Just for fun

gippgig

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Oct 31, 2015, 7:49:34 PM10/31/15

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

gippgig

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Dec 11, 2015, 8:58:32 PM12/11/15

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

gippgig

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Dec 14, 2015, 5:36:59 PM12/14/15

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

gippgig

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Dec 26, 2015, 1:28:10 AM12/26/15

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www.spacedaily.com/reports/British_astronaut_dials_wrong_number_on_Xmas_call_from_space_999.html

Kevin Cole

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Dec 26, 2015, 6:12:52 AM12/26/15

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> 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

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Dec 26, 2015, 11:06:57 AM12/26/15

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/// "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

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Jan 7, 2019, 6:27:20 PM1/7/19

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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.

James Sullivan

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Jan 7, 2019, 10:07:30 PM1/7/19

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

- James

From: bla...@hacdc.org <bla...@hacdc.org> on behalf of gippgig <gip...@gmail.com>
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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

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Jan 7, 2019, 10:16:38 PM1/7/19

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

gippgig

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Jan 10, 2019, 4:32:59 PM1/10/19

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

gippgig

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Apr 1, 2021, 8:06:06 PM4/1/21

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

gippgig

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Jun 8, 2021, 2:45:02 AM6/8/21

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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

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Sep 11, 2021, 4:18:51 AM9/11/21

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2021 Ig Nobel Prizes
www.improbable.com

gippgig

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Sep 21, 2021, 1:50:10 AM9/21/21

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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

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Nov 2, 2021, 5:50:00 PM11/2/21

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

gippgig

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Nov 3, 2021, 2:08:50 PM11/3/21

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

gippgig

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Nov 6, 2021, 3:43:23 AM11/6/21

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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.