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New comment by roymurdock in "Mystical"

roymurdock — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:32:15 +0000

Awesome.

New comment by roymurdock in "I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)"

roymurdock — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:00:28 +0000

This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by roymurdock in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

roymurdock — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:34:08 +0000

Thanks for your service dang

New comment by roymurdock in "Radiation belts detected around Earth after solar storm"

roymurdock — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:06:23 +0000

Interesting, so the 2 new belts (fields) are closer than the 2 stable existing belts (Van Allen Belts) that shield us from radiation.

These fields could affect the launch and operation of satellites. Or maybe they will help shield us further? Or affect our atmosphere in some way? To be studied...

New comment by roymurdock in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

roymurdock — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:18:42 +0000

We've kicked the can down the road for a while, but no worries, we will pick it up soon and recycle it ;)

New comment by roymurdock in "First images from Euclid are in"

roymurdock — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:46:26 +0000

awesome. thanks for sharing

New comment by roymurdock in "The surprising way OpenAI could get out of its pact with Microsoft"

roymurdock — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:00:31 +0000

does anyone else just get "OK" displayed when clicking thru?

New comment by roymurdock in "Frederick Law Olmsted: His essential theory (2000)"

roymurdock — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:41:50 +0000

its like the christian version of karma or dharma

New comment by roymurdock in "T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users"

roymurdock — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:49:51 +0000

thanks for creating a meaningful dialogue here, wish ars would try to do the same

New comment by roymurdock in "Frederick Law Olmsted: His essential theory (2000)"

roymurdock — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:24:01 +0000

Yeah he has a very unique, beautiful, and consistent visual language that really captures and conveys majesty. The emerald necklace around the charles is a top US treasure to be sure.

New comment by roymurdock in "Frederick Law Olmsted: His essential theory (2000)"

roymurdock — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:16:15 +0000

Love the exploration of Olmsted's idea of natural scenery "unbending" and untwisting the pent up anxiety inherent in urban life. To use landscape architecture to "sanitize" and heal the public.

NYC and Boston (and the US in general) are lucky to have had an architect of his caliber designing green spaces...we could use some more of those to catch up with Europe ;)

Also interesting idea here...correlates with talk is cheap...but wonder if there is a word or phrase that captures this idea from Bushnell, the Olmsted family pastor:

"The most important and constant influence that people exerted on each other, Bushnell believed, was not verbal, but rather a silent emanation of their real character that showed in their habitual conduct and made itself felt at a level below that of consciousness."

New comment by roymurdock in "For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies"

roymurdock — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:32:26 +0000

interesting perspective....agree nothing is permanent but competition keeps monopolies from forming and stagnation/rot from setting in...

New comment by roymurdock in "For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies"

roymurdock — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:47:38 +0000

i saw peccaries napping in corcovado - magical place. cerro cirripo is on my list for our next trip. their permit website needs work though cheers

New comment by roymurdock in "For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies"

roymurdock — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:43:51 +0000

love to see progressive ideas in costa rica on how to coexist with our natural brethren. such a beautiful country, hope to see a jaguar or puma there in the wild one day :)

New comment by roymurdock in "Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?"

roymurdock — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:20:09 +0000

super cool

New comment by roymurdock in "Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter?"

roymurdock — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:55:20 +0000

"It's just one resistor (15 ohms) and one wire, soldered to DQ26. The wire acts like an antenna, picking up any nearby EM interference and dumping it straight onto the data bus."

really neat hack. using the lighter to create EM interference. better go light up next to my DDR bus and see what happens :)

New comment by roymurdock in "Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake"

roymurdock — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:38:24 +0000

Possibly the most Canadian thing I've ever read

New comment by roymurdock in "Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today"

roymurdock — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:12:53 +0000

Wow, really puts the amazing progress over the last decade into perspective. Thanks for sharing

New comment by roymurdock in "We’re All Investors Now (2013)"

roymurdock — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 01:36:46 +0000

It’s economics 101 - labor vs leisure time is a fundamental division of time, which is influenced by wages and is an input into a firm or economy’s production function. Even if you don’t assign your leisure time a monetary value, someone else (an economist) will.

New comment by roymurdock in "Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back"

roymurdock — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 15:38:24 +0000

Can you recommend some good movies from last/this year? Have been digging into old movies to get my fix recently thinking there wasn't anything good out.