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I dislike USA Today. It feels like lowest common denominator fluffy news. Also, I remember staying at a hotel once where they delivered one to every guest room.

I live within walking distance of a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Sadly, it's a private residence and closed to the public.

I have a physical clock that sort of works that way. It's different from a flip clock. It has these sort of 10 sided dice with numeric faces that rotate each minute. But no, the mi…

I like how some of them are/were recently still in use as evidenced by the modern computer monitors.

also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Away_Green

There is a fireworks store near me in Pennsylvania that is off I-95 at maybe the first exit over the Delaware line. When you enter the building, you go into an atrium with two door…

> they let people be there "there" is in people's front yards. This reddit thread shows how close the planes are to houses. https://old.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1ntyavt/i_want…

From his house, no I don't think a consumer mortar could hit a plane. The planes weren't that low. But the area surrounding the airport is very densely populated. Given all those p…

My uncle's house is under the landing path for Midway Airport. His whole house shakes when a plane comes by. From his front yard you can easily read the numbers on the plane's body…

I think the museum is a different spot nearby. I found the restaurant on google street view, the pictures go back to 2008! https://maps.app.goo.gl/UxWzN5bcd4cLG6eH9

I went to Muscatine, Iowa on a work trip once. There was a restaurant there called Button Factory. It was housed in a former button factory. Pretty old building. The bar top had an…

It reminded me of ET

Tomodachi Life is so much fun. It's the first time I've seen 1990s voice synthesizer tech used in a fun way. And the item designer makes me nostalgic for Mario Paint.

I found this Librivox audiobook to have a good narrator. https://librivox.org/crime-and-punishment-version-3-by-fyodo...

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What's the end goal of merging everything into X ?

I've always considered magnets to be the closest thing we have in real life to magic.

To allow their site, they suggest you add `@@*$redirect-rule` to `My filters` in the uBlock origins settings. Went from 5% to 84% after I made the change.

I want to shoot a video and get expert feedback on the knot I invented for tying my shoes. It's fast to tie, is easy to untie, and very secure. It has never come untied on its own …

The repo subtitle is `Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling, in real time — an X-ray through the roof.` The demo video starts outside pointing at a cloudy sky wit…

I believe Japanese maple are a popular bonsai plant. I've never seen one as an arch. I have seen Chrysanthemum bonsai made into a small arch.

I first read about tree shaping in a Readers Digest magazine in the 1990s. It featured a man who would shapes trees into chairs and other sculptures. Even since then I wanted to do…

I had a similar youthful hacking experience with this game, I was also 9 at the time. The computer players would say a little trash-talk phrase before making their shot. I edited t…

For a more technical write up https://www.dataminr.com/resources/intel-brief/shinyhunters-... I'm a software dev who was affected by the outage. I was working on an app that connec…

If you have 3 minutes, here's an apropos BBC audio comedy sketch. https://youtu.be/ub01udUz7ns?si=OBMKdK6RED3aZMEq&t=15