Lighting Graveyard:

Lighting Graveyard:

Who's that control board?!

It's NSI MC 7008!

Down in the sump room and found this old beauty.

Back in the day when you could literally hard print the operating instructions on the bottom of the console, instead of needing to download a 250 page PDF.

Stick it to "The Big Oil Man"- Canadian Edition.

Fill up to a round number plus one or two cents.

Pay in cash.

"Free" gas, one overpriced, world-destroying drop at a time.

(For non Canucks, we cancelled the penny a while ago. Debit/Credit is billed to the cent. Cash payments are rounded up or down to the nearest nickel.)

Me: Watches 'Sunshine' (2007).

Me five minutes after the movie ends: "Man, I could really go for watching 'Sunshine' again..."

Unpopular opinion, but: If you don't understand that a Mandatory Left Turn lane is NOT a through... Maybe you shouldn't be driving.

NOR is it a "wait until the end then try and merge by pushing me out of the way" access...

The rest of us got over 800 meters ago. Get the fuck out of here with your entitled shit. Waiting in a line is kindergarten level manners.

Just because I'm a little motorcycle you can bull me around? Bring it.

Black Hole Update

Hello! I’ve seen a lot of people talking about Katie Bouman and her work on the black hole picture, and sharing around photos of her excitement when they got the photo, and I’m glad that she’s getting recognition. However, while Bouman herself has emphasized that the project was a team effort, a lot of people seem to be overlooking or erasing the very notable contributions of some of the other scientists who worked on it, and that doesn’t sit great with me, so I’m here to draw attention to a couple of them as well.

This is Andrew Chael. He worked with Bouman on the algorithm to construct the image of the black hole and did most of the raw coding for it.

Speaking of that algorithm this is Mareki Honma, who is the man I’m given to understand was its original inventor. Here he is announcing the photo at a press conference in Tokyo.

And here is a link to Harvard’s page on all the contributing members of the Black Hole Initiative, including Bouman and these two!

Star War sCelebration 

Mural: Jason Palmer’s art