What model of typewriters do you have?

Yeah, I got an MP3 player for two reasons: Spotify ads and ADHD.

There was a sweet spot around 2010 for productivity. It was before appification of the internet/smartphones. I've been simplifying everything just to concentrate.

I haven't been using my typewriter though because I value my marriage.

Also, the last place I saw Erector set pieces being sold was Fry's Electronics, for robotics projects.

Man, how things change in a decade.

A screenshot of the lowes.com website showing a mending plate. Basically a piece of erector set.

I used Erector sets for so many projects, but I had to get them from my family's basement.

Once, I built a hot-wire foam cutter with a DC power supply, an erector set, and some steel wire.

I still use "mending plates" from the hardware store for certain projects. They are perfect replacements.

Home - Meccano

Yup. Rebranded/bought by Meccano in the 1990s www.meccano.com

A blank "tug of war meme"

A lot of people I know have been posting variations of this meme, because of all this.

The war was a bad idea all around.

Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub If you can't afford one, build it yourself.

Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub | Tom's Hardware www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/o...

a man in a blue shirt is sitting on a bench talking to another man . ALT: a man in a blue shirt is sitting on a bench talking to another man .

Servers are still going up and down like a roller coaster.

Initial conditions:
m1=74.4 m2=51.8 m3=120.4 (solar masses)
v1x=-1.222 v1y=-0.137 v2x=-1.082 v2y=1.251 v3x=4.851 v3y=-6.305 (km/s)
x1=-20.0 y1=-34.0 x2=-31.0 y2=17.0 x3=1.0 y3=7.0 (AU from center)
Music: Rhapsody in Blue – Gershwin

Recovery crew opening the hatch and welcoming the Artemis II crew home after a nearly 700,000-mile journey.

Video: Reid Wiseman

@isaac-arthur.bsky.social congratulations! Geting a million YouTube subscribers is no mean feat.

Looking forward to the "1,000,000 AD" video.

See NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon in 12 stunning photos The Artemis II mission’s 10-day odyssey around the moon and back was captured in stunning photographs at every moment. Here are 12 of our favorite images

The Artemis II mission’s 10-day odyssey around the moon and back was captured in stunning photographs at every moment. Here are 12 of our favorite images--which do you like most?

A vinyl figurine of Godzilla (from Godzilla, 2000) on a cluttered workbench in a garage.

Random post for the day: I have many Godzillas around my house. This is the one I keep in the garage. He is Garage-zilla.

Now, back to regular scheduled programming.

Six boats surround a space capsule with bright orange balloons on its top.

All four of NASA's Artemis II crew members have been extracted from the Orion spacecraft off the coast of San Diego. Watch live with us as recovery operations continue: www.scientificamerican.com/video/watch-...

Latest report and photos from MDRS Crew 333

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A writing acquaintance told me "you must be one of fewer than 20 people who have ever connected a floppy-disk drive to an iPad," and he's probably right.

There is something about floppy-disks that will always seem futuristic to me. Growing up, it was like magic.

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Unfortunately, here’s a second list today of book marketing scammers sending emails to your inbox:
Fivearr Gaman <fivearrgaman@gmail.com>
Sofia Durant Clinton <sofia.durant.clinton@gmail.com>
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #booksky

Of course, this affects my kindle. I mean, I usually get stuff off of Gutenberg and use Calibre, but now I guess that will be my only option. Come on!

Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store.

In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store. www.wired.com/story/amazon...

Cosmic Strings – Cracks in the Fabric of the Universe YouTube video by Isaac Arthur

Cosmic Strings – Cracks in the Fabric of the Universe
youtu.be/ti5V64mTB7c
Cosmic strings may be ultra-thin defects in spacetime—relic “cracks” from the early universe. How we’d detect them, what they mean for physics, and how aliens might exploit them.

#AmQuerying #AmWriting #amwritinghorror #Author #authorscommunity

A crescent Earth seen setting behind a vast lunar landscape of craters.

NASA's first image from the Artemis II close flyby of the moon shows "Earthset," with a crescent Earth seen over the moon's cratered surface.

In an echo of Apollo 8, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts witness ‘Earthrise’ and stunning ‘Earthset’ Artemis II’s astronauts got the opportunity to recreate the iconic 1968 photograph on either side of their journey around the moon, showing Earth as beautiful—and precious—as ever

Artemis II’s astronauts got the opportunity to recreate the iconic 1968 photograph on either side of their journey around the moon, showing Earth as beautiful—and precious—as ever

#Indieauthor #writingcommunity #amwriting #authorsky #writersky

🚨 Artemis II crew breaks the record for furthest distance from Earth ever traveled by humans 🌕

252,757 miles from Earth

Also, case and point about needing an edit button on BlueSky: Mesoamerican*

A writing prompt titled "It's all fun and games until..." with the description: Set a passage, story, poem, etc. during a high-stakes game, literal or figuratively. Ex. The losing team in some mesoamericqn games would be sacrificed.

Writing prompt for this two week period for the friendly writing competition:

Set a passage, story, poem, etc. during a high-stakes game, literal or figuratively. Ex. The losing team in some mesoamericqn games would be sacrificed.

#amwriting #writing #ayearofwrites

My parents were accountants and bookkeepers, so now I'm wondering how you'll conduct banking, Taxation, and other accounting in a non-FTL universe. Light speed will make for some interesting quirks.

Interstellar Banking - The Galactic Financial System YouTube video by Isaac Arthur

Interstellar Banking - The Galactic Financial System
youtu.be/BGTI5e6k-go
Interstellar city-states may dominate future space travel, governing the laser highways that connect stars and shape galactic civilization.