Mr. Tim

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  And on that note, anyone have any idea when to expect an iPhone SE 4? Rumors abound that the SE 4 will be a "cheap" version of whatever phone they put out at the same time. IOW, the same...
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  some men get caught stealing a loaf of bread and are hanged; others always escape justice till they die of old, old age; and then there's the really lucky amoral monsters who rape, steal, wreck, lie, fail at overthrowing...
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  So, I have not seen anything from JohnS since he said he was going to drive home from the eclipse. Texas & Louisiana had some intense storms that day. Anyone heard anything from him?...
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  And in the Star Trek universe, she would be flying to Europa about now (IIRC)....
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  You can also borrow CDs from your local librar(y/ies). If you are extremely lucky, they have a website listing what they have. (In my case, (almost) all the libraries in the county decided to cooperate on a common website. Convenient.)...
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  Which must be some kind of corollary to "I read it on the Internet, so it must be true!"...
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  When I told her mostly sf, her reply was "Fiction, that's like lies, right?" An acquaintance said something similar about actors: "They're all liars". Ticked off my wife who does the occasional acting gig, and is about the most...
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  Just saw this on spaceweather.com (a fun site): Solar eclipses make their own weather--starting with the temperature. How much the temperature falls depends on the humidity. Dry environments could see a drop of 8 to 14 degrees, less so if...
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  Looks like you should have gone to Maine instead of Texas. Clouds are forecast along most of the path....
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  Alan Rickman as Angleton Anne Heche as Mo With some thought, I am sure we can a movie about the undead with an undead cast....
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  They actually started making a Buckaroo Bonzai sequel, but pivoted to a different idea early in production. The result was Big Trouble in Little China, a movie where if you pay attention, the ostensible white hero doesn’t actually contribute...
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  Its been done. See Damsel on Netflix (ok, not really, but never piss off a dragon)...
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  F O R D -> Found On Roadside, Dead. Had a 89 Taurus SHO for 19 years (190K miles). If it hadn't been for the 5th transmission that died I probably would still have it (damn, that was a fun...
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  I'm wondering how this bridge collapse will impact navy ships (Norfolk Va). While Norfolk should be mostly unaffected, there are some Navy ships stationed in Baltimore (lots of good info in the following): https://news.usni.org/2024/03/26/coast-guard-heading-search-and-rescue-effort-after-container-ship-collapses-baltimore-bridge Right now, they expect at...
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  Baltimore is one of, if not the, busiest ports on the east coast. 800K+ cars per year go in to it. Well, maybe not for awhile. There is a big obstruction in the water.... Philadelphia, if it was smart,...
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  Blade Runner is based off of Philip K. Dick's books. Not sure where Burroughs comes into it....
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  A step above a lawn chair tied to the front of a lawn mower engine but still they looked neat. Have you seen this? The lawn chair is just dead weight... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Z8YT6w7Rc Flying To 17,500 Feet on my Paramotor!...
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  The maniacal monopter simply attaches a wingless drone aircraft to the generator end f the turbine blade, with the fuel tanks at the mutual center of mass and suitable parasite flaps attached to the turbine blade as control surfaces....
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  Yes, TOXMAX & FOOF are not real (I hope). The RDE is though, and is unbelievable in its own right. :)...
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  Since we were talking about rockets (TOXMAX & FOOF). Seen this recently: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ring-of-fire-rocket-engines-put-a-new-spin-on-spaceflight/ And this guy mentions melding the technology with air-breathing turbines: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/61660/has-the-isp-been-published-for-nasas-new-rotating-detonation-engine-demonstrator Neat developments created by 3D printing....
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  570 - I have to ask, did they regularly report (in Winter) that "Hell has frozen over"? And ever other obvious joke :)...
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  Interestingly, I don't think any of the networks carried it live. It was on at least half-dozen YouTube "channels" though. Annoyingly, those live streams get out of sync with reality pretty regularly (based on the lack of sync between the...
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  And in other news: Starship/Super Heavy didn't blow up on the third try. (Well, mostly, not sure what happened to Starship on re-entry)...
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  I got a request to instal Flash Player A big red flag there, since Flash has been unsupported by all the browsers and Adobe for years. It was just too insecure (and apparently could not be fixed)...
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  I still have some not so nice memories of my cousins from Detroit visiting (all of us were pre-teens) and them wanting to drink "sodie pop" and while asking use to speak "hillbilly" so they could laugh at us....
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  Any idea of the origins of "Lititz" in the state? My wife has relatives who live there now. From https://lititzpa.com/about/town/ "Lititz, which was named after a Bohemian Castle near the village of Kunvald." BTW, when I lived there, the...
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  Considering the number of -sters in Pennsylvania (Chester, Chichester, West Chester, Lancaster). I wonder in a few hundred years if linguists/historians will be wondering how the Romans got across the Atlantic. :) Can anyone give me a history/translation of Lancashire?...
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  I did some looking around. Wow, it is hard to find support for that camera, which is weird since the drone got lots of reviews. Anyway, I did find this: https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/free-trials/ free 30 day trial of Corel paint shop pro...
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  is there any single, centralized 'watering hole' where folks self-assemble to discuss supporting obsolete tech? There is always usenet (and https://www.eternal-september.org/ ): S100Computers group is very active creating new S100 cards supporting old tech (486s and IDE interfaces, etc.)...
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  When I first started watching Stargate SG-1 I thought it was silly that the "ancients" left all their documentation on stone tablets. Another decade experiencing the ephemeral nature of digital storage gave me a different perspective.......