Not quite like Frankenstein...

The fuel pump lives. A few cranks, and now it whirrs happily when current is applied.

Life, however, does not imply functionality. It may whirr, but no fuel makes it out the other end.

It is being dissected as I eat lunch.

Fuel and Food

( Significant progress on the Alfa today. )

( ...and some garden stuff too. )

Kudos to monkey587

He posted a link to the Ian Knot, the first I had heard of such a thing. I've taught myself how to do it now, and it seems like my shoelaces don't come untied as easily anymore. (Even if they do, it takes me about two seconds to tie them now, no joke.) My shoes almost always come untied normally.

It's a nice shoelace knot, really, and it's so easy to learn that I wonder whether it would be easier to teach it to kids than the multi-step, rather complicated standard knot.