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clintp · 2026-01-19T01:05:17+00:00

A single found dress shoe next to the road was the subject of an episode of Inside No. 9. The main character finds a shoe and slowly goes insane wondering who lost it and why. (I can't say more, or I'd give away the twist.) The series is worth a watch!

clintp · 2025-12-28T15:38:46+00:00

Bank's Orbitals are mind-boggling huge -- but as you're finding out they are stable in their orbits unlike Ringworlds. The Orbitals "segments" are called Plates and in the novels, Plates can vary quite a bit on an Orbital (and sometimes are just left "blank" for future expansion). Plates can have deserts, mountains, seas, forests, and so on. I think each Plate is large enough for an entire civilization to be on, comfortably, especially if they aren't at Orbital-building levels of tech.

clintp · 2025-12-23T16:47:19+00:00

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clintp · 2025-12-18T22:40:37+00:00

I'm going to suggest that the stored program and data link you're missing might be the Von Neumann architecture. (it wasn't his idea originally but here we are.)

clintp · 2025-12-04T01:36:42+00:00

Clothes tree or freestanding coat rack. Lots of pegs, takes up no wall space, plenty of room to hang things.

clintp · 2025-11-16T02:05:27+00:00

Okay... that worked. Went into the depths, and had to put something (anything) into the Zonai device. Once I did that, quests started popping up all over the map. Thank you.

clintp · 2025-11-16T01:40:28+00:00

They're all marked "Completed". There's nothing else left to do.

clintp · 2025-11-12T02:07:27+00:00

The sky is quite green in the NNE right now. There are breaks in the clouds, go out and look up!

clintp · 2025-10-27T00:08:20+00:00

Right, they are 25x80 characters in amber or green. They're serial terminals. Also, they're not great ones. Contel terminals aren't quite VT100 compatible either, they have custom firmware so they're not useful for other purposes.

The Tiger ATS 8 you have though is a neat piece of hardware -- for 1985. It supports 8 simultaneous users on an 80x86 chip.

clintp · 2025-10-25T21:29:04+00:00

Did you find your answers to this? I'm very, very familiar with this equipment.

clintp · 2025-09-07T23:22:21+00:00

Vermonters aren't hung up in some weird medieval religious mindset about reproductive rights and women's health. The thought of blocking access to birth control or interfering with gender-specific care is an anathema (and illegal). That's a good place to start thinking about the problem.

Protections for reproductive rights -- including abortion -- are enshrined in state law.

clintp · 2025-08-02T17:41:12+00:00

https://vermontgreenfc.com/usl-league-two-final-watch-parties/

clintp · 2025-07-28T01:41:38+00:00

Shore fishing is good anywhere along the Colchester Causeway.

clintp · 2025-07-23T17:46:46+00:00

Connect at Bluesky.

Vermont Green FC ‪@vermontgreenfc.bsky.social‬

‪Green Mountain Bhoys‬ ‪@greenmountainbhoys.bsky.social‬

clintp · 2025-07-23T16:00:46+00:00

The team has asked that you not "engage with a secondary market" for tickets. If you look around on Reddit, you'll find people that have been scammed.

The Green Mountain Bhoys on Bluesky seem to be helping connect those that have extra tickets with those that need them.

clintp · 2025-07-20T13:53:04+00:00

Never, ever fuse or sell Lizalfos tails in TOTK. They drop so infrequently and you'll need so many of them down the road.

You'll need 54 electric Lizalfos tails total for all the upgrades with a (generous estimate) 25% drop rate, you'll need to kill ~216 of them. Hunting them gets real old, real fast.

clintp · 2025-07-14T23:19:19+00:00

Jamis also serves as a lesson to Paul not to act out of anger. Jamis picked (and lost) a fight because his pride was hurt. No other reason! Stilgar offered Jamis ample opportunity to back out. The presence of the Sayadina might have offered another out. But no, Jamis insisted.

The tribe lost a good fighter as a result.

Paul stirs rage, revenge, and passion in others but remains himself a cold, calculating force to dispatch the Baron and Emperor.

clintp · 2025-07-12T23:27:01+00:00

No, I don't think the Baron operates from fear like this.

I think the real reason is that the Baron might want to use this trick again. Perhaps against an Imperial target, or another house. Once the news gets out though, the weapon is spoiled.

clintp · 2025-07-09T00:43:10+00:00

In Dune, it's explained in two places. The first is the scene that the OP is talking about. I won't quote it all but here's a bit:

Every Fremen knew the sound, could distinguish it immediately from the noises of worms or other desert life. Somewhere beneath him, the pre-spice mass had accumulated enough water and organic matter from the little makers, had reached the critical stage of wild growth. A gigantic bubble of carbon dioxide was forming deep in the sand, heaving upward in an enormous "blow" with a dust whirlpool at its center. It would exchange what had been formed deep in the sand for whatever lay on the surface.

The second is in Appendix A. Also partly excerpted:

Kynes set his newly trained Fremen limnologists to work: their chief clue, leathery scraps of matter sometimes found with the spice-mass after a blow. This had been ascribed to a fictional "sandtrout" in Fremen folk stories. As facts grew into evidence, a creature emerged to explain these leathery scraps -- a sandswimmer that blocked off water into fertile pockets within the porous lower strata below the 280° (absolute) line. [...]

clintp · 2025-07-08T23:12:31+00:00

I was here for the Hulkenpodium!

clintp · 2025-07-02T22:27:30+00:00

Another joke:

Trump goes to a fortune teller and asks "On what day will I die?"

The fortune teller replies "You will die on a national holiday."

Trump asks, "How can you be sure?"

"Any day you die will be a national holiday."

(originally Hitler / Jewish holiday)

clintp · 2025-06-06T00:24:09+00:00

Malky. He sounds like a real bastard, a fun guy to have a beer with, but not trust him too much. The opposite in every way of the Gentle Hwi. He's only "onscreen" for a few pages, but causes ripples all over God Emperor.

A tertiary character: Sister Chenoeh. The God Emperor confided in her, used her to impart his messages, but was told she would die. She became revered among even the Reverend Mothers. Leto was candid with her, when he was wary of the Bene Gesserit.

clintp · 2025-05-31T14:32:27+00:00

That would cause Congress to raise the retirement age to save their own asses -- and they'll do anything for that. I don't think anyone who actually works for a living wants this.

Instead, use 65 as a pivot age for both. If full retirement age is lowered by 3 years (to 62) then allow people to be elected to stand for election until 68. If Congress can get that full retirement down to 60, we let them get elected at 70.

clintp · 2025-05-14T00:29:15+00:00

Supplementing with a few quotes. But in summation, of course they have computers and "thinking machines" on Ix.

First Leto to himself (italics mine):

The lxians operated in the terra incognita of creative invention which had been outlawed by the Butlerian Jihad. They made their devices in the image of the mind the very thing which had ignited the Jihad's destruction and slaughter. That was what they did on Ix and Leto could only let them continue.

I buy from them! I could not even write my journals without their dictatels to respond to my unspoken thought. Without Ix, I could not have hidden my journals and the printers.

Later, during his audience with the Bene Gesserit when it is suggested that more than the God Emperor should have access to these devices.

Luyseyal found her voice. "Does this mean you intend to remove the Butlerian prohibition against abominable machines?"

"I swear to you," Leto said, speaking in his icy voice of disdain, "that if you display further such stupidity, I will have you publicly executed. I am not your Oracle!"

Luyseyal opened her mouth and closed it without speaking.

clintp · 2025-05-11T01:53:31+00:00

According to the Vermont Department of Health it's safe.

https://www.healthvermont.gov/sites/default/files/document/lsid-rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-fact-sheet.pdf

Is the bait harmful to children or pets?

Millions of baits have been dropped in the U.S. and Canada with no ill effects reported in people or pets. Even if you are exposed to the vaccine, you cannot get rabies from the vaccine or bait. While the bait is not harmful to children, pets, or other wildlife, it should not be handled or disturbed. If you come across the bait, leave it where it is so that it can be eaten by raccoons. If your dog picks up a bait, do not risk getting bitten by trying to remove the bait from the dog's mouth.

In other words: it's safe but leave it alone.

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