I just read and watched this link from kleinbl00 about how without gravity we wouldn't be able to steer a bicycle. Turns out you can steer but not balance, or you can balance but not steer. -It was a really interesting post and so far it's the most interesting thing I've seen/read today.
Someone top it!
Halfway through book 1 of Saga of the Swamp Thing. It's pretty terrific so far.
Also, this song seems stuck in my head, so here you go :
YES I HAVE SWAMP THING FRAAANS NOW ON HUBSKI! briandmyers I have talked a little bit on Hubski about Swamp Thing - to you even! - reading it, and my interpretations. I'm on Book 4 right now (out of 5 I believe). If anyone wants to talk about it or just tell me what you think let me know!! I love it. kleinbl00 may be Swamp Thing, or he may be Alan Moore. I talk about Swamp Thing
I just finished "Pog" from book 2 - what a great episode! It's not just a tribute to "Pogo" (one of my favourite newspaper comic strips as a kid), but also some of the most wonderful use of language I've ever seen. Thanks so much for the suggestion kleinbl00
Great drum sounds, good pop song, thanks for sharing it -I like.
This post by scrimetime about the communication network of the Zeta Cartel. It's incredible that criminal organizations can become that powerful and expansive.
I recently read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for class, and I really enjoyed it - but I assume this post is about things on the web. In my endeavor to learn calc 3, most of my time on the web this past week or two has been spent watching MIT opencourseware videos on calc 3. Gradients and directional derivatives are cool, if not confusing!
I recently read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for class, and I really enjoyed it
-Nice, it's been a really long time since I read that but I recall enjoying it too.
A look into the dark power of college fraternities. Had me up chatting all night I first read it a week or two ago.
Ah, "the clear ether of youth itself," -the one inebriate not longer available to me. -I'll check out the article, thanks for sharing.
That's really cool. My dad rarely sends me emails or texts but lately he's been doing so more often. I like it when he does. One of our topics of conversation of late has been bitcoin and he recently sent me an article on it. Your father was an engineer, is that right?
Trained as an engineer. Did post-grad work in radiation monitoring. Ended up working for Los Alamos National Labs doing dosimetry. Decided doing it by hand was dumb since he was just reading Nixie tubes; Nixie tubes output a voltage so why not just log the voltage? Ended up building the first remote metering interfaces, which needed a network, so he built the first computer network the Department of Energy ever had. Before long, he was more useful to have around as the guy who built the computer networks than the guy who measured radiation. At one point he had an 8,000-node network. Many of the devices used when he started his career are still in use. These are devices that predate CPM; they now have to talk to a port emulator that bootstraps them up to Windows NT4 which then gets translated to work with modern stuff. This is my dad: He's got his own little corner of the world deep in the heart of the DOE net that only he gets to talk to. For a while he did GIS for ARG/NEST; now he mostly keeps the machines running in the back corner of the Department of Energy.
Now I want to watch War Games again. It's been many years, in fact I may have actually been a kid the last time I saw that film. Your dad sounds really interesting. My father works at the family business. and has for most of his life. He coached my little league team, the Rangers to the championship and we won. He went to most of my New Green shows and he's the kind of guy that can talk to a perfect stranger in a grocery store line and not make it weird. He's in sales, the apple didn't fall too far from the tree. He's a closeted harmonicist.
Nice. The "family business" (on my dad's side at least) is farming, for generations back. Grampa and grandma were blown out of Bastrop County, Texas by the Dust Bowl, settled around Claunch, NM only to have the water go away forever and then spend four years as itinerant workers looking for a living. They came back to New Mexico - Los Alamos in particular - because post WWII there was a jobs boom. They could never afford to live there, though. They had a 5-acre plot on the Santa Fe Trail that my dad now owns. Kinda funny; my aunt ended up owing her parents enough out of her inheritance that my dad ended up with the real estate, yet she's got three kids that live within 70 miles of the place while me and my sister are a thousand miles away and never going back. Gonna have to figure out what to do with it. I will say that I covet my grandpa's '39 Farmall. My uncle, my grandpa and my grandma all ended up dying within 72 hours of each other April before last. It had been a long time coming, but still - for my aunt, she had a husband and two parents on Monday and by Wednesday noon she didn't.
a long time coming, but still - for my aunt, she had a husband and two parents on Monday and by Wednesday noon she didn't.
-that's horrible, that poor lady. Was it unexpected that her husband would go or was his death also a "long time coming?"