Tag: Metrology
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Zenith’s hearing biz
Following on three previous Zenith items: Zenith receivers. Zenith’s Cobra-matic. The origin of the company. Zenith didn’t “belong” in the hearing business. Zenith had always built radio receivers and TV receivers. They added phonographs and clocks to their radios, but never branched out into audio systems or clocks. They never made instrumentation or lab equipment…
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Where isn’t the beef?
DailyMail has an article on the countries that eat the most vegies. The chart is hard to read, includes only the top 20, and is calibrated in kilograms per year. I’ve translated it into pounds per year per person, and included the top 100 broken up in 10s. This seems to be measuring the ‘color’…
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Recognize the tanh point.
Outrage! The Miss Universe pageant goes all the way on Woke. First, this is NOT NEW. The big beauty pageants stopped competing for real beauty and other human qualities a LONG TIME ago. Second, the same thing has happened in other forms of competition from athletics to spelling bees to casinos to business. Third, why…
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Reprint on confidence and immunity
Following on previous item, here’s a reprint from July 2020. This was before RFK took over ACU and guided it into the OPPOSITE form of panic. Were we being prepared for this fake emergency? The ACU’s own Youtube channel doesn’t have many of the press conferences, but it does have some useful interviews on the…
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What or who is Stoller smoking?
Headline from Stoller: The Long Annoying Tradition of Anti-Patriotism Declinism is a longstanding posture of political elites. It’s also a political choice, not a reflection of reality. I want to look at the long American embrace of anti-patriotism, of disdain for democracy, and general gloominess and dislike of politics. Because at times of populist anger…
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Kirn loses it
Katharine Boyle said: The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension. College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress. Kirn snotted back: “On almost every dimension” isn’t English, brainiac. Close, but not quite. And what would know about dimensions…
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Mass mechviews
This blog is getting a HUGE number of obviously mechanical “views” today. Most of them are “seeing” the previous item on Campbells Soup, which is not politically or culturally interesting in any way. Normally such items are carefully AVOIDED by all real viewers. All are coming through Oracle Cloud, all are clearly timed at regular…
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9 of 10 leading readers agree
In general I was a smarter and better writer before I switched from Blogspot to WordPress in late 2021. Maybe I’m used up from fighting the “virus” monsters, maybe I’m just getting older and losing sharpness. The readers seen by Statcounter seem to share the same judgment. A wide variety of readers are STILL looking…
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It’s all about caste
Recurring to the theme of primary sources. One of Taibbi’s commenters approvingly cites Mencken’s nasty description of Harding’s writing. Primary sources tell the correct story. Mencken was an arrogant conformist elitist bully of the worst sort. Pure Nietzsche. I am GOD. You are SHIT. He constantly berated peasants and Southerners and yokels. He hated anyone…
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Endless modifiable horizons
From Apple’s announcement of its expensive Metaverse: With Vision Pro, you have an infinite canvas that transforms how you use the apps you love. Arrange apps anywhere and scale them to the perfect size, making the workspace of your dreams a reality — all while staying present in the world around you. Browse the web…
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Grudges count 2
A few days ago I hoped that Pence would channel his personal grudge against Trump to move the party in a different direction. His actual announcement video is ‘highly produced’, full of standard quotes and standard images, which is normal. Until this month I would have dismissed this as meaningless, but this month gives us…
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Reprint from 2014
Suggested by the Fleischmann deltas in previous item. STYLES AND STACKS. Continuing yesterday’s discussion of potential differences in electronics and economics. Thinking again of these alternate ways to describe a system. You can start from two TYPES of force or source, two separate poles or centerpoints…. or you can treat local pieces of the system…
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Good prison
Reading the DailyMail account of Bryan federal prison where Holmes is starting her time. I’m impressed! Bryan is a GOOD PRISON, doing pretty much everything the right way. = = = = = START QUOTE: New inmates normally spend their first three months working in the kitchen, which is considered one of the most demanding…
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Reprint from 2021
Reprint from May 2021, linked in previous. Switched and Witched. One aspect of the holocaust deserves more attention. I touched on it briefly before, and it’s becoming more obvious now. Testing and wellness laid the foundation for a fake “epidemic”. Heroic martyr Magufuli understood this from the start. He disproved the fraud at the start…
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Fibers
Convective thought: I’ve been annoyed by galaxybrain bullies for a long time. Like Ockham’s schoolmen, they know ALL the details of ALL the facts in the world, and spin intricate webs of details, precise to an infinite number of decimal places. If you dare to answer, the galaxybrain will twist and turn your answer in…
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