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Time to gather stones

Moon shopping

A typical day in our small town: you park next to the playground, and there are black vultures finishing off a deer.

If only I had this during my college years, maybe I would be working with electronics now, not IT. A free tool for emulating circuits with a library of ready-made

Ideal for those who want to understand and experiment up to a working prototype [and not burn anything in the process]

http://www.falstad.com/circuit/

Sensors and various small items, about forty positions, have arrived. Weekends and evenings are now devoted to them. For instance, in the center there’s a laser, just above it an IR pair, thermometers, humidity meters

First time encountering a shower with a speedometer, oops, I mean thermometer. Actually, it’s very convenient.

In the USA, hotel showers have a single control handle – for temperature, and the water pressure is just normal. And this handle, after a couple of attempts, can be set “without looking” to the right position predictably and reliably. Couldn’t ask for better.

All over Union Station – Microsoft advertising. How can this be allowed!

What your phone can tell about you

This is a visualization from Animusic, “Resonant Chamber.” They also have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCIpKAIFyo (Pipe Dream) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgt4DEBQy50 (Aqua Harp). All of this is very old, and the company, apparently, has ceased to exist

And here is the entire album – very https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqek4lSw5vw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiC2B_hiTzo

Interestingly, every student here gets a laptop for school almost for free ($50 a year). If you have your own, you need to formally opt out, as personal laptops are not covered by school tech support. https://www.fcps.edu/resources/technology/fcpson