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by Wistar 5y ago
Yeah, the filters sold out everywhere here in Washington State in Sept 2020. My daughter was in Yellowstone at the time and, on her drive back, stopped at multiple home and hardware stores along the way and found none available.
572.
by Wistar 5y ago
For my spouse's classroom, I made a 4-filter-cube and fan filter setup using this video as the basis. https://youtu.be/Y7eL2OAnqc8 I added a fan shroud on the exhaust side of the fan using a piece of cardboard with a c
573.
by Wistar 5y ago
"The 8 most important execs who left Microsoft in 2021, and 3 new power players who joined" https://www.flexi-news.com/the-8-most-important-execs-who-le...
574.
by Wistar 5y ago
Scaling outlined or ruled art is a bitch.
575.
by Wistar 5y ago
And that has to be where he read it. Nice find.
576.
by Wistar 5y ago
Okay, THAT would be easy to stage.
577.
by Wistar 5y ago
Also, the wikipedia write-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-independent_propulsion
578.
by Wistar 5y ago
Okay, THAT would be hard to stage.
579.
by Wistar 5y ago
My wife and I just came to this same realization. There's just too many of these polished rescue videos to be real.
580.
by Wistar 5y ago
Yes. And he later went back to school and became a user experience research scientist.
581.
by Wistar 5y ago
One thing: Given the rise of MS stock in the recent past and the pandemic, I have seen many long-time MS folks decide to retire, especially in the last 10–12 months.
582.
by Wistar 5y ago
In the late 90's, the ops mgr at our studio hooked a network cable up to a little motor and attached a 5-6 foot long string to the motor shaft. He hung the motor-string thing in the corner of his office with the string dangling. The mo
583.
by Wistar 5y ago
Alas, that is exactly what has happened. They are in these rubberized, humidity-protective bags within hard cases but they are languishing in my garage storage area.
584.
by Wistar 5y ago
Pure coincidence.
585.
by Wistar 5y ago
From my father, I inherited several large format cameras, a stunningly beautiful cherry wood and brass (maybe rosewood?) Wista 4x5 field camera, a camera on a rail (Linhof?) that looks very technical and a couple others, maybe even an 8x10
586.
by Wistar 5y ago
Also, whole race cars… "When the rest of Levegh's car landed on the embankment, the rear-mounted fuel tank exploded. The fuel fire raised the temperature of the remaining Elektron bodywork past its ignition temperature, which was
587.
by Wistar 5y ago
Also the excellent John McPhee book, "The Curve of Binding Energy," centered on Dr. Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb."
588.
by Wistar 5y ago
"When facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?" — Attributed to Keynes, Churchill, and others with varying details but probably apocryphal.
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by Wistar 5y ago
"Although the Dickey Amendment did not explicitly ban it, for about two decades the CDC avoided all research on gun violence for fear it would be financially penalized. Congress clarified the law in 2018 to allow for such research, and
590.
by Wistar 5y ago
Normalization of Deviance "… [Y]ou could make it to a high level of expertise but then succumb to the complacency fed by your successful experiences, you could be beaten by the ever-present need to accomplish objectives (save time, sav
591.
by Wistar 5y ago
The first place I ever encountered it was at Microsoft. You'd start the interview day with the recruiter, have a series of interviews and conclude back at the recruiter at the end of the "loop." (A single "no hire"
592.
by Wistar 5y ago
Remember the "KILL YOUR TELEVISION" bumper sticker of the late 80s, early 90s? About 1995 or so, I was driving in Seattle, and at a light, the car in front of me had a similarly-styled "KILL YOUR MODEM" sticker. Perhaps
593.
by Wistar 5y ago
Many years ago, perhaps in the mid-90s, a friend of mine proposed starting an outfit that made "Boo-Boo Bears," teddy bears that had casts, crutches, and other injury-healing themes intended for hospitalized children. Then he disc
594.
by Wistar 5y ago
I owned stdarg.com back in the late 90s, early 00s. Never used it and let it lapse.
595.
by Wistar 5y ago
Maybe something more along the lines of this AI handwriting generator? https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html
596.
by Wistar 5y ago
I have paid an ever increasing amount of attention to the $/unit price, especially with coffee. It can be surprising.
597.
by Wistar 5y ago
I am amazed he was able to find a compatible charger.
598.
by Wistar 5y ago
"Directly behind them, not 10 feet away, their 9-year-old daughter was drowning… How did this captain know—from 50 feet away—what the father couldn’t recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that mos
599.
by Wistar 5y ago
Me, too. Specifically his Cypresses Echo of Songs pieces—declaring his unrequited love for a 16-year-old piano student of his—came to mind. He kept them a secret and they weren't published until well after his death.
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by Wistar 5y ago
"High torque, tractable power." Or similar is still seen in vehicle reviews and the like.

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