I picked up my Klein Stein at Cliff's house a number of years ago. He's a delightful character and we veered off into conversations about slide rules and oscilloscopes (he has a large collection of both) as well as computers in education and a number of other topics. A number of his large bottles were on display at San Francisco Airport.

"Almost every detail about the aircraft itself will remain a mystery due to the classification of the Next Generation Air Dominance program..."

Don't worry. President blabs-a-lot will find it an irresistible topic to brag about.

I was awoken more than once last night by system alerts followed by reports from my colocation provider that they were disconnecting traffic from CenturyLink but that CenturyLink was still advertising routes. Some traffic to vendors/clients got through and other didn't. Major screwup by CenturyLink.

Am I the only one who read that executable as EO Snotify? Seems appropriate, anyway.

I didn't have 2-cycle tools but replaced my corded string-trimmer and leaf blower with the EGo battery ones and they are way more convenient and more powerful as well. My office mate likes his EGo lawn mower. Not shilling for EGo - with interchangeable batteries, you generally want to stick with a single brand. The EGo batteries are expensive so after buying the blower I got the bare trimmer as I didn't need another battery and charger.

I have owned a Chevy Bolt for nearly 2 years and I love it as do a number of friends who have the same. I also have a number of friends and neighbors with Teslas who love them as well.

I did a cost comparison vs. the Toyota Camry that was replaced by the Bolt. As you say, no trips to the shop for oil changes, smog checks and the like. Charging vs. fueling has been roughly $3,500 less over 27,000 miles. That's based on my area's off-peak electric rates and average regular gasoline price. I actually have solar panels that generate enough for the car and house and am also not counting all the free charging at hotels and businesses. If I were to assume that the solar system was exclusively fuel for the car, the break-even time would be 4-years.

EVs are really fun in the hills. No whining engine and constant shifting.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and trips to Yosemite, Tahoe, Carmel/Monterey are no problem - generally requiring no or just a few minute charge on the way then free charging at the hotel. I've driven to/from Las Vegas for work several times. Yes, charging on the road adds time to the trip but those trips are every several months. Typically I spend a total of 3-minutes/week plugging/unplugging the car at home rather than diverting to a gas station somewhere so you win some, you lose some.

And, yes, you definitely want a model with liquid cooling for the batteries.

I believe the writer claiming 125 *more* parts meant 125 times as many parts. The many articles I've read on the subject put the number of moving parts in the drivetrain of an EV at roughly 100 times the number in the drivetrain of an ICE car.

My Chevy Bolt has a motor and a single-speed "transmission" (reduction gear)/transaxle. It does not have valves, camshafts, pistons, a crankshaft, injector pumps, connecting rods, timing belt/chain, alternator, etc. all feeding a complex multi-speed automatic transmission.

This is an issue for dealers who rely on repeat visits for routine maintenance as well. My maintenance schedule has three items: rotate the tires, replace the cabin AC filter every couple years and, at 150,000 miles, replace the coolant in the battery loop. (OK, I do have to pop the hood and fill the windshield washer from time to time). No wasting time/money with oil changes, smog checks and the like.

I was born in Ridgecrest Hospital and grew up in China Lake (the actual Navy R&D base). There are a number of active faults there including the Garlock fault and earthquakes were a common occurrence. When I moved to Berkeley for college and felt my first quake I was surprised that people were so excited then learned that while San Francisco is known for the 1906 quake, the number of quakes that could be felt was extremely low compared to the Searles Valley.

Though I'm probably showing my age, when I was growing up whenever we felt one we would have to check the to see if it was natural or an atom bomb test in Nevada (which was also not all that uncommon).

There was a period a decade or two ago when there were thousands of quakes in the area. So many that Sony shot a Diskman Advertisement there.

I haven't lived there for quite a while and haven't gotten any updates from friends there, yet.

Catching up with the United States?

Non-commercial (Part 101) UAV operators must comply with "community safety standards" which uniformly prohibit flying under the influence though no specific levels are mentioned: https://www.modelaircraft.org/...

Commercial operators fall under Part 107 which incorporates Part 91 by reference. As such, both the pilot and the observer (considered a crew member) must wait at least 8 hours after consuming alcohol (bottle-to-throttle rule), cannot have a blood-alcohol level above 0.04g/d and cannot use any drug that impairs faculty or is in any way contrary to safety. (That includes over-the-counter and prescription drugs.)

I have them at my desk at home and office. We picked up some at work from the huge dot-bomb auctions in 2001 and the acres of Aerons were the only items that were selling at near list price. My main complaint is that the sliding lumbar support piece tends to break every few years but they are easily replaceable. My home Aeron is about 20-years old which means at this point it has cost me less than $50/year (1999 pricing). As the saying goes, "The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten."

And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.

(It is.)

As a Bolt owner I was surprised that Google didn't do this long ago. But in my first look it is pretty bare bones.

Zoom out and see charge stations for a road trip?: No

Filter by paid/free?: No

Filter by ChargePoint, EVGo, Greenlots, Electrify America, ...?: No

Filter by CHAdeMO, CCS, Supercharger, Tesla Destination, 14-50 outlet?: No

Show chargers along route?: No

Trip planning?: No

Tesla owners will probably stick with the Tesla apps and I'll wait till it is better than Plugshare, A Better Route Planner and the like.

What a relatively recent first-world "problem".

I had a shared slide-rule. Literally. Till I got my own. https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Then I advanced to programmable calculators and punch cards.

Seriously, where do these pundits come from?

Well, the "Here" powered geolocation map on Flickr describes the location of photos I've taken by Fremont Street in Las Vegas as "Homeless Corridor, Las Vegas, Nevada".