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18 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
When I need to be reminded about dwarf-star levels of character consolidation in spoken lines, I listen to @nolan_north as the defective turret in Portal 2

I can't imagine people need context, but this is a consolidation of all the lines the character can speak in all situations, situations being:

- Being ruled defective and rejected
- Firing at you and failing
- Being carried around
I'm a complete sucker for having to put an entire situation into a half-dozen words or so.

"Put me back in the game coach"
"Nope... still can't see"
"If anyone asks, tell them I killed you"
"Hey, nice potato"
"On fire, aren't I"
"You can't fire me I quit"

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16 Feb
A 26.99% variable rate? See, THAT'S how you get me to own a ceedit card again after 20 years

Stop drilling, you already struck oil boys
I am vaguely concerned any one of my followers would look at this and say "Well, what? That sounds OK, as long as you keep up the payments and don't get struck by the interest"
I'm not going to go off on a multi-page rant this (for me) start of the work week but will simply say that, for example, the interest is compound, and calculated daily. That means they DON'T add 26.99% after 30 days. They add 26.99% / 30 every day, and the next day includes it.
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16 Feb
My brain is trying to process this level of coolness. A cable cut in the Northwest corner of Washington due to heavy flooding, cutting off a few towns, is tracked down and handled by Bell Telephone engineers over 35 hours. In November 1955. And the conversation is RECORDED.
21! years! later! In 1976, a best-of tape is put together to capture the heroic deeds of the day. The best-of tape is described and put with the tape. It is in the estate of Bell System repeaterman Charles Allen, who leaves us in 1992.
The contents of this tape, including a recorded introduction to the event (!) is now playable here, for you.

Hear engineers fight through the night to bring back telecommunications, 66 years ago.

archive.org/details/testbo…
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15 Feb
Boy, I just spent quite some time researching "Hey, how is book scanning to the edge these days." This is a rabbit hole I do to myself every once in a while when the opportunity comes to scan a magazine or book with tiny tiny tiny margins on the inner fold.
Usually, my journey alights at the first stop - Plustek scanners. But while everything looks great, Plusteks put a 6mm margin in, which sounds really small, but isn't with magazines, where it matters.
Somewhere along, I find myself with Scannx (Rebranded Xeroxes), which MIGHT have smaller margins but probably don't.
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8 Feb
Would you like to see some books coming into the Archive? This isn't all of them, but it's a good set of them.

archive.org/search.php?que…

"Show me items uploaded in by a scanning associate, using a camera, sorted by date."
A few standard books, then a LOT of spanish drama books. Guess we took in a huge donation of them.
Then a lot, I mean a gargantuan amount of Seed Catalogs and List from Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection at the National Agricultural Library.
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8 Feb
Folks, it is officially too hard to keep up with every single thread related to the scanner/scribe video @internetarchive put up. Since 90% of the responses seem to be speculation on a "better way" to do it, and concern for the nice lady in the video.......
Please direct them to the various threads where I or others have explained out the nature of book scanning as we've done it through millions of books, and that the job of book scanning is a service level job worse than others, better than others. Thanks! My fingers/time bless you
Thread where I talk about "why u no use robot"

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8 Feb
So, Reddit discovered the @internetarchive tweet about bookscanning. The thread is here:

reddit.com/r/interestinga…

I have observations.
The #1 with a bullet response by many people is "Surely this can be 100% automated, I can't believe a person is in there."

I addressed it in this tweet thread:



So, it's been [0] days since the Internet has stumbled on a 20-year project with "thoughts"
The thread is already veering towards a thousand responses, many of them the aforementioned "Been here 5 minutes. Here's how it should go."

But it's also got real bookscanner employees and ex-employees in there, so there's some first-hand experience in there, at least.
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