Intel's Ronler Acres Plant

Pergelator

Silicon Forest
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

Jet trainer, first flown in 1948. Over 6,000 were built.

Some T-33s retained two machine guns for gunnery training, and in some countries, the T-33 was even used in combat: the Cuban Air Force used them during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, scoring several kills including sinking two transport ships.

Castle Jindřichův Hradec

Castle Jindřichův Hradec

An old building 

Interior of the Rotunda in Adam's Building

with a fancy interior.


Stanislaus von Prowazek (1875 – 1915) was a Czech biologist, zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879-1956) discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.

Castle Jindřichův Hradec

The jigsaw puzzle page incorrectly identifies this building complex as Castle Český KrumlovCastle Český Krumlov is 40 miles  southwest of Castle Jindřichův Hradec. 3D map of Castle Jindřichův Hradec is not available, all you get is the 2D satellite image.

HIS & HERS - Netflix Series


HIS & HERS | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Kind of a stupid show, full of catty women being catty. All the evidence for the murder points to the lead detective, Jack, and so far (3 episodes in) he has managed to conceal his total involvement with the victim. Did he kill her? Don't know but he's such a jerk that I don't really care. But now we've got a second murder victim, so go ahead and place your bets on who's the killer. That's the only reason to keep watching it is to find out who dunnit. Also, my wife seems to be enjoying it, and a couple of hours of Netflix does sooth my addled mind.

The ending almost makes it worthwhile. At the end our list of suspects has narrowed down to two women, and it kind of looks like one of them is the killer. But then the real killer is unveiled, and it's a person who has been there all along, but just kind of in the background, floating around the edges.

6 episodes, 40 minutes each

Funnies





10 Short Videos #6035

10 Short Videos #6035

Inside silver coating , Gold Layered Ring Making process
Seized caliper!
If you don’t blink your eyes will freeze
Есть ещё порох в пороховнице. Soviet T-74 crawler tractor.
Disney cracked the illusion of depth in moving images, before digital zoom or CGI ever existed
Freezing point moment
I Thought This Was Glass... Until It Turned On - Making a TV
It Fits in Your Hand… But It’s a Killing Machine - Weasel
Magie - Slow motion water splashing
Meet the noob moments of hand guns

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The Ice King


Why Cold Drinks Were Lethal before 1914
Veritasium

Now I wonder which business was bigger - the ice business or the railroad box cars cooled with ice.

Train to Toledo

We were talking about the train wreck in Toledo, Oregon, at lunch today and Jack related this little tale.

One fine spring day, about a zillion years ago, when he was a student at Oregon State University in Corvallis, he and about a hundred other kids hopped the train to Toledo. It rolled through town going only a couple of miles per hour, so it was easy to grab hold and climb aboard.

The train consisted of open top hopper cars filled with wood chips. Jack had brought a quart of beer. Sitting on top of the world, riding on a cloud of wood chips through the forest primeval, he drank it. Now nature calls, so he climbs down the ladder at the end of the car and hanging on with one arm, relieves himself. Unfortunately, at just this moment the train went by somebody's home where there was a big family picnic going on. Oops.

Eventually the train got to Toledo and the kids got off and roamed around town for a while. Later on it's time to catch the train back to Corvallis. Now it's dark and the hoppers are empty so they are sitting on cold steel, freezing their asses off. Far as we know, nobody died.