Just for fun

[gippgig]

Enjoy the Second Glance puzzle in today's The Washington Post Magazine (p. 58).

[gippgig]

Unless people express an interest I'm discontinuing Hackerspaced Out. At the last couple meetings nobody seemed to be interested...

[gippgig]

blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/12/11/descents-into-the-instrumentation-inferno

[gippgig]

www.spacedaily.com/reports/British_astronaut_dials_wrong_number_on_Xmas_call_from_space_999.html

[Kevin Cole]

> www.spacedaily.com/reports/British_astronaut_dials_wrong_number_on_Xmas_call_from_space_999.html

"You! What planet is this? ... This looks like old Earth around 1920, '25."

[pste...@gwi.net]

/// "You! What planet is this? ... This looks like old Earth around 1920, '25."  ///

*click*

 

"We'll never know now.  The line's *dead*, Jim.  Er, Kevin."

[gippgig]

In the Washington Post classified section (Jan. 5 & 6):
Electronics
WANTED: Flux Capacitor-Needed to complete an important project. Must be in good condition.

[James Sullivan]

You should respond to the ad and tell them to come by HacDC and look through our basement.

- James

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In the Washington Post classified section (Jan. 5 & 6):
Electronics
WANTED: Flux Capacitor-Needed to complete an important project. Must be in good condition.

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[David Edwards]

Tell them that now is bad for us, would last week work for them?

[gippgig]

The Washington Post had a story about this (Jan. 9 Metro section, John Kelly's Washington).

[gippgig]

http://endeavor.omeclk.com/portal/public/ViewCommInBrowser.jsp?2I8xi3TTdj%2BhpNKdJwhl3wV0jkO7g2%2FTW9uGGLPQgNrxvCvrXl5MuwTk8pI02vB1JB%2F1b1GpxoocHrpE8xj2mw%3D%3DA

[gippgig]

Totally fake news:

Researchers are developing a prototype computer using 17-year cicadas. One cicada can count to 17 so two should be able to represent any number from 1-289, etc. If researchers can get the (other) bugs out of the prototype they hope to make a full-scale computer in 2038.

[gippgig]

2021 Ig Nobel Prizes
www.improbable.com

[gippgig]

When the space reopens let's build a Rube Goldberg contraption there (it could be largely overhead so it would use space that is mostly wasted otherwise).

A visitor comes by and asks, "What does HacDC do?"

"Push that button."

And off it goes...

[gippgig]

There was a really good puzzle, The Haunted House,  in Sunday's Washington Post Magazine.

[gippgig]

www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/media-gallery/21178159/electronic-design-do-you-recognize-these-early-8bit-microcontrollers

[gippgig]

Having solved The Haunted House, I am amazed by the effort that went into creating it. Definitely worth a look, and many of you should get a kick out of 12 across in the crypt.

[gippgig]

www.science.org/content/article/em-halo-em-em-simpsons-em-would-fictional-mad-scientists-pass-ethical-review

[gippgig]

www.science.org/content/article/ig-nobel-prizes-honor-zombie-spiders-rock-licking-scientists-and-clever-commode