https://librivox.org/crime-and-punishment-version-3-by-fyodo...

Went from 5% to 84% after I made the change.

It's tad unconventional looking for a shoe lace knot, but never has anyone every commented on it.

Looking at knots again, I guess it's just a slip knot.

The demo video starts outside pointing at a cloudy sky with an airplane passing overhead. My mind, seeded with the word "x-ray", thought the outside shot was the video projection on his ceiling. I thought his rain gutters were crown molding, and when the camera man runs inside, I thought he was running outside to show the real life airplane.

The actual projection is neat, but how fun would it be to have an x-ray projection of the night sky.

I didn't do anything as complicated as a chair. I would try to create loops by braiding two distant branches into each other and fastening with wire. Or I would take a long branch, and bend it back to the trunk, and braid it into a branch heading in the opposite direction.

The most difficult thing was not accidentally breaking the branches while braiding. Sometimes strong winds would create too much tension on the already stressed branches and cause them to break.

I did that for about 5 years before I sold that house. The tree is still there last time I checked, but I haven't gotten a close look at how it has progressed.

At my new house, I've tried it with a red maple, but haven't had much success. The branches that I've shaped end up dying.

Sharing this story makes me want to take up the hobby again. I've got some fast growing trees at my current house that I could use.

Edit: here is a photo of my tree (if you can abide imgur) https://imgur.com/a/PjwqWzo

I'm a software dev who was affected by the outage. I was working on an app that connects to the Canvas SAML endpoints. One minute I was able to run my code, the next I couldn't. This was a little after 17:00 EST.

https://youtu.be/ub01udUz7ns?si=OBMKdK6RED3aZMEq&t=15

I would say the multivac in "Franchise" is the same Mutlivac as "Last Question" and "all the troubles of the world" (one of my favorites). There are no positronic robots in "Franchise", nor the others.

I wonder if Asimov considered multivac to be an ancestor to his positronic robots, or if the two exist in different universes. I don't recall the two ever appearing in the same story.

How old is that icon set? I swear I used that same peppers icon for a Windows app that I published around 2002.

I wonder what is the purpose of ghidralite dot com. SEO spam? Are they building trust and then will swap out the Download button with a poisoned binary.

I experienced this same thing working with offshore Indian contractors 20 years ago. Interesting to hear someone else echo my observations.