Honestly the best are ones that you enjoy. People pickup on the honest enjoyment of the activity and respond well to it.

That and base line social skills are all that are needed to make friends.

Doesn’t USB use manchester encoding like ethernet? So you have a consistent clock frequency it’s just weather the data edge is before or after the midpoint.

And that’s why MIT choose the beaver as a mascot instead of an otter.

Yeah you didn’t have a risk of pressure popping the seal and flooding the electronics. Also if there was a leak in the box you knew about it before you put it in the water.

There was a not very good TV show Seven Days that used this well. They had a time machine that could go back in time seven days. The pilot had to fly the machine chasing the earth as he traveled back in time.

He would usually end up crashing it somewhere and have to find a phone to call for pickup.

I did some robotic submarine stuff in college. One of the techniques for waterproofing was put the electronics in a open at the top box and fill it with oil that was heavier than water. Messy but it worked.

There is Star Trek the Motion Picture. It’s the first Trek movie.

As a kid growing up in Florida the sand that turns you into sand freaked me out.

Yeah generating a steam key to sell yourself isn’t free but last time I made some it was less than a buck. I’m going on an old memory but I think it was $0.17 each.

I love that these days the most common use is probably to sandwich them around marshmallow and chocolate.

Corn flakes were dull and tasteless to help prevent masturbation. Kellogg was strange dude.

Duck but gator tail is a close second.

Bouncing between Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions and The Screaming Staircase.

Algorithms is interesting but the actual algorithms aren’t terribly useful so far.

The Screaming Staircase has a very neat world but not very interesting characters. I’m hoping it improves.

Barbarians at the Gate is a good book and the movie is also worth a watch.

When the two executives are talking and then each gets on their private plane, then continue the talk via phone in air, and then land at the same location it sets up the situation so well.

Neutral flavor. So something like canola. Things with a strong flavor can impact the taste of the dish.

Society can do nothing but evolve. The world has changed and society has changed with the aspects best able to continue in the modern world being those thar continued.

Is society better off or not is a good question.

I swear by my 11 fingers I’m not AI.

For example the Catalytic converter in gas cars usually use platinum as the catalyst. They brake down carbon monoxide and various nitrogen oxides.

Blah got it backwards. Back to coffee for me.

Twice a time period. Semi for every two time periods. So every two weeks is semiweekely. However it gets misused so often you almost always have to check making it almost useless.

Similar to failsafe vs redundant.