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I tried searching for the word: caspetitious    found here: Did you really mean: capricious (Google) or captious (Bing) ?   Why no, if I had meant something other than caspetitious I would have entered it, right ? This is the only link Google found: https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/O-P-Q/Pohl_ed%20-%20Assignment%20in%20tomorrow.pdf Which happens to be a link to the same story I was reading => Protective Mimicry , page 37, February 1953 issue of Galaxy Magazine : https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1953-02 I have mentioned the Luminist archives before: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/08/luministorg.html Here is a link to the Luminist site:   https://www.luminist.org/archives/ Plenty of reading material on Luminist. So what does caspetitious mean ?  There is a word: cespititious: Since it's only 2 letters different let's say Galaxy made a mistake.  Using caspetitious as an adjective for a bank manager might be a fancy way of say...

All of a sudden this morning Digikey started sending email to my old email address: Why ?  Has Digikey been hacked ?  Have I ?  I changed to my hotmail address in February 2025 because I don't check the "official" Jackson Harbor Press address that much.  Also at that time I was thinking of discontinuing the website which would have killed the email address. Here's the last hotmail message:    I changed the email back to hotmail, hopefully it'll stick. Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm  

I saw this on the IEEE Spectrum site: https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-delivery-vehicles-amazon-also Maybe it's just the old guy in me but this sounds like a pretty cool idea.  Nothing is said about consumer sales so to me that means $$$.   One interesting detail is the tires / wheels.  The steel (I assume) wheel has a lot going for it compared to normal spoked bicycle wheels.  The lack of spokes means almost indescructable wheels.  Broke spokes are the bane of my bicycle existance.  A solid wheel would also be more efficient in applying power than stretchy-bendy spokes.   Also those tires look to be automotive, maybe tubeless ?  Automotive tires can last and last compared to ratty old bicycle tires.  The downside of that wheel / tire combo is the weight added.  I imagine that wind loading on that van version would be minimal in an urban setting. It sounds like Amazon isn't counting on drones for all of their future delivery ...

I saw this box (actually 1/2 of a box) on Ebay but was intrigued: source:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/356752319266 I had no idea that GE had a series of educational projects for kids like this - That led me to a search which found this manual on an interesting site in Spanish: https://www.ccapitalia.net/descarga/docs/1961-general-electric-EF-140.pdf The GE analog computer project in turn reminded me of this: The American Basic Science Club Analog Computer - I got one as a kid - not sure what happened to it.  I *think* I still have the ear phone but not the cardboard box.  I recall seeing it in Boys' Life or one of the other magazines in an ad like this:   I must have seen this ad (in a Sears catalog ?): because I was expecting a meter but I got the one shown in the Boys' Life ad with the ear phone :(  Here is the inflated price: Here is a site by the son of the man behind the American Basic Science Club: https://www.americanbasicscienceclub.com/ Lots of docs up th...

Still thinking about Halloween: we used to do the quizzical arched left eyebrow in Wisconsin, too :) , and what's more Halloween than The Zombies: source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4nmxz5bQhk Which led me back to Digger: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/11/this-shorpy-picture-takes-me-back.html I finally found the picture of my Digger model: Somebody should have done a better job of dusting (also painting).   BTW, that's our female Siamese cat, Chibby-chan looking on. =>   See you in Dragsville ! Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

I saw a post by W5JAG on the diyaudio.com site that there is a company called Zeenko that may still make the SA602 calling it the ZeeTK NE602A: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/no-rf-gear-here.309531/page-48#post-8134732 https://www.zeenko.tech/mmics ZeenKo makes gear like the TinySA: https://www.zeenko.tech/tinysa that requires the 8 pin mixers.  So this is good news although these are SO parts (Surface Mount, 50 mil lead spacing) NOT DIP parts (which to be fair have been gone a long time).  I don't know if these are actual new silicon or if they are possibly newly packaged old silicon ?  I didn't see any on Ebay but did see this on Aliexpress: source:  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008766921262.html I imagine that that price is puffed up by the tariff tax - if the Supremes strike the tariff tax down the price might decrease ?  We'll see. BTW I did join the diyaudio site, lots of activity and obviously it's not all just about audio.  I'm st...

Heinlein felt that July 20, 1969 would be a very important date in history, the start of Man as a space faring species, not just an expensive stunt to beat the Russians I saw this video pop up on my feed and with all the spacey stuff recently on this blog I felt I had to watch it again: source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxiCIX6rp2Y the video title => " Destination Moon (1950) is Way Better Than I Expected "  is the very definition of faint praise. :) The "George Pal-ian" special effects were fun (I'm still not sure how they distorted their faces on takeoff), the movie tried to make the trip as accurate as old Heinlein could imagine.  The 4 astronauts even have visible beards at the end of the movie :)  The matte paintings and backgrounds were very "Bonestell-ian": https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2024/04/bonestell.html One thing they got right:  the photographs on Apollo 11 were taken with a reflex camera, a Hasselblad (SLR) - in the movie they ha...