Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (The house)

Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (The house)
Callash Fun.

Have you been living under a rock?

The Town Where People Literally Live Under A Rock
The Tim Traveler

Cute.

Heavy Duty Bike

Why This Bicycle Absolutely NEEDS 2 Chains
Berm Peak

Single speed bikes are great for flat ground and small hills. Low gear on this bike is like granny gear in truck - it lets you crawl up steep hills. It's slower, but it's relentless.

World Bicycle Relief has distributed over 800,000 bicycles and is shooting for one million.

Poverty

Living in the projects taught me the REAL reasons people stay poor—and it's not what you think
Ed Latimore

Very good. Don't think I've ever heard poverty explained this way.

Via Bayou Renaissance Man

Tik Tok

Gaku Okada's remarkable Tempo Rubato metronome 'watch'
Monochrome Watches

Very cool.

YouTube blurb:

The Tempo Rubato is young Japanese watchmaker Gaku Okada's graduation project. Finishing his watchmaking training in the Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry in Tokyo, Japan, he created this mechanical metronome out of his love for jass music.

Via daily timewaster

 

>The Snow Girl Sesaon 2: The Soul Game - Netflix Series

The Snow Girl Sesaon 2: The Soul Game | Official Trailer | Milena Smit, Jose Coronado
Moviefone [Moviefone misspelled 'Season']

This time we have a current murder that's tied up with another older murder. Our girl has evidently been traumatized by her rape many years ago, because she makes some really bad decisions. Jose Coronado dies in episode 2, or maybe he gets killed, I can't recall exactly. Tudum has a page about this show.

Season 1 post here.

Integrating Electrical Power

Electrical Power Grid

Everybody wants more power, but new electrical power plants don't just happen, it takes a lot or work to just figure out how to graft it onto the existing system. Construction Physics explains in this article:

Inside the Interconnection Queue by Brian Potter

Here is one excerpt:

Electric power in the US is provided by the electrical grid, a huge network of power plants, transmission lines, and transformers that moves electric power from where it's generated to where it's consumed. Before connecting a new power plant (or a very large consumer of electric power, like a semiconductor fab) to the grid, operators must evaluate whether the existing system has enough capacity to handle the change and determine what upgrades might help handle the increased load — new transmission lines, transformers, switchgears, etc.

 Here's another:

As of this writing, there are over 11,000 projects in the interconnection queue, with a combined generation and storage capacity of around 1,900 gigawatts. This is close to twice as much generation capacity as currently exists in the US (which was 1,189 gigawatts at the end of 2023).