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I've always loved Penn Jilette's account of attending a space shuttle launch: https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumblr.com/symftr/598769510

• dotancohen 2y ago
  For those getting the "Ghost Blog" message. The page uses Javascript to delete the content a few seconds after page load. Try this to get the text: $ w3m -dump https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumblr.com/symftr/5987695109/nasas-successful-quantifying-of-comedy-timing-by > wayback.txt
  • albert_e 2y ago
    Interesting. Is the original script an attempt to defeat hot linking / content scrapers?
  • dotancohen 2y ago
    Oh, I've read this before. It's far older than 2022 as the URL suggests. I remember this great quote: > I finagled my way onto Rockwell's V.I.P. bus for my next > few shuttle launches. My first Rockwell party before a launch, I thought I had > been around. I'd seen a few launches, I'd hung with the Good Sams. I had seen a > few go up. I was chatting. I was asking people, "Have you ever seen a night > launch before?" One guy answered, "Not from the outside, no." You have to be > careful about trying to be cool at a Rockwell party.