Eric Lindner

embracing life's forces

[Eric Lindner @ejlindner]

Phenomenal ingenuity. This is the type of out of the box thinking that you can’t put a value on.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The razor blade slot is one of the most quietly brilliant pieces of home engineering ever built, and the reason it looks insane is the exact reason it worked.

A 1903-style Gillette double-edge blade is carbon steel, weighs about a gram, and is thinner than a sheet of cardstock. It also stays sharp enough to open skin long after it's too dull to shave with. That made it almost impossible to throw out safely. It sliced through trash bags, cut the people sorting cans, and survived the backyard trash fires Americans used in the 1930s, then waited in the garden ash for a bare foot. Every disposal method lost to the blade.

So the wall became the container. Drop it in the slot, it falls into the stud bay, gone.

Here's the part that was actually smart. A cavity between two studs runs about 14 inches wide, 3.5 deep, 8 feet tall: roughly 4,800 cubic inches of dead space. A blade takes up around five-thousandths of that. Account for how blades pile instead of pack neatly and the void still swallows something like 80,000 of them. A man changing a blade every week or two fills it at a rate measured in centuries. He'd calculated, correctly, that he would die long before the wall did.

Then rust finished the job. Carbon steel blades oxidize and fuse into a single corroded mass on the bottom plate. Loose sharps turn into an inert brick. The pile actually gets safer as it ages.

It was the cheapest sharps disposal in America for fifty years. A free, effectively bottomless container whose contents rusted themselves harmless. The only failure mode was a future stranger with a sledgehammer.

Stainless steel ended it. Blades that lasted weeks meant far fewer to throw out, and by the 1970s the fully disposable plastic razor shoved the whole problem back into your trash can, where it sits unsolved today. The cartridge you tossed last month is in a landfill right now, still sharp.

The guy filling his wall with blades in 1955 had a better disposal system than you do.

[Eric Lindner @ejlindner]

@UnfortunateMLB Had me in the first half ngl

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

Hey, Shōta, whaddya say!?

[Courtney Cronin @CourtneyRCronin]

Per @ESPNStatsInfo, Justin Fields was blitzed on 52% of his dropbacks. The Bears tried to combat that with a horizontal passing game (13 screen passes) that led to Fields lowest air yards per attempt (2.4) and air yards per completion (1.9) of his career.

Fields threw 21 passes thrown at/behind the line of scrimmage (most in NFL since 2020).

[Lee Bey @LEEBEY]

My @suntimes column this weekend examines the design of the canopy of a new grocery store in Norridge, then takes brief look at the oft-stylish architecture of postwar supermarkets. https://t.co/N0C17q8LT1

[Denver7 News @DenverChannel]

"Million Dollar Highway Sunrise
- Ouray, Colorado"

📸: Larry the Photographer - Discover Colorado | Through your photos

[Eric Lindner @ejlindner]

@AlexCaruso PPR G Wilson or Roschon Johnson. More of a QB dilemma with Wilson in and Fields relying on the dump offs + heavier usage for Roschon this week

[Thor Nystrom @thorku]

Are you kidding me Daniel Jackson?

[Eric Lindner @ejlindner]

@BleacherNation This is a unique series.. let as many guys play as possible so they can say they played in London. Short leash yank.. I give Ross a short leash pass on this one

[Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO]

During July and August, we support RTD in offering zero fares across their entire system as part of our Zero Fare for Better Air initiative.

https://t.co/oTMr58QcUi

Feel free to hop on board any RTD bus or train!

Photo Courtesy of @RideRTD

[Eric Lindner @ejlindner]

@Real_Ryno15 @Michael_Cerami Seiya is dtd- precautionary

[Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__]

Per MLB, here's a rule during foreign substance (sticky stuff) checks.

"Any pitcher who possesses or applies foreign substances will be subject to immediate ejection from the game and suspended automatically in accordance with the rules."

[Alex Patt @chifanpatt2]

Henry Rowengartner: “Mom, it was you?”
Henry’s Mom: “It was me!…”
Henry: 🥹
Henry’s Mom: “Flo” —
Umpire: CLOCK VIOLATION

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Woah. A mother in Nashville just took over a live stream on Fox News to call out Republicans’ opposition to gun reform. (h/t @atrupar)

[🥀_ Imposter_🥀 @Imposter_Edits]

It's not that hard to be polite.

It took me way too long to realize she actually still posted this herself..

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

For the last 9 months, The Guardian analyzed projects from the biggest carbon offset provider in the world.

They found "94% of the credits had no benefit to the climate."

Some of the biggest corporations in the world are using these offsets to claim they are "carbon neutral."

[GopherHole.com @GopherHole]

#Gophers win Paul Bunyan's Axe in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 93-94. https://t.co/1yJFNaMPgk

[Eric Lindner @ejlindner]

@ACFresh21 Harborside. 2 good courses too.

[Denver Dept of Transportation & Infrastructure @DenverDOTI]

In 2023, #Denver will offer weekly recycling and composting for residents!

Less trash means cleaner air and a lower monthly bill 🙌

Customers will be charged based on the size of their trash cart. Rebates available for those eligible. Info at: https://t.co/72wYTKbUId

[Space Weather Watch @spacewxwatch]

AURORA FORECAST: Tonight's aurora forecast for the potentially impending moderate/strong geomagnetic storm shows generally cloudy conditions over the Northeast and better than average conditions for parts of Michigan, the Rocky Mountain West, the Pacific Northwest. Details below: