Mr. Ring has a tip up his sleeve.

Prediction: chemists will be exited by trying to reproduce this result.

Long ago I witnessed a military EOD public demonstration where a 1000 foot roll of det cord was unrolled into a straight line then initiated from one end. You could see the bright light of the detonation travel down the line, a little before the sharp Whoomp arrived (both heard and felt). Also demonstrated: blasting cap in a baseball glove to illustrate the need for caution in handling.

Make allowances: he might be speaking Texan.

I wonder if that dinette set in New Jersey is still available.

The termination procedure is certainly stored in Confluence, whose search delivers everything except the specifically searched topic.

Iranian Space Lasers

Wrong day to lack mod points. Some years ago, someone kept peafowl on a nearby rural property. They would sound off at night for passing emergency sirens and loud motorcycles. They were far enough away to be hilarious rather than vexing.

I thought that edging was a lawn maintenance action that tended to throw rocks into one's face, and occasionally chop off toes.

Before joining a startup in the late 80s, I got these two gauge figures from reading: 1 out of 7 startups will still be a going concern after 4 years, usually by being acquired by an existing company; 1 in 30 will IPO. VC industry was smaller then: lowly engineer me was standing next to Don Valentine explaining something during a very early lab demo of a prototype while we were shopping for another round.

The Burning Sea / Nordsjøen (2021)

Because corporate doublespeak, you must be inhuman/not-people to be a People Officer. Compensation range for this position is 240-360 kWh/day.

It obviates further need to drive to New Jersey.

1970s L.A. resident here... I had some night work in a building near LAX. The area usually had marine layer, and often developed dense fog. I quickly learned to carry a squeegee, Windex, and paper towels in the car. By early AM, it would be covered with a mixture of fog drip, soot, and probably tire and brake dust, that would cause windshield wipers to skip and streak.

The joy of 80s Lufthansa domestic, where one side of the aisle was smoking, and the other side non-smoking.