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Comment · 21 days ago
The erectile penis and clitoris cells both develop from the same embryonic tissues. I suspect that the itch from these organs incentivises the owners into reproductive behaviors.
Comment · 22 days ago
Air Canada's woeful security at cargo warehouse at time of Toronto's airport gold heist detailed in court.

The bad guys were fiddling the database under other employees' credentials on shared computers.

Comment · 2 months ago
My high school English teacher chose Baskerville for the yearbook. This was back in the days when letterpress was still hanging on. Offset was mostly for short print runs. Both processes produced very fine resolution.

I remember when 300 dpi was a Xerox selling point while IBM was stuck at 240 for high speed printing. Now my cheap Brother does 600.

Serif fonts look better with higher dpi. Garamond tolerates lower dpi than modern serif fonts with finer features and curvatures.

I have a soft spot for Optima which is (was?) Xerox' official font, which coincidentally worked well on its printers.

Comment · 2 months ago
You can do everything right and get taken out by an accident. So far I've dodged a loose trailer that came off next to me going the opposite direction, a rock dislodged by a marmot from the cliff above, two drunk drivers drifting towards me, a city bus turning towards me on an icy road, a few other left turning drivers who didn't see me in a crosswalk (I now carry a high intensity pulsing flashlight for crossing at intersections) and two near misses when a gust upset my glider.
Comment · 4 months ago
A440 is higher than earlier tunings. Baroque is often A415 and A392 can be used for French harpsichord music.

Equal temper results in each key being so many semitones above or below C Major.

Other temperaments have a distribution of pure and dissonant intervals giving different colors to each key. Certain keys would not be useful or notes would have to be adjusted to make a key sound right.

Comment · 4 months ago
Lots of rodents in Alberta. The neighbourhood cats keep the mice and hantavirus down. Aircraft are often infested with mice. We need more bullsnakes.
Comment · 5 months ago
Trump sanctions against ICC members and at least one human rights rapporteur has effectively debanked these people and made it very difficult for them to travel.

Protecting Rule of International Law against Rule of Trump Ukazi has become necessary.

Comment · 5 months ago
Back in the 50's tonsillectomies were a regular rite of passage for kids, especially in colder places where kids spent more time indoors exposed to smoke. A couple years after moving from Maiibu to Toronto, I had the surgery.
Comment · 5 months ago
So far not mentioned are a few Hebpew letters incorporated into Cyrillic (sh, ts, ch) somebody handier with Unicode can post them
Comment · 6 months ago
File a small claims court action for each traffic stop demanding the maximum SCC amount. You can claim against the PD, who can join Focus or other provider as defendant.

Don't forget to ask the officer(s) making the stop for their badge number and name letting them know that you may need to subpoena them.

Comment · 6 months ago
Xerox in my time there skewed compensation to the salespeople while turning a blind eye to the software developers who made the sale possible.
Comment · 6 months ago
There's been the odd idiot wearing headphones mowed down on train tracks. The trains air horn didn't get the message through.

The Air Zound is wonderful. You can get pedestrians' attention with light toots. I reserve the full blast for developing danger or people who didn't get the message from the toots.

Survival depends on being heard in a car with closed windows with possible loud radio or squabbling kids.

Comment · 7 months ago
Here in Canada a Family Protection clause is common in insurance policies which covers you and your family in the case of hit and run, uninsured or under insured up to your liability limit.
Comment · 7 months ago
Assembler programs are written for different environments: Ordinary applications, Accessing OS facilities the compiler language can't access, extending the OS, Device control, enhancing boot process...

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