Paper books with nightlights, or ebooks on low light level.

Reduced sensory input works like a charm.

Your future self will thank you if you throw in some greens.

You had me at PwC.

/s

Plumber told us most are now made offshore and won’t last long. Got Bosch, but it needed a lot of manual cleaning and had trouble with egg dishes. Kitchenaid has been OK, but every once in a while the controls freeze.

Best tip has been what type of detergent to use: https://youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8

tldr: add powder in pre-wash and make sure water from faucet is running hot.

We had one of those jar opening hand-tools. It broke. This one hasn’t failed yet.

Pakistan?

Wonder if ‘just walk out’ not scaling up had anything to do with it:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-powered-store-checkout-which-needed-1000-video-reviewers/

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Indoor, low light photo, with a lot of people. Was curious how long they had to stand still to not be blurry.

https://www.vintag.es/2020/06/posing-stands.html

Turns out the minute-long poses were needed in the early 1800s. By 1850s, the film and shutter had advanced enough you only needed 3-6 seconds.

https://www.antiquewoodcameras.com/hccams.html

By the 1890s, it was much shorter, especially if they had a magnesium flash: http://earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_M42.html

While looking around, came across this trove of Photochrom postcards of Constantinople around the same era: https://www.vintag.es/2022/04/constantinople-istanbul-turkey-postcards-1890s.html

Thanks for the fun trip down the rabbit-hole.

It takes twice as much electrical energy to produce energy in the form of gasoline.

We lose money on every sale, but make it up on volume!

That was fun! Great to dive down below the bit level and see what goes on there.

Um, is it OK to be sitting on top of an ancient column?

Grandpa Shaggy.

I can barely follow and absorb anything at 1.5-2x.

Beyond that, more power to you.

I had a roommate once who played this song every morning to wake us both up so we could get to work.

Not once did we get tired of it.

That I was NOT dropped headfirst at birth.

Let’s hope those toes are detachable.