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Better the basement than the attic.

In the upper midwest, daylight savings time generally gives way to tractor-mounted LED time as contracted harvesting companies switch into high production to beat the late-fall rai…

Butter. Yessir.

These kind of stories always make me chuckle. The Boston Dynamics videos always show the humanoid robots running through debris, dancing to the latest music, regaining balance afte…

Michael Swaine tried to restart a few years ago as well. Not easy being the same you 20+ years later. Same skill, same desire, same willingness. But the same energy is difficult to…

Operational efficiency and care for the elderly will never have mutually beneficial outcomes. Nor will the expectations of the participants on either side of the transaction be com…

The Straight of Hormuz is open to any country willing to pay $2M per voyage. Any country except the U.S. and Israel. The most important aspect of the "toll" is that Iran prefers pa…

Not mentioned but very important was the number of inbound telco lines installed. Equally important was making sure the local phone company properly configured the hunt group for t…

I'll give you props for studying the systems manuals and not the handmade Adventure maps drawn on green-bar paper and hidden behind the back of the last 3270 at the far end of the …

> The President sits at the top of the classification hierarchy. Constitutionally, and in theory as Commander-In-Chief, perhaps. But in practice, it does not seem so. Worse yet, it…

Have to recommend TryAlly. He makes it look easy and straightforward. It's not. https://www.youtube.com/@tryally

It's been five years since key lawmakers deftly navigated the market implications of covid-19 after being briefed in a closed-door session [0]. It's one thing to use insider inform…

Kirsten did a nice job on Forestiere Gardens in Fresno, CA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKRPoQKynk

Anyone who has ever worked with legit 10-key operators understands why many companies were loathe to migrate to modern graphical interfaces. Some of the fastest manual data entry I…

I tried to search for what the acronym "Neo" is based on but no luck. Maybe it's a cinematic reference that got assigned in development and stuck. I don't know. But it did remind m…

Not sure "Cargo Cult" is an apt description. Feynman's description of Cargo Cult Science was predicated on the behavior of islanders building structures in expectation it would sum…

The real shame in all of this is the fact that buried deep within the 100k are workers who actually know a thing or two about how things actually work, have the experience and know…

The price of gold fluctuated significantly in 1979 due to concerns over whether inflation could be brought under control. It started the year at ~$250.00 per ounce and ended the ye…

George Carlin: Germs, Immune Systems https://youtu.be/X29lF43mUlo?t=160

> Our findings establish a new paradigm for bio-integrated, cement-based energy materials, paving the way for energy-autonomous infrastructure. "You see what I did there? Paving. G…

I was young, with all of it yet to unfold, but I have to say, the summer of 1969 was a helluva thing. Stand! For the things you know are right It's the truth that the truth makes t…

2,000,000 miles of roads @ $1,000,000 per mile. Think of that the next time you drive through Arizona on I-40, avoiding the potholes, debris, and life-threatening disrepair. I-40 r…

Are you declaring first use?

Creating the most abject chaos imaginable, grabbing all the floatation devices while those around you tread turbulent waters, is by most definitions, diabolical.

Nice to see Monte Davidoff's name included at line 69. Already the hierarchy tho'. I picture he and Paul discussing the code he had just written when Bill walks in and asks "Are yo…