This is the best photo of magnetic core memory I've ever taken. IBM, early 60s. Shot with a microscope lens mounted on a 35mm B&W digital camera. No post! (I got into the habit of never doing any post-processing while documenting historic artifacts for the museum. Photoshop not allowed!) #retrocomputing #photography #rcsri
I used this shot for the cover of my book of images from our museum:
https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Machines-Dave-Fischer/dp/B09X557N52
I am trying to find my people on Mastodon. Can you please boost this if you:
-Believe that strawberries could be bigger and that farmers are simply not working hard enough to grow massive strawberries.
-Lie awake at night wondering if the trillions of insects will one day unite to overthrow the human race.
-Suspect that volcanoes are hiding something beneath all that magma.
-Find Tilda Swinton to be terrifying yet oddly attractive.
-Think that you could defeat 50 Smurfs in hand-to-hand combat.
As a Trans person, it's kinda depressing to read current trans-related posts,.what with proposed legislation, hate groups and people I know suffering in their transition. Stay strong everyone, it's going to be a challenging year, and for those who struggle, I love you and I am cheering you on... Don't give up the ship. #trans #transgender #LGBTQ
Listening into the Puget Sound Repeater Group on the 2 meter band for the first time in forever, now that I have the SDR hooked up to the laptop, and fixed all (most) of my interference issues. Can't kill power completely to the living room right now, but maybe some other time, I'll get more stuff on the shortwave bands.
Huh. The CDC has a Covid Exposure calculator, and it says that I don't need to stay home if I'm vaccinated and boosted and am showing no symptoms. I'm staying home cause I don't want to take the chance of infecting someone, but it's wierd it would say that.
I will be testing the morning of Jan 21st, and if I'm in the clear, I'm going SOMEWHERE, even if I just stay in my car the whole time. The cabin fever is strong.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/if-you-were-exposed.html
"Tom Hanks on Mythical Kitchen 's 'Last Meals'" is Josh Scherer's "Desmond Tutu on 'Late Night with Craig Furgeson'" moment.
OKAY NOW DO ZORK
So, I think the whole Whataburger VS In-N-Out thing is actually not a Whataburger/In-N-Out thing, but that hamburgers are "regional" or "typed" like pizza.
Whataburger is apparently a version of the "Texas-Style Burger" which is heavy on mustard. McDonald's had a "Texas Homestyle Burger" and Burger King has the "Texas Double Whopper" both of which are mustard heavy.
In-N-Out is part of a burger "Family" that I call "Thousand Islands Dressing" burgers. The Big Mac is one of these, and most any "secret sauce" burger is here.
It's a lot like Chicago Pizza versus New York Pizza versus Spokane Style Pizza.
I think there's a "family" of "coleslaw topping" burgers. What other "families" of burger are out there, and why is the Texas-Style Burger the best?
@drewharwell It's already been mentioned down thread, but +1 to the idea of having WaPo run their own instance. Bump the char limit of posts up to what you need, to post your news, and off to the races.
You get verification, a wider audience, and pull more influence from the other platform. Win!
Audience vs effort will always be a chicken and egg problem. Please just pay IT to hire a full time head count to set up and manage an instance for you.
Thanks.
Trans people deserve to be:
- Seen
- Respected
- Loved
- Housed
- Employed
- Protected (by the law and other people)
Trans people don’t deserve to be:
- Mocked
- Ridiculed
- Harassed
- Assaulted
- Killed
- Ignored by liberals and progressives
- Attacked by conservatives
Trans people are:
- Really fucking tired
- Please send pizza
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