estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."--Robert Wilensky, University of California
Within a few years, the fleet will have expanded to 60,000, most of them electric models, serving as the Postal Service’s primary delivery truck from Maine to Hawaii. https://apnews.com/article/postal-service-next-generation-delivery-vehicle-a2ebbfc7afec0eea2e036eef93bee4d9
Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data. NOPE NOPE NOPE https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising
@mcfate Oh, I like his recipes. But he does not have the gift of making the steps crystal clear.
Tapedeck.org is a digital archive that features hundreds of cassette tape designs.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/09/a-digital-archive-features-hundreds-of-audio-cassette-tape-designs-from-the-1960s-to-the-1990s.html
I made this beef stew. It gets points for being easy and tasty, but the instructions are confusing. Treat it as a template. Just brown the meat, then bake with its other ingredients for four hours.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef/meltin-mustardy-beef/
**The ‘Super Emmys’ flopped 50 years ago. But that shouldn’t minimize this historic ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ win**
>>This bizarreness shouldn’t minimize the work that Silverman’s episode did, both in front of and behind the camera. The main category win made her the first woman to receive the comedy writing Emmy solo, without sharing a byline with a male partner. And its plot is still prescient.
(Transparency: Treva is my cousin. I adore her.)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2024-09-12/super-emmys-50-years-mary-tyler-moore-show-win-historic-treva-silverman
My review of Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein
4 stars. Not his best work, but still enjoyable.
I use a similar recipe from the 1980s-era Cooking in a Small Kitchen; it adds thyme and a few stalks of celery at the bottom of the pot to prevent sticking.
It is brain-dead easy. And yummy, as long as everyone in the family eats it.
I usually cook ratatouille alongside, FWIW.
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chicken-with-40-cloves-of-garlic
A Chilling History: On the science and technology of portable coolers.
Yeah, you'll like this.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/collections/blog/a-chilling-history
First documented in the 14th century, the oina is now almost entirely forgotten. According to some, oina is the precursor of baseball, brought to the US by Romanians from Transylvania who emigrated there. https://www.romania-insider.com/forgotten-romanian-national-sport-oina-baseball
"Over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place in American fiction: The novels recognized by major literary prizes have largely abandoned the present in favor of the past. Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary." https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/historical-fiction-awards-essay/
It’s rare enough to find a plant encased in amber, rarer still to find part of a dinosaur – so imagine paleontologists’ surprise when they discovered this feathery "flower" was in fact a feathery tail that once belonged to a juvenile theropod. https://www.iflscience.com/this-beautiful-plant-trapped-in-amber-turned-out-to-be-a-dinosaur-tail-75679
"Harris is flipping independents as well. Before Tuesday’s debate, Harris trailed Trump by 9 points (35% to 44%) with that crucial bloc; she now leads by 10 (47% to 37%)."
The Kiffness - Eating the Cats ft. Donald Trump (Debate Remix)
It’s as good as you hoped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA
You aren't supposed to wear white after Labor Day. But _why_? https://www.vogue.com/article/wearing-white-after-labor-day
A new AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s DOOM in real time https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-model-can-hallucinate-a-game-of-1993s-doom-in-real-time/
A Short History of Computers in the Movies: Panel Lights, Spinning Tapes, and Lab Coats (2013)
Let's look at how the film industry has treated computing.
https://smartbear.com/blog/2013/a-short-history-of-computers-in-the-movies-panel-l/
Does this mean that the long, dark night of kale may finally be over?
https://www.foodandwine.com/watercress-health-benefits-8710408
“I am still a stutterer, by the way. I don’t say I was cured. I’m still a stutterer. I just work with it.” In his memoir, Voices and Silences, James Earl Jones wrote about how poetry helped him find his voice as a person who stutters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYDrQRiN2Y
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017