shoutouts to whoever drew this bunny on one of the classic macs at this computer museum

Travel is wonderful, but to be a tourist is fundamentally to consume sips of other experiences and other lives. Am I rooted? Am I developed? Is there a place and a scene? These are the real questions.

Very good bike ride. Very pleased.
#cycling #BikeTooter #Luxembourg

Sad to say that Google is still better at search than DuckDuckGo.

It is still the weekend it is still the weekend it is still the w

"If it _is_ a good morning," he said.

Devastated to report that Larry the truffle cat is fake. SEO farms are terrible and create lies. Lies are never cute or endearing. https://bsky.app/profile/reveleth.com/post/3mprwkurugc2c

If u don’t moo at the cows I don’t want to know u

🚗 TIL: Before GPS was fully operational, Honda built a car navigation system that used zero satellites.

In 1981, the Honda Electro Gyrocator debuted as a dealer option on the Accord. You placed a transparent plastic map over a small CRT screen and marked your starting point.

As you drove, a helium gas-rate gyroscope detected turns: helium flow shifted between two heated wires, creating a temperature difference the computer read as direction. A transmission sensor tracked distance. A 16-bit computer combined both to move a dot across the map showing your position.

Not perfect. Wheel spin and drift compounded, so you could pull over and manually realign. The IEEE designated it a Milestone in 2017 as the world's first map-based car navigation system, 14 years before GPS.

The catch: it cost about $2,746 (nearly a quarter of the car's price). It only lasted one year.

Read more:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/first-mapbased-car-navigation-system-debuted-14-years-before-gps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator
https://global.honda/en/heritage/episodes/1981navigationsystem.html

#TIL #Honda #engineering #history

Opal-crowned Tanager

Blue-and-black tanager with a bright creamy-white crown and rump patches; otherwise deep blue with black patches from the tail to the head. Compared to the similar Opal-rumped Tanager, this species has a distinctive whitish crown and a blue (not reddish) belly; the latter can be helpful for identification from below as it moves through the canopy with mixed species tanager flocks.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/opctan1
Photo Location: Ecuador

The problem with doing more Outer Wilds is I will just spend time wandering around not doing anything. Which isn’t bad but, you know.

TODAY IS 07/04 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

ITS GOOMY DAY, THE 704TH POKEMON IN THE POKEDEX!

HAPPY GOOMY DAY!!!!

Radley Balko posted an annotated version of the Declaration of Independence today that seems very apropos. Though a version will surely feel apropos every year. https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-unremitting-fire

Happy 4th of July! From the many, one.

This is a hell of a picture

#SilentSunday

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