Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
Inn de basis een door mijn opa gebouwde opwindbare (3 gewichten) Warmink Wuba triple chime – Westminster, St. Michael, Whittington clock.
Die liep nauwelijks meer, en sloeg zowel geen melodie meer, maar ook geen uursignaal meer.
Hieronder links die me hielpen met uitzoeken wat er van dit merk nog bestond en kennis aanwezig is.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
It’s hard to not hack all the things…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07
Ain’t history extra lovely when someone discovers the original drawings of what her dad had sent to space?
Back in the 1970s, Frank Drake did two memorable things: he helped design the Pioneer plaque (sent to space in 1972 on Pioneer 11) containing among other things pulsar map, and later helped design the 1977 Voyager Golden Record (sent to space in 1977 on both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) again containing the pulsar map. In between, he helped designed Arecibo message broadcasted to space in 1974.
And guess what: today is the 50th anniversary of that message being broadcasted.
Almost 10 years ago, in 2016 his daughter Nadia Drake found back the original drawing of the pulsar map: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04
[Wayback/Archive] “United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day.
Most of my cancer story is in reverse chronological order on the pinned Tweet of my Twitter profile twitter.com/jpluimers.
I learned quite a few things of which I mention 2:
Read more at my pinned blog post and [Wayback/Archive] Official website of World Cancer Day by UICC | 4 February.
Image on the right image from [Wayback/Archive] licensed-image (2048×2048) via [Wayback/Archive] world cancer day – Google Search.
Related: World Cancer Day – Wikipedia
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31
[Wayback/Archive] keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level
Interesting drive: [Wayback/Archive] BTC BCO 4816IA 48x 7-in-1 Card Reader CDRW/DVD Combo Drive ODD Computer Laufwerk
More on Greaseweazle:
Via this project allowing many kinds of media to be grabbed:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28
[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer
Please vote for it, as it will be a great gift not just for computing lovers but also as a learning opportunities.
Links:
Via
All three machines are cool devices, so lets continue with…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27
[Wayback/Archive] Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY
Design kledingrekgrek van het merk SOOPL rijdt vanwege de grote wielen stabiel op ieder wegdek en over iedere drempel. De SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY is stabiel en kan eenvoudig (volledig) worden in- en uitgeklapt en heeft daarnaast een bijzonder fraai uiterlijk. De stevige kunststof verbindingen en aluminium buizen zorgen voor een relatief laag gewicht. De grote massieve wielen zijn voorzien van wielkasten en spatborden zodat de kleding niet vies wordt wanneer u in de regen rijdt. Daarnaast is het rek voorzien van uitschijfbare stangen aan de bovenzijde zodat de hangcapaciteit kan worden vergroot. De bodem is voorzien van een stoffen mat ter bescherming van kleding. De afmetingen van het SOOPL kledingrek zijn 90cm lang, 60cm diep en 160cm hoog. Het totale gewicht bedraagd 11,5 kg.Levertijd: 1-2 werkdagenArtikelnummer:
ZB1234Speciale prijs € 411,28 € 339,90 € 422,23
Fabrikant:
Tweedehands: [Wayback/Archive] ≥ Soopl reis trolley kledingrek fashion — Kledingrekken — Marktplaats
Query: [Wayback/Archive] Soopl kledingrek – Sök på Google
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27
Voor mijn link-archief (het concept werkt nog steeds): [Wayback/Archive] Luis ✨ on Twitter: “Mensen zeggen wel eens dat internationaal met de trein reizen alleen is weggelegd voor mensen met veel geld, maar dat klopt niet helemaal. Draadje met goedkope bestemmingen met prijzen en hoe ze te boeken, allemaal voor in augustus 🧵”
Als draad: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @LuisHeemstra on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23
Quoting [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Beaumont: “The US Government has issued a…” – Cyberplace
The US Government has issued an executive order demanding employees snitch on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiatives by emailing:
DEIAtruth@opm.govJust in case you wanted an email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/20
Boy was I surprised how bad a human brain functions when getting more stressful:
Figure 6
STATE DEPENDENT FUNCTIONING“STATE” CALM ALERT ALARM FEAR TERROR DOMINANT
BRAIN AREASCortex
(DMN)Cortex
(Limbic)Limbic
(Diencephalon)Diencephalon
(Brainstem)Brainstem ADAPTIVE “Option”
ArousalReflect
(create)Flock
(hypervigilance)Freeze
(resistance)Flight
(defiance)Fight ADAPTIVE “Option”
DissociationReflect
(daydream)Avoid Comply Dissociate
(paralysis/catatonia)Faint
(collapse)COGNITION Abstract
(creative)Concrete
(routine)Emotional Reactive Reflexive FUNCTIONAL IQ 120-100 110-90 100-80 90-70 80-60
I got the table from a Tweet by Andrea Walraven-Thissen (see below).
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