If the earth is flat, those Mt Everest climbers will surely be red-faced.

Parents send their kids to bed early because school starts too early. Up before daylight in the winter months.

I've been using Excess Solutions (San Jose) more that HSC and Weirdstuff in the last few years. Their web site may be second rate, but their (new) warehouse is excellent. http://www.excesssolutions.com...

Clippy: "It looks like you've hit a cow. Would you like help writing BBQ invitations?"

The Node.js folks also call the executable node, so, um, maybe they use Debian too?

According to the post-launch press conference, they landed them because they wanted the grid fins back. Apparently they're rather expensive machined titanium, and were specially made for the "heavy" configuration.

Newton didn't get the energy part.

Einstein (as I understand it) and the rest of the physics world had a problem in that Maxwell's Equations did a really good job of describing electromagnetism. However, the wave equation that pops out does not account for the velocity of the observer. This implied that the speed of EM radiation (light) is constant for ANY observer: oh dear. Einstein (and Lorentz) hypothesized that time didn't have to be the same everywhere, and came up with Special Relativity to describe it. And, remarkably, SR was shown to be accurate. It's also how energy gets mixed in with mass.

A handful (nearly two hands full) of years later, Einstein published General Relativity as a description of why acceleration looks the same as gravity. (Inspired by Newton's F=(constant)*Ma=GMm/(rr).) He did this by hypothesizing that distance is not the same everywhere. And, remarkably, GR was shown to be accurate. (He needed some help from other mathematicians, because the math is hard for warped spacetime.)

Maybe the above is not quite kid-friendly, but Einstein challenged the ideas of classical physics (time and space being "flat"), and got it right. Or at least the next-level-of-right.

#/bin/sh
# Really quite an old one...

better [ !pout -a !cry ]
better [ !shout ]
cat /etc/why
santa_claus < north_pole > town

cat /etc/passwd | awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print $1}' > list
/usr/bin/check list
/usr/bin/check list
cat list | grep naughty > /dev/coal
cat list | grep nice > /dev/presents
santa_claus < north_pole > town

who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad
who | grep good
for goodness sake;do
   be good
done

better [ !pout -a !cry ]
better [ !shout ]
cat /etc/why
santa_claus < north_pole > town

Extensive does not mean "lots". It means far-reaching---you can write something extensive in one sentence. e.g., "A communications disruption could mean only one thing: invasion." (See also, fake news, Last Jedi.)

One of the reasons I picked Tradfri over other other "smart"/IoT lights and switches is because it's all local---no cloudy stuff supported except for the things I've explicitly connected. However, there are a number of silly bugs and missing features that make it practically unusable. So, I'm still searching for lights and buttons that work, and my X10 system is still being used....

I bought gold-plated optical cables at Fry's last week. It was the cheapest option. And, yes, there really was a tiny gold-colored ferule around the fiber. I'm sure the photons are much happier and crisper now.

(Crutchfield link since Fry's doesn't have a description.)

Ko-Ko advocating for Russell? A most ingenious paradox, worthy of Pooh-Bah himself!

I was testing some components (class D amplifier) and wanted a quick signal source, so I hooked up my phone. I was quite surprised (and concerned) to discover that my LG G6 is pumping out a VERY LOUD signal at 50kHz. I can't hear that high (I stop at about 12kHz now), and earbuds will attenuate it quite a bit, but I imagine it could still cause hearing loss. (BTW, I was looking for ~250kHz noise in the amplifier, but that component was attenuating correctly. It faithfully reproduced the 50kHz whine, however.)

I won't be listening to music on this phone... now I have to test my other phones.

It's because we've been doing /. for 20 years, and now have family instead of a nightlife. B-P

‘Dog Runner’---mashup of Marathon Man and Reservoir Dogs?