Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
Off Topic: Which Double Edge Safety Razor Blades Should I Buy?
June 16th, 2023Apologies. I need to briefly go off topic to personal grooming. After decades of using disposable plastic razors, I decided to switch to a double edge safety razor to save money. I probably wouldn’t have thought much about it, but when the price for ten shitty plastic razors went to NZ$12 here, I refused to […]
40TB Hard Disc Drives Soon
June 10th, 2023My first hard disc drive was a Sider 10MB HDD connected to my Apple 2e. haha It’s Fall, so here’s my Apple Sider ][ hard drive spinning up and down by u/Taffer25 in retrobattlestations Via: AnandTech: Offering a brief update on the future of hard drives, Seagate has shared some fresh insights concerning launch of […]
Do You Need a New Iron?
May 19th, 2023My wife’s taste in dresses, skirts and aprons goes back about 150 years. Rather than attempting to buy clothing like that, she makes it herself using her mother’s (borrowed) Bernina sewing machine from 1982 and an iron. The iron she’d been using for the last fifteen years blew up. I tried to fix it, but […]
“A 200,000-Light-Year-Long Chain of Young Blue Stars Located Over Halfway Across the Universe”
April 6th, 2023Via: Hubble Site: The universe is so capricious that even the slightest things that might go unnoticed could have profound implications. That’s what happened to Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum when he was looking through Hubble Space Telescope images and noticed a suspected blemish that looked like a scratch on photographic film. For Hubble’s electronic […]
DPReview.com Is Closing April 10th
March 22nd, 2023I became interested in 35mm photography back in the 1980s when I was in high school. After a brief stint in photography school in the early 1990s, I realized that the only way I was going to make consistent money with photography was with weddings. So, I moved on. But my love of photography remained, […]
Deluxe Home Vintage Computer Den
March 12th, 2023Via: Ars Technica: In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap forward. Recently, a collector named Brian Green showed off his vintage computer collection on Twitter, and we thought […]
Nokia Launches a Low Cost, Easily Repairable Smartphone
February 27th, 20233.5mm headphone jack: Yes. Via: PC Magazine: The Nokia G22, a low-cost Android phone headed for Europe, features a QuickFix design that allows owners to perform several repairs themselves.
Encryption Lava Lamps
February 25th, 2023Via: Atlas Obscura: Cloudflare covers about 10 percent of international web traffic, including the websites for Uber, OKCupid, or FitBit, for instance. And the colorful wall of lava lamps in the company’s San Francisco headquarters might be what’s generating the random code. The wall features over 100 lava lamps, spanning a variety of colors, and […]
Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina
February 18th, 2023Via: WelteMax:
Clockwork-Like ‘Computer’ Discovered Inside Brainless Microscopic Organism
October 14th, 2022Via: ScienceAlert: Tiny single-celled critters obviously don’t have room for a brain to tell them how to move in complex ways, so to get about, they usually roll, slither or swim. But microscopic pond dwellers called Euplotes eurystomus have mastered a way to walk brainlessly – scurrying about like insects, with their 14 little appendages. […]
