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I'm convinced that the states neighboring Pennsylvania take extra care of the last mile of roads on their side leading into PA so the transition is especially obvious.

Earthworms are a mixed bag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...

I love those mid-century names: FuelDraulic, Hydra-Glide, PowerGlide, Ultramatic

You get to feed the ballot into the (literal) black box yourself, it beeps and tells you your vote has been recorded. What did it record? Who knows?

Nice idea. Oregon has fantastic voter pamphlets with candidate-supplied bios, as well as for/against ads that people can buy.

Sample: https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/elections/current-voters-...

I'm very nearsighted and the giant LED clock has been awesome.

Seller was ETBRJTK (known for their quality and honesty!)

I recently bought a $9 TV antenna that promised a $50 Amazon gift card for a five-star review.

Rumors are that people expected AAD to be "AD, but in the cloud!" and were sorely disappointed to find out that it wasn't.

How many AA batteries is that?

The Endeavour episode 'Apollo' (s6e2) takes place in a studio much like the Andersons' - recommended

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/endeavour-apollo-moon-ra...

I vote for 'and'. Strunk & White and the CMS serve different purposes; the latter is more of a reference work but both are valuable.

On the other hand, don't think you can get away without the salt packet either. I think that's worse than too much salt.

(2014)

Interesting:

The Stoics were giving salvation for tough times. It’s a great philosophy for tough times, I’m not sure it’s a great philosophy for everyday living. It’s always good to feel more in control, but it’s not good to think that luck and the vicissitudes of the world can’t touch you or that you can’t show moral outrage, love, grief, and so on.

When I was about seven, my sister and I were taken on a special trip to see the Giant Pandas at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. The pandas were fine, but we were fascinated by the chipmunks running around everywhere.

I think most moves to EMRs were insufficiently disruptive, e.g., electronic orders recapitulate the old paper orders without using the opportunity to reduce ambiguity and insert constraints to prevent common errors.

Factor is a concatenative, stack-based programming language with high-level features including dynamic types, extensible syntax, macros, and garbage collection. On a practical side, Factor has a full-featured library, supports many different platforms, and has been extensively documented.

>She was very adapt at wading into thorny blackberry bushes and eating only the ripest berries

That's a handy skill. Once you taste about-to-fall-off ripe ones, you can never go back.

I've seen an amazing variety of bees and wasps since we planted a native wildflower garden. They may not be unknown to science but most are new to me and they seem to change very few weeks, depending on what's blooming.

Extra points for:

In a way, it's more accurate to say that the signaling system can infer where trains are because it knows where they aren't.

I've heard good things about that one but apparently it's only available in a 1000-page 6x8" paperback, which seems a shame.

Hard to imagine writing this article with zero references to Nyquist.

How to game the test:

https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/how-to-game-the-implici...

I've used RGPs for 45 years (now -6.5) because I've been told multiple times that they provide the clearest vision. They only times I have any issues with comfort is grass allergy season but antihistamine drops work great. They tend to be a bit more expensive up front but they also last for years.

My understanding is that even non-toric RGP lenses can correct some degree of astigmatism.

Once thing that you can do with contacts is so-called Monovision [0], where one lens is slightly under-corrected and your brain figures out which to use. I'll put on reading glasses for close detail work but otherwise go from driving to working at a computer without any focus troubles.

[0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/monovision

I worked in a minilab one summer. The Noritsu printer had, IIRC, a +/- 1,2,3 override for R,G, and B. So if you saw a head over a big blob of green (someone wearing a red shirt), you'd hit +2 Red to override the printer's attempt to "balance out" the colors.

We never got any 'interesting' stuff. I suspect people would prefer a bit more anonymity than you would get from a 2-3 person shop where the person who printed your stuff might also be the one ringing you up for it.

But now it has a QR code!

Thank you for this.

Sorry - not the plural sense, the use of "deducted" .

Canada were deducted six points seems odd in US English. Are there other flavo(u)rs where that wouldn't seem weird?

One of the most unexpected and one of the funniest scenes ever on TV.