jvandonsel

There goes this week's sprint.

Fun fact: Leonard Nimoy grew up in Boston's West End.

Well, when the U.S. president calls it a China Hoax, I think it’s pretty easy to blame them.

The old Illuminator model has a much better backlight. https://www.amazon.com/Casio-F105W-1A-Illuminator-Sport-Watc...

Despite reading the entire series twice, I never understood the porcupine line. Can someone ELI5?

As another fountain pen aficionado, it's reassuring to see that Neal's handwriting is as bad as mine.

Caution: Do not stare into beam.

Since January 2025.

Though many people avoid Goulet due to the anti-LGBT stance of their owners.

...and also showed that she had antlers.

(Sorry, I couldn’t resist)

"I predict that within 10 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them."

     - Professor Frink

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes” - Thoreau

Let me guess: Freddy Way at CWRU?

Simple solution. Cut down all the trees on the side of the road.

You’re welcome.

Is OralB able to actually do per-tooth tracking? Impressive if it’s just based on data from a cheap IMU in the toothbrush.

The first sentence of the article misspells the name of the show.

Yay math.

He seems to be doing everything by "feel". I would imagine that if the stone were 3D scanned it wouldn't be difficult to use some software to determine the optimal orientation to achieve the largest cut stone, for a given cut style.

I went to look for the ebook version of “Sparta and the Commemoration of War”, but balked at the $30 price.

Blame the tires

They seem to be ignoring another useful aspect of a deck of cards. Each card could be placed face-up or face-down in the deck.

What’s with the funky ‘g’ character in this blog’s font? Very distracting.

And the root cause was LG, not GM.

At what point does the device cease to be an iPod classic?

I’ve modded a few, but at some point it becomes a different beast altogether.

I was hoping that this would allow them to continue to produce the Bolt, but it doesn’t sound like it.

Would that be the Boston Athenaeum, by any chance?

I blame Ryan Reynolds.

Up to $40k!

The famous subway scene from The French Connection: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JD-K9Exe8jw&feature=sharea

Years ago I sent a donation to his charity and was pleasantly surprised to get a personal thanks from Bram. A wonderful person.