Tag: Patient things
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What am I comparing with?
Lately I’ve been fussing about low quality and low quantity of online stuff. Substack is low quality and low quantity. Straight Arrow News is good quality but low quantity. What’s the baseline? What am I comparing them with? I’ve said that old newspapers and broadcasts had a much better mix of topics, a “substantial and…
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Universal Carborundum
A new upload at American Radio Library opens up a fascinating Road Almost Taken. Carborundum is synonymous with abrasives. The brand is still active, still making a variety of papers and grinding wheels. Needless to say, their original factory in Niagara Falls was closed by EPA, like all factories outside of China. The brand is…
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Illustrated two ways
Today is Morse Code Day! I don’t need to add any new animations, since Polistra has been tirelessly sending the same prayer on several different keys in two different languages. The HappyDays365 webpage has a pretty good writeup on Morse himself and the code in general, giving proper credit to the MANY inventors who came…
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NOTHING.NEW under the sun
Still thinking about trite non-info vs new info… American Radio Library has added a section for the Western Union tech journal. Trite: I’ve said this a hundred times. The HTML web is just the latest and NOT the greatest incarnation of data webs. Formalized data webs started with Chappe’s mechanical semaphores, then the electrical telegraph…
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