Hacker News: bookofjoe

Artemisia Gentileschi Masterpiece Goes to Auction–Without Its Face

bookofjoe — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:38:28 +0000

Article URL: https://news.artnet.com/market/gentileschi-mary-magdalene-fragment-dorotheum-auction-2763142

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735187

Points: 1

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New comment by bookofjoe in "Jet Fuel Crunch Is Getting Severe with No Reprieve in Sight for Airlines"

bookofjoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:47:25 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/jet-fuel-crunch-is-get...

Jet Fuel Crunch Is Getting Severe with No Reprieve in Sight for Airlines

bookofjoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:47:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/jet-fuel-crunch-is-getting-severe-with-no-reprieve-in-sight-for-airlines-ebab4c88

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734307

Points: 8

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New comment by bookofjoe in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

bookofjoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:00:24 +0000

Look it up

Lost Images

bookofjoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:32:56 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20060428062213/http://westfordcomp.com/updated/found.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733326

Points: 6

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New comment by bookofjoe in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

bookofjoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:07:09 +0000

Yes

New comment by bookofjoe in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

bookofjoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:05:58 +0000

"Stand on Zanzibar" (1969 Hugo Award Winner) — John Brunner

Great book.

New comment by bookofjoe in "Phone Trips"

bookofjoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:58:20 +0000

>OK, so what are these recordings all about? Why are they here?

>Greetings fellow web trippers, my phone phreak handle is Mark Bernay and 35 years ago I used to go on phone trips. Yes, it's true: just like the people in the picture at the top, I would drive around to small towns primarily for the purpose of playing with their payphones. I often brought along my trusty Craig 212 portable 3-inch reel-to-reel tape recorder (this was before cassettes were popular) to record the phone noises and narrate information about them for my friends. I don't go on phone trips anymore and you are probably thinking that this is because I grew up, but no, I never did. The reason I stopped phone tripping is that all phones are about the same all over the country nowadays and they are really boring.

>This picture shows my recording equipment around 1968, which I used to edit these tapes and prepare them for playing on a public phone number. My current desk is just as messy, but with PC's instead of reel-to-reel tape recorders.

>There have been 1237108 accesses to this page.

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>Secrets of the Little Blue Box (1971)

https://www.ckts.info/downloads/articles/Esquire%20Magazine%...