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"No certain explanation for the poor repeatability of glaze ice shapes is available at this time." NASA-TM-83556. Public Domain image from AEDC-TR-87-23. Summary We have seen several attempts to correlate drag for an airfoil with icing...
A few weeks ago, Lyme at Brackish Draught made an observation that really stuck with me: The "in times of crisis you revert to your training" thing isn't just for gunfights. It also goes for any fast-moving, high tension situation. It...
Looking across Market Street Outside a Cafe Crossing Market Street No one is wearing a flat cap today, so the people on Westhoughton's Market Street seem to have sorted their wardrobes for this heatwave.Sometimes I wonder about the...
Good — quaint. Sometimes it’s nice to read a book with little stakes and nice endings. People find themselves at inflection points in their lives and navigate those points with the help of books that nudge them in just the right...
Yes, apparently we reached that level of neglect in the Amazon store where we now need a browser extension to filter out all those cheap knockoff-brands which sell you the same crap products, just under a different brand name. Well, for...
THE MORE RESILIENT THE STRUCTURE, THE BETTER ABLE IT IS TO WEATHER THE STORM: Ars Technica: Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows Even if AI is a bubble, smartphone makers will probably...
By J.L. Carr, whom I wasn't familiar with. I was looking for a novel set in summertime,1 and decided against re-reading The Great Gatsby yet again, and wound up finding2 A Month in the Country. It's absolutely gorgeous: short,...
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series. I'm back into making music and playing the piano. I just played a few covers from Metronomy using one loop from my Pocket Operator drum machine. It was fun. But I can't play piano all day (and...
Magical Kitties Save the Day, the game I co-designed with creator Matthew Hanson and Michelle Nephew, is being placed under an open license by Atlas Games! Atlas asked me back to answer some questions about Magical Kitties, the open...
Hey, Bear. The deployment is scheduled and will happen soon. So I had about 17teen days to rest after 28 days of the previous deployment, which was total hell. Well, it could have been more tbh, considering we have quite a few people...
Fortunately, not all of these casualties have been fatalities. The VA will no doubt resist treating those that are just maimings as "service-related" — rather unusually, with substantial justification. The fatality involves the...
How many things can one do in a round, and how does it change the feel of the game? I am playing OD&D this week, running through Thracia with the amazing d4 hp magic-user, and I love being able to attack twice from range (if I don’t...
Enola Holmes 3 (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for violence and dramatic intensityAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick BangThis series continues to delight on all levels. Director Philip Barantini, new to the...
I’m endlessly confounded (as a user) and fascinated (as a designer) when it comes the shortcut conventions in Google’s professional web apps. They seem… bad, but bad in a strange, inexplicable, enthralling way. Previously, we encountered...
Still Surfing #5¶ Notes, links, and other things I'd like to share. Could do it through my micro-blog, but that's a bit a nicer format, isn't it? 🎧 Hidden Brain – The Cowboy Philosopher¶ A podcast I enjoyed for so many reasons! It's...