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by quercusa 5y ago
Thanks!
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by quercusa 5y ago
I always wondered if the 'business' Courier modems really needed to be so big, or if it just made them look worth the price. https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr3453c/
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by quercusa 5y ago
Sorry, no windows!
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by quercusa 5y ago
How many syllables are pronounced in 'Loughborough'?
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by quercusa 5y ago
The individual rooms look a lot like prison cells.
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by quercusa 5y ago
> it doesn't cost much to put down some trees. It would cost even less to leave some on the site, but it seems that builders prefer to scrape all the topsoil off.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I don't think I've ever seen an inkjet plotter in action. Does the paper go through a single pass? I was always fascinated by pen plotters, especially when drawing diagonal lines or changing pens.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Great little book; truly counter-cultural.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I had a very similar experience (using a piece of copper pipe). We made a strategic error in testing it in my friend's driveway at 11 pm. My friend's dad was a chemistry professor, so he could only be so upset about it...
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by quercusa 5y ago
e.g., with regard to Kennewick Man: "From our oral histories, we know that our people have been part of this land since the beginning of time," a leader of the Umatilla tribe wrote in a statement at the time. "We do not bel
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by quercusa 5y ago
My family has used ReaderWare for years. It's got smart cataloging across multiple sources (including LoC for old books w/o an ISBN) and runs on a number of platforms. We use an old USB CueCat. https://www.readerware.co
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by quercusa 5y ago
The per-bug write-ups seem really useful. Have you used them for internal training or just for your own reference?
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How ACOUP made me a better programmer(buttondown.email)
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by quercusa 5y ago
Essential Craftsman How to Build a House : https://essentialcraftsman.com/houebuild Great material and a real example of true craftsmanship. Highly recommended!
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by quercusa 5y ago
For those who are not up to reading music at Bach's level, Stephen Malinowski's Musical Animation videos are eye-opening, e.g., from the Musical Offering mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by quercusa 5y ago
Do people still read Godel, Escher, Bach ?
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by quercusa 5y ago
The SBL GNT is a freely-distributable version of the Greek NT with a decent apparatus (think UBS, not NA): https://sblgnt.com/download/
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by quercusa 5y ago
> Use your stove's vent fans! We saw a huge improvement in air quality (less smoke, less steam, less grease) when I installed a vent to the outside so the microwave fan over the stove could vent outside instead of just circulating t
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by quercusa 5y ago
Someone once drove my car away from the SJ airport lot as a favor for his friend, who was quite surprised to be picked up in someone else's blue Camry.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Probably needs Squirrel as a catalyst.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Giant Hogweed: https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/39809.html
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by quercusa 5y ago
I lost a number of shrubs planted under one before I thought to look that up. I am plotting its demise even now.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Are you the teacher or the parent? I can't decide which I think would be funnier.
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Hmmmm... That would be a good home!
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by quercusa 5y ago
I've got a top of the line Pioneer LD player (with the head that moves around the disc so you don't have to flip it) with less than 20 hours on it. I've got no use for it but just can't bear to toss it.
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by quercusa 5y ago
We had one of those bee hotels up. It turned out to be a buffet for the parasitoid wasps. There seems to a reason that mason bees, etc. are called 'solitary'. We've currently got Mountain Mint ( Pycnanthemum muticum ) and Joe
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by quercusa 5y ago
I ran hundreds of rolls through a SRT101 before retiring it in favor of a Nikon FE2. The SRT is dinged and scratched; it has a patch on the cloth shutter; but I suspect it would work just was well as ever.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Mature red-tailed hawks can hover or soar with only the slightest movements but the juveniles are comically bad at it.
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by quercusa 5y ago
BiiN would eventually be explained as "Billions invested in Nothing".
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by quercusa 5y ago
The i960 flopped in part because it was tied [0] to the I2O ('Intelligent I/O') project. (The 2 was always rendered as a subscript). I2O pushed a split-driver model in which the OS driver ('top half') did not talk d

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