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I bought an encyclopedia
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Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#42I recently purchased a Britannica 15th Edition 32 Volume Complete from a yard sale. I'm not a doomsayer so to speak but if the grid ever gets hit with a big enough solar flare, I'll have plenty to read.
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#43> How do we make crayons?
If you're being retro, old Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers episodes covered that regularly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_MEFVx5jM
https://www.pbs.org/video/mister-rogers-neighborhood-competi...
> We had just bought an emulator to teach them to play Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? They loved it, but wanted to quickly look up clues --- quick, he drove off in a car with a blue and yellow flag! And which country uses pesos?
The original versions of the games literally shipped with a copy of the World Almanac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Almanac.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole point of the game was to teach kids how to use that reference work.
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#44Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational. https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/bosch10/
As someone who never owns a car and wants to learn about car. Do you think it's a good book? I am still contemplating between buying book about car or buy pc games called Car Mechanic Simulator.
What about learning more about something you already own and use? It would give you an opportunity to have a more hands on, real world experience and if it does break you can fix it?
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#45Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational. https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/bosch10/
If you're looking to be inspired to take the plunge into car repair, check out M359 Restorations YouTube channel[0]. It's a one-man shop in Frankfurt that specializes in BMW restorations. It's a good look into what it takes to do projects like this well: the tools, the space, the knowledge of the secondary market and parts suppliers, and when/how to repair a component rather than buying a new one. He does use repair…
M359 Restorations is an absolutely fantastic channel, arguably the best car restoration channel on YouTube.
I also recommend ChrisFix, especially for new DIY driveway mechanics as the videos tend to be more general tutorials using hand tools (e.g. "how to do an oil change", "how to replace brake discs + pads").
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#46This article reminded me that many years ago I used to make PDF compilations of related Wikipedia articles using some tooling developed by PediaPress, and then read those offline on my laptop or iPad. I recently encountered one such compilation of cryptography & security related articles in my EBooks folder, and noticed the PediaPress metadata on the PDF. Apparently PediaPress is still around, and its tooling is stil…
+1.
I need to try this.
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to take advantage of the browser's "work offline" functionality. This started to work less and less reliably, even by the early 2000s, but Wikipedia still worked nicely. I would dial up at night when everyone was asleep and click through to all the pages surrounding some topic, like internal combustion engines. Then the next day I'd work offline and digest it all. I was sad when I clicked a link that hadn't be…
On Android, the official Wikipedia app is surprisingly good at marking articles for offline reading, organizing them into collections, and downloading them, including related assets like images. When I'm traveling I install the app on my "travel phone" (which is Android / Google Fi) and take advantage of it along with Kindle app offline reading for Lonely Planet guides, and the Google Maps offline maps feature.
+1.
Good tips.
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#48My takeaway is that if we want an offline encyclopedia, we'd basically need to download the entire wikipedia including the full talk & edit history.
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#49Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational. https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/bosch10/
As someone who never owns a car and wants to learn about car. Do you think it's a good book? I am still contemplating between buying book about car or buy pc games called Car Mechanic Simulator.
I really enjoyed John Muir pubs like How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot. They are available for a handful of vehicles (the Subaru one is a favorite of mine). Available at a used bookshop or new.
Great drawings, useful for non-motor-heads. The Sub version has info like resuscitating a drowned lizard :)
Avoid if You hate R. Crumb style drawings and hippies.
Try entering 1566913101 as the search in Amazon, currently USD23.00
Edit, adding: you don't need a specific one to gain great knowledge.
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#50I recently purchased a Britannica 15th Edition 32 Volume Complete from a yard sale. I'm not a doomsayer so to speak but if the grid ever gets hit with a big enough solar flare, I'll have plenty to read.
Would be nice if the Encyclopedia was detailed enough to be able to re-build the grid ;)