scionthefly

That's why I'm upgrading myself off of AT&T and on to a modern provider.

I miss having a quick toggle to turn GPS on and off. It was on some of my early smartphones. Now I have to dig into the location menu...

This is version 1.0. CERN education has a great track record of native language activities and will no doubt expand to other languages assuming this course is successful and useful.

With a big friendly cover and the words "Don't Panic!"

My grandfather referred to it as "stinky foot cheese". I still covered my spaghetti with it...he did not. lol

I have a physical copy of your documentary, which I finally decided to buy probably a few months after it was no longer for sale (thank you ebay). It is a memory trip for me and I learn something new every rewatch. The BBS scene in the late 80s and early to mid 90s was amazing, and is something I miss -- though I dip my toe in telnet bbs'es from time to time to reminisce.

The NASA weekly movie selection for the ISS is the classic 1997 film "Event Horizon".

Astronauts: 8O

I know I've found my people when I remember the same relatively obscure video about a relatively specific repair of a long forgotten (by most) device.

Fermilab operated the Tevatron until the LHC was online. They then pivoted to emphasize neutrino research, which is perfectly doable with the linac and the main injector ring. There is a lot to learn about neutrinos. I certainly do not foresee any future where Fermilab is shuttered. There are always frontiers in physics worth exploring.

Kind of makes me want to hook a multi-mode decoding radio to the output of a high efficiency (lol) neutrino detector to see if any of those extrasolar neutrinos are just interstellar packet radio...

I bought an Extech CO210 CO2/Temp/Humidity datalogger about ten years ago. It's been a very useful, reliable device. Maybe there are newer models or different manufacturers (e.g. the Aranet 4) that make ones that would work for your application case. I didn't just want the readout, I wanted datalogging, and back then it was way more expensive to do datalogging than to just have a readout.

I am 34,583 years old.

The only competition it would have would be a Microline ML184.

So if anyone attacks Ikea now, I'm honor bound to go to war.

Only humans have real names. I'm a figment of the computer's imagination.

Okay...I think this might be interesting. I've seen and read a lot of "math for dumb physicists" works, which as a physicist...yeah, I see their point. This could help me understand the math wizards a little better.

Somewhere I still have the StarOffice CD/s that I received (bought?) when it was a SUN microsystems product in the...maybe very early 2000s. And now I use LibreOffice...so, fairly successful software.

Anvils on eggs until you have an orbit boosting burn.

Does this analysis also consider the wide ranging massive impact of fentanyl and similar drugs that have skyrocketed drug overdose problems in all communities in the past five years?

Searching for the site of the time capsule on Google Maps makes me wonder -- has anyone created an archive of time capsule locations? I can think of at least three or four at my university alone, and a couple more in the surrounding community, but few people remember them and there is no central archive of info on them.

I'm afraid many will simply be lost to time.

They're about the same age as me, and they're aging better than I am.

If I had a nose large enough for a bunch of bees to fly up and sting, I would be very interested in avoiding bees too.

Theoretical warp physics -- the real kind, like Alcubierre, not the Wesley Crusher kind -- proposes that a source of negative mass would be critical to the creation of a warp field.

Antimatter as part of an energy storage system for propulsion is still a good idea. They'll just have to look elsewhere for that property, or modify the theory to work on different principles. Eric Lentz is working in that direction and doesn't think negative mass/energy is needed.

So, it's both an effective entry point for beginners, and powerful enough to be a utility language for experienced programmers.

When it's an option, fly Lufthansa. At least in their transatlantic flights, the food was excellent even though I was in cramped economy class. As I recall I had a type of beef stew, potatoes and carrots, salad, bread rolls, butter, and a nice ice cream for dessert.

On domestic flights, I miss Southwest Airlines pre-9/11 snack packs. They had cheese, crackers, cookies, and fruit like apple sauce. Nice pick-me-up in the middle of a three hour flight.

We gave high school kids some time for self-directed activities, like go see teachers for help, make up work, get a snack, hang out with friends if you have your work done.

We had kids standing around looking confused. They didn't know what to do. They asked for directions on what to do. We said to look at their grades and decide what to do. When they finally pulled up the gradebook on their laptops, they would point at it and say "what do you want me to do?"

Something. We want you to decide, on your own, to do something. Anything. Just make a choice.

Most kids did figure it out, though not always making the wise choices (but that's part of the reason we're giving them the freedome). But there was a minority who couldn't grasp the idea that they were personally able and responsible to decide what to do.

There has been a trend of using PCB to make rulers for a long time. It's cheap, you can customize the message/graphics, it looks techy, and people love to collect them.

I have a Digirule and a Digirule 2a. They scratch many itches...neat gadget goblin, vintage computing goblin, buttons and flashy lights goblin, fidget goblin.

Surprising -- until you look at what they eat. Rural people often eat /food/. They may eat too much, with too many calories and too much fat, but it is food. Eggs, bacon, pancakes, sausage, gravy, steak, potatoes, corn, beans (geez I'm getting hungry).

City people might eat the same calories, but it's hyperprocessed HFCS-based "food".

After a recent devastating family tragedy, a friend reached out and said "we are paying a lawn service to mow for you."

It was unexpected, related to something I had posted about trying to fix our riding lawnmower, and honestly took a huge chore off of our plate at a time when we needed to focus on family.

I've appreciated so many things people have done for us, from just a message, card, shoulder to cry on, or visiting at the hospital or attending a funeral. But I was taken aback at how important and meaningful that concrete and thoughtful help was. I'm now trying to look for ways I can offer something concrete and thoughful whenever possible.

My concern is that a large portion of the population who has traditionally used RPi for projects will have pivoted away to another platform by the time they are available again.

I'd like one so I can use it for Mathematica. Running it on my RPi B (the original) is pretty underwhelming these days.