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prokopetz

The whole "Elvis sighting" thing is hilarious because, like, the first documented career Elvis impersonators began working over twenty years before the guy even died. I wonder why a public figure who has a whole industry of people who look and sound like him would generate an unusual number of posthumous sightings? It Is A Mystery.

bluestockingbaby

owlwriter

I miss seeing the Elvis impersonator at our local Tex-Mex place after it changed ownership. Norteño Elvis was awesome

jediplinth

I remember reading a story in my local newspaper about various Elvis impersonators and one of them was a Sikh and performed in a turban. At the time, I thought that was pretty badass.

prokopetz

The whole "Elvis sighting" thing is hilarious because, like, the first documented career Elvis impersonators began working over twenty years before the guy even died. I wonder why a public figure who has a whole industry of people who look and sound like him would generate an unusual number of posthumous sightings? It Is A Mystery.

bluestockingbaby

owlwriter

I miss seeing the Elvis impersonator at our local Tex-Mex place after it changed ownership. Norteño Elvis was awesome

gender-trash

are you nerds ready to see TOP SURGERY KIRK??

roach-works

this is one of the more expensive cosplays i've seen but you really can't argue with the results

mortimermcmirestinks

hey OP? this is the best cosplay I've ever seen

battlefem-deactivated20170404

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

itsoldjohn

that last one is literally a LOOK

cassiocantdrink

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree.

petermorwood

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…

…and his Minister of the Interior.

A Type B-15 steam locomotive…

Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…

The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…

…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.

Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.

Nice hat…

jediplinth

When I was a teacher I did a unit about SPG. He developed the tech and convinced tsar Nikolai II to get him a railroad car and cash money so he could document the Russian empire. This is especially surprising since Nikolai was color blind. Then came

He had some issues after the October Revolution since, you know, buddies with the Tsar and eventually settled in Paris, just in time for WWII. It is astounding that his glass plates survived.

At any rate, I taught my students basic photoshop skills and showed how you could take scans of the original plates and put them in separate RGB channels in PS and get color photos. My students seemed to like the exercise. The first year I taught this curriculum, I got in contact with Walt Frankhauser who was responsible for the digital color versions of these photos. I got my students to write questions (if they wanted) and passed them on to WF who answered them.

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‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

bladespark

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

jediplinth

As a side note, in 1979, solid state RAM (ie, integrated circuits) cost roughly $150 for 16 kilobytes which is about $680 in 2026 dollaroonies.

Compared to hand-woven core memory, this was a freaking bargain, but it was still brutally expensive compared to other integrated circuits.

I don't know if core memory drove RAM high or that RAM was particularly hard to make compared with other chips.

If solid state RAM was such a bargain and was available, why not use it in NASA designs instead of core memory which was expensive and bulky? Core memory was well-tested and proven to be reliable in space, whereas solid state RAM was not yet and NASA was worried about system failure.

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How people get nicknames:

Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"

A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".

An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"

A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".

Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".

A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"

A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"

The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"

+ How Nicknames Stick:

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You hate it

It's accurate

plaguedocboi

When I was in high school we (as in, my class collectively) had a habit of giving people nicknames that were just other completely normal names.

For instance, there was a girl named Ashley who we all called Kimberly. There was a kid named Daniel who we called Paul. There was Joel. I can’t even remember what his real name was at this point because he was just Joel to me.

I don’t know why we did this.

cipheramnesia

One time in college there was this girl who loved to make every conversation about herself and had gone so far as to self-assign an "admiration" nickname, and I was able to de-assign it by replacing it with a neutral nickname which blazed through the college so fast, this particular girl being genuinely that notoriously self centered, that it wiped her entire admiration nickname off the face of the school in a week. It was an object lesson in human social behavior that was terrifying to behold and stuck with me to this day

jediplinth

When I was in high school, a guy in my chemistry class told me that he didn't want to be called 'Dan' anymore. "OK, what do you want to be called?" "Bob." "OK, Bob" He then asked me what I wanted to be called, so on a whim, I said "Jack". We called each other Bob and Jack and soon other people started picking up on and it got to the point where there were some people who honestly thought they were our actual names.

were--ralph

i tune out for one day and what the fuck is this

were--ralph

i thought maybe it was shitpost but no

jediplinth

Nobody asked for it

It's for pure hedonistic spectacle

It irritates so many people by just existing

How is it not a shitpost?

grickle14

Good morning!

hometoursandotherstuff

rtfics

For the kitten's sake I hope she said yes.

jediplinth

I met a woman who said that she didn't want an engagement ring - she wanted an engagement Steinway and would reciprocate with an engagement Porsche of equivalent value. Mind you, I doubt she had that kind of money, but a girl has to have standards.

grickle14

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That seems a bit threatening.

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#very ominous #threatening #weird sign #signs

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