Ha! What luck! Sometimes, it pays to be tired enough that your imagination remains asleep even after two cups of coffee. I made a lazy guess that rhymed.
Growing Voltage is pressure and Current is flow and Ohm's law still applies;
I must at times raise my Resistance lest the power by square amplifies.
One of my enduring memories is of an electrician helping me put in a real-earth ground in a computer room saying, "A ground is a ground the world around."
I feel--
"--the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;"
And so, I play my part.
As a young kid, I would spend hours in the evening twilight, when the summer air became alive with flying insects attracted from the river by the mercury vapor streetlights, watching nighthawks feeding. They pumped their way high into the night sky with rhythmic screeches timed to coincide with the downbeat of their wings, like a Karate master practicing their "Kiai." Then, from a scarcely visible height, they folded their wings and dove, converting their stored energy into tremendous speed, their eyes no doubt fixed on their insect prey. Most remarkably, at the bottom of their dive, they unfolded their wings and bent them into a downward arc resembling a frown. The energy from their dive converted into a distinctive sound, a kind of cosmic "oooo" as they leveled off and began another slow climb accompanied by their screeches. Why would these Sisyphean creatures do this again? And again? The only thing that I can think of: that dive must have been a real "hoot."
I asked my favorite AI to muse on why the Cartesian coordinate system has axes separated by 90 degrees. My favorite part of its response was:
"If humans had evolved with prismatic eyes, we might still have discovered Cartesian coordinates eventually — but they might not have been the default. We might have grown up thinking in polar or hexagonal grids, and only later realized the power of orthogonality."
The word I find most interesting in that paragraph is "we." It would have been much scarier if it had used "you," arguably recognizing that it wasn't human. Almost as if its vision had skewed its world.
Genuinely funny that at this point if Trump started telling nothing but truth all of the time noone would believe him. Oh sure, there's a "wolf" or you're "trapped down a well".
Your post made me search for the Lassie episode where Timmy falls down a well. Only to find out that it never happened. 🤣🤣🤣
I guess that I too, having been exposed to that myth all my life came to believe it actually happened. What will future generations (if they exist, or are allowed to think about it) believe about our present?
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...), featuring a verification badge and the "TN Holler" logo with the Tennessee state flag, posted 2 hours ago. The post reads, "MINNESOTA: state senator Justin Eichorn, who co-sponsored a bill to classify 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' as a mental illness... jailed for allegedly soliciting a teen for sex."
Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.
