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I think long term storage gives chemistry time to work. Following the condensation of moisture, adsorption onto the internal surfaces...

Aha. I don't think Detroit had a jazz station. Jazz is more popular overseas than in the land of its birth. I once toured a museum in...

I usually think that bending notes on a synthesizer sounds terrible. Why is it so much worse than with a guitar? Partly it is because...

I suspect that consumer electronics are deliberately engineered to die shortly after the warranty expires, presumably by buying cheap...

I don't really understand it but I think stereographic projection introduces much distortion that we don't see in the Hopf fibration...

I got my Lumix camera out of storage after about a year. When I power it up the screen remains blank. I can however record a photo or...

How did I miss her back then? Dunno.

My attempt to create something so bad it's good. If Gayla Peevey had collaborated with Yes...

As someone once told me, "you get a nice curve that way.". I thought that was the tail wagging the dog. I have learned in my 70 years...

I'm self taught in piano but that's different. I learned about neutron stars by reading research papers -- much more interesting than...

The creativity and talent in this world is astounding

Today I was listening to Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and noticed that Donner was mispronounced. It's the German word...

I like that too. It was a big hit. Produced by a computer game company as a promotion. Those four are assassins in the game.