links, etc The Radiant Future! (Of 1995) - Charlie’s Diary this is probably the best thing that i’ve read all week. granted, the week is young. NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager perhaps i should should be a little more grateful when i get a decent collection of logs and show tech to dig into an issue.
links, etc 50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 - IEEE Spectrum there’s something about the engineering of these massive hunks of metal with their smoothed dishes talking to something millions of miles away that’s pretty mind blowing. fold into the mix here that these were engineered and built 50 years ago…
links, etc Midwest maple syrup producers adapt to record-warm winter more in our ongoing winter and climate malaise
notes bookshop link a few years ago i learned there were no meaningful shop class options available in the local high school. the wood shop available today is sad and pathetic compared to the shop class i had in a middle-class midwestern suburb in the late 1980s. gen-X is probably the last generation to have shop class. there’s a lot swimming around the core “philosophy” in this book. a good chunk of it meta....
notes bookshop link honestly, this didn’t get really interesting until the last 50 pages or so. there’s a couple of hundred pages of setup on what constitutes a hack, examples of “hacks” across the spectrum of society, etc. there was a bit of less than obvious discussion around how some “hacks” become entrenched into the law, how common law interacts with these “hacks” and a generally slow/ossified capability of our governmental/legal systems to address the use of said hacks....