Opto22

This is the opto isolator that Juan loaned to me:

https://www.opto22.com/products/dc60s3

The DC means that it's rating applies to DC, the 60 refers to the voltage, the 3 refers to the max amps.

There is only one data sheet for all these SSRs:

https://www.opto22.com/support/resources-tools/documents/0859-solid-state-relays-(ssrs)-data-sheet

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/

LVDS vs PECL

PECL is a diehard NASA revival of the discredited ECL technology from the 1990's. Some links:

The Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=LVDS+vs.+PECL

A nearly perfect comparison of the characteristics of all kinds of driver technology: https://www.vectron.com/products/literature_library/Signal_Types_and_Terminations.pdf

Everything I need to know about Keepass

In addition to having, it turns out, an amazing generic CSV file import tool, Keepass and its little cousins are gorgeously well documented. It will never fully replace (the buggy) Quick Password for ease of use, but it has a future beyond iOS4 so I'll learn to love it. Here is all the documentation I needed to get started:

Getting Started Guide: https://keepass.info/extensions/v2/docs/KeePass2-GS.pdf

How to import from CSV files: https://keepass.info/help/base/importexport.html

Where to download the desktop app from: https://keepass.info/download.html

Somebody trying to do a database import into MiniKeePass from github: https://github.com/MiniKeePass/MiniKeePass/issues/446

No actual answers to the question here but a fun discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeePass/comments/818ii1/best_keepass_app_for_iphone/

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

GIT for Windows

Having somehow installed git for windows a long time ago, I am now happily realizing that it runs fine from the DOS command line. That is all I need, except for some clues.

This guide is fucking amazing and the bomb: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Here is how I fixed my "git clone fatal: unable to access SSL certificate problem unable to get local issuer certificate" problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23885449/unable-to-resolve-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate-using-git-on-windows

This seems to indicate that plain notepad should work for the git commit message editor, and also that I can just fuck the git commit message editor by using the -m argument with my commits: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10564/how-can-i-set-up-an-editor-to-work-with-git-on-windows

This article showed me how to get around the HTTP Basic: access denied problem that was occurring due to the recent change in my NDC password. There are lots of seriously important suggestions here, but I just did the one where I directly enter my user name and password into the https link to my repository: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47860772/gitlab-remote-http-basic-access-denied-and-fatal-authentication

My main reason for getting git for Windows is so that I would be able to add all my files at once to my next project instead of one at a time through the web interface. Of course it's not easy, and the info was buried in the greatest tutorial in the world so I just googled it and found the relevant Stack Overflow thread. I used the commands "git add ." and "git -a -m "message"" method instead of the other fancier looking methods in this thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19576116/how-to-add-multiple-files-to-git-at-the-same-time

May Diversions

Politics:
An actual courtroom confession by Barr? Why isn't this getting more coverage? No wonder he's afraid to go back for additional testimony:
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/1/1854621/-Sen-Harris-gets-AG-Barr-to-admit-he-never-even-reviewed-the-underlying-evidence-in-Mueller-Report?detail=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3HeRX6m-akxCrCBehBojNDHLN1wFsHp5ZuMQhRa6oaSb9tukZe5Bnpk7A

Buttigieg has been campaigning in California, which puts him
in competition with Kamila Harris for rich donors:
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/05/09/buttigieg-california-donors-1313119

Why Biden is a terrible candidate:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/60087798_593822484359870_7134417299766771712_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=f1b8efdd7abe42b65060b6f45a4c4783&oe=5D5DCAE3

I hope I'm not losing free views over this article. Somebody tries to link Democrats vs. Trump to some Roman guy who fell into a trap, but without providing any proof that there even is a trap and what it might be:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/like-hannibal-of-antiquity-trump-is-baiting-the-democrats-into-fighting-on-his-turf/2019/05/10/7f1addfa-7348-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?utm_term=.52469ccd5d99





An article from shortly after the fire which does an amazing job enumerating what survived:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/04/17/notre-dame-damage/?fbclid=IwAR0FjXt8VZ9Lzm1bZUNsVNU_bS6-GUnTu5Q9baJ2zwYV4fMJ9IHpoPG1Naw

Also:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/arts/music/notre-dame-organ-fire.html?fbclid=IwAR0uZVrqmAJmJDUelYFoncimZQEfg_zxpTxBM0x5kGmiTWPwsnY7ioqhhxs

I couldn't figure out how to insert an inline picture in the new OWA. It turns out that there is just a little icon of a picture in the frame for every compose window!:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office-365-emails-inserting-pictures-inline/0b7b54d8-e32e-431d-8065-48b3d41a2638

There seems to be no way to have a blank cell be the result of a formula. The only real answer is to have the negative result of a formula be a special word, value, or character, and then key on that as needed later:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18768020/if-statement-how-to-leave-cell-blank-if-condition-is-false-does-not-work



PewDiePie, a trash human being, is shocked that murders are being committed in his name:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/28/pewdiepie-asks-for-end-to-meme/?sr_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3qpXQDvpAl-gBUJBWh2zNTpYFwxWNKaCy8Z6FtJfV1d68EgwDydc-a2pg

A nice picture of Marcia:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218233018554166&id=1151141007&anchor_composer=false

The incredible "one take" tap number, and some of the background behind it:
https://twistedsifter.com/videos/nicholas-brothers-jumpin-jive-cab-calloway-stormy-weather/?fbclid=IwAR2hP8sxPr7n0yw01_TXGpHegINhAyFlcnPn2RsQwxcbxSQpEMOAxKbnKII#.XGM5Wdkrhrc.facebook

A strange satellite experiment. It shot a harpoon, at itself!
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/15/experimental-british-satellite-tests-harpoon-in-orbit/

Wait, Candice has non-Hodgkins Lymphoma???
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2309243582693608&id=1988646198086683&anchor_composer=false

Even worse behavior than usual by a fraternity:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/swarthmore-fraternities-rape-attic.html

Some interesting answers about comparing well drilling charities (the question implies more than one but I've only found one):
https://www.quora.com/Which-charitable-water-well-drilling-organizations-in-Third-World-countries-are-most-effective

The new malaria vaccine that we've been hearing about turns out to be only 39% effective. It's good that they are distributing it anyhow:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/malaria-vaccine-rollout-is-a-gamble-an-imperfect-tool-used-imperfectly/?fbclid=IwAR0bB-diPrVjP-cB3yqcpFQEDcsJVcZ5LTTgSiFG76BbXtQGx_1LHEYgNzc

The article about the latest AIDS treatment news has the words "end to the epidemic":
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/02/end-to-aids-in-sight-as-huge-study-finds-drugs-stop-hiv-transmission?CMP=soc_567&fbclid=IwAR2OkF2ZaaqqGXLFrOv8gkQQJZqITONSMRLf5g6gADCrWRLmt1Jj2wWddvY

This Pokemon wiki has long episode plot descriptions that, while not quite accurate sometimes, answered my questions about the story arc of the latest series:
https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_the_Series:_Sun_%26_Moon_-_Ultra_Adventures
https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Seasons

The exciting news about the new Denisovan fossil. Note that the Ars article is a really good explanation of how modern science is being used to link these widely scattered fossils together:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/finally-a-denisovan-specimen-from-somewhere-beyond-denisova-cave/?fbclid=IwAR3XBpyzWB5PU1ylg_yjQFdluvPMp3RE9H2imWFp0X4X11zRUBVetdqRYT8

The link to CFIN's farm:
https://www.communityecologyinstitute.org/community-ecology-center.html
https://www.facebook.com/communityecologyinstitute/

This article about a post-midlife author is so breathless and namedroppy that it could have been written in 1922. Oh, it's the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/david-brooks-conversion-story?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The comments are 10 pages of griping about how much threads on Twitter suck:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bl391m/elon_musk_on_twitter_spacex_needs_to_demonstrate/

On the anniversary of Neil Armstrong's ejection from the LLRV, the many gifs of the event promoted me to do some research:
https://www.airspacemag.com/videos/armstrongs-close-call/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle

Chernobyl has been in the news this week for some reason. The abandoned towns in the exclusion zone are a popular photography subject, but even the eerie images can't overcome the banality of the presentation in this article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-abandoned-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-after-nuclear-disaster-david-mcmillan-2019-4?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=auddev-test12348&fbclid=IwAR0h2g_78kXAXbXh_58pr94qMY0p4YOZM2c8x-zrGW6MzIlK53D4kidt2Q8#then-on-april-26-1986-a-reactor-at-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine-exploded-shooting-out-toxic-radioactive-particles-across-parts-of-europe-4

The New Yorker history, brought on by the HBO drama about Chernobyl:
https://paidpost.newyorker.com/article/chernobyl?fbclid=IwAR224GxwAqwtJ1o-npud0cYgJJNQwDmlTh0aX3IyG0O35bZyvLAOA0ozia0

A nice analysis of The Beatles' 'Help' vocal layering:
https://www.culturesonar.com/the-beatles-help-breaking-down-the-vocal-tricks/?fbclid=IwAR39sDSgT6U2pPOFzhVH0c8Tg7dWMFNNUUjO8_5EpAV64Ixo-kLqRYyzmSo

The "Alzheimer's is prions" crowd claims success in a recent study, although I don't see how age-related drops in protein levels support this theory:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/05/414326/alzheimers-disease-double-prion-disorder-study-shows?fbclid=IwAR0l4gtrt6FDSZC8yR5JgzpUgEnoEST0uRQv5FE8fcOoUWMxVXNcVGIsyHw

A new experiment with superionic ice uses X-ray crystallography to verify the structure of samples created in a few billionths of a second. This stuff supposedly exists in quantity in gas giants:
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-giant-lasers-crystallize-shockwaves-revealing.amp

Jalebi links:
An article about history and ethnicity:
https://www.thelongestwayhome.com/blog/food-around-the-world/nepalese/jalebi/
The Wikipedia article:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalebi
A recipe:
https://m.recipes.timesofindia.com/recipes/jalebi/rs53099699.cms
A recipe on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wuJYFCN9P8
This article mentions jabeli at a North Laurel Indian market that seems no longer to exist:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-ethnic-markets-1128-20131125-story.html

A "new type of endlessly recycable plastic", PDK, is a clever bit of chemical engineering. More soluble than recyclable, it at least has close to 100% recoverability of its component chemicals, when soaked in acid FOR 12 STINKING HOURS:
https://www.sciencealert.com/at-last-we-have-a-plastic-that-can-be-efficiently-recycled-over-and-over-again/amp

The "Minecraft Browser Game" in this article looks like a lame repackaging of disappointing PiCraft, but some of the related links at the bottom of the article on other Minecraft topics look interesting:
https://kotaku.com/minecraft-is-now-a-browser-game-is-still-good-1834611805/amp

I guess that I need to read the links in this article to really understand what happened in "WW2's strangest battle":
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/that-time-when-americans-and-germans-fought-together-during-world-war-ii

Spoiler for the stupid coffee cup controversy:
https://hypebeast.com/2019/5/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-starbucks-cup-origin?amp=1

This Chinese sci-fi movie is on netflix and sounds interesting:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/netflix-stealth-dropped-chinese-sci-fi-blockbuster-the-1834565000?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=io9_facebook&fbclid=IwAR3nfCpt20HVl9xVeW0zmNeFaWG-h2quZI1-_oAkdKbMFtwgppdu7wAi3xE
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_wandering_earth

A really great history of the research into the Cosmic Background Radiation. It was discovered while building the first microwave telecommunication network, and among other things we have learned is that the plane of our solar system is aligned with it?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/50-years-with-the-big-bangs-smoking-gun/?fbclid=IwAR2skkSXG41R1gGOpCwj-KLvrggLWYG6WFnaM3uHZBbq_EcgjH1qyvZ8tNo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)

Some more background on the seizure of the North Korean ship. It was trying to sell coal to raise money for the country: https://www.foxnews.com/world/ap-explains-whats-behind-rare-us-seizure-of-n-korea-ship.amp

Very intact anglo-saxon grave found in England: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/09/britains-equivalent-to-tutankhamun-found-in-southend-on-sea

Some research, some cheap shots at the "Gut Doctor Begs You To Throw Out This One Vegetable" ads on webpages: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/8/18537279/chum-box-weird-sponsored-links-gut-doctor

A cartoon about artificial languages that taught me names of several that I'd never heard of before, and that the first ones were from 1870! https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/59862904_2037915486334442_8112245120998309888_o.png.jpg?_nc_cat=107&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=e55937ddbfe1c51d179cb62814371b3d&oe=5D592454

A breathless review of Detective Picachu: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/detective-pikachu-film-review-this-is-how-you-adapt-a-video-game-for-theaters/?fbclid=IwAR35fybrLxHQ05ccYeihKsaKHPDSBQG9cZO1tHictjmlhQDhhScoFEHA7c4

Background of the SWAT team raid on a reporter in LA: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sf-reporter-police-raid-adachi-20190511-story.html?outputType=amp

This "leading animator" was involved with Ren and Stimpy and other highly recognizable cartoons, but these articles oddly make him sound like a backgrounder:

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/chris-reccardi-leading-animation-industry-artist-dies-at-54-173590.html
https://www.animationmagazine.net/people/passings/ren-stimpy-powerpuff-girls-artist-chris-reccardi-dies-age-54/?fbclid=IwAR0lkpqrJHycO78m_6mDo6CgXV0bor-OEs545Uz3QtMti7j4JPP1njJBQiA

Liedenfrost droplets
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/study-finds-ultimate-fate-of-leidenfrost-droplets-depends-on-their-size/?fbclid=IwAR2AgrL_eqZ23B3PVnZZKmyva-xK-XNtjoRLfmuVz1hBWR_yDCmsKjRhL38

The spacex time machine:
https://spacextimemachine.com

A farm like CFIN's:
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/lena-brook/biggest-little-farm-bumpy-and-beautiful-road-farming-healthier-planet?fbclid=IwAR1NuGRU0j2_eMu4eTpFZUroCK-AjNRsJcp_hUkKYEkLE76HZtmrGKtjECs

plastic found at the bottom of the Marianas trench:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/victor-vescovo-deepest-dive-pacific/index.html?gallery=0

A new WannaCry is comming, apparently:
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2019/05/14/windows-7-xp-rds-vulnerability/

An amazing article about teenagers as the barometer for the decay of american morals:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/teenage-pricks-pareene?fbclid=IwAR21M6HzkfzU9ljl2OyN5M90qriNvU4tZa3_il3L-4vfAEt0qUchf81vLB0

Forbes has been on fire with science articles recently:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/14/this-is-why-mars-is-red-and-dead-while-earth-is-blue-and-alive/amp/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/05/13/heres-why-we-cannot-just-nuke-hurricanes/?fbclid=IwAR17wnAy24fftEsj80qJBS5nvYc3legZ1nmVFz74EzSNReV1XXilegQvHgI#5abb7aba7928
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/11/ask-ethan-how-well-has-cosmic-inflation-been-verified/?fbclid=IwAR2pUNZmQ9WC0YAEplS_OeOq2YORRIgvDbyK32_csY3GTGJJ05oInruzsWQ#6e1c06b31d07

An interesting article about a never-pursued Darpa proposal for a rocketplane that would use both SpaceX and Rocketdyne engines:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/blff76/the_pd2_a_lesser_known_nasadarpa_proposal/

An attempt to compare Brexit to a failed Danish attempt to expand their borders. Some interesting points and interesting history, but the direct comparison is a stretch:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/world/europe/brexit-denmark-1864-movie.html


Current info on some of my favorite cartoonists that I haven't heard from in a while:
https://mobile.twitter.com/heliothaumic?lang=en
https://mobile.twitter.com/yeahduff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
fictioncircus.com/mwhf/
fictioncircus.com/Jeanne/comics/
https://mobile.twitter.com/manwhohatesfun?lang=en
https://mobile.twitter.com/badmachinery


https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/abortion-is-immoral-except-when-it-comes-to-my-mistresses?fbclid=IwAR276BogmgSP8XPExT33nNTbaffZpnKF8Dl610_V9sqJt25uG8MY85ujr9k


A story about last year's show that explains the "Kids' Cabaret" that will also occur this year, as well as a review of the show that makes you feel like you saw it. Also, one of the Coward twins seems to have gotten a lame part:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-lmph-aladdin-web-0816-story.html

An evangelist is masquerading as 25 separate identities on Facebook and was unmasked. Why isn't this front page news?:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/05/16/tldr-kullberg-network/?fbclid=IwAR3uRFJSxpoUNUkYsz3xJ13b7mMRDuYfvN0W1YFrmWPkBulln9GAVRbWhgU

How to find our pho place:
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS705US706&hl=en-US&biw=320&bih=492&ei=fOXdXNWHJa_v_QahzYaIBA&q=pho+dat+thanh+columbia+md+number&oq=pho+dat+thanh&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.1.0.0i71l5.0.0..7304...0.0..0.0.0.......0.U976x7Nw1y8#trex=m_t:lcl_akp,rc_f:lac,rc_ludocids:14597874367900386167,rc_q:Pho%2520Dat%2520Thanh,ru_q:Pho%2520Dat%2520Thanh

An ICE prisoner from Cameroon of all places who Ken seems to be sponsoring:
https://www.change.org/p/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice-help-us-save-our-friend-s-life?recruiter=1884308&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=113a3a40-d349-012f-a0bd-40401fa5e37a&utm_content=mit-15277626-10%3Av2



https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/60639315_2394466207242980_9143824921795756032_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=5e6664953a9476afcece68517a87d4da&oe=5D6438C2

249mph bullet trains. Alfa-X. To be tested for 3 years and not enter service until 2030! Air and magnetic speed brakes, and earthquake proof!
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/japanese-railway-company-starts-testing-249mph-bullet-train-speeds/?fbclid=IwAR2SR2BN7nyr_d2r8zzwB53PYecmKId1K_DPydBQGeFnE1Hcbf5yTNM0mLA

Explainer for the just published New Horizon results:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/first-results-from-new-horizons-time-in-the-kuiper-belt/?fbclid=IwAR133EvkhzK2WRC5IymEfWRUgeQ4bYCiCUnVgf-UA2wBL8nMpNEnlcYxmsY

What happened with the Solar Shingles (factual):
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613541/teslas-trumpeted-solar-shingles-are-a-flop/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0Jx8nUW6KebtS9HvPgQyvB0_cWkuaCHuoAix9se6m9Frdyr3yROBMntEI

Fascinating setback in the European right wing assault:
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2019/05/austria-chancellor-kurz-announces-snap-election-190518170506716.html

SE2 is coming out in September maybe. The XR is out now but doesn't sound great:
https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iphone/iphone-se2-3500611/

Lots of old SE1's on ebay about as cheap as androids:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m4084.l1311.R1.TR3.TRC1.A0.H0.Xiphone+se+128gb+ve.TRS0&_nkw=iphone+se+128gb+verizon&_osacat=0&_odkw=iphone+se+128gb&_sacat=0

Older iPad minis at 128gb are cheaper too.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m4084.l2632.R2.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xipad+mini+12.TRS0&_nkw=ipad+mini+128gb&_osacat=171485&_odkw=ipad+mini&_sacat=171485

Diamond Dogs was supposed to be "1984".
https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/19/david-bowie-nineteen-eighty-four-george-orwell-diamond-dogs-dorian-lynskey
Interesting background, but after the article is a great review of every album:
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-bowie-diamond-dogs/

My two running routes:
http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=748644
http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=748650



The word is tsundere:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere
https://www.google.com/search?q=tsundere&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS705US706&oq=tsund&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.3699j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Lisa's iPad is a mini4, apparently:
https://www.google.com/search?q=MK6L2LL%2FA&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS705US706&oq=MK6L2LL%2FA&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58j0l2.15301j1j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8



The incredible story of how gravity wave detectors were designed and built:
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/19/723326933/billion-dollar-gamble-how-a-singular-hero-helped-start-a-new-field-in-physics

The real story of Thomas Beckett is so interesting than just the murder! He became quite drunk with church power and it went on forever before he was killed, with mad excommunications and trips to France and the Vatican:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becket_controversy

Cute picture of a cat imitating lion statues:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/60355237_2077032575740016_5312577857401126912_n.png.jpg?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=28d006d780a23a748521d801eb02d317&oe=5D525397

How to find find my new accountant:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=lcl&ei=kDvkXMSeF6uu5wK_laroAw&q=Wakely+and+kline+laurel+md&oq=Wakely+and+kline+laurel+md&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i299k1.8184.14055.0.14473.28.23.1.4.4.0.236.2027.12j5j1.18.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..5.23.2077...0j0i131k1j0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i10k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i160k1.0.x_TuyAiBT2w#rlfi=hd:;si:17131875526312806557;mv:!1m2!1d39.09984797731903!2d-76.84975998542649!2m2!1d39.09948802268097!2d-76.85022381457351!3m12!1m3!1d204.10171843728347!2d-76.8499919!3d39.099668!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i982!2i810!4f13.1

The other accountant in Laurel. They have a nice suite at Laurel Lakes:
https://rtmcpa.com/

This therapist for T is no longer at Patuxent Ave, and here schedule is pretty full:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/cynthia-lengrand-columbia-md/72034


An article about drinking a lot of water. Nice to see somebody else's journey:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-happens-when-you-drink-a-gallon-of-water-a-day

Dr. Google diagnoses T:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/oppositional-defiant-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20375831

Telescope view of the Starlink satellites all in a row!
https://amp.businessinsider.com/starlink-video-netherlands-astronomer-spacex-satellites-2019-5

What the hell can't Drmocrats do anything right?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1010336