socatacos

I discovered this book after seeing the ending to a friends episode https://youtu.be/qx4b0WmAy8s

The philosophy in the book went over my head, but I enjoyed learning about the Prague Spring.

I once made a POV display disc like the ‘compaq’ one in the novelties section. It’s a fun and simple electronics project and I have a write up of how to make on here: https://bovineaerospace.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/persistence...

To me this runs counter to the Feynman quote “What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket”. I always took it to mean that if you don’t know what others have done you will be very limited by the bounds of your imagination.

I have seen a similar product used in automotive acoustic wind tunnels to help identify the locations of acoustic hot spots in the flow around a car.

I have recently been converting my lawn to clover. It out-competes the weeds that were taking over, and requires less watering and mowing than grass. I would definitely recommend.

Programming throwdown. A long running podcast that started with a programming language each show and has branched out to a lot of cool topics. I really like the tool of the show too.

https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/?m=1