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Ha - one more. In looking for the Brain article, I came across this in May 1979: "STANDARD AND DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME" by Bartky and Harrison... The long effort to achieve a unified time system in the U.S. is still in Progress. LoL

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First page of text, as HEIC image. End of transmission.

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Illustration by Ilil Arbel on Page 220.

Here is the cover. It was a special topic issue on the brain. Two more images to follow.

Index to Mathematical Games

I Saved them for all the Mathematical Games columns. :^) martin-gardner.org/MGSAindex.html

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JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 13h

I may have that issue of Sci Am. Will look for it.

JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My home brewer opinion: Wet (fresh, green) as opposed to Dry Hops. Hops are harvested and hug up to dry before processing in to pellets or left to dry as leaf/buds. Wet means used right outta the field. That season just ended in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gladstone Oregon’s “Happy Rock” cafe…

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JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really! One might expect it with a Hexagon. But the Pentagon requires some explanation…

JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m old enough to remember the Morris Worm of 1988. I was managing two VAXes (VAXen?) at the time, one runnning BSD Unix . But we were on BITNET, so were unaffected by the Worm. (I think the timeline & details are correct!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_...

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Morris worm - Wikipedia

JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s part of the problem. As a retired computer scientist, I gotta say voting on-line is a tough nut to crack because of identity management. Peeps clamor for “Voter ID” for In Person voting. On line voting would be harder yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identit...

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Identity and access management - Wikipedia

JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right, you can use Your email address to do that, cuz the Company will send a link to log in to that address, etc. Many people think they own one of my e-addresses.

How do people vote in person? Via machine or marking a paper ballot? Are there costs associated with Polling places?

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Oregon has been voting solely by Mail — all elections — for decades. If a ballot gets lost, damaged etc, one can go to the county elections office and mark a fresh ballot there or get a replacement. See Links on my web page. JM

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Voting By Mail

Wow. Now do In-Person - cost of voting machines, maintenance, storage. Some machines print paper for verification that is then scanned. Cost of polling place, volunteer co-ord, etc. With VBM, ballot prep and scanning can be done centrally per county. See essay here dialectrix.com/BLOGGING/Vot...

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We explain how vote-by-mail works, and dispell common misconceptions.

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Very Inappropriate use of this moment in history. Plus IT DOEST MAKE SENSE.

Right. We GET our ballots via USPS, but can slip the sealed envelope ballot in any Dropbox, rather than US Mail. We still call it Vote By Mail (I think).

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JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the reasons that Vote By Mail makes so much sense.

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Ooops! My bad. In Agreement with you.

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JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Uh, Jack doesn’t like being falsely accused. I see no problem with his response to the inquisition.

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JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There should be consequences for this kind of questioning. It’s lying, like they are accusing Smith of.

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Ah. Guy may have blocked me too. And that’s why I don’t see his posts. What a waste of time. Carry on.

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I see that the tweets were deleted.

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Correct. 10% of sales is way more than a checkers salary. There are many other bills the grocery pays to be open - electric lights and refrigerators, stockers, meat cutters, produce etc. goods in a supermarket have only about a 3% mark up. Smaller stores ~ 15%, but they don’t have self checkout.

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Oh dear! I get it. I like how you broke up a four letter word into 3, or 6. Kudos!