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Maybe an idea
Printing and bookbinding should try harder to compete with online. Some books do a good job of staying flat, some don’t. The two books I bought last week are examples of good and bad. Good: Hudson book. Sewn signatures, wide pages. It fits in my bookholder and lays flat without constant active intervention. It’s passive.…
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Figured it out again
Just recognized something AGAIN after forgetting it for many years. Fools constantly instruct us that social media is an echo chamber. This is brazenly and grossly false. Social platforms DO NOT give you more of what you like. They explicitly and persistently slam you with more of what you hate. The goal is to maximize…
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Makeforce reprint
Partial reprint from April 2019, a year before the chaotizers committed the biggest crime in history. = = = = = START REPRINT: Resistance is futile, but self-defense is not futile. First and most directly, don’t merge with the Cloud. Don’t take that last step, don’t place your devices into Elon’s hands. More subtly, use…
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Rare charge
Interesting because rare: A gambler was charged with cheating for using a “vibrating device” to manipulate a slot machine. Charges of cheating are surprisingly rare (less than one per year) considering that two casinos are a major industry here. I suppose casinos take care of cheaters in their own way with heavy surveillance and internal…
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Happy ADA New Year!
I just heard through an indirect channel that the government has given programmers a WHOLE NEW YEAR to fulfill the arbitrary ADA requirements. = = = = = START OFFICIAL QUOTE: By this Interim Final Rule (“IFR”), the Department of Justice (“Department”) is revising the regulations implementing title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act…
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Krazy Krauts and Krazy Brits
All of Europe is krazy, not just the Krauts. A newly worked natural gas deposit in Britain will serve ENTIRELY to power a bitcoin thingamajig, creating nothing but fraud and suffering. Via UK Telegraph. = = = = = START KRAZY KUOTE: A giant new natural gas field in Yorkshire is to be exploited for…
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Answering an old puzzle
Bought a new Hudson book from a bookstore who DOES know how to advertise and satisfy customers. The book is by Richard Langworth, the best of the non-insider auto history writers. Other good books were by John Conde, Don Butler and Pat Foster. Each worked for Nash or Hudson at some point, so they had…
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Marketing missed
Random and pointless thought about advertising. When Max Hoffmann started importing VWs in 1949 he tried to emphasize the cool factor. Before the war he had been a luxury car dealer in Austria, so he was accustomed to moving in cool circles. The appeal didn’t work until the 60s, then it hit hard, starting in…
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Constant and variable
The US mint issued a ‘commemorative coin’ with Trump’s face. An old lawyer realized there was a law forbidding the use of living people, so he sued. Constant: Now the two “sides” are screeching at each other in the standard ways, missing the main points as always. 1. Commemorative coins aren’t currency. They’re just a…
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Duane Jones would be happy
I bought another Hudson book through Abebooks. This one came from Browse Awhile Books in Tipp City near Dayton. They included a wonderful little pack of premiums along with the book. A library-style checkout card in its envelope, and the code for discounts stamped with a library-style rubber stamp. A bookmark with the picture of…
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Bailey’s Corners vs Potterville
Picture of the Enid square around 1954 judging by the newest cars. The mix of car brands (at least in this small sample!) fits my theory of Okie oddballs. Oklahoma was settled by nonconformists, so nonconformists remained common. Nine cars visible. Two Chrysler products, one Ford, three GM, one Hudson, two Studebakers. If you selected…
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Krazy Krauts
Krauts always take everything too far, always prove a theoretical point instead of just making things work. Kraut machines, like Kraut minds, are precise, rigid and brittle. In recent decades they decided to do Gaia, and naturally took it too far. Along with permanently ruining their own nuclear plants and permanently ruining their Russian source…
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Cute and true
What your favorite programming language says about you. Note that Basic and Cobol aren’t even there. Basic is mostly gone but Cobol is still very much alive and modern. Google shows a dinosaur as the Cobol logo, but apparently that’s a joke, not the official design. Later thought. Most of these aren’t real logos anyway,…
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Another Hudson first
This new video about varieties of inside doorhandles on cars brought me back to an earlier trivia item about outside doorhandles. There’s a clear default pattern with a couple exceptions. Before 1940 all closed cars had simple turn levers, the same mechanism as house doors. Levers varied from T shape to L shape to stirrup,…
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