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STAP & BATTLE DROID STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER) “The STAP is a small, one-pilot, repulsorlift vehicle outfitted with two laser cannons. It is extremely maneuvarable, making perfect for patrol, reconnaissance and battle....
Use the fediverse, the most beautiful part of the internet many don't know yet.
At about half past eleven one evening this week I noticed a US Navy E-6B Mercury orbiting over the North Sea. Not “noticed” in the way of someone who happened to look up — I was on the sofa with a laptop balanced on one knee, and the...
Quitting my microblog to go all in on my main blog, and doubling down on Bearming and everything around it.
The difference between a circular function and a hyperbolic function is a rotation or two. For example, cosh(z) = cos(iz). You can read that as saying that to find the hyperbolic cosine of z, first you rotate z a quarter turn to the left...
I haven’t mentioned it here very often, which is a bit surprising considering that I have uploaded over 60 videos already and not all of my sessions end up as “videos on demand” (meaning: I’ve streamed even more than that!). Then again,...
This comics-adjacent Mail Call arrived in Virginia early last week, then decided to go on...
I can see this going the same way as the abortion debate. I know what I, personally, think about this (once I’m dead, I’m dead, and no amount of electrical stimulation is going to reanimate my consciousness) but I think there will be...
Yesterday I was at my favorite library and was about to buy Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert vinyl. I resisted the temptation and put it down. Here’s the problem: I don’t have a turntable. Part of me is convinced that certain fundamental...
Blackside Hawkfishes, like others of its kin, are predators that hang out waiting for prey to pass by. I have often seen the waiting part, but never seen one go after anything. Also, according to my fish book, ‘Hawkfishes live in haremic...
Everyone knows the Ponzi scheme. Almost nobody knows the rest: the skin he donated to save a stranger, the wife who stayed 20 years, the charisma that made Boston love a fraudster, and the long ruin that followed.