🔖 Airfoil
Fantastically detailed examination and explanation of how airfoils work.
Fantastically detailed examination and explanation of how airfoils work.
I think I had this on tape at one point. triplej used to trot it out every now and then and I reckon I must have taped a Kingsmill presentation of it once. Such a fantastic show. Wish I’d been there instead of (checks notes) in high school two thousand kms north of Melbourne.
Watching Laura Kampf sawing planks. Clearly too lazy to go get some saw horses, she’s just bracing them on her thigh and running the saw across her measured line. I couldn’t watch even though I can assume she never actually sawed her leg off.
I Have Bad Praxis part one million: just yelled at a bus driver because he’d pulled up at the wrong stand, down the far end of the station, and I almost missed him pulling out because I was at the correct stand. Driver made a simple mistake.
Sigh.
Gruber says:
The whole point of the DMA is the EC asserting that they know better than Apple (and Google) how phones should work
You know, for better or worse, that reckon the DMA might just be the EC asserting they know better than Apple and Google how civil society should work.
I know who I’m more likely to place my faith in.
Advice on how to listen to people. I don't want to say "effectively" because that sounds reductive and transactional. But how to listen with purpose to actually make connections with people . In summary:
Some of what she says I summarised a bit; a couple of the points were basically "Don't make it abut yourself" but from different angles.
Kate Wagner, author of McMansion Hell, is sent by Road and Track, to do a piece on F1. Wagner has positive impressions of a driver, Lewis Hamilton, neutral impressions of the sport, and negative views of the rich, high-status people in the same audience areas as herself. Road and Track actually took the article off their website an hour after publishing it and at time of bookmarking there is very little context as for why. The explanations given by the editor in chief don't make much sense even to me, a non-media person.
Every time I encounter a seppo payment system that refuses to accept my four digit postcode I stop to wonder if banks just accept 90210 as a wildcard.
Nothing highlights the pure theatre of ISO 27001 quite like correctly answering all of the questions in the mandatory security training but being chased personally eight months later for not watching each second of the videos from which one was supposed to discover the answers to the questions.
I somehow seem to each year pick a side I kinda want to see win in the Super Bowl despite normally believing it is a very silly, boring sport.
NGL this year it’s the team whose victory will piss off the most Americans.
I had a similar theory, about not caring about things more than the people who are intrinsically motivated to care. Mandy's make so much more sense.
Clay Shirky (inorite) yammers on about finding ways to divert surplus brain cycles into something he considers productive. Feels like there is some morsels in it despite...you know...Shirky.
I’m looking forward to receiving Atlassian’s study a dozen times today from people mad about the mandatory two days in the office.
They know, right...barbers? They can tell while cutting your hair whether you spend much time on it? It was when the guy pulled out the third different brush while frying my scalp underneath the blow dryer that I felt like saying to him "You know this is the only time for the next three months my hair is going to see any instrument other than my fingers, right?"