 6. Only sixteen of the positions appear to have a colour. Most are shades of yellow or grey. A-2 is a very nice blue, C-5 a pleasing pink. They get darker as the rows go down, the sixth being too dark to make out much hue. </p> </article> <p style="font-style: italic; max-width: 20rem; margin: 0 auto">i have lots more prehistory to add as i go through my little box and take photos</p>