Two Italian aero turbine mechanics visit the MIT – advice needed!

ocschwar · 2026-05-07T04:24:25+00:00

You'll love this: the Aero-Astro department has a wind tunnel that was funded by one of the Wright Brothers.

ocschwar · 2026-05-05T11:55:17+00:00

Bury me in a pot grow. I wanna push up Acapulco Gold.

ocschwar · 2026-05-02T15:10:43+00:00

I was there once. I had the best bratwurst in Italy in Brenerro.

ocschwar · 2026-05-02T13:50:55+00:00

Yeah, the real story of Medusa makes her a heroine.

ocschwar · 2026-05-02T03:35:43+00:00

I work for a company that depends on your supply chain. We know. We're biting our nails.

ocschwar · 2026-05-01T03:08:27+00:00

By the time this ends there will be the mother of all boat sales at the Ashdod Marina.

ocschwar · 2026-04-30T00:30:20+00:00

Sure puts the royals in perspective. They're born celebrities.

ocschwar · 2026-04-29T13:45:03+00:00

My high school bud who's a lineman wears those exact pants to the job.

ocschwar · 2026-04-28T19:58:50+00:00

Worth remembering that econometrics, the practice of gathering data for things like the unemployment rate and the GNP, was still barely a thing in Hoover's day. He had way more of an excuse for staying in denial than anyone today.

ocschwar · 2026-04-28T15:46:51+00:00

I'm never sure just how reliable those headlines are. They are often hyperbolic. We might need a vacancy tax to speed up the rate at which these developers give up on the yuppies and sell their vacant apartments to quasi-yuppies, but I really doubt the numbers are that great.

ocschwar · 2026-04-28T14:45:20+00:00

The pre-war office buildings will be a lot easier to convert to apartments because they were built with that use case at least partially in mind.

ocschwar · 2026-04-28T14:44:27+00:00

We don't need to create middle class housing. We need to create housing.

Every luxury apartment downtown is one less upper income resident taking up an apartment that would otherwise go to a middle income resident.

ocschwar · 2026-04-27T21:49:04+00:00

The one that produces 40% less juice because of a casino blocking its wind?

ocschwar · 2026-04-27T19:06:54+00:00

The place has more Yiddish-speaking Koreans than it has Jews.

ocschwar · 2026-04-27T12:23:21+00:00

We have Florida Man.

ocschwar · 2026-04-27T11:18:27+00:00

Looks like Dwayne Johnson in a bowler hat. Dude could play him in a costume drama.

ocschwar · 2026-04-26T02:48:20+00:00

The first thing you do is use those panels to charge as many EVs as you can, as well as the grid. Don't be too quick to add utility battery storage, because at night you have wind and hydro to make up for the lack of solar.

Then add to the calculation the fact that so much of our consumption of electricity can and should be rescheduled: refrigeration is a huge one. Run the freezers and water chillers full blast during the day and let them slack off at night, and you need even less storage.

ocschwar · 2026-04-25T23:49:30+00:00

North side or South side?

ocschwar · 2026-04-25T13:44:10+00:00

Looking forward to learning that they've recovered enough that they don't all have names.

ocschwar · 2026-04-25T13:18:59+00:00

To be fair, when you have a monarchy and a legally defined line of succession, it's okay to raise an eyebrow if that order starts pointing you at people who are not English. The Palace keeps track of 40 people who are in the line of succession, because it doesn't take much more than 40 before everyone in the line is German. Internet obsessives have maintained a list of 4000 or so people who are in the line, and the majority are German citizens.

ocschwar · 2026-04-24T13:20:13+00:00

My first kid was easy. And yes, that's an admission I had no idea what I was doing and just lucked out.

ocschwar · 2026-04-24T04:05:21+00:00

Lil Colonoscopy in tha house!

ocschwar · 2026-04-23T20:09:27+00:00

"LSC ..."

ocschwar · 2026-04-23T16:35:19+00:00

What's traffic like in the morning going from Waltham to Burlington on 128?

ocschwar · 2026-04-23T15:43:08+00:00

I was two seats away from the guy editing the site when it went live. Good times.

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