January 2020 Diversions

Fun:

"I turn an AC compressor into a working engine" it looks like he's using spark plugs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxqyfB83tSo

This infographic video of the the Glomar Explorer operation looks insanely stupid with the sound off, but it seems like it does contain facts so I can't keep from looking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SttYTYYLuk

Here is a nice HTML color code picker!
https://htmlcolorcodes.com/https://htmlcolorcodes.com/

WOW! This research into stress turning hair grey is amazingly conclusive! And now I know that it's too late for me.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51208972

December 2019 diversions

Work:

The make and model of the PDU salvaged for the EGSE rack: https://www.google.com/search?q=Belkin+F5C350&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS753US753&oq=Belkin+F5C350

The realization that there have been several models of NI USB-GPIB dongles over the years, apparently A, B, HS, and now HS+
http://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/select/gpib-instrument-control-device?skuId=28506

ProCreate and other animation/drawing apps for T:

An adorable "Getting Started" guide filled with impossible looking examples: https://www.skillshare.com/blog/learn/procreate-101-everything-you-need-to-know-to-get-started

An artist's review of the iPad + ProCreate: https://steemit.com/art/@jillustrations/review-ipad-pro-apple-pencil-procreate-is-a-game-changer

Space twitters

Here are my favorite space themed twitter feeds:

Here is the twitter page of the guy who is constantly flying aerial spying missions at the Starship facility in Cocoa Beach:
https://twitter.com/John_Winkopp

Here is the Russian woman who recently went on an amazing tour of a CCCP space museum and who always has a great insider perspective on the back-room politics behind russian space news: https://twitter.com/katlinegrey

Here is DutchSpace, who reblogs a wide range of news, often with interesting opinions: https://twitter.com/DutchSpace

Copenhagen Suborbitals; this twitter is about the only way to keep up with their excruciatingly methodical progress: https://twitter.com/copsub

How to save emails in .eml format from Office 365 webmail

The way I got it to work is to open a new email, and drag the email in question from the side bar to the email, which makes it an attachment in .eml format, then right clicking on the attachment and selecting "Save As". As suggested here: https://www.codetwo.com/kb/export-email-to-file/#outlook-on-the-web

Here is a link to a page with several suggestions which are not this one. Interestingly this page hints that an email can be directly dragged from the webmail, presumably the sidebar, to the deskstop: https://www.freeviewer.org/blog/save-email-from-office-365-webmail/

August 2019 Diversions

Eternal Links:

Here is the twitter page of the guy who is constantly flying aerial spying missions at the Starship facility in Cocoa Beach:
https://twitter.com/John_Winkopp

The link to Unearth:
http://unearthcomic.com/

Politics:

The short lived news of the DC immigrant detention center plan: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/shocked-and-appalled-dc-leaders-attack-proposal-of-detention-center-for-migrant-children/65-1ffa8078-69d4-412e-a738-2288a2866a2d
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/feds-eye-takoma-neighborhood-for-detention-center-to-house-migrant-children/65-625711b9-10c7-4b54-8f6f-12c849a7ac73

Trying to find the story of when the jews fucked up an ICE station this summer. This isn't it, but interesting: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/its-not-what-america-stands-for-activists-protest-ice-detention-centers-outside-ice-headquarters/65-a78ed0a1-4c17-4a98-8661-fa5c6791d02b

Remember Parnas and Fruman? No of course not they've already been forgotten by the media circus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/10/two-giuliani-associates-were-just-arrested-heres-what-we-need-know/

Misc Links:

From scanning the news about Hurricane Dorian hitting Florida (and the starship facility there). It passed by missing the coast. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dorian?src=hash

I missed this internal Apollo 11 celebration, although it looks like it was probably lame anyhow compared to all the Smithsonian stuff that I also missed: https://internal.gsfc.nasa.gov/sites/internal/files/sites/default/img/slides/apollo_11_archive.jpg

A company trying to pass itself off as an NI distributor. Probably a surpluser, but they fooled Google. https://www.radwell.com/Shop?source=GoogleShopping&IgnoreRedirect=true&ItemSingleId=34245400&scid=scplp34245400&sc_intid=34245400

A page of cut and pasteable "Thumbs Up" ascii art, some huge and complex, some simple and cute:
http://textart4u.blogspot.com/2012/04/thumbs-up-and-big-like-text-art.html

A Birdenstine zinger: "Falcon Heavy is ready right now."
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dish5y/lol_rep_aderholt_what_if_commercial_rockets_arent/

Everyday Astronaut's astonishing interview with Jim Birdenstine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/dghslj/a_conversation_with_jim_bridenstine_inside_spacex/

The PI for the Viking experiment for detecting life argues (unconvincingly) that Viking did not have a "false positive". This is in the run-up to Mars2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/us/nasa-life-on-mars-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

In honor of the issues being experienced by the Mole on Mars, here is a beautiful article about the little-known Luna24 mission:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna24.html

Luna 24 was a follow-on to Luna 20 which was apparently the subject of a crazy CIA operation to photograph it after it was ill-advisedly sent on a tour of Europe:
https://www.popsci.com/cias-bold-kidnapping-soviet-spacecraft/

An astonishing scientific paper on the sample-return mission results from Luna16
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/Luna16Core.pdf

The Luna 16 (and later landers) were suprisingly beautiful: https://www.google.com/search?q=luna+16&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS753US753&oq=luna+16

From a search from actually a later month, the wikipedia page for Wrath Of Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan

Work:

Keysight's new nightmare website for the E3631x power supply series. No longer has links to get quotes, manuals, etc.
https://www.keysight.com/us/en/products/dc-power-supplies/bench-power-supplies/e36300-series-triple-output-power-supply-80-160w.html

Fender Mustang I

Here is the link to the company website page for my new used amp. The quick start guide and manual can be downloaded from here: https://shop.fender.com/en-US/guitar-amplifiers/contemporary-digital/mustang-i-v.2/2300100000.html

Googling "fender mustang 1 20W amp" gets that page, plus ebay, Amazon, and guitar center pages, and forum threads about how to reset it.

Excel convert a date string to a date-time value

Because I constantly search for an answer to this, here are a few links:

My latest found guide to building a parser: https://exceljet.net/formula/convert-date-string-to-date-time

I liked this link back in 2012: http://superuser.com/questions/274494/convert-text-string-to-date-time-format

Here's my own 2012 blog post about this with some examples and other useful info: http://arobotatwork.blogspot.com/2012/08/excel-decoding-and-adding-times.html

How to have multiple Y axis in Excel

It turns out that the maximum number of "multiple" Y axis in an Excel scatter graph is two. The other one is called the "Secondary" axis. The good news is that once you find the controls to turn it on it's as easy to format as the first one. Here is an article on how to find those controls:

https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/2019-excel-make-two-y-axis.html