When I was a kid, I remember SquareOne TV very fondly. I even got the weekly activity books (which nobody seems to remember or mention besides myself) and remember being so excited when they came. It really turned me on to math and eventually computers.
Here’s one of the better resource collections for SquareOne. But if you want to check out some episodes, you can see some of them on YouTube:
Country music in Europe is a little different than in the US…
Garren Lazar’s latest edit has the gang tackling the 1971 Yes track Roundabout, and it’s quite perfectly synced up with the prog-rock masterpiece.
“And that’s when I fell in love with the 12 foot skeleton from Home Depot”
Polybius is a great urban legend that got its start in Portland. There’s lots of fodder thrown around about it, but The Polybius Conspiracy appeared to be a real investigation on the subject. They even have a lot of interviews from local people. It turns out, it was COMPLETELY FALSE and their main character was an actor.
None of that was disclosed. It is one more reason you should be very weary of documentaries as information sources. Evidence shows you should NOT be putting faith in documentaries any more than an editorial opinion piece.
If you want a little better coverage, this is also a good video about the urban legend:
Next question: can you do development to deployment completely online. I’m having flashbacks to 1970’s era dumb terminals again…
Finding cool Halloween displays and house decorations in your area can be trial/error driving around or word of mouth. These folks at Northwest Haunters Association have an interactive map where people can share their setups for others to enjoy.
Hop on over there an start touring some great Halloween displays
Clever way to make screws that have no visible screw-head utilizing the tolerances possible with EDM machine tools.
Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) tools are capable of machining part with tolerances of 40 millionths of an inch ( 0.00004″) (. 001 mm) and some up to 10 millionths of an inch (0.00001″). Effectively making seems between pieces practically invisible.
Shibuya is trying something interesting to deal with the annual gathering of Halloween revelers during COVID. They’re making the event, concerts, fan groups, color pages, and lots of other activities free online.
You can attend events for free online and even attend the festivities in VR:
Japan has never traditionally celebrated Halloween. During the 1990’s, a bunch of Halloween loving foreigners started wearing costumes and riding the ring trains around Tokyo. Unfortunately, drunken behavior cause the police to ask the riders to disembark (please don’t be one of these ugly tourists – I don’t care how cool you think you are. It’s rude to go to another country and act like that).
Revelers soon started gathering in the neighborhoods around the train stations and the street parties grew and grew. Shibuya soon became one of the major stops for these festivities – and has grown to be the focal point. Unfortunately large amounts of trash, drunken disturbances and destruction have become all too common. Which is really unfortunate since it could be such a good chance for people to have fun and share some cross-cultural exchange.
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Staying at remote fire watch towers in the Pacific Northwest is kind of a thing for me. Above are two of the ones I stayed at. After getting lucky enough to land a near-impossible reservation, they usually require you to hike in to remote locations at the top of mountains. No power, no plumbing, and sometimes no cell service. You have to hike your own food and water into these remote locations – making them amazing experiences in living off the grid. The views, solitude, quiet, and beauty can be jaw dropping experiences for the lucky.
Keeping track of which ones are closed for repairs, inaccessible due to landslides, fires, blowdowns, snow, learning about new regulations and seasons of operation has never been easy.
Fortunately I’ve found another person with the same passion and she posts updates on some of these towers as well as her progress on visiting every one before they are gone.
One of the more notable postings was of my favorite tower Gold Butte which was recently wrapped to protect it from wildfires that ravaged one side of the peak.
