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by johnohara 6d ago
Paul Neal "Red" Adair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Adair
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by johnohara 10d ago
The Babylonian Collection was left to Yale by J.P. Morgan in 1913. His estate at the time was estimated to be worth about $68.3M ($1.59B in 2024 dollars). When I read that on his wikipedia page I thought "is that all?" I know I&#x
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by johnohara 18d ago
I don't understand how nostalgia can be applied to Burning Man. Outside of those few who dedicate themselves to the organization and administration of the event, each burning man is a unique assemblage of thousands of people, different
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by johnohara 21d ago
Back when I was running seriously I would occassionally turn my ankle on uneven surfaces. A local chiropractor "tested" my ankle alignment and concluded I needed orthotics to line up my hips. I purchased them but the delivered pro
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by johnohara 1mo ago
Better the basement than the attic.
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by johnohara 2mo ago
In the upper midwest, daylight savings time generally gives way to tractor-mounted LED time as contracted harvesting companies switch into high production to beat the late-fall rain.
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by johnohara 3mo ago
Butter. Yessir.
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by johnohara 3mo ago
These kind of stories always make me chuckle. The Boston Dynamics videos always show the humanoid robots running through debris, dancing to the latest music, regaining balance after being assaulted, ever at the ready, ever the obedient serv
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by johnohara 4mo ago
Michael Swaine tried to restart a few years ago as well. Not easy being the same you 20+ years later. Same skill, same desire, same willingness. But the same energy is difficult to find.
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by johnohara 6mo ago
Operational efficiency and care for the elderly will never have mutually beneficial outcomes. Nor will the expectations of the participants on either side of the transaction be compatible. I fear the objectives of both will always be mutual
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by johnohara 6mo ago
The Straight of Hormuz is open to any country willing to pay $2M per voyage. Any country except the U.S. and Israel. The most important aspect of the "toll" is that Iran prefers payment in yuan, not dollars. If Iran succeeds in na
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by johnohara 6mo ago
Not mentioned but very important was the number of inbound telco lines installed. Equally important was making sure the local phone company properly configured the hunt group for those lines. Without a properly functioning hunt group it wou
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by johnohara 7mo ago
I'll give you props for studying the systems manuals and not the handmade Adventure maps drawn on green-bar paper and hidden behind the back of the last 3270 at the far end of the row of tape request consoles. I was on the DEC side wit
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by johnohara 8mo ago
> The President sits at the top of the classification hierarchy. Constitutionally, and in theory as Commander-In-Chief, perhaps. But in practice, it does not seem so. Worse yet, it's been reported the current President doesn't
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by johnohara 9mo ago
Have to recommend TryAlly. He makes it look easy and straightforward. It's not. https://www.youtube.com/@tryally
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by johnohara 10mo ago
It's been five years since key lawmakers deftly navigated the market implications of covid-19 after being briefed in a closed-door session [0]. It's one thing to use insider information, it's another to be blatant and unapolo
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by johnohara 10mo ago
Kirsten did a nice job on Forestiere Gardens in Fresno, CA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKRPoQKynk
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by johnohara 11mo ago
Anyone who has ever worked with legit 10-key operators understands why many companies were loathe to migrate to modern graphical interfaces. Some of the fastest manual data entry I've ever seen was by operators entering claim informati
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by johnohara 11mo ago
I tried to search for what the acronym "Neo" is based on but no luck. Maybe it's a cinematic reference that got assigned in development and stuck. I don't know. But it did remind me of my friend Ben Skora and his robot A
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by johnohara 11mo ago
Not sure "Cargo Cult" is an apt description. Feynman's description of Cargo Cult Science was predicated on the behavior of islanders building structures in expectation it would summon the planes, cargo, personnel, etc. that u
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by johnohara 1y ago
The real shame in all of this is the fact that buried deep within the 100k are workers who actually know a thing or two about how things actually work, have the experience and knowledge to get things done, have a pretty good idea how to imp
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by johnohara 1y ago
The price of gold fluctuated significantly in 1979 due to concerns over whether inflation could be brought under control. It started the year at ~$250.00 per ounce and ended the year at ~$850.00 per ounce. It was a presidential election yea
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by johnohara 1y ago
George Carlin: Germs, Immune Systems https://youtu.be/X29lF43mUlo?t=160
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by johnohara 1y ago
> Our findings establish a new paradigm for bio-integrated, cement-based energy materials, paving the way for energy-autonomous infrastructure. "You see what I did there? Paving. Get it?" Right. Now unleash the academic peer re
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by johnohara 1y ago
I was young, with all of it yet to unfold, but I have to say, the summer of 1969 was a helluva thing. Stand! For the things you know are right It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight https://www.youtube.com/
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by johnohara 1y ago
2,000,000 miles of roads @ $1,000,000 per mile. Think of that the next time you drive through Arizona on I-40, avoiding the potholes, debris, and life-threatening disrepair. I-40 runs a scant 2,556 miles from Barstow, CA to Benson, NC.
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by johnohara 1y ago
Are you declaring first use?
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by johnohara 1y ago
Creating the most abject chaos imaginable, grabbing all the floatation devices while those around you tread turbulent waters, is by most definitions, diabolical.
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by johnohara 1y ago
Nice to see Monte Davidoff's name included at line 69. Already the hierarchy tho'. I picture he and Paul discussing the code he had just written when Bill walks in and asks "Are you done yet?"
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by johnohara 2y ago
Saving $2.1B to $3.6B means the 13,834 management positions pay between $150,000 to $260,000 per year. Plus benefits and other incentives I suppose. These are not the workers who travel from warehouse to warehouse living in their RV's.

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