At MassArt, Posters in One Gallery, Science in AnotherFeeney, Mark
sure. I was running low on beer, and Acme’s beer section is very good. More important, though, was the fact, unbeknownst to Sandy, that the notion to write a story about beer had been sloshing around sloppily in my head for a few days. Clearly, then, it was no coincidence that Sa...
That was the term for them. Yesterday’s… Continue readingSpicy, Then and Now Programmer Daily Reading Published by Herb on 2021-05-13 I have mentioned here, and on Twitter, my daily reading but have not described anything in detail. The only part I have discussed is the… Continue ...
a program of my own, in 1986: I called it ‘valiDATE’. I recall struggling to coerce the mass of code into the requisite ten lines, and the sense of achievement when I finally succeeded. Sadly, I no longer have a copy of the program (such is the fleeting nature of digital memory)...
— basically his friendlier term for a dictator. When asked if women should have the right to vote, Yarvin (pictured) replied, “I don’t believe in voting at all.” His views on the Civil War are chilling: “It is very difficult to argue that the Civil War made anyone’s life more...
ironically a long-term supply of his favorite food. Other wreckers grew vegetable gardens scavenged from shipwrecked seed. They also salvaged wood from wrecked ships that they used for firewood or construction. Another source of income for wreckers were stranded whales. These produced more meat and...
The Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway is a future space station in lunar orbit intended to serve as a solar-powered communications hub, science laboratory, short-term habitation module, and holding area for rovers and other robots. India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, made speeches asserting,...
I put the term flying machine in scare quotes because, when such machines were scaled up to be large enough to transport passengers, they were utterly useless. Knowledgeable critics pointed out fundamental reasons why this kind of flying machine could never work, which really should have spelled ...
The first-term governor was a rumored candidate for president in his own right. Samantha Latson07/22/2024, 10:05am ETMaryland Gov. Wes Moore backed Vice President Kamala Harris in a statement Monday morning, becoming the latest rumored presidential hopeful to throw their support behi...
he can move quickly to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s priorities in the new Congress, especially when it comes to the impending surface transportation bill. The Steering panel apparently liked that pitch, which also was likely strengthened by Graves having only had one full term as ...