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Month: October 2023
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Book Club: the WLBOTT Equation
Our readers may be familiar with the Drake Equation. Basically, you plug numbers into an equation to determine the probability of having friends and neighbors in the Milky Way. where N = the number of civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on the current past light […]
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Much Anticipated Blue Northern
The Central Texas headquarters is anxiously anticipating the first true Cool Front of the year. Tomorrow’s high will be 44°F (26°C) cooler than yesterday’s high. It’s been a hot Oct, (but let’s be positive – it’s cooler than next year!) Texas for Beginners…. Texas Monthly lays it out for us…. By mid-September we are yearning, […]
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R5-D4 moves!
[UC#1] This is the robot that my son [UC#1-P1] has been working on for the last year or more. Most of it was 3-D printed on his printer. He had to figure out all the wiring and computer programming and all that stuff. This was the final part, getting the wheel motors going and responding […]
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The 2020 Vibe, part 3
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The 2020 Vibe, part 2
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The 2020 Vibe in Memes
To help fight the collective amnesia, maybe this will help to jog some memories….
The Elders have been exploring the concept of “Collective Amnesia”, especially as it relates to recent global pandemic. UC#2 passed along a Guardian article on this very subject: Covid was so bad for so many – why aren’t we talking about it more? My friend, who suffers badly from long Covid, struggles to understand the […]
Without telling me you haven’t read a book since high school….
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UC#3 IRL
WLBOTT HR has granted UC#3 S/UIRL[1](pronounced /səˈrēəl/), but he leaves us with the following non-haiku limerick: There once was a man named Jerry He farmed a bog full of cranberry Every morning he put on his hip waders And would sell his harvest to OceanSpray traders But he secretly only enjoyed pie made of blueberry […]