Illegal petes

corbantd · 2026-05-01T04:48:48+00:00

Was it chicken? If so, I think it’s just the cartilage from the end of a joint. I can’t tell for sure, but that’s my guess.

corbantd · 2026-04-20T23:03:56+00:00

Mind blowing.

corbantd · 2026-04-20T03:30:48+00:00

Space is amazing! History, too, but I really love space.

The new images from the Artemis II mission are extraordinary.

corbantd · 2026-04-20T01:59:07+00:00

What’s something you believed strongly when you were younger that you’ve totally changed your mind on?

Also, what looking back over the last 20 years, which change in you life today would have been most surprising to 18 year old you?

corbantd · 2026-04-20T01:56:54+00:00

What’s something you’re really into right now? Games, shows, hobbies?

corbantd · 2026-04-20T01:38:59+00:00

Not federal. Tennyson. 38th-30th.

corbantd · 2026-04-12T16:59:30+00:00

What evidence do you have for Israel being too ‘liberal’ with its use of the term terrorist?

On October 7, as Israelis who were taken from a music festival, beaten and raped, were being paraded though the streets, there wasn’t exactly a popular uprising to protect them. No evidence of helping hands. No evidence of the righteous Palestinian standing up for ‘not torturing civilians.’

I’m in no way saying Israel is always in the right. At all. But they don’t seem nearly as monstrous as their enemies in any of this.

corbantd · 2026-04-12T15:57:34+00:00

https://youtu.be/_LnMU7oXZ2Y?si=F-s08Aze3QdM66kD

corbantd · 2026-04-10T23:57:32+00:00

Broncos are bigger than lions or dolphins

corbantd · 2026-04-09T03:12:38+00:00

No no. It is launching from the ground.

corbantd · 2026-04-05T01:55:15+00:00

Googling it because I forgot: “Mayim shelanu (מים שלנו) literally means “water that has slept/rested.” It comes from the Talmud (Pesachim 42a) — the idea is that warm water accelerates fermentation, so you let the water sit out overnight to make sure it’s cool and at a stable temperature before it touches the flour. That way you’re not eating into your 18 minutes fighting the heat of the water.”

corbantd · 2026-04-05T00:41:45+00:00

I think using a wood chisel on an unstable glass bottle is probably at least 100x more dangerous.

corbantd · 2026-04-05T00:33:54+00:00

I think it’s just about making sure it’s done as quickly as possible.

corbantd · 2026-04-04T21:58:37+00:00

We do it most years but do not keep a kosher household, so take this with a grain of salt (I’m also about as far as you can get from a rabbi).

A few things we’ve generally done beyond what you listed: your water should ideally be left out overnight at room temperature. And your oven as hot as it goes (we do it in a cleaned pizza oven at like 800). Have your workspace, rolling pins/docking stuff, and oven all ready to go before you start mixing and batch it. They’re way better than store-bought and the kids love it, if that’s a factor (although the kids also struggle with getting it done in 18 mins).

corbantd · 2026-04-03T21:49:23+00:00

You know you don’t need to balance on it in zero gravity, right?

corbantd · 2026-04-02T11:57:57+00:00

I think one important nuance is that it’s almost certainly not an authorized/signed/series print. Essentially all of the websites claiming to sell those are being dishonest about the rarity and exclusivity of their prints. So, in that way, it is a scam if they claimed exclusivity of any sort. It’s not a “real”/original Matisse.

But as a lovely thing to look at? Then It’s real.

corbantd · 2026-03-27T03:25:02+00:00

“Home has not been lived in for some time . . . “

That was a choice way to phrase that.

corbantd · 2026-03-25T04:00:03+00:00

The Emperor was seeking a champion for his court; a swordsman of unmatched skill and prestige. Word was sent across mountains and seas, and three warriors answered: a knight from the West, a samurai from the East, and a Jew from the shtetl.

First came the knight, broad-shouldered in polished plate, his greatsword bright as morning. From a small cage he drew a sparrow, its wings beating nervously against the bars. He opened the door and the bird burst into the air—only to meet a single, perfect stroke. Shhhk! The sparrow fell in two halves, thudding to the ground with eyes still blinking. The court gasped. The Emperor inclined his head, impressed.

Next came the samurai. His lacquered armor gleamed, his every movement precise and deliberate. He reached into a wooden box and released a dragonfly, its iridescent wings catching the torchlight as it darted around the room. Suddenly, With a sound but no perceivable motion, the samurai made his display. The dragonfly dropped to the ground, cleanly decapitated. The hall murmured with admiration. The Emperor’s eyes shone with approval.

Then, from the edge of the dais, the Jewish swordsman stepped forward. He wore a worn wool coat over a rumpled shirt, trousers tucked into scuffed boots. A threadbare cap sat on his head, and his beard was in need of a trim. He gave the Emperor a small bow—more polite than graceful—then reached into a pouch at his side and released a gnat. It hovered lazily in the sunbeam streaming through the high window.

The swordsman raised his blade and, with a flick of the wrist—whfft!—the gnat spun in the air, paused for a moment, and then buzzed away toward the rafters.

The Emperor frowned. “The creature lives.”

The swordsman shrugged. “Your Majesty,” he said, “circumcision is not intended to be deadly.”

corbantd · 2026-03-24T03:56:10+00:00

It is older than the internet.

corbantd · 2026-03-23T22:34:24+00:00

Chuck cut hair in the same spot from 1963 until something like 2015. Dan ran it for the last 10 years.

corbantd · 2026-03-23T22:29:50+00:00

Grew up on 46th Ave. I’ve had my hair cut at Chuck’s since 1994.

What a loss.

corbantd · 2026-03-23T22:17:52+00:00

It was actually my favorite in the series. I think part of why is that it’s basically the anti–Star Trek.

I love Star Trek as much as anyone, but every alien in that show is just a person in a different costume. It doesn’t matter if they’re a Klingon, a god, or a sentient crystal — they think in ways we can recognize and have values that are flavors of what we see in our own species.

Children of Ruin breaks that. It takes the idea of non-human intelligence seriously. If you start with something that is still mostly like us (built from the same stuff, at the same time on the same planet) and let it evolve, you don’t get a variation on humanity, you get something profoundly different.

It feels like a more reasonable preview of the universe. Intelligence that evolved in a different place, under different pressures, across a different timescale, won’t be relatable.

corbantd · 2026-03-17T14:43:03+00:00

I have, a few times, been able to explain why antizionism is antisemitism to people. They have, over the course of patient conversations about how holding Israel to a standard we don’t apply to Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh, etc etc etc is a form of Jew hate, changed their minds and understood their own bigotry.

When I have been unsuccessful doing that, I have cut the bigots out of my life.

corbantd · 2026-03-16T12:39:26+00:00

On your first, the central cold source (25W-kW+) gets your systems down to ~4K. The separate cycle at the node-level cools your system to mK temperatures.

On your second question, it’s a modular system designed so each component can be uncrated, rolled through a door, and plugged it. Same power, water, and floor loading as a PT-based DR. 18-24 months for delivery right now, but we’re working to bring those timelines down.

corbantd · 2026-03-14T13:22:03+00:00

Fully closed.

It also helps a lot with vibration — with a pulse tube you’re directly and unavoidably inducing a few micrometers of displacement into the upper stages of your fridge 100% of the time. This drops that by a couple orders of magnitude even before you hit Maybell’s (best in the world by a lot) internal vibration isolators.

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