getting there

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A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm

Fishy friend

hey I hope you dont mind I also painted your egg

i also painted the egg hope that's ok

i heard we were painting egg?

i too have drawn the egg

heres my egg

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

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.

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

so you have the exact same people doing the exact same labor but now you have a CEO/board of directors and a shit ton of other overhead costs in addition to the base cost of labor. This means the amount of services per tax payer dollar falls drastically. All in the name of "efficiency" and "lowering costs"

Many of the government employees, constantly faced with more work and less staff, don't wait to get ejected and leave on their own.

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

hey what the fuck

It had teeth

Fighter pilots can handle greater head-to-toe G forces—up to 8 or 9 G's—and for longer periods by wearing anti-G suits. These specialized outfits use air bladders to constrict the legs and abdomen during high G’s to keep blood in the upper body. Fighter pilots can further increase their G-tolerance by training in centrifuges, which create artificial G’s, and by learning specialized breathing and muscle-tensing techniques.

The engineers: DO NOT.

Where this blog stands.

what fucking millennium is it