Ben P. Stein

Runner, musician, Star Wars fan. Day job: Managing editor in the public affairs office@the National Institute of Standards and Technology. All opinions my own.

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@JazRignall Solid concept! I would definitely support it. And time permitting, I would consider pitching pieces to it as well.

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@JazRignall We had W H Smith stores in the U.S. but they were very different places, basically travel convenience stores stocking books, magazines and travel essentials as opposed to the very fun stores in the U.K.

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@JazRignall I hadn’t considered this point until now, but I’m realizing that stadium organists performed a similar function back then, leading cheers for a batter to get a hit or a pitcher to strike out a batter.

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@SandyofCthulhu @steveashleyplus My dad was rejected circa 1944 because of poor vision. I’m reading that the requirements then were to have vision better than 20/200 or correctible to 20/40 with glasses, which interestingly wasn’t achievable for many with available technology.

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@brombres I just saw the movie and loved it. Very worthwhile to see in IMAX 3D. So visually creative and stunning. It occurs to me that the three films have iconic composers—from Wendy Carlos and Daft Punk to NIN—that both fit and help to define the mood for each film.

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Your phone's flash memory can store photos, music, videos, etc. even when turned off, thanks to the quantum tunneling effect demonstrated by the researchers recognized in today's #Nobel Prize. https://t.co/DJL4XsTPzE

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@brombres Ah, thanks! Now I remember! This was in the first issue of my subscription. Coincidentally I discovered .info also at issue #21 (the “seahorse” cover).

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@brombres I came upon your excellent retrospective of .info magazine. One thing I’ve wondered is if it was entirely rather than mostly produced on C64 and Amiga computers; perhaps the very final steps were done on a film imagesetter not connected to an Amiga?

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@JazRignall It is a whole new world for me to discover. I grew up in NYC, specifically the Bronx, and I saw and played many of those same machines at candy stores. Lots of similarities as well as differences in our parallel worlds!

[Michael E. Newman @MENewman17]

Come one, come all to DCSWA's holiday bash in DC on Saturday, December 14th! Registration open and tickets on sale. Get yours today!

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@michaelgreshko @jaimealyse @billmckibben Congratulations!

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@FullOfSith @swankmotron @starwars Superb interview. You ask the best questions, Bryan! I gained new insights from listening to it.

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@FullOfSith @swankmotron Fantastic interview. Getting back to listening to the show after a while and this was certainly one not to be missed. Learned so much from this one. Thanks so much for this.

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@ShubhamL0 Congratulations, Shubham! Nice to work with you on the writeups!

[National Institute of Standards and Technology @NIST]

Happy Earth Day! Here’s a fun NIST fact: the Earth’s mass is approximately 6 ronnagrams – 6 followed by 27 zeroes. Ronna is a new SI (metric) prefix representing 10 to the 27th power!

#EarthDay2024

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12 minutes before totality in Austin.

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20 minutes before totality in Austin!

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Partial eclipse seen through some clouds at 12:59 pm CDT Austin time.