WFIRST Primer

A great article by Doug Messier explaining how WFIRST will work: http://parabolicarc.com/2020/05/06/a-tale-of-two-telescopes-wfirst-and-hubble/

Minus Sign/En Dash

Partly due to my timesheet program not accepting a dash as a minus sign, I ended up researching all kinds of interesting information about minus signs, em-dashes, and typography in gherneral.

This page does a wonderful job explaining the differences between the different minus signs and their names, and even shows what they look like in regular print. https://jakubmarian.com/hyphen-minus-en-dash-and-em-dash-difference-and-usage-in-english/

A great discussion about this that includes not only the coding perspective but an answer that shows it from a typesetting perspecitve. Surprsingly, the different dashes have different heights! https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/68674/what-s-the-right-character-for-a-minus-sign

Hunter x Hunter 1999

I have spent way too long watching episodes of and reading about Hunter x Hunter. Of the two Anime versions, the 1999 one seems to be canonical as far as I'm concerned, except that it doesn't have any of the story from the Magna that was written after 1999, arguably the defining arcs of the series, and has wacky "filler" episodes that invent whole stories not in the original magn. Aside from the "Beetle 7" phones, most of the character design and story changes made in the 2007 series are embarassing, although overall the consistency of both series to the magna is surprisingly high. Here are some links:

The list of 1999 episodes: https://hunterxhunter.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Episodes_(1999_series)

The Boston Massacre

Thanks to T studying the Boston Massacre in her history class, I ended up doing a deep dive of my own. This is a placeholder for some of the links that I found but later lost. Among the many interesting details I learned were that 8 soldiers involved in the incident were arrested, which must have been an astonishing assertion of civilian authority over a soveriegn military at the time, that John Adams was the defendant's lawyer at the trial and his defense is fascinatingly disgusting, only two were convicted and their punishment was hand branding, and Paul Revere published the famous engraving which he totally stole from somebody else. A public letter from the commander of the soldiers was published with their side of the story; it is as equally biased as "Patriot" reporting and T had to read it in her class. T was also greatly amused by the detail of a random dog in the engraving.

For starters, the wikipedia article on the Massacre, which pretty much has all of this info but for how long: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

New Zealand Ancient Continent

An interesting article about geology research into an ancient continent with an improbable mythology:

https://www.microsoftnewskids.com/en-us/kids/science-tech/chunk-of-an-ancient-supercontinent-discovered-under-new-zealand/ar-AAMsUYt?ocid=msedgntp

Flying Tigers 923

For such a dramatic accident and rescue, this incident is underreported. But there is a survivor's site gathering information and a new book about to be out.

Here is an excerpt from the new book maybe: https://www.microsoftnewskids.com/en-us/kids/people-places/the-true-story-of-the-miracle-pilot-and-his-120-mph-water-landing/ar-AAMvCqv?ocid=msedgntp

Here is the site with an endless scroll of information: https://flyingtiger923.com/

April Diversions

It turns out that gri fins were invented in Russia, and are named after a Russian guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_fin

Get back to watching this Elon Musk interview where he drops a lot of shockers about Starship/BFR plans: https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1385354692247658498

A Surprising update on the completion of some hardware for the new Russian space station: https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1385582527788761090

January Diversions

Rabbit holes that I went down in January, largely thanks to Pocket:

The thing that stood out to me in the teaser pics for this article about the "new" oval office was the gorgeous blue carpet, but it turns out that what is shown in this office changes with every administration in order to make specific statements, and the change had to be done in 5 hours for Biden! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/biden-oval-office/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

This article breaks "fortune favors the ready" into an actually pretty good detailed plan, and there is also a funny ancedote about a test that was done on two people on a british TV show: https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-open-up-to-serendipity-and-create-your-own-luck?utm_source=pocket-newtab

This article was supposed to be about new surveilance database mining techniques, but all of that seemed obscured by the missed elphant-in-the-room of how military intervention in civilian populations wholly fails: https://www.wired.com/story/palantirs-gods-eye-view-of-afghanistan/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

A fascinating article about how Josh Hawley's mentors and acquaintances mourned somebody who they had previously recognized as gifted.https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/19/josh-hawley-senator-stanford-history-capitol-insurrection-ambition-460481?utm_source=pocket-newtab

It turns out that the difference in the look of the eyelids for asian faces has a name I had never heard of, "monolid", the insultingness of which this author does a great job of writing about. The fact that some people come up with ways to create eyelid "creases" artificially seems incredible and something I've never thought about. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/on-monolids-and-the-language-of-beauty?utm_source=pocket-newtab

This was just a fun attempt to analyze something that can be verified instantly to be true. Interestingly it doesn't dive any into how this analysis could help improve work environments, although I guess that people are experimenting with ideas related to this these days. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210114-why-youre-more-creative-in-coffee-shops

I was unaware that stromatolites were still present on Earth, but this article also does a great job of investigating other evolutionary curiosities that can also be seen: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210117-stromatolites-the-earths-oldest-living-lifeforms?utm_source=pocket-newtab&referer=https%3A%2F%2Fgetpocket.com%2Frecommendations

I guess the mystery of the end of the Mayan empire has been solved. This drought must have been incredible. It was essentially a Mad Max story that actually happend! https://getpocket.com/explore/item/ancient-mud-reveals-an-explanation-for-sudden-collapse-of-the-mayan-empire

A google news search for the "mystery FM signal" from Ganemede, one of Jupiter's moons. The results are nearly all sensationalized reporting by Fox News stations. Mixed in are other legitimate articles about the Juno mission: https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqOQgKIjNDQklTSURvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoTUtFUWkwdTliVGtZQU1FYkVCMVZkMUtCY1JLQUFQAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

One of the articles with a fair amount of good detail: https://www.wpri.com/dont-miss/space-discovery-fm-radio-signal-found-coming-from-jupiter-moon/

The Space Race Chess Set!

The twitter post about it: https://twitter.com/timmermansr/status/1340318570471972864

The makerbot page with the source files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2078833

December diversions

Misc links from rabbit holes run down in December 2020:

In the list of things everybody seemed to know about something I liked except me, George Harrison's (long running) affair with Ringo Starr's wife. Of course the full story once learned just seems sad, people lost in a maelstrom out of their control:
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/when-george-harrison-had-an-affair-with-ringos-wife-maureen.html/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Starkey_Tigrett
https://startsat60.com/media/lifestyle/entertainment/pattie-boyd-george-harrison-affair-ringo-starrs-wife-maureen

"Curves not Combat Boots" an interestingly different approach to women's workout fashion: https://curvesncombatboots.com/products/

Info about some of the Myazaki movies that Nina was bingeing on once we got HBOMax:

The Secret World of Arrietty, which is based on The Borrowers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrietty

Arrietty's IMDB page. Supposedly the english language version had stuff added to mask over the typically sad Japanese ending. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568921/

Electron first stage recovery was a really interesting thing that happened in November.

The usual fact-laden article from NSF. The tininess of the payload and rocket diameter can be seen in the integration photo: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/11/rocket-lab-attempt-first-stage-recovery/

Also Launcher One finally made orbit too:

https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1350818131787309056

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

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

November 2019 Diversions

Eternal links:

Small Angels hamster adoption:
http://www.smallangelsrescue.org/angels/hamsters/

Trying to record Buntopia:

Ideas for how to record stereo from a mixing board using an ipad:

Several nice tips but it doesn't have anything to do with stereo. He recommends a couple of attenuator cables:
https://www.studioscratches.com/how-to-record-high-quality-audio-directly-into-your-iphone/

Several tips:
https://www.cultofmac.com/610284/how-to-record-any-audio-on-your-iphone/

The recommended attenuator cable. It looks good really, but it's still mono:
https://www.amazon.com/Line-level-Audio-Adapter-iPhone-Smartphone/dp/B00OAW85ZG/ref=as_li_ss_tl

Old misc links cleared off of Workie during Nov 2019:

A fun article about the terrible I Dream Of Genie last episode:
https://www.vulture.com/2015/07/inside-i-dream-of-jeannies-strange-bottle-episodeclip-showseries-finale-hybrid.html

An article about a recent training incident in the air force. It was reported breathlessly on a liberal website, it is interesting to read this more professional and detailed account on a military news site:
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/09/06/air-force-a-10-accidentally-fires-rocket-near-tucson/

A reddit thread about a visit by Elon to Boca Chica; this is the event that coverage of which got one blogger spun up in Florida:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/d4frvn/spacexcentric_elon_visited_starhopper_tonight/

Politics:

Trump Booed again at another public event, this time a "wrestling" match. Less dramatic than at the world series, partially due to the organizers trying to slip him in without being noticed: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-booed-again-during-understated-appearance-at-ufc-event.html?utm_source=undefined&utm_medium=undefined&utm_campaign=feed-part

Misc Links:

Stanley Kubrik's B&W photos from NYC the 1940s. A nice look back at history, but the term "genius" is a bit generous for someone obsessed with both beautiful women and shoe shine boys. https://www.demilked.com/old-photos-new-york-streets-stanley-kubrick/

The rules for American Education Week visitations this year from GCES. It was a lot of fun:
https://gces.hcpss.org/news/2019/11/american-education-week-2019

A bunch of future astronauts and a couple of token men:
https://twitter.com/NASA_Marshall/status/1204063123310821376

This was a fun article about Hollywood scandals associated with Nickelodeon:
https://www.nickiswift.com/18009/disturbing-secrets-nickelodeon-hid-us/

The straw bale Space Cruiser Yamato. It's apparently in Japan. The detail seems to be all either wood or cardboard.

The magazine article about it: https://www.otakuusamagazine.com/yamato-straw/

First twitter link with photos: https://twitter.com/d9e4a5ad6dae448/status/1190651875705536512/photo/1

Second twitter link with photos: https://twitter.com/kurage52natsu21/status/1190869467296718848/photo/1

Pimple popping links that it is probably not a good idea to view again:

A specific reddit post on an ingrown hair that leads to other threads that eventually lead to nightmare fuel:
https://www.reddit.com/r/popping/comments/6yd0z8/gnarly_ingrown_shoulder_hair/

Pretty much the funniest pop I've ever seen, clipped into a GIF in a Reddit post but with a link to the full YouTube video on the comments:
https://www.reddit.com/r/popping/comments/dw29k8/everysingletime/

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

Yotsuba links

Wikipedia entry:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba%26!

Finally a wikia entry:
https://yotsubaand.fandom.com/wiki/Yotsuba_Koiwai

A much better wikia entry:
https://azumanga.fandom.com/wiki/Yotsuba_Koiwai

Hamilton recycled tote bag

Trying to find a replacement for the tote bag that we got at the Hamilton show in Boston that ripped apart.

The reason for it ripping is that it's made of recycled materials, but it's still cool.

From the name at the bottom, it was made by these designers, who seem well sought out: https://www.creativegoodsnyc.com/

This is their Hamilton store: https://www.creativegoodsnyc.com/p/case-study-hamilton-store.html

This is a reseller, but why is the photo of the bag blurred out? https://www.merchbar.com/broadway-theater/hamilton/hamilton-recycled-tote-bag

This is a nicer reseller, but their shipping costs are insane: https://broadwaymerchandiseshop.com/hamilton-recycled-tote-bag

I pretty much want every single thing in this online store: https://broadwaymerchandiseshop.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?limit=92&q=Hamilton

September Diversions

Informative articles about the Making of STTMP:
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/star-trek/253838/the-troubled-production-of-star-trek-the-motion-picture
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/40-years-later-star-trek-the-motion-picture-remains-a-movie-making-miracle
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-beautifully-dull-paradox-of-star-trek-the-motion-p-1838018612
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Making_of_Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture
https://ascmag.com/articles/star-trek-50-part-ii-shooting-the-motion-picture

Today I learned that Kate Mulgrew has written two memoirs, the latest about the deaths of her parents being "How To Forget". Sounds worthy of a read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/life-beyond-star-trek-kate-mulgrews-poignant-sometimes-shocking-family-story/2019/06/06/3478e358-518a-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html

July Diversions

How to disable Smart Voice Recorder notifications from appearing on the lock screen: Navigate the settings for notifications and turn off the app specifically:
https://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-disable-easy-voice-recorder-from-displaying-info-on-locked-screen.928463/

More intentionally bad photoshops:
https://twentytwowords.com/guy-who-takes-photoshop-requests-literally-hilariously-strikes-again/

HC Pride, as recommended by Mark:
https://www.howardcountypride.org/

The piano score for Stronger Than You!!!:
https://musescore.com/user/8583531/scores/3376566

The less good piano score for Stronger Than You:
https://musescore.com/user/1539191/scores/1115206

How to play Wizards unite: How to get gold:
https://www.imore.com/fastest-ways-get-game-gold-harry-potter-wizards-unite

Takai's tweet about the Concentration Camps, for someone who couldn't get out of their own echo chamber:
https://mobile.twitter.com/georgetakei/status/1141174822619242496

Little girl prohibited from playing in a fountain for not wearing a girls' bathing suit:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/silver-spring/girl-told-to-leave-silver-spring-fountain-because-of-her-swimwear/

This article's headline promises a much better story than it actually contains, but it was slightly interesting anyhow: https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/f-22-maricked-iranian-fighters

A clickbait slide show about abandoned submarines which is probably still worth clicking through: https://finance180.com/journey-abandoned-submarines-bases?utm_source=outbrain-journey-abandoned-submarines-bases&utm_medium=004777123a68055b005d2ea397c8f3d804&utm_campaign=00b69eef7af0e1c88a3de765c111b5eb89&utm_term=004cb59b4987b4eae8eaa9a48ec3b3a0e9&utm_content=00e7790011a148c4cebad091bc3ba452c8

An interesting enough article that tried to make clickbait of all things about the Apollow Laser Ranging experiment: https://www.space.com/apollo-retroreflector-experiment-still-going-50-years-later.html?fbclid=IwAR05W9nWodFsiC_9x22_1aIcIZ0_q-VR680WVP1osMKfoJfzHCkp7Eczu_Y

The twitter post that somebody posted a screencap of must have been made a while ago, but AOC's feed by itself just today is simply inspiring reading: https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc

A fascinating article about brazillian monkeys who have been using stone tools for thousands of years, and how people are doing archeaology on the found tools: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-capuchin-stone-age-has-a-3-000-year-old-archaeological-record?fbclid=IwAR2St3VKUs5K8Gl9FsI2SADgEw9aCnPDn_AuPVwOUj8EAY2mLsBm23-sVw0&tb_cb=1

Interesting but ultimately condescending photos of women riding motorcycles in the 1950's: https://www.vintag.es/2018/03/1940s-bike-girls.html

A poorly written but accurate report about the D.C. Lights For Liberty event: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/12/lights-liberty-dc-immigration-vigil-hundreds-gather-protest/1710297001/?fbclid=IwAR1vimxA1zlCQVNWyV4n7RCltTE2oIUFs233-lO7ISIVkz3jnDtNU9YDVLw

An article about India's moon lander. It doesn't seem to go into real specifics about the instruments on the rover, but the article has lots of details I'd never learned before nonetheless (like there is a rover)https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-science.html?fbclid=IwAR3ML9P1VofokhhZtKdKnmIbBqVQQl08XGCsTVGLLmbpswXlz0kL88e4_hY

Read this later about CoQ10: https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10219478678574888&id=1151141007&anchor_composer=false

A salacious article about the salacious Blue Lagoon movie. It does sound as much like a porno as everybody said at the time like it was:
https://m.ranker.com/list/blue-lagoon-is-messed-up/donn-saylor?fbclid=IwAR0pG10FwzmrNDLeMruDyYJcBVFn2VppglEPmzJU2UXfscs3-maEvHHiPn4

The Tatra 87, which killed more nazi generals than battle. The comments are the best part:
https://www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/car-killed-more-nazi-generals?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

A clickbait headline for a relatively pedestrian issue with the Federation capsule. It's basically Russia's Orion.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/theres-a-slight-problem-with-russias-proposed-federation-spacecraft/

An miserably written article about the Lights For Liberty protest at Homestead, but there are a couple of photos:
https://floridadailypost.com/lights-for-liberty-vigil-homestead-temporary-shelter/

A well written article about LfL at Homestead:
https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2019/07/13/naples-residents-protest-detention-facilities-through-lights-liberty/1687083001/

SpaceX's release of the surprising Crew Dragon anomaly investigation results:
https://www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-static-fire-anomaly-investigation

I can't figure out if this article comparing North and South Korea is intended to be satirical or if I'm just not sufficiently perceptive to see the supposedly yawning differences between the North and South Korean photos:
https://www.cheezburger.com/a/lifestyle/photographer-shows-difference-between-countries-fb

A blogger's hyper focused analysis of Peggy Sue Got Married. It's been a long time since I saw this movie; I'm not sure if he has the answer to why I found it unimpressive but reading this made me feel like I'd seen it again and understood it better.
https://benjaminsmess.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-weekly-screed-917.html

A thoughtful analysis of Trump's post-tweet public appearance:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/trump-racist-attacks-ilhan-omar/

Another really good analysis framing media coverage of the tweets:
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-want-trump-1835458008

It looks like I need to watch See You Yesterday. This search helped warn me about the shaky pseudoscience and ambiguous ending:
https://www.google.com/search?q=see+you+yesterday+plot

TIL I learned the name for the beeps in Apollo audio files and the technical reasons behind them:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindar_tones

Finally some context for the role that the Kyoto Animation studio played to somehow make it a target for a mass murder:
https://kotaku.com/kyoto-animation-became-more-than-just-anime-1836517546/amp

The attacker does sound like a garden variety schizophrenic:
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/07/472c0398b5c5-update2-kyoto-studio-arsonist-repeatedly-caused-trouble-for-neighbors.html

Trying to figure out why the second Chinese space station was simply deorbited after just one (and a half) mission. No direct answers here, but the repeated mention that it was a "pathfinder" station bolsters my suspicions that it probably had expendibles in place of some closed systems:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-2

The just-released first trailer for the Steven Universe movie. It looks pretty rough for Earth in the movie:
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/tv/2019/7/19/20696763/steven-universe-movie-trailer-release-date-sdcc-2019

The first of hopefully many reports of this year's Steven Universe panels at Comic Con. Oddly a video report by the LA Times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzUnKS_lQg

We are up to 14 states that are going to send their electoral college votes go to the winner of the popular vote. It's not enough to make a difference yet and there is a weird technicality, but it's another step in the right direction:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/politics/new-mexico-popular-vote/index.html

Probably the only useful information that can be learned about the whole Area 51 thing:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/19/naruto-run-linked-area-51-10427664/

Just another sad story about teenagers going Lord Of The Flies on an innocent (in this case disabled) kid. Social media outrage did assist with finding the victim in this case:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-girl-beaten-viral-video-20190725-eynvybtt3vg4nbmtz3gi6sszsq-story.html?outputType=amp https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/juveniles-nabbed-brutal-chicago-mob-beating-mentally-disabled/story

A confirmed idiot on FB spoke up in admiration of Adam Schriff's performance during the latest Mueller hearing. It turns out he's a Representative who supports Mueller:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1155188807962112001

This article probably explains things well. I wish I could read it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-26/heffernan-robert-mueller-testimony-adam-schiff%3F_amp%3Dtrue

Teslarati's report on the first Starhopper flight has the best video clips and also a well written background section:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starhopper-flight-test-raptor-video/

Anne Arundel County SPCA, where we got Nova from. Their shelter is super well organized:
https://aacspca.org/

Like most retrospectives on the makings of 80's movies, this one about Revenge Of The Nerds is both informative and a little vague, and discusses the movie's cringe issues:
https://www.gq.com/story/revenge-of-the-nerds-oral-history

Equifax data breach: I should claim my $150:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html

There is going to be a new Star Trek animated series; probably satirical:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-head-writer-of-rick-and-morty-is-creating-a-new-ani-1829997669

Archaeology: iron Roman scribe found in England has a joke written on it in Latin:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/joke-on-roman-souvenir-bloomberg-building-site-city-of-london

The absolutely horrible clickbait article about the 47 year-old Christmas present from the ex girlfriend: http://www.brain-sharper.com/social/unopened-gift-fb/

The better version on an actual news outlet: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4936326

In any normal world, saying that you were at Ground Zero when you weren't would be political death: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/29/politics/donald-trump-9-11-first-responders/index.html

Slide to Unlock is gone for any iOS over 9, and I miss it endlessly. This article is one of thousands describing the workaround that seems to have worked in iOS 10 and not in my current iOS. But interestingly it explains the reason for this terrible decision, that Samsung won a patent case for this seemingly applesque feature: https://time.com/4512982/ios-10-unlock-iphone-without-pressing-home-button/

There are ways to get a similar feature on a jailbroken iPhone: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2017/08/enable-slide-to-unlock-ios-10-lock-screen-jailbreak-tweak.html

We Are The Mighty has been doing a few Civil War pieces which are always about interesting fringe details, like this one about "Sherman's Bow Ties":
https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/sherman-neckties-civil-war-history?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4

Surprise, the NRA's narrative that they supported the Black Panthers is probably revisionism. Do more research from here: "https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act

Wait, they really were called Martha and the Muffins? Echo Beach: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k

We found Lisa's twitter! https://mobile.twitter.com/lisadic63797300

This article claims that I should be able to pair our old apple tv remote with our new apple tv, although the idea that our new apple tv is '4G' seems improbable: https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/974838

An amazingly bold protest, met with so many tut-tuts in this article! The article fails to answer my main question, which is did he really put a picture of Autschwitz on his sign? https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_829462a8-b2ef-11e9-b0d9-fbd4bfb5132b.htm

The subway operator who everybody on my feed seems to know. He did much more than just stop the train, and his own account is fascinatingly humble: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-train-operator-hero-g-train-interview-20190730-bxpipse2trf43eqqskqwwq65qe-story.html

A runaway's story. So much to unpack here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-vanishing-daughter-children-identity-20190311-story.html

Ben Carson talks a good game, but his record means that he is worthy of the treatment he received this day: https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/07/31/hud-secretary-ben-carson-baltimore-trump-tweets/

Nina's field trip location: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-US&q=American+Visionary+Art+Museum

Can hamsters eat watermelon? A surprisingly detailed answer and a resource for any hamster food question: https://petsolino.com/can-hamsters-eat-watermelon/

A super nice comparison of all the different lunar and mars rovers by distances travelled. All of the distances are surprisingly short, and the two apollo vehicles did most of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_2#/media/File%3ADriving_Distances_on_Mars_and_the_Moon.png

This story is an example of police in America:
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/texas-woman-killed-by-police-officer-attempting-to-shoot-her-dog-083943364.html

Apparently the document used to justify the Iraq war was declassified this week, and it's the piece of junk we all thought that it would be. My question is how did this get released before Chaney was in the grave, and why is this news source such a crappy one?:
https://newspunch.com/declassified-cia-document-reveals-iraq-war-had-zero-justification/

Hiberfil.sys is one of the files that is somehow eating up 500GB on T's hard drive. The rest of it are the dark 300GB that at one point I was doing research on how to fix: https://www.google.com/search?q=hiberfil.sys+large

It was just one day ago that the tape of Reagan calling African leaders "monkeys" came out. This article puts certain people's shock about this in the proper context: https://theslot.jezebel.com/presidential-biographers-absolutely-stunned-to-find-tha-1836898704

This 3x3 illustrating literature theory with images from Daffy Duck cartoons is both deep and funny:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/67887955_655212701628994_5731661924123279360_n.jpg

This article asking "Why isn't Cheap Trick one of the biggest bands ever kinda answers the question by trying too hard. The comments make me think that I might enjoy seeing the band live though:
https://www.culturesonar.com/cheap-trick-why-arent-they-one-of-the-biggest-bands-ever/

June Diversions

Politics:


Science:

I did not know that galaxy clusters are connected by thin filaments of matter!
https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-spot-mysterious-10-million-light-year-long-1835301269/amp

I did not know that robocall blocking was already available from Verizon:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/06/tech/robocalls-blocking-fcc/index.html

April 2019 diversions

Politics:

A detail-rich history of the defeat of ISIS by the Kurds:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-trump-betrayed-the-general-who-defeated-isis?fbclid=IwAR3DC9LYZQQP_2rgyLSkBofQiOrf1jnoPxqj7lgjvCrO_CUZJlcDfYmiHfw

Bad headline, odd for The Root. Story is about how Muller report gives extensive details on Russian misinformation ops during the 2016 election, including impersonation of liberal activists. Nothing not already known but now it's in the report.
https://www.theroot.com/mueller-report-reveals-how-black-activists-white-tears-1834150537?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=theroot_twitter&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR2_o0lQPZ3F7S4_6KeSUa2y4VWBeiK50PbUjR6PxQ3cQ8Z-l2ZVBVsjZxU

Weird Nixonesque corruption at the state level:
https://www.king5.com/mobile/article/news/local/spokane-county/lawmakers-respond-to-explosive-allegations-against-rep-matt-shea/293-34ec3bd6-5046-48f8-9655-fa2fa23c4ad3?fbclid=IwAR1VUoQVcZkBposSNxtcQhoyAdO0An4A_Q9EQZYs3extekl3E0GPgJ6rU-s

Why did I spend so long reading this long article about the bad actors in Parkland?
https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/parkland/


Best links ever:

The eclipse video from Columbia SC:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPgLK3ASHUQ

Sim Gretina These Lumps:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4QxCmNaNo

Sim Gretina Inside And Out:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUxaiZJGqU



Other interesting comics advertised on Gifts of Wandering Ice:

Middleways: I've seen this before, I think it's a spy/fantasy combination, fairly good art with some pretty rough edges: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/middleways/1

Just Another Day: lovingly drawn fantasy artwork that became too difficult to do as a comic and is now an illustrated story: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/just-another-day/1

Fragile, a mastery of manga art style so perfect that it is indistinguishable from any other similar comic: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/fragile/1

Out Of Time: A completely gorgeous website design for a comic with such rough art that I'm not sure I can read it. But I have to respect the artist for making it happen. http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/out-of-time-3/1

UNEARTH. Let's see what this classic has been up to recently: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/unearth-a-retro-sci-fi-graphic-novel/1

Ha ha blocked by GSFC for being marked as "gaming". The ad for this so cleverly mocked the comic's own art that I have to check this out later: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/mischief-in-maytia/1

Retroblade, a super-polished sci-fi time travel mystic crystals adventure with fun tech and characters. Too bad it seems to be on infinite hiatus: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/retroblade/1

Diversions:

A video of starting a 1911 race car. The video is 9 minutes of agonizing fiddling, but from the comments I learned that what is being done is priming the engine and then hitting a "tremblor" button to produce a single spark to get the whole thing running. The car has been insanely over-restored; everything is clean and gleaming chrome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMa3_tT5mKA

The soil used to bury the Terra Cotta Army perfectly preserved their bronze weapons. Note the 4 month test compared to the effects of the same test using British soil!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/heres-the-real-reason-why-terracotta-army-weapons-are-so-well-preserved/?fbclid=IwAR3o3TgMu9EvjKfPfyKN9Bm-5LF1PI3c8gvzQLuOGAUw0tOaoDlAZcgAZUI

The fix for "your security settings do not allow you to download files from this location". Download options setting in IE: https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlname=Your-current-security-settings-do-not-allow-this-file-to-be-downloaded-in-Internet-Explorer

Another mind-bogglingly pristine Egyptian tomb discovered. It's astonishing that there are any left to discover:
https://www.boredpanda.com/4000-years-old-tomb-discovered-egypt-painted/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPFacebook&fbclid=IwAR0cWL4miNsXbbNCa7Or671TNtXxnVxHN5C5L18YKO456Pyo85e96ob00E0

A fascinating article about how somebody realized that egyptian statue breakoffs were actually desecration and what it means:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-statues-broken-noses-artsy/index.html

Turns out home inspection is a scam, correlates with my experiences:
https://www.checkbook.org/national/home-inspectors/articles/We-Got-12-Home-Inspections-and-Were-Astonished-at-How-Poorly-Many-of-the-Inspectors-Performed-7029/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1555600861&utm_campaign=brand_awareness&fbclid=IwAR1pBIKRYgjlkEi9GpXVxiRE9fxXVsHnx13q7mhZIlhQW142gnmX9-22Q3A

There's a rabbit rescue in Columbia that has been operating since 1997?
https://www.friendsofrabbits.org/info/index

I discovered that Jeff Rowland's outlet these days in on Twitter. Man does he tweet a lot:
https://mobile.twitter.com/wigu

The Vikings combed their hair story:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/57736431_10157165809970917_5117842476832391168_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=7af4fcdaecc6208cb8e146e7812b2592&oe=5D7251CA

Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster misinterpreted by commenters:
https://m.slashdot.org/story/354846

The Yodeller who sued Yahoo. Indie musician gets ripped off by Yahoo, gets a settlement and ends up as practically their employee until the company goes bankrupt:
https://thehustle.co/the-yodeler-who-sued-yahoo/

VI has a wiki page on fandom:
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_and_replace

The Firestone Primewell tires for the Echo:
https://www.firestonecompleteautocare.com/tires/search-results/
https://www.firestonecompleteautocare.com/tires/brands/primewell/ps830850/95872


Space news:

The destruction of the DM-1 capsule:
https://twitter.com/Astronut099/status/1119825093742530560

A great SpaceX overview video of a falcon 9 typical mission, amazingly still unlisted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4TXCZG_NEY

Info about the Bereshet crash. It was the IMU:
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/SpaceIL-reveals-preliminary-reasons-behind-Beresheet-crash-587117

The astronautix page about Nova, which is often misrepresented by space nerds. The actual story is much more interesting:
http://www.astronautix.com/n/nova.html