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…two-faced rarebit…

…i think it’s just a poorly-ripped recording; they weren’t out of synch in original broadcast…

…a lot of folks love bill nye!..he’s not my cup of tea but he’s certainly more widely-known thirty years later…

(the newspaper feature started in `91)

…nah, bill nye was a cheap beakman knock-off formatted for terminally-ADHD millenials…

frog fractions

(ha - getaway car)

…maybe they like charge up at some lush port with a cheap grid surplus, sail across the atlantic to like, i don’t know, maybe texas during a polar vortex, supplement that grid for a couple of days, return + repeat for a tidy profit?..

…seems tricky to get the timing right; offshore data centers might be a better deal…

…my experience before ‘high-efficiency incandescent’ halogens was the same: i have thirty-year-old proper halogen lamps either still going strong or which have been replaced only once over that period…these little A19 halogens, though, have an such absurdly-short duty cycle that they’re viable only by virtue of stocking up dozens of cases for pennies on the dollar when they were phased out a couple of years ago…

…i do hope that we have respectable consumer bulbs available in perhaps five years after those few hundred halogen bulbs are gone, but i’m not optimistic as poor spectra appear inherent to LED technology and the market seems to have settled on ‘good-enough’…proper incandescent bulbs are of course still available for specialty applications, but they’re not easy to get…

…the contractor-grade FEIT incandescents installed when we built our house enjoyed a MTBF of about five years; the FEIT halogens (‘high-efficiency incandescent’) i stocked up to replace them after traditional incandescents phased out are on the order of six months MTBF…

…while i question whether the manufacturing and distribution of ten fourty-watt halogen bulbs really emits less carbon than one sixty-watt incandescent running for the same duration, at least the spectra are unchanged: i’ve yet to find any LEDs which offer acceptable black-body spectra and i specify the things professionally…

hormones

…i’ll do it for an auto-renewing subscription of only $999 per month…

…except he’s the worst attorney…

…only if you’re an elf or have access to diamond dust worth at least one hundred gold pieces…

…always there are two: a master and an apprentice…