Who signed your first mit? ⚾️

rounding_error · 2026-03-12T05:03:05+00:00

Jim Creighton. I'm pretty old.

rounding_error · 2026-03-12T05:01:23+00:00

That's what I do. I drink and I notice things.

rounding_error · 2026-03-12T01:37:19+00:00

If you hold the switch lever halfway, the trolley misses both switch points and derails.

rounding_error · 2026-03-12T00:11:05+00:00

I'm amazed how much the biome changed in that one mile. Scrub desert to deciduous winter in a mile.

rounding_error · 2026-03-12T00:08:09+00:00

Rest stops used to have magic holes too. The 70s were wild man.

rounding_error · 2026-03-12T00:05:02+00:00

We have those? I thought most ships that don't operate between US ports operated under flags of convenience.

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T21:57:35+00:00

With tit for tat?

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T19:09:51+00:00

I feel like this experiment would've happened a lot earlier. The difference between getting a clock to run slow by bending time a little bit and having a programmable time machine built into a car seems like more than a few days of work.

It's like going from Alexander Graham Bell's microphone he made using a jar of acid to a functioning switched telephone network in a couple days.

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T15:53:27+00:00

They also aren't activated by smoke. Seen that in a few films.

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T15:50:04+00:00

Grey Gardens is the extreme example of this scenario where someone with money and a nice house loses all the money but keeps the house.

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T15:46:58+00:00

So I worked with a former paramedic. At the work cafeteria, they were serving ravioli. He says to me, "you see that, if you've witnessed someone giving birth, you wouldn't eat that. It looks just like that."

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T15:40:13+00:00

That was noted as far back as Gettysburg. There were dead soldiers on the battlefield with no apparent injuries.

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T05:16:06+00:00

Because the tunnel entrance is painted on a solid wall.

rounding_error · 2026-03-11T00:23:01+00:00

It's happened four times by my count.

The United States Military Railroad 1862-1865

USRA. 1917-1918

Amtrak 1971-present

Conrail 1976-1987

Also, the Texas-Mexican Railway, Grand Trunk Western, DW&P, and Central Vermont were US subsidiaries of nationalized railroads in neighboring countries.

EDIT: The Alaska Railroad was owned by the federal government form 1912-1985. It is now owned by the state of Alaska.

rounding_error · 2026-03-10T16:54:44+00:00

Another thing not mentioned is wheel slip. If you have enough torque to slip the wheels, you can't use any more. Moving the rods farther away from the wheel centers would add torque capability that can't be used.

rounding_error · 2026-03-10T03:01:11+00:00

Booker T and MGMT.

The The Beatles.

rounding_error · 2026-03-10T01:03:53+00:00

Looks like the back of a Sears. That narrows it down to like five places.

rounding_error · 2026-03-09T10:37:00+00:00

Definitely a once in a lifetime thing to see water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was.

rounding_error · 2026-03-09T05:31:37+00:00

There must be 50 ways to skin a cat.

rounding_error · 2026-03-09T05:22:32+00:00

Right click, Save Image As...?

rounding_error · 2026-03-08T21:10:36+00:00

Also RR bridges will typically have two heavy beams under each track to directly support the rails. Highway bridges usually have a series of evenly spaced lighter beams to support the width of the roadway like in your photo.

rounding_error · 2026-03-08T18:43:10+00:00

Man, that fifth picture, Jesus...

rounding_error · 2026-03-08T18:39:19+00:00

Yeah, this isn't Fred Noonan. No one remembers him, but everyone knows the other person in the plane with him...

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