All of your public school teachers have a history. Almost all of them have masturbated. Many of them have smoked marijuana. Almost all of them have dated; most of them have danced. Some of them are gay. Some of them are heterosexual. Almost all of them have private kinks which you don’t know about, because they don’t practice them in public, let alone when they’re doing their jobs. Some of them have been sex workers.
And you know what? All of them can be fired or blacklisted by local prudes on school boards or the school administration. Teachers: you don’t get to be human. This outrages me.
Why Didn't I Think of That?
Simple little life hack: DIY power-cord labeling
Crash Test Kittens
Leaving CorVegas
Jen-Luc Piquant and I are heading out to Oregon State University today, as I am a featured speaker at OSU’s first Sonia Kovaleskaya Mathematics Day, honoring the prominent Russian female mathematician of the same name.
I am contractually obligated to link to activities involving Oregon State. So, here you go.
This is Not Tilt-Shift Photography
World’s largest model airport the Knuffingen goes on show
The incredible model is based on Hamburg Airport and features 40 planes and 90 vehicles that autonomously move around the airport.
It took seven years to build and cost a staggering $4.8 million.
One-Sided Food Argument
Thought that this should exist after describing pasta as having different gauges (like wire), whether it’s solid-core (like spaghetti) or hollow core (ziti) at lunch at my recent conference. And it already exists.
So be it… Jedi!
Here’s what happens to CDs that will not turn to the dark side.
Oh, My!
Shocked clamp is shocked.
Wait, What?
Some double-take signs seen recently while out geocaching
Do you ever videotape but not for recording purposes?
It's Ungodly
The Dangerously Clean Water Used To Make Your iPhone
The ordinary person thinks of reverse-osmosis as taking “everything” out of water. RO is the process you use to turn ocean water into crystalline drinking water. And in human terms, RO does take most everything out of the water.
But for semiconductors, RO water isn’t even close. Ultra-pure water requires 12 filtration steps beyond RO. (For those of a technical bent, the final filter in making UPW has pores that are 20 nanometers wide.
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Water is a good cleaner because it is a good solvent–the so-called “universal solvent,” excellent at dissolving all kinds of things. UPW is particularly “hungry,” in solvent terms, because it starts so clean. That’s why it is so valuable for washing semiconductors.
It’s also why it’s not safe to drink. A single glass of UPW wouldn’t hurt you. But even that one glass of water would instantly start leeching valuable minerals back out of your body.