AHOY

full of my favorite obsessions

[friendly-neighbourhood-librarian]

Do you love the colour of the sky? Book of a Thousand Days edition

[rosworms]

Season 2, episode "Music Mania"

[t00thpasteface]

me before i get my paycheck: i'm so excited to spend this on essentials and save the rest wisely

me as soon as that direct deposit hits: you know i've always wanted to learn the theremin

[incorrectmonkeesquotes]

Interviewer: What do you think is your biggest weakness?

Mike: I can be uncooperative.

Interviewer: Okay, can you give me an example?

Mike: No.

[caressthosecheekbones]

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

[chthonion]

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

[fircyca]

I remembered today that this exists.

[gusgrissom]

Happy birthday, Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)! Seen here celebrating his 39th birthday while in quarantine after Apollo 11, August 1969.

[gusgrissom]

Happy birthday Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012), pictured here celebrating his 39th birthday shortly after becoming the first human to walk on the moon during Apollo 11.

“As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond our own… Neil carried himself with a grace and humility that was an example to us all. When President Kennedy challenged the nation to send a human to the Moon, Neil Armstrong accepted without reservation. As we enter this next era of space exploration, we do so standing on the shoulders of Neil Armstrong.” -NASA Administrator Charles Bolden

[ferniiluna]

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[smol-blue-bird]

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

[smol-blue-bird]

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

[smol-blue-bird]

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

[theriu]

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

[gusgrissom]

We love you, Neil.

[harvestheart]

The secluded village of Zalipie in southeastern Poland is home to a charming tradition. Over a century ago the women of the village began to paint their houses.

HH:  Look at that cute little dog house.

[likeafantasy]

THE MONKEES (1966-1968) 1.01 Royal Flush

[hailraykin-deactivated20230814]

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

[gemini-enthusiast]

Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Christina Koch share a window on Integrity, Artemis II.

[spockvarietyhour]

Unless you know a better way? Battlestar Galactica "Experiments in Terra"

[itspileofgoodthings]

the scarlet pimpernel (1982). The film that you are.

[s-u-w-i]

Listening to the eleventh Poirot book now and ah, it’s delightful. Hastings being such a poor lambkin and Poirot being so sweet with his luxuriant moustaches.