Scott Sanford

Scott Sanford

  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Lots of bridges have posted limits for vehicles traveling on/under a bridge, why not have limits for ships - not just height but weight/m mass? They do - but if your life doesn't involve ships and boats, you rarely hear...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    And as for giant blades, it’s obvious that they should make twin-rotor helicopters out of them and just fly them out to the locations. With some thought the structure of the fuselage could be (part of) the tower. Any Spark...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    a fracking blizzard in late March!? "Minneapolis could see up to 12 inches in some areas by Tuesday..." Yep. Minneapolis weather. Every year....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Well, that's what we already have in Germany. Basically all train lines run on an hourly schedule. I'm reminded of a Cold War joke about German transit... "In West Germany, there is no problem. Trains are frequent and reliable, and...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Hyperspeed poshmobile units are nice, but their ecosystem is fragile. Old-school trains in quantity are more resilient. I've said for years that I don't really need high speed rail; what I want to see is more frequent rail. Why can't...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    what's interesting is that this is not the law of the land anywhere... it ought to be It depends on how much "anywhere" you're looking at. It's the law in Japan, where there are no fewer than four stickers! The...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Digger is a free webcomic that many of us here enjoyed. The story is complete, and it won an award or two. https://diggercomic.com/ For anyone who didn't follow the link yet, the very last postscript installment shows the title character...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I Noticed Something Strange On A Map of the Battle of Bunker Hill! [YouTube] Classic "Bahstan" accent 😏 That's a lovely Boston accent! Well found....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    How about the original basis for them, and Green Lantern, and the Jedi: a Lensman of the Galactic Patrol? Quite off topic, but a few weeks back I stumbled upon a long thread about adapting the Lensman saga to modern...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    what's funny about BETTS & TWINE LTD It's probably rendering "correctly" on your browser, and it's a reasonable guess that computers doing the smart thing is what let the name get through in the first place. Try reading it this...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    ...has Charles Stross trademarked “LaundryVerse™”...? Interestingly, on the topic of registering things with governments, I recently happened across the fact that the UK will allow a fairly broad range of characters in company names. Which was no more than an...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I assume there is a "mistaken beliefs about addresses" list somewhere. There exists at least one list of lists of mistaken beliefs about addresses. Ouch, and oof, and I'm not even surprised....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    About 10% of the code did about 99% of address validation and the other 90% of the code dealt with the 1% of weird exceptions that were complex to manage. well, yes - but that's to be expected. It was...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    So we had the same kind of "your town can buy its own war machine" thing with tanks as that article describes with Spitfires. (It's more accurate than our local paper's recap of the tank fundraising a hundred years on;...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    You may think that you can correct "Wahsington" to "Washington" but then you discover that wellactually the former is a town in Durango and now what do you do? There's a town in California named Eureka - and another one...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Going back to the original topic, a friend claims that someone has proposed a "Dune Experience" ... ... a warehouse with a pile of sand containing a couple of earthworms. There's a photo meme going around to this effect, of...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    This calls for a lawsuit with ChatGPT legal briefs. How about legal arguments delivered in verse by a Greek chorus of lawyers in green wigs? Wonky doodles, fiddle dee dee, We have a lawsuit waiting for thee; Wonky doodles, fuddle...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    "How did you do that?" These people will keep tech support employed forever....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Back around the turn of the millennium I was told with a straight face that children don't need to waste time learning spelling and grammar because spellcheck and grammar-check are now built into word processors. On that subject, did you...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    22M live in Mexico City... what happens when they go dry? That's far too many millions, yes, but the Valley of Mexico is not an inherently unreasonable place to live. I read that it was pretty nice back when the...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    the hacking of teleoperated cranes (and other equipment) is simply cyberpunk/hollywood/tech-bro mashup for the current decade It is a thing now that large modern ports are not the docks inhabited by rough burly men that one sees in mid-20th century...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    ...If you’re sufficiently cool you can do miraculous things, so one of your character stats is your cool score. What’s cool for the character differs by who and what the character is, so a rabbi, a Jain monk, and a...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    ...and I forgot my point. Voting by people not at the meeting was brought up then (see video Friday 4a) and it wasn't easy to pull off then. I'm sure Kevin could lay out the current state of proposals to...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    ... I was at Spokane in 2015. It was not thinly attended. Indeed it wasn't! You wouldn't remember me, but you saw me at the time if you ever looked behind you; I was in the back, up on the...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    ...he might convince the GOP to endanger its tax-exempt status by bailing him out. Did you hear that the previous Republican National Committee leader is out and the party is now being run by Trump's daughter in law? (Apparently they...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    Before the Chengdu fiasco, I would have thought Ben Yalow too smart and/or honest to get involved in something like this. But then, I've been relying on his rep in fandom rather than personal knowledge. I'm not close with Ben...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Those Otter boxes apparently have a permanent, lifetime guarantee. As far as I know I am unique within my social circle - I've actually had to make a warranty claim on a Pelican case. (It slipped off a chair and...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    FYI, I currently have a latest model top-of-the-range iPhone... Not all new iPhones are there as status symbols. I'm reminded of the time I noticed that several people I knew had very large vehicles - and this is in the...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Then it turned out he'd taken the same attitude to the rules of structural engineering. The extension fell down. A month or two later, half the rest of the house fell down too. I am reminded of the Hanoi Train...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    ...well-off middle-class types, as a catch-all dismissal of poor people complaining about running out of money, in the smug and infuriating manner to be expected of someone who never has run out of money, let alone been hungry; they not...
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