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by noefingway 3y ago
In the early to mid-60s I built a shortwave radio and a digital clock. Unfortunately neither survived. I still think about that clock sitting by my bed, glowing reddish orange. Sigh....
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by noefingway 4y ago
Every time the SR-71 pops up, it's brings back a memory of seeing it do a flyby at Dulles Airport. IIRC it was supposed to be the last flight as the program was ending. This is probably 1989. I didn't know about it until the day o
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by noefingway 4y ago
Just finished reading "Ubik", I found it partly amusing and also prescient that to get thru a door or make coffee required putting a nickel in the slot. Practically everything required a small payment in order to use it. We seem t
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by noefingway 4y ago
I highly recommend cold brew coffee. We make it once a week or so. My wife grinds her mix of beans, into the toddy, add cold water, let steep over night and drip the next day. Add some brew to a cup and top off with hot water. Cold brew wil
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by noefingway 4y ago
Just like good old country ham here in the US. I get one every year, been eating it since I was a kid. Dry, crusty, some mold on the outside. Clean it off an slice it, or soak it for a couple of days then bake it. Either way it's stapl
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by noefingway 4y ago
I remember doing these. Air raid sirens would go off, we would dive under out desks, wait until teacher said we could get up. Sometimes we did drills to all march, in an orderly manner, out of the classroom into the basement of the classroo
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by noefingway 4y ago
Ditto for "Command and Control". Good read, very terrifying how much lack of control there was/is. I can recommend "Raven Rock" as another good read. How very rational people and be totally irrational. Living near R
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by noefingway 4y ago
I would recommend watching Kenneth Branagh's movie adaptations, particularly Henry V. You get a good feel for the power of the language, the pathos and the humor. I used to have recordings (i.e. vinyl records) of the Royal Shakespeare
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by noefingway 4y ago
Aaron Copland: "Fanfare for the Common Man", goose bumps, chills and shudder every time I hear it
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by noefingway 5y ago
https://thecounter.org/who-really-owns-american-farmland https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/05/bill-melinda-gates-... where I farm our (60 miles from DC and Baltimore) not very productive
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by noefingway 5y ago
"The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same; only the name has changed. The name Yellow Pages is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of Brit
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by noefingway 5y ago
current prices can be see here: https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/gx_gr210.txt in Maryland where I farm, there has been a surplus of chicken litter on the eastern shore. Good for farmers there, but moving it around is
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by noefingway 5y ago
Ditto that - I'm in MD
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by noefingway 5y ago
Has he been nominated for a Darwin Award yet?
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by noefingway 5y ago
I totally agree with this. I used to listen to a lot of classical music (radio, vinyl, in concert). There seems to be something about the mid-20th century conductors where all their recordings are slow, ponderous and somnolent. Beethoven in
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by noefingway 5y ago
a fantastic and inspirational read. also great cookie recipe! made them many times
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by noefingway 6y ago
Brings back some memories. First UNIX I worked on was, IIRC, was System III on a Pixel Machines box. We ported a management tool for Dept of Transporation that had been running on an IBM TSO system. Deployed 5 of these around the country, s
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by noefingway 6y ago
As a long time subscriber to the Risks mailing list, I would have to note the extensive discussion of this incident: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/search?query=therac
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by noefingway 6y ago
Currently using this one https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw for an image migration project. Using it to pull image metadata thru ODBC. While it's primary design is for GIS data, it works well for any ODBC da
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by noefingway 6y ago
Keep at it! I'm 68, started programming when I was 17 on a PDP-8 with Dartmouth Basic, paper tape and a teletype. Moved on from there to mainframes, minis, workstations. Still working and learning.
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by noefingway 7y ago
Agreed. It's a scene like that which separates the very good actors from the truly great. While I enjoyed the remake, I don't think it comes close to the original.
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by noefingway 8y ago
Thurmont MD - I work with a small company in Shepherdstown, WV. It's about a 50 min drive, no traffic, country roads. I go in once a week, rest of the time is at home (farm). I've been fortunate the last 10 years that I've be
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by noefingway 8y ago
yes - raising grains for distillers and millers, while coding too. Gets hectic at planting and harvest time!
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Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years, I’m done(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by noefingway 8y ago|2 comments
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by noefingway 8y ago
a hammer is my go to tool for anything thats stuck. a good whack usually get things going ;-)
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by noefingway 8y ago
Highly recommend Henry Petroski's book on bridge building https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/to-engineer-is-human-the-role-...
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by noefingway 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton
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by noefingway 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Crab_Monsters
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by noefingway 9y ago
I grew up around Washington DC which had some fine large screen theaters. One had a curved screen (the Uptown, IIRC, movies were all in 70mm format) so if you sat in the first few rows, the screen almost wrapped around you. IMHO, the only w
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by noefingway 9y ago
Harvesting ice in the winter was a common and wide spread activity in North America (and most of Europe). Short article on Hudson River ice harvesting http://www.genealogy.clifflamere.com/Aid/History/IceHarvesti...

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