I once had a flight delayed for a couple hours for a reported “thorough cleaning” I sort of wondered what exactly had happened on the flight before.

All you nay-sayers are probably just using low grade red light.

Yep, that too.

Cheaper to buy from a place that has a factory than build your own factory and then have to upgrade/retool it every few years. It’s why those zf transmissions seem to be in every car - the cost is spread out among so many models the result is cost per unit is lower.

With complex systems it’s often not obvious what some of it does or why it’s done in such a way. You almost need internal design documents outlining goals, challenges and encountered issues to understand some of it. For example, there might be hydraulic passages arranged in a non-intuitive way to mitigate heat issues…

Most (all?) of the Apollo missions had significant technical glitches, even on the missions that didn’t kill anyone or cause an abort (#1, #13). One of 11's radars kept crashing the computer and it almost ran out of fuel as Armstrong took over to pilot the landing manually. They ended up way off course.

I believe one is Harrison Ford that has infamously never seen his own movies like Indiana Jones... I understand, it would be weird to watch yourself act.

That you remember it was an Applause is the highest compliment its ever had.

There actually was digital retouching before photoshop. It was expensive. Starting in the mid-70s it became possible and used minicomputers. Then by the mid 80s amigas could do it...

I’m a commercial photographer and have had the pleasure of working with a number of car brands on their campaigns, I couldn’t help but admire this picture! - And mentally disassemble it. A lot of thought and work went into it!

I always try to have my car reasonably clean before taking it in for service. I think the work is done better. I actually had a shop owner tell me it was nice to work on a car “whose owner obviously takes good care of it”

Apollo was pretty good for the time - they actually printed the code, line by line, in tall paper hardcopy stacks. Avoided the issue of bit rot, future obsolete hardware and formats. There’s a project on github that OCR’d the apollo guidance computer code so as to run it in a simulator.

I hope I don’t sound too bougie but hiring bi-monthly house cleaners was among the best time/cost trades I’ve ever done. We still have dishes and laundry to do but this saves approximately 6 man-hours of surface cleaning labor a month - freeing up nights we’re too tired to do it, and weekends when we’d rather do…

There’s also Dad wants to be more involved, but mom (or child!) heavily critiques feeding / bathing / putting to bed style so we end up taking on tasks we’re good at, or at least don’t get complained at about.

Yeah I like Bubly. They’re flavorful and manage to avoid the artificial flavoring problem that lower end drinks have. And its often on sale at my store. Strawberry is surprisingly good and not as cloying as you’d think.

That disappeared quickly. I think it was an attempt to short their stock because the ingredients in question were orange and lemon essence that everyone uses as a flavoring. Yeah, in high concentrations, those will kill cockroaches I guess. And degrease an engine.

And then theres John Lithgow playing Churchill in The Crown. He’s a gangly 6'4 and Churchhill was a portly 5'6". This was an intentional, symbolic choice that worked pretty well I thought.

The Century still had a tape deck until at least 2013. The current version (updated 2018) doesn’t appear to have it standard but I wouldn’t be surprised if it is an option. http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-asian/perpetual-classic-2013-toyota-century-the-ultimate-brougham-timemachine/

Their buyer demographics probably show a number of them still use CDs. 

You can save the trouble of this by telling the phone to use JPG instead of HEIC. Under Settings -> Camera -> Formats, set it to “Most Compatible”