So it looks like Silicon Valley Bank employed people to do fundamentally pointless time- and resource-wasting stuff. This, sad to say, is hardly unique; lots of companies devote surprising amounts of effort end employees time to things that have nothing to do with the companies business or mission. Company baseball teams, for example, have nothing…
My preference with the cyanotype diagrams is to not tinker with the actual image other than the needs of cleaning them up. However, in a few cases the diagrams are such that they make inconvenient fits, or could be made into convenient sizes… or need additional stuff added to them to flesh them out. One…
Banks failing are hardly good news. But for most people, FDIC insurance *should* mean that most people shouldn’t lose a dime, though there will definitely be heartburn and inconvenience. This insurance covers up to, IIRC, $250,000 in savings, which is more than most people have. But some people have a *lot* more than that. The…
Yeesh. Bad news on the culture *and* economic fronts: ‘You’re probably going to see a dumbed down version’: Amazon Diluting Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K Series Like They Did With ‘The Rings of Power’? Nobody knows *anything* about Amazons 40K adaptation yet… but basically everyone assumes that it’ll be trash. not because of the soruce material,…
I will be posting some more cyanotype blueprints to ebay in the coming days. These were made from old transparencies I’d had made prior to the move from Utah. But I also hope to have some “brand new” cyanotypes in the near-ish future. The transparent film remains astonishingly elusive; two separate companies are trying to…
“You are who you choose to be.” “Superman.” The question I’ve seen asked before: “why didn’t the giant simply blast the missile?” Because he chose to be Superman, and Superman isn’t a gun (let’s ignore the “heat vision” for just a second). This guy’s channel is definitely worth watching. He also had the correct response…
Are you ready for the *dumbest* thing you’ll read today? Prepare yourselves… End ‘colonial’ approach to space exploration, scientists urge Short response: eat me. Longer response: let’s take a look at what this idea is, shall we? But Dr Pamela Conrad of the Carnegie Institution of Science said the focus should shift away from seeking…
Woman’s nose ripped off by boyfriend’s dog ‘startled by her teeth whitening’ It also shredded her left arm. I know a lot of people love “pitties” and stand by them… but maybe there’d be some value in genetically engineering them to be less psychotically violent from time to time. Successful results of that treatment could…
100 Million Years Unveiled: The Most Detailed Model of Earth’s Surface Ever it’d be interesting to see what it says about the maximum mountain height in that time. When India slammed into Asia it drove up the Himalaya’s; doubtless to altitudes well above where they are today. Reference: “Hundred million years of landscape dynamics…
