I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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Anand Thakur
I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
ADAM SAVAGEThe idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
ADAM SAVAGEI’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
ADAM SAVAGEAnd there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
ADAM SAVAGEI’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
ADAM SAVAGEAfter all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
ADAM SAVAGESo my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
ADAM SAVAGEIsn’t television glamourous?
ADAM SAVAGEWe’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
ADAM SAVAGEThis is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
ADAM SAVAGEIf I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
ADAM SAVAGEWe don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
ADAM SAVAGEit was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
ADAM SAVAGEI think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
ADAM SAVAGEWe chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
ADAM SAVAGEOf course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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