The standard-issue Entenmann’s raspberry strudel I got this morning was an inch shorter than the aluminum pan it came in. Shrinkflation.
Hope you made sure they have the same DST.
Fox can hire her for one of those discussion shows to show how “balanced” they are.
Humphrey Bogart was a master-level chess player and a tournament director for the U.S. Chess Federation.
The 6502 microprocessor was introduced in 1975. Today I learned that someone built a replica of this microprocessor using discrete transistors. Here is a YT video for it.
That’s amazing !
I’m surprised how few transistors it has - i always thought these chips
had millions of them, even back then.
I like how the wiki page says : (typically pronounced “sixty-five-oh-two” or “six-five-oh-two”)
That’s mighty cool. Reminds me of the reconstruction of Konrad Zuse’s Z3 from 1941 by his son Horst, done with modern relays. Sorry, I only have a German link, but the second link is an English pdf.
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01455300/document (PDF link)
Before he was murdered, Jay Sebring (Manson Family murder) appeared on “To Tell the Truth” as a contestant. The panel was to guess which one was the “hairdresser to the starts.” All three did.
Maybe only interesting to me but Sebring had a lot of regular (not celebrity) clients as well, one of them being my Uncle.
Always. I am aware of the consequences of that action.
Today I learned about Apex Surplus of Sun Valley, California. They have a huge assortment of old electronics. It’s where movie makers go to find technology-related props. Here is a video tour of it.
Wow, Jawas really get around.
I’d love to hear a tour guide: “Back here we have all our bomb lookalikes. To your right are buckets of random crap, and off to the far left is a UFO looking thingy. Now, let me show you our various blinky-light computery faces!”
You wanna know the real crazy part? Apex isn’t even the only space junk yard / prop seller in L.A. There also N.S. Aerospace in Hollywood.
[cough]
I didn’t read all 5,000+ posts before posting. Should have done a search, I guess.
That catches me too. I was more amused that our posts were nearly identical.
Hyphen and all! 
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Must have copy/pasted the same FB feed article. 
I’ll try again.
The Cowardly Lion costume worn by Bert Lahr in “The Wizard of Oz” was made from actual lion pelt and weighed 90 pounds. After each day’s shooting, two assistants spent the entire night drying the costume out because of Lahr sweating buckets under the hot lights, but apparently it reeked.
The Tin Man was originally supposed to be played by Buddy Ebsen, but he was allergic to the aluminum dust in the makeup.