Monday, July 6, 2026
10 Short Videos #6185
On trial in 2036 🤖
Diving - practice simultaneous double backflips
Parsec Embarrassing The Physicists w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson
حفر القنوات: كيف تصمم حديقة الموز لتحمل الأمطار والجفاف - Digging channels: How to design a banana plantation to withstand rain and drought
Air Force B-52 Massive Landing Power! ✈️🔥
A Giant Body Spotted over the roof!😳Emirates Airbus A380 🇦🇪✈️👑.
Jackie Chan vs Mainland Cop | Iconic Fight Scene
How to pipe up a radiator out of plumb!
Fengbao Finger Dance Cover 'My Love for You Is So Big' | Brand New Original Choreography 2026
That’s what the buttons are for. - Rise and fall of Nokia
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Reading
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| N.Y. City III, Straight, 1981 - H.R. Giger |
Tam recommended Idoru. I bought it a couple of months ago and I'm finally getting around to reading it and it's pretty great.
There is a long section where Chia is meandering through an airport. It was so long I noticed, it was also very accurate.
Now we're in Tokyo and when Laney looks out of his hotel room window he can see the newer nanotech buildings and they remind him of paintings of New York that were done by Giger. Giger is the guy who designed the stuff for Alien, the science fiction movie from 1979. I'm looking at these paintings and I'm thinking, yes, that is that could easily be the result of AI designing buildings. Modern high-rises are designed so that every floor is identical. Make each floor the same as possible as every other floor. Makes it really easy to draw up the plans and easy to build but if you got AI drawing the plans making alterations, it's no big deal cuz it can keep track of it all, right? So you can see that we're building this high-rise and some guy says 'I want six floors for a data center'. Okay, that's going to require some modifications. We'll run some cables on the outside and you can have your six floors. And then somebody else says 'I need three floors for Cold Storage for frozen food' and you say 'sure, we can do that', but that makes more complications and now you've got these two floors with vastly different requirements. We're going to have to reroute some plumbing and we're going to have to do this and do that but the AI is fine, we've got rules on how to deal with all that and the AI just does it and you don't have to waste a bunch of people's time fretting over details.
I finished reading Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. I started reading it and said 'this story sounds familiar' and then I went checked and it turns out I not only read it, I posted about it five years ago. I read it anyway, I didn't remember enough of the story to spoil it and it's a pretty good story. A little too intense for me maybe. Seems every couple of pages our hero is running into life threatening catastrophe and I would have to put the book down for a while. Guess I'm funny that way.
Anyway, I finished the book and then there's some teasers tacked on to the back for following volumes in the series. I'm reading them and I found a couple of passages that are pretty great:
Tool of War - Tool is a man-dog hybrid, a soldier.
Chapter 2 page 1Tool's ears pricked, tracking distant gunfire, the comfortable conversational chatter of the Drowned Cities.It was a polyglot language, but Tool understood all of its voices. The ratchet exclamations of AK-47s and M-16s. The blunt roar of 12- and 10- gauge shotguns. The authoritative crack of 30-06 hunting rifles, and a snapping of .22s. And of course, over it all, the incoming streak of 999s, the voice that ended all other combat sentences with booming punctuations.It was a familiar conversation that flowed back and forth - ask an answer insult and retort - but over the last few weeks the conversation had changed. Increasingly the Drowned City spoke Tool's language only. The bullet patois of his troops, the battle pack of the battle slang of his pack.Chapter 2 page 8
Drowned Cities warlords had always valued the malleable qualities of youth. Savage loyalty was an affection of children; they're eagerness for clarity of purpose was easily shaped. All the soldiers of the drowned cities had been recruited young, brainwashed early, given etiologies and absolute truths that demanded no nuance or perspective. Right and wrong. Traders and patriots. Good and Evil. Invaders and Natives. Honor and Loyalty.
Righteousness.
Battle of Delaware Bay
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| Battle of Delaware Bay |
The battle was fought on April 8, 1782, months after General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.
The Battle of Delaware Bay, or the Battle of Cape May, was a naval engagement fought between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States during the American Revolutionary War. A British force of three vessels attacked three American privateers that were escorting a fleet of merchantmen. The ensuing combat in Delaware Bay near Cape May ended with the American sloop Hyder Ally capturing the British sloop-of-war HMS General Monk.
Background
Twenty-three-year-old Lieutenant Joshua Barney of the Continental Navy commanded the privateer sloop Hyder Ali during the battles. She was owned by Pennsylvania businessman John Willcocks and was issued a letter of marque. The sloop was armed with 16 six-pounders and had a crew of about 110 men, officers and marines, and was named after Hyder Ali, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a British enemy.
Hyder Ali? You mean the king of southern India? Yes, that Hyder Ali:
Hyder Ali was an innovator in the military use of rockets, which were used against positions and territories held by the East India Company during the Anglo-Mysore Wars. Although rocket technology originated in China and had made its way to India and Europe by the 13th century, development of accurate cannons had sidelined rockets as a military technology in Europe. Rocket technology was already in use when Hyder's father served (he commanded a company of 50 rocketmen), but it was Hyder who improved them and significantly expanded their use in the military. Technological innovations included the use of high-quality iron casing (better than was then available in Europe) for the combustion chamber, enabling the use of higher-powered explosive charges. . . . Rockets developed by Hyder and Tipu led to a renaissance of interest in the technology in Britain, where William Congreve, supplied with rocket cases from Mysore, developed what became known as Congreve rockets in the early 19th century.
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| Battle of Pollilur 1780 - Charles H. Hubbell |
In Hyder's time the Mysorean army had a rocket corps of as many as 1,200 men, which Tipu increased to 5,000. At the 1780 Battle of Pollilur, during the second war, Colonel William Baillie's ammunition stores are thought to have been detonated by a hit from one of Hyder's rockets, contributing to the British defeat.
22 Caliber CRAM
.22 Minigun
thompsonec8
Got to thinking about my idea for a 22 caliber CRAM and whether RADAR can detect small drones, and look what I found.
Drone Tracking Radar: Part 7 Longer Range and MTI Processing
Jon Kraft
Someone is going to put these two together if they haven't already done so. A drone traveling at 100 MPH can cover 50 yards in one second. Conventional (20 mm) CRAM shells are several hundred times more expensive that 22 LR ammo, which can be had in bulk for less than a dime a piece.
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10 Short Videos #6184
Metal cutting by experts - automatic torch
Incredible Rescue: Pufferfish Saved From Moray Eel Attack!
Making art in 2026
Un empleado de hotel moja una toalla y la usa como escalón para que los patitos bebés puedan salir - A hotel employee wets a towel and uses it as a step so the baby ducklings can get out.
#戲曲運動#臺上一分鐘臺下十年功#精彩片段分享 #戲曲 - One Minute On Stage Requires Ten Years Of Practice Off Stage - Traditional Chinese Opera
Who will live longer? - The dragline or the narrator?
Blacksmith Making a Metal Construction Pan - autohammer
RARE Antique Soviet Electronics: MiG29 Fulcrum TDC Slew Control КУ-31
Could You Keep This Tool Steady? - motorized perforator
Bird Makes the Ultimate Leap 🤣🐦
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