There are times in the kitchen, that I wish I had an IBM card saw to get things off baking sheets. I believe that I still have a CPU cabinet top "IBM System 360" aluminum slab sign. For a while, IBM even sold office chairs (OEM'd from Steelcase). I used one for years.

100,000,00 Guinea Pigs thus has its 1933 direction of muckraking reversed. This book was on my RN grandma's bookshelf, and I devoured it when I was young.

The technical side of Broadcom have some excellent people and technology. The business side, however, after Hock Tan, are grotesque lamprey/scorpion hybrids. Direct experience.

"This is because Texas is what anthropologists call an oral culture. That means Texans don't read much." --Molly Ivins

"Dead ! And yet there he stands ! That other one earlier I emptied a full clip into him." -- Plan 9 From Outer Space

1973 (Nixon signed it) brought the Comprehensive Employment Training Act, funding positions in state and local government and non-profits, intended to train high school students, low income, and unemployed toward marketable skills. At the time, I worked for a school district (mainframe operator / programmer). Our unit had several CETA trainees pass through (operator, keypunch data entry, clerical), and it seemed to be of mutual benefit. CETA

Fat content of most modern billionaires is too low to be graded any higher than Cutter/Canner. Also, many modern billionaires show evidence of brain prion disease from unorthodox longevity therapies.

Prescient ad for a now-dead bank: Washington Mutual: Head Scan

It looks like abridged reporting. A quick search suggests that it is a one time payment of $400 / kW capacity feedable back to the grid for a 2 hour interval daily, with a contractual commitment of some number of years. BYOD Plus

Eagerly awaiting the resurrection of Serdar Argic and Ludwig/Archimedes Plutonium.

Beware of ice-nine.

I recommend Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, with a central theme (if memory serves correctly) of Soviet gulag development of a voice encoder with cryptography. I had not been aware of SIGSALY before I ran into an article in a stack of old IEEE publications donated to a company library.

one-shot, duh auto co-wrecked

Multivibrator was an older term for astable circuits (oscillators), monostable circuits ("one-shit" timers), and bistable circuits (latches and flip-flops). Someone doing historical research from original documents would see this nomenclature. Today's searches would probably conflate early digital circuit design with OniyFans acts.

When I was in school, this song was popular. Today it would result in a SWAT call. "Glory glory hallelujah, teacher hit me with a ruler. Met her at the door with a loaded .44, teacher is no more."