estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
A judge evicted Minnesota-based MyPillow from a facility in Shakopee after the landlord filed a lawsuit claiming that the company, owned by Mike Lindell, was at least $200,000 behind on rent payments. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/lawsuit-mypillow-eviction-mike-lindell-minnesota/
"More than 50 storage boxes hold thousands of VHS tapes that contain films and television programs Scorsese recorded directly from broadcast television. The renowned director and film preservationist, it turns out, was also, for decades, a prolific guerrilla archivist." https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/25/martin-scorsese-vhs-video-collection-archive
Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability. https://newatlas.com/science/beethoven-genetic-musicality
🌲 CascadiaJS is offering scholarships to attend their conference. Apply by April 28th. #JavaScript
https://cascadiajs.com/2024/scholarships
We Need to Bring Back Webrings
https://arne.me/articles/we-need-to-bring-back-webrings
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -- Jack London
BASEBALL IS BACK, BABY! So it's time to reprise this article I wrote last fall.
Everything I Know About the Tech Industry I Learned From Baseball
A wildlife rescue that took in what was thought was a baby hedgehog found it was actually caring for a bobble from a hat. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68656787
Where does my computer get the time from? From NTP, but where does NTP get the time from?
https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html
Vasectomies spike during March Madness
https://www.futurity.org/vasectomies-basketball-march-madness-3194742/
Inkjet technology has found a host of applications beyond putting dots on paper. It can now be used to make DNA microarrays for genomics, create electrical traces for printed circuit boards, and build 3D-printed structures. https://spectrum.ieee.org/inkjet-printer
The invisible man married the invisible woman.
Their children were nothing to look at either.
50 things you can do with a Software Defined Radio https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/
Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/renoted-marginalia-5-ways-to-write
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."--Albert Einstein, in a letter to his 19-year-old son, Eduard
5th February 1930
In a recent interview, Boyd recalled that she had assumed the letter was from a crazed fan and showed it to her husband, the Beatles guitarist George Harrison. Then she forgot about it — until a few hours later when the phone rang. It was Eric Clapton, the rock guitarist and one of Harrison’s friends. (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/arts/music/pattie-boyd-george-harrison-eric-clapton-auction.html
The International Booker Prize Longlist has been announced, with thirteen books translated from ten languages in the running for the prestigious literary award. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017