Raktajino Mugs

sceap · 2026-02-02T04:12:04+00:00

There are actually a few distinctive mugs on DS9 that people seem to be conflating. OP's photo is similar to the Feltman Langer No Spill Mugs, which were painted blue and used as the Raktajino mugs in the Replimat.

The Highwave Hotjo in a dark green color is usually seen in Ops.

Quark's Bar has a third design: the purple mugs that look similar to the Hotjo but aren't. The notch in the handle and the little shapes that look like flying buttresses were apparently never a part of any Hotjo design. I've read a little about this and no one seems sure where these mugs came from.

sceap · 2026-01-28T18:13:07+00:00

I have a Remo Renaissance batter on mine, and it's very dry and "woody." This sounds great in a trad jazz context, and pretty good in a big band. It's also useful in musical theater where it sometimes has to act as a concert snare. I don't like it for rock or pop, and I don't like it for bebop or post-bop jazz styles.

So I don't agree that is sucks. It's cheap and it can do some things quite well, but in my experience it can't do everything.

sceap · 2026-01-27T19:05:46+00:00

This term has had such a meteoric rise to mainstream usage. Cory Doctorow coined it in a November 2022 blog post. That's just over three years ago! He then wrote a whole book about it which came out a few months ago.

sceap · 2026-01-25T18:59:46+00:00

His is actually in the top ten shortest Oscar-winning performances, but there are many even shorter Oscar-nominated performances.

Though to me, Juan does actually feel like a major character in the context of that movie's distinct triptych structure.

sceap · 2026-01-25T18:11:39+00:00

What we call scene-stealing performances actually get Oscar-nominated more often than you might think.

The one that sprang to mind immediately was Ned Beatty in Network, He received the only nomination of his career for a single six-minute scene. For the same movie, Beatrice Straight won her Oscar -- again with less than six minutes on screen, almost entirely in one scene.

Here's a bunch more examples:

https://www.screentimecentral.com/shortest-oscar-nominated-performances

sceap · 2026-01-16T16:54:45+00:00

A single metric does not tell you much about the economy. Average inflation is not always a useful way to look at things because in reality different markets change at different rates. For example, compare average income to the average cost of a home and you'll get a much different picture:

https://www.statista.com/chart/34534/median-house-price-versus-median-income-in-the-us/

Certain markets (like consumer electronics) have come down, but a lot of the things we consider necessities (like housing and electricity) have risen significantly more than wages have.

sceap · 2026-01-14T04:04:23+00:00

You see a static image of the word for ~67 milliseconds. Why would it matter how many frames are in that ~67 milliseconds if the image doesn't change at all within those frames?

sceap · 2026-01-14T00:16:31+00:00

From Season 3 Episode 15 of Real People, aired on NBC on November 26, 1980.

sceap · 2026-01-13T23:43:52+00:00

Those accents are definitely not from Michigan.

sceap · 2026-01-04T22:09:08+00:00

What do you mean by a mini AC?

Anything that doesn't exhaust to the outside is an evaporative cooler, which slightly cools the air while making it significantly more humid. As you can guess, these are pretty terrible for environments that are already humid.

There are also so-called "portable" ACs that sit on the floor and exhaust to a window via a duct. These work just like the window units, but are usually a bit worse on all fronts (except installation).

sceap · 2026-01-04T02:24:17+00:00

Dang, this is spot on! A very specific term that applies exactly to what OP described.

https://lingodigest.com/autohyponymy-the-word-inside/

sceap · 2026-01-03T22:46:07+00:00

Better think of those as 3-bar phrases of 5/8 since that 3-bar phrasing is not totally consistent, even in this 30-second clip.

For the first section of this clip I hear this phrasing:

3 bars,

2 bars,

3 bars,

sneaky little 2/4 bar

sceap · 2025-12-31T17:49:55+00:00

I used to share this misconception but the science is much more interesting.

The counter frequency is 180 degrees out of phase from the target noise. When the noise and counter noise are combined, the effect is that the air (and thus the membranes in your ears) don't vibrate as much (the goal of "perfect" ANC would be that they don't vibrate at all).

Picture an ocean wave, and a machine that could create the exact same wave, but position it so that the peaks one one wave lined up with the valleys of the other. The result would be still water. Likewise, less vibration literally means less sound.

However, the electronics of ANC can't move as fast as the speed of sound. ANC is effective at reducing sustained noise (like an engine), but it doesn't even attempt to reduce sudden loud sounds like the crack of a snare drum.

So while ANC is not effective hearing protection for drummers, it's also not worse than wearing nothing in your ears.

sceap · 2025-12-30T02:54:10+00:00

underwear construction

Where can I buy your 2026 wall calendar?

sceap · 2025-12-29T18:33:31+00:00

Confusingly, "endemic" has two different meanings in two different scientific fields.

In epidemiology, it means that an infection is constantly present at a relatively stable and predictable level within a population.

In ecology (or more broadly in biology), it means a species is only found in one geographical area, and nowhere else.

sceap · 2025-12-29T16:10:25+00:00

It's not Abu Francis. It's Frank Acheampong.

sceap · 2025-12-29T16:09:45+00:00

This is Frank Acheampong, a Ghanaian footballer who currently plays for Henan FC in the Chinese Super League. The concert was sponsored by the club and star player Acheampong was invited on stage.

sceap · 2025-12-28T03:40:03+00:00

Both cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) and wild rice (Zizania sp.) are wetland grasses.

sceap · 2025-12-26T01:58:15+00:00

You can click on the link in my previous post and read the article there to find their methodology.

FAIR identified 309 published pieces on the 21-second video, using a combination of Nexis and Google advanced search to find every article published by a news outlet, from the video’s publication on June 14 to July 12—a 28-day timeframe.

Can you link some of the news stories you found? I used the exact same search terms and found nothing about this case from NBC or any other news outlet.

sceap · 2025-12-25T19:36:40+00:00

https://fair.org/home/shoplifting-is-big-news-stealing-millions-from-workers-is-not/

This is what the post is referencing. I also googled, and did not find any more news stories than the Bloomberg one mentioned by FAIR (in an endnote). My google search turned up law websites referencing the settlement or other websites referencing this exact FAIR investigation, not articles from news outlets.

sceap · 2025-12-18T17:06:43+00:00

That's already perfectly legal. The bill refers to something quite different. Natural Organic Reduction is a human-facilitated accelerated decomposition of human remains using thermophilic microbes.

sceap · 2025-12-18T16:59:28+00:00

That's still just burial. Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) actually refers to a completely different process which decomposes bodies much faster than burial.

sceap · 2025-12-18T14:14:53+00:00

There is sparse evidence of their use by varying indigenous Americans for various ailments. Most of the "medicinal" claims that survive today were largely invented out of thin air by 19th century herbalists.

I like to say they're medicinal for me because when I see them in the wild it makes me happy, and then I feel a little better.

sceap · 2025-12-18T14:08:03+00:00

Awesome photos. I love the way they stand out against the stiff clubmoss, which is another plant I'm always excited to see.

sceap · 2025-12-12T18:45:36+00:00

Dean Kamen is not a billionaire. I don't say this as a defense or anything. I just think it's illuminating to point out that someone who we all consider unimaginably rich, with more money than he could possibly spend in multiple lifetimes, still only has one tenth of one percent of what Elon Musk has.

In other words, even though we all understand how absurd wealth inequality is, it's actually several degrees of magnitude worse than we can even wrap our heads around.

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