Daily Archives: June 1, 2024

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  • Roll call: Tom Shugart

    MIA since January.

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    Maria Benet? Absent… the alchemist has been gone for a month or so. In other Alembic news: High impedance pickups have limited bandwidth. My father designed our pickups to be low impedance to increase the bandwidth. This also made the pickups low output and so he had to design an active onboard preamp to boost [...]

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    At the Fitchburg City Hall

    Consulting engineers sat at the table and several dozen townspeople sat in the audience facing them.  After a brief introduction and an explanation of technical matters such as storm water run-off and mitigation, flood control and parks and open spaces there came the time for questions.  Mostly people didn’t have questions.  They had things to [...]

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    Sea of trillium…

    At the cassandra pages I read about a sea of trillium… As I walked along the lake this morning, three fat large-mouth bass swam in the clear water just off shore. The sun was so bright, shining toward me from the east, that it made the body of the smallest fish translucent. One fish then [...]

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    Rubel’s Social-media Universe

    Writing in Ad Age, Steve Rubel shares the following trope… (thanks to my favorite ads-keteer for the link): Galaxies: centers of gravity pulling together like-minded individuals, such as YouTube, Digg, Flickr and Second Life. Stars: online celebs, such as Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble, Flickr fiend Thomas Hawk and YouTube addict Nornna. Planets: individuals who follow [...]

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    “Thinking Outside the Lunch Box”

    “We must teach the children that taking care of the land and learning to feed yourself are just as important as reading, writing, and arithmetic. For the most part, our families and institutions are not doing this. Therefore, I believe that it’s up to the public education system to teach our kids these important values. [...]

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    Dogs bite man…

    The Kansas City Pitch‘s “Kansas City Strip” column is written with an unfortunate narrative conceit: the perspective comes from Kansas City cuts of beef. This week’s subject matter creates a terrible carnivorous resonance. When is “dog bites man” news? Cars squealed around him. As soon as he hit the pavement, the dogs were on him. [...]

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