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Toasters, maps, and misinformation
I Put a Toaster in a Dishwasher
In my first year of teaching, during my first period Physics class, on the first day of Electricity, I plunged a hair dryer running on “High” into an aquarium full of tap water to demonstrate how Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupters work. It kept running. All day,
Scrolling map on receipt paper
Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long map on receipt printer earlier this year. He put it in a route sheet holder for more practical usage. Seems like a good end-of-world product.
When I Google myself, I get this infobox: [Height: 5’4”]. As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4.” Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit.
Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
When I don’t have to keep up with everything around several languages, and build everything in just one language, I can go deep. Learn stuff I wouldn’t have gone into otherwise.
i was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work the counter at mcdonald's
he looked at my resume and asked about my current part-time job as chairman at i-traffic. i said, "it's an internet thing." he said "ok" and then asked me for my waist size.
Those ads all followed the same pattern. Almost every known chemical has been assigned a unique code that’s listed in an official chemical industry registry. Sellers create simple ads by superimposing a precursor’s code – CAS 40064-34-4, for example – over a photo of white powder, along with a phone number.
