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I was at Costco three days ago and the books for sale table which, in years past, spanned much of an aisle, is now down to about a 5x3 ft table offering nothing to my interest.

I really liked Director. In the 90s I made a significant part of my living with Director projects.

Probably not at those sizes. The company has been around for a long time with products that appear to fill a need, particularly with livestock cooling. Their fans are designed to move a high volume of air at a low fan speed. The ones I have seen in person around here in warehouses and manufacturing shops are very quiet. And very big.

My fave: https://bigassfans.com/

I can’t recall ever seeing the word “thermic” used to refer to internal combustion engine powered vehicles. Cool. [adds it to vocabulary]

> UPS is also full of holes.

I checked again with a longer sample—the first eight paragraphs—and, this time, Pangram said 61% human. Hmm. I think your twigging may be more accurate.

Hmm. Pangram AI detection says the piece is “100% human written.”

Link to transcript and audio of the This Is Water commencement speech:

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

When I first moved to Denmark, I marveled at the babies in unattended carriages parked outside the grocery stores.

Such an appropriate-sounding name he has.

The Shazam app on my wife’s iPhone can identify TV shows and movies very quickly, sometimes nearly instantly. Not sure how it does that.

Many of them, especially the smaller hard-case versions, have a space to write date of first-use.

In the 1980s, a Seattle-area Chinese restaurant owner had a sailboat named Won Ton Sloop. (Or so I was told as I never saw the boat myself)

In the past 15 years, I have purchased five Lumix cameras including the new L10 (which I have yet to receive). I like their cameras a lot. The dedication to pursue this battle is another reason I am certain to buy more.

Yes, it breaks the back button on iPad/Safari

I have gone down that quote’s rabbit hole before and it looks a lot more apocryphal than Maynard.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/

I once picked up an old copy of Bartlett’s Quotations and found that the prior highlighting owner found it nearly 100% profound.

Bogus blog shenanigans aside, Drake Anthony is a treasure.

I own four in my office. Daily driven, mostly with photo editing tasks but some Blender, too. Work well for us.

I have been very lucky with a washer/dryer pair from Samsung that have only needed two minor repairs in 12 years of near-daily use. A heating element for the dryer. A new door seal and, later, a pump for the washer.

My 7 year old LG inverter microwave has been flawless and is the best microwave I have ever used.

My 10 year old pair of LG 4K computer monitors have been great—they still hold a color calibration quite well.

My recently-purchased, and expensive, LG C5 OLED TV has a spectacular picture but is a finicky, ad-ware festooned nightmare. It demands attention to near-daily updates where the updates list contains ads and promotions that I have to scroll through and dismiss to find the actual updates. It is tiring to deal with and especially because the remote control is a ridiculously gimmicky “air remote” where I have to carefully aim it at tiny targets which, even from three feet away, is challenging to do and so unnecessary.

The TV and this story about unauthorized software installations has cured me of interest in new LG offerings.

I used to live in Tam Junction, close to Sausalito. I had lived there at least a year before I discovered the Bay Model and was amazed when I visited it. It is huge.

The site owner, Ian, says he is seeking an alternative to google ads. Seems the site may be struggling financially.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/support.htm

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The ones that do likely first tried to do the photography themselves.

Well, there’s Nuke.

acdsee, at least a few years ago when I was using it for large volume jpg commercial work, is fast and often good enough. The trickier stuff went for a spin in Photoshop.

Photopea is very good. It is what I recommend to friends who just want an immediate solution.

A quick search seems to show that helium is being lost to space. Wikipedia’s article claims the loss of helium to be at a rate of about 50 grams per second.

Waaay back in the early 1980s, I read an Asimov essay, “The Vanishing Element”, about the irreplaceable nature of helium and how badly humankind was wasting it. He pointed out that, once released, it just rises through the atmosphere and lost to space. I guess that chicken is coming home to roost.