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And WTBS the radio station was also purchased by Ted Turner!

It was originally "Tech Broadcasting Service" and run by an MIT student group.

For the $50k purchase, the newly-named WMBR purchased a new transmitter.

https://wmbr.org/www/history

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I never knew this.

Also if you're in the Boston/Cambridge area, WMBR is a fun and weird listen and clearly sounds like college radio when compared to something like WERS.

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Wmbr is great. I always assumed it was “Walker Memorial Building Radio” based on the building it transmits from.

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There’s something lovely about this.

To my eye, it is like the patina that your favorite tools get.

I’m looking at you, 40 year old tape measure.


I’ve noticed that this only occurs when I use a two-prong adapter for the power brick.

If I use the 3-prong, which is usually tied to a long cable, I don’t feel the buzz.

I assumed that the additional grounding helped.


> Branding is centrifugal; design is centripetal

So they’re the same thing but from two frames of reference?

I’m not sure this metaphor holds.


Yeah it really felt hammered in as a way for the author to try to look literate and punchy, but it does not work.


This is lovely! Can I suggest make sure that the board is solveable?


This is part of the game. Many games will not be solvable.


Can I suggest putting a strand of Christmas lights inside the completed structure? They get a little diffused and look really cool.

For bonus points, get pics of your kids' faces lit by only that light.

Boom: next year's card.


Hard disagree: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4ebBSjmfouGjcGqm9


That is one truck


> Yes, AI assistants can hallucinate and give you garbage. So I didn’t rely on it. I spot checked by looking up its big findings myself and found it was right.


The funniest bit about all this is that this is all just laziness all the way down. People complain about AI-written articles. When the article is written about a human, they fall over themselves to point out potential flaws, like "well it looks like AI hallucinated" and it gets voted to the top. Then it turns out that they themselves did not read the article. Just a damning indictment of the quality of online discourse in year 2025.


Hahrie was my neighbor for many years! She's amazing. Completely deserved.


117 in libraries: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1068506288


Ah, Worldcat is back up. Stanford Libraries have a copy.


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