Friday, October 25, 2019

October Diversions

Adventure Time links:
A complete timeline of the mythology of the show:
atchronology.com
A more concise timeline:
https://www.reddit.com/r/adventuretime/comments/66ku1x/complete_adventure_time_timeline_spoilers/
Undoubtedly the worst plot summary of Adventure Time: https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/adventure-time-explained-1703199261/amp
Sim's remixes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtZ-k3KfeUI&list=RDTtZ-k3KfeUI&index=1
The original "Conversation Parade" clip:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_JbTHp6uzI
A nice collection of BMO clips:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=heHylvp05R4&list=PLRrcNeDY-Mq8fwy72vkn-5y37OGrgF4gY&index=6
The transcript of "Shh" which seems to be as close as I will be able to get to watching the whole thing:
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Shh!/Transcript
The list of Adventure Time Episodes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Adventure_Time_episodes
The head of a search on the wiki for background about the MOs:
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/MO_Co.
And this is also a good starting place for this search:
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/MOs
Adventure Time is getting a four-part miniseries on HBO, crazily enough, after its ending in 2018:
https://tvline.com/2019/10/23/adventure-time-new-episodes-distant-lands-hbo-max/

Spiderman Into The Spiderverse links:
A great family costume set!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dpyaiz/my_wife_finally_let_me_pick_out_the_outfits_this/


Everything from learning G-g-g-ghost:

The original Karaoke video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-clPKPBSoI4
The best chords:
https://www.e-chords.com/chords/misc-cartoons/steven-universe-g-g-g-ghost
Sadie Killer And The Suspects chords + video together:
https://chordify.net/chords/sadie-killer-and-the-suspects-steven-universe-karaoke-phizzy

Sadie Killer and the Suspects chords, but a confusing mix of guitar and uke chords:
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/misc-cartoons/steven-universe-sadie-killer-and-the-suspects-ukulele-2765257


Misc Articles:
I've tried reading this article several times about making a Turing machine out of Magic:The Gathering, and I can't convince myself that it's not bullshit:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/its-possible-to-build-a-turing-machine-within-magic-the-gathering/
Amazing discovery in Egypt:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50068575
A funny reminiscence about the dark storylines in the original MLP:
https://www.tor.com/2019/10/15/gormenghast-with-hooves-learning-the-art-of-dark-storytelling-from-my-little-pony
The U.S. is reduced to bombing its own abandoned bases during the Trump retreat from Syria:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/16/politics/us-airstrike-storage-site-syria/index.html
The killing of old timey TV shows by CBS and other networks in the late 1960's was known as "The Rural Purge". It led to the Mary Tyler More show and M*A*S*H:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
Aside from a couple of classics, these are not actually great cat photos but eh:
https://www.freshedits.com/funny/cats-who-immediately-regretted-their-poor-life-decisions/40.html
There's been a burst of finds of sunken Midway battleships this year:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/battle-of-midway-akagi-ship-discovered-historic-world-war-ii-battle/
The FB page of the underwater exploration company that found the Midway ship shows a lot of fascinating discoveries that they've recently made:
https://www.facebook.com/rvpetrel/photos/a.2578421032193362/2578429078859224/?type=3&theater
This wasn't so much about lines of code or a scientific measure of effect on the world so much as a walk down internet memory lane. But it was a fairly well done and enjoyable read:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
Breathless headlines betray that this was a fun mini house build by a kid who did a good job with it even though there isn't any plumbing in it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Luke+Thill,+an+8th+grader+from+Dubuque,+Iowa
A sweet tribute to Weird Al: he does a Tiny Desk concert for NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2010/06/22/127983640/-weird-al-yankovic-tiny-desk-concert
A nice explainer for the new Terminator movie, from the point of view of someone who liked it:
An interview with Arnold about the new Terminator movie:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-doesnt-care-that-terminator-dark-1839400170
The story behind the funny cake with the picture of the thumb drive on it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/17o4yi/a_friend_of_mine_ordered_a_picture_cake_and_gave/c87b615/
A great collection of comic-con costumes:
https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-very-best-cosplay-we-saw-at-comic-con-2019/
I didn't know that this meme was called "Woman Yelling At A Cat" but now I know the whole story:
https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-sad-backstory-of-the-woman-yelling-at-a-cat-meme/

The Terra Cotta Army and the First Emperor:
20 Outlandish scientific theories people used to believe:
https://historycollection.co/20-outlandish-scientific-theories-from-history/
The clickbait that lead to all my research about the Terra Cotta Warrior tomb. It was the tomb of The First Emperor whose rise to power is very interesting. He was apparently fascinated with mercury and the legend is that the central tomb had fountains and rivers of mercury:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=973104796380580&id=605447116479685&anchor_composer=false
A better article:
https://www.history101.com/orig/mystery-terracotta-warriors/

The Mausoleum's wikipedia page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor
The First Emperor:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
A scientific investigation into the legend of the rivers of mercury, but it's behind a paywall:
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/flowing-rivers-of-mercury/8122.article
Will ever see the inside?
https://www.livescience.com/22454-ancient-chinese-tomb-terracotta-warriors.html

So many facts in this thought experiment of whether the rivers of mercury could have existed, including that the tomb was vandalized by the subsequent emperor!
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4566



Eternal Links:
Again from a previous month: The Crane Wife essay. A story about relationship failure and grief and dealing:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/
This is the CCTA semi-professional kids' theater group that we keep hearing about. They tour a huge amount of the year!
https://cctarts.org/the-young-columbians/


Politics:
An unusually clear explanation of what the Putin-Erdogan treaty actually does in Syria:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/middleeast/putin-erdogan-syria-deal-hodge-analysis-intl/index.html
I don't know why discovery of yet another one of Romney's secret liberal twitter accounts is news, but it is true that it's strangely fascinating:
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqOQgKIjNDQklTSURvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoTUtFUWp1elpPdmpvQU1FZjFoUXdUOG1ldHJLQUFQAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
This bit about Trump flashing the finger after being corrected by the female astronaut seemed true but so stupid that I figured nobody would pick it up. Boy was I wrong:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrGJackBrown/status/1185404612238438400
Rudi accidentally lets some of his dirty laundry slip out. He has so much of it that the author struggles to figure out which corrupt business it's related to:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-butt-dials-nbc-reporter-heard-discussing-need-cash-n1071901?fbclid=IwAR2lWICdVzpwLXtB_Slf350ZqIUmw9o4pwqJMmYnkFWGMDdunp3xQ63N5ZA
I can't quite decide if this article, now from ages ago, fully makes its point. But it's an interesting observation that "Conservatives" believed that they could constrain somebody with dictatorial ambitions, and also that people in the past are not that hard to understand:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/donald-trump-and-hitlers-rise-to-power.html

Work Links:
Here is the manual for the Stanford Research Systems DS345 function generator. It's a good unit:
https://www.thinksrs.com/downloads/pdfs/manuals/DS345m.pdf
One of our E36312A's was returning an ID of E3631. After some searching I was reminded that this unit can be set to emulate the older unit. More searching revealed that it's called "Persona Mode":
https://www.google.com/search?q=E36312A+persona+mode&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS753US753&oq=E36312A+persona+mode
How to set and unset "Persona Mode" is referenced in the SCPI manual for the E36300 series:
https://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/E36311-90008.pdf
The Glenair datasheets for the jackposts. IT HAS THE TORQUE SPECS!
https://cdn.glenair.com/micro-d/pdf/n/080-00-00-1xx-and-500-069-x-x-and-177-504-x-x-and-177-505-x-x-x.pdf
The Glenair datasheet for the microbands:
https://cdn.glenair.com/tools/pdf/c/clamping-bands.pdf