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."

We used to keep a demo program around the IBM 1401 that played tunes on the 1403 printer. Photo of a collection with far more tunes than our shop had: Music Decks

Euthanize the music industry garbage neologism "drop" meaning "release". "Drop" is for eggs, tools, courses in education, and Little Bobby Tables.

belt + suspenders > body bag

I admit to laughing at seeing "The Grauniad" in various posts here.

Merriam-Webster says chiefly British usage, dating from 1879. One of the UK written series of auto repair books (probably Haynes) had an appendix titled something like "The Common Language that Divides Us", translating bonnet, boot, quarter light, wrest/gudgeon pin, spanner, etc.

There was a guy walking down the sidewalk the other day in a Superman T-shirt. I wonder if he ever found a place to change.

I have had 4 surgeries in the last 12 years. During preparation for each, I was pleased that staff, while looking at paper records, asked me to recite what was to be done, and at what location on my body, before marking either me or a tag.

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Converting to California units, 3.9 GW, is around 1.77 Diablo Canyons.

One exception: Paul Graham made a great deal of money with LISP.

California has the best female talent: Elizabeth Holmes in fake medical testing systems fraud, and Dorothea Puente in boardinghouse murders not part of a mystery novel.