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by Wistar 6y ago
In the very late 80s, a co-worker of mine, a corporate-productions scriptwriter, gave up his Mac and started using a Neo2-like device -- it looked very similar and used AA batteries. I remember him crowing about how it was a game-changer fo
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by Wistar 6y ago
Ah, now I understand. Thanks. Makes perfect sense.
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by Wistar 6y ago
It seems to me it is more because your eyes can't move if they are locked all the way to one side.
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by Wistar 6y ago
A little tangential: If you hard lock your eyes, say, all the way to the right and rotate your head slowly to the left, you can defeat the saccade mechanism and get a smooth pan, complete with motion blur.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Sort of a SLAPP suit?
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by Wistar 6y ago
I have two of them and I sure like the 16:10 aspect. I recently bought a refurb Dell UP3017 30" at 2560 x 1600/60 and I love the thing.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Interesting. I use Noodler's Bulletproof for check writing due to its alleged strong resistance to erasure and check washing. I have seen it mentioned as being well-suited for use on cheaper, rougher paper but hadn't really given
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by Wistar 6y ago
As someone once remarked "On XP everything looks as though it should go MOO! when you click on it."
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by Wistar 6y ago
I've seen both. I had a manager who was a mesmerizing storyteller but was really full of bullshit and I have watched the even more mesmerizing Brian Greene who is not full of bullshit.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Count me among them.
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by Wistar 6y ago
A friend of mine, a lefty, built a little writing table with a surface warmed by a small heating pad to dry his fountain pen ink rapidly. He used a smooth, rubber-like, or maybe vinyl, drafting table mat to cover the writing surface. It wor
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by Wistar 6y ago
Well, there is this OLED option. Bring money. https://www.lg.com/us/business/oled-displays/lg-55EW5F-A
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by Wistar 6y ago
• A circa 1973 Zenith clock radio with the red LED numeral display. It's in daily use. • 1956 Rockwell 9in radial arm saw. Motor has been rewound twice now. I inherited it from my father who bought it new. • An Argus C3 35mm film camer
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by Wistar 6y ago
Ah, interesting. Back in my presentation days, I found that, if I pretended to be a fire and brimstone preacher when I practiced speeches, and dialed it back when I actually gave the speech, those speeches went a lot better, and were better
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by Wistar 6y ago
The Royal Order of Adjectives. https://www.lavc.edu/profdev/library/docs/Adjectives-and-adv...
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by Wistar 6y ago
Wow. I have never really given this subject much thought. In thinking about it, it seems an important part of teaching tacit knowledge is to establish, or cause, conditions that encourage the learning — the experiencing — of the specific th
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by Wistar 6y ago
The Guardian: Interview: "How we made the typeface Comic Sans" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/28/how-we-...
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by Wistar 6y ago
Also, although somewhat tedious, there is a "what font is this?" game called Typewar. http://typewar.com/
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by Wistar 6y ago
See also: "Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black" https://vimeo.com/31237546
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by Wistar 6y ago
Yeah, "fitful" is a word that sounds good but isn't.
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by Wistar 6y ago
First-hand experience: helicopters are wildly more difficult to fly. Perhaps the lead-lag hinges can be elastomeric and one could purchase props with different fixed hinge stiffnesses for different amounts of noise dampening or frequency sp
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by Wistar 6y ago
I have often wondered if larger, shrouded, multi-bladed rotors that can spin at a much lower speed can work. Perhaps uneven blade spacing — or even articulated blades with tunable lead-lag hinges to modulate blade spacing — to spread the no
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by Wistar 6y ago
Unlikely.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Here in WA state, my daughter kept changing her signature and had to verify her mail-in ballot for several elections.
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by Wistar 6y ago
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals disagrees: "Despite YouTube's ubiquity and its role as a public-facing platform, it remains a private forum, not a public forum subject to judicial scrutiny under the First Amendment," the cou
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by Wistar 6y ago
See also the recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision on whether or not free speech applies on a private platform (spoiler: it doesn't). "Despite YouTube's ubiquity and its role as a public-facing platform, it remains a
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by Wistar 6y ago
In Denmark, I met an 11 year old girl who fluently spoke six languages. I was impressed but am unsure whether to classify her language skills as academic or outlandish.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Perhaps I am misunderstanding but, I think being choosy about the guests one hosts is not censorship.
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by Wistar 6y ago
On the stretchers, of course. Not all french cleats are 10". Some of mine are 1/2" and I use two sets. Once hung, the art never gets crooked.
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by Wistar 6y ago
My photography archive, including about 10 years of high-volume commercial photography, is about 14 years old and at about 23TB. At present, it grows about 5GB a day. I have stopped routinely shooting RAW because storing it all has become a

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