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Category Archives: Science & Technology
RIP Michael Collins
I’m glad that when the show For All Mankind covered the Apollo XI landing, they kept the names of the real astronauts, including the late Michael Collins who would then be in the alternate universe’s Apollo XV (sic) disaster…spoiler alert, he survived. Rather sucks. … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Science & Technology
Tagged Celebrity Obituary, Cold War, NASA, Sixties, The Moon
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Twenty-two years at Apple
It won’t be long before my employment at Apple exceeds the duration between my birth and graduating from university, the latter action saying I’m no longer a probationary adult. Like last year, it’s a bit of a pisser thanks to … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Apple, Austintatious, News, Science & Technology
Tagged Current Events, Work
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2001: Mac OS X available
The great leap forward for the PowerPC-based Mac finally happened and it wasn’t smooth nor painless. Many critics called it a paid-public beta; a very old accusation of every OS or application. All the powers-that-be at Apple knew this too … Continue reading
RIP: Lou Ottens
Music fans throughout the decades have this man to thank for developing two major formats. His first was the cassette. Before them, tape was a reel-to-reel setup. Great quality for production and editing. Crappy for the average user: the machine … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Science & Technology
Tagged Celebrity Obituary, Sixties
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Octavia Butler gets some overdue love!
Although it will require the International Astronomical Union to make it official, the brilliant people at NASA have named/dedicated Perseverance‘s landing site to Sci-Fi author Octavia Butler. It’s a shame she didn’t live to receive this, she passed away in 2006. … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Books, Science & Technology
Tagged Science Fiction
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Texas gubmint decides to murder the poor for Kapitalism
The animation from The Simpsons is a pretty accurate representation of how fucking dumb and willfully ignorant the Texas government, namely the executive branch, is. It’s also spot-on impression of this douchenozzle we have named Sid Miller, he’s the Agricultural Commissioner. … Continue reading
Posted in Austintatious, Biology, Ecology, Science & Technology
Tagged Current Events, Politics
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An iMac on Mars!
Not exactly. The recent probe Perseverance utilizes what was state-0f-the-art in the first iMac in 1998, the G3 processor with its blazing speed of 233 MHz (most processors are in the single-digit GHz range or at least a thousand times faster). No … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Apple, Science & Technology
Tagged Mars, Nineties
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An old piece of propaganda from the Seventies
The recent winter storm brought this to the forefront again as a friend asked why I was giving the temperature in Metric, then backpedalled on how he was joking. Another friend reminisced with me about the big push to learn … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Metric System, Politics
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Fry’s bites the dust
“Well, that was sudden but sounds like them,” was my immediate reaction because customer service, product knowledge and basic human interactions were alien concepts to the Austin location. Ergo, them being open one day and then shut down nationwide seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Austintatious, Science & Technology
Tagged Computers
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Snow-ma-geddon 2021!
Power was restored at my house today, hence no post for yesterday! Lucky you while unlucky for Jennifer, her apartment remains offline and everything there is electric. Hard to believe 20 years ago, I wasn’t too thrilled about natural gas … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, News, Science & Technology
Tagged Climate Change
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1996: Copernicium is “discovered”
The short version to this story is that 25 years ago, Scientists in Germany created the 112th element and named it after the Polish Astronomer Copernicus (the Latin version of his name). They did this by “combining” Zinc-70 with Lead-208 … Continue reading
Posted in Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Nineties
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GM to go all electric by 2035
To all the MAGAts, haw haw! All that screaming, bullying and so on from your Orange Foolius to lower mileage standards have failed. For a corporation the size of General Motors to finally announce this means they have planned this … Continue reading
2001: On The Media begins
This weekend, the one podcast I have religiously listen to since…I can’t remember. Let’s just say when iTunes (now divided into Music and Podcasts) first added the ability to subscribe to podcasts. Checking the Internet, iTunes 4.9 which was about … Continue reading
Posted in Diversions, News, Science & Technology
Tagged Anniversary, Aughts, Communication, Podcast, Politics, Teens (21st Century)
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e-mail Etiquette is lacking with Generation Z?
A rather interesting opinion piece about how Gen Z does/doesn’t know how to write an e-mail, especially to their university instructors. Having been and continuing to be an avid user of this medium, I saw some of the writer’s point … Continue reading
Posted in Diversions, Science & Technology
Tagged Communication, Generation Z
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A belated farewell to (Adobe) Flash
This browser plug-in to make animation and simple games work kept the Internet from being 99% dominated by porno; today it’s probably in the 80% department. I honestly don’t know what the real numbers are but I do consider 99% … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Science & Technology
Tagged Celebrity Obituary, Internet, Nineties
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