Tuesday, October 15, 2024

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Heh Heh - Ontario College of Psychologists cannot find a "social media expert to publicly re-educate Jordan Peterson.

- Morgan Housel: Message from the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia)

- Why I brought my 19-moth old daughter to watch SpaceX's flying skyscraper.

- Michael Wade's 12 rules for readers. Good advice.

2 comments:

  1. SpaceX: Couldn't help but think of the fact that we went to the moon with some pretty basic tools.
    1. Apollo 13: The crew carried a Pickett N600-ES slide rule, which was used for routine calculations during their April 1970 mission.
    2. Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin’s personal slide rule, a Pickett N600-ES, flew to the Moon on Apollo 11 and was later sold at auction in 2007.
    3. Wernher von Braun’s slide rule: The National Air and Space Museum has a slide rule owned by Wernher von Braun, the director of the Marshall Spaceflight Center, which shows signs of heavy use.

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  2. Keep thinking that today's modern refrigerators have more computing power than was used to put man on the moon. But nobody is using their new fridge to plan a lunar mission.

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