@paul Same here, with a pair of c2009 27” cinema displays.

One of my favorite #OTD threads, not least because I get to quote lines like "...ordinary low-mass stars that have settled down into white dwarf configurations and become cold spheres of pure iron."
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/109518631792805808

Good morning.

@michael_w_busch @kenwhite.bsky.social But I tried to make it a teachable moment and have a dialog about craft. Like, did the call have to go that way? Was he really bringing his A-game, or was he just going through the motions? What would it look like if he took some pride in his work? And how did he think *I* felt, knowing that he was half-assing the scam? I deserve more than that.

Anyway, he got really flustered and hung up, after telling me his employee number was “1-2-3-4-f-u-c-k-y-o-u.”

@michael_w_busch @kenwhite.bsky.social Yeah, that was embarrassing for that scammer, I think. He called the house saying the city judge had signed an arrest warrant for my dad. It was for an unpaid debt, that we could clear up right there on the phone if I had a credit card handy. But my dad *was* the city judge. I imagine the other guys at the scam call center really clowning him for that.

@hiiamfrompoland Download is through Kobo, presumably with Adobe DRM. But that can be addressed. I read them in the Books app on iOS.

Apologies if the bundle isn’t available in your region — a problem that came up last time I recommended one of these. Still, if it’s something you can access, it’s a great deal and you can control how much of your purchase goes to charity.

A great humble bundle of books by Ursula K. Le Guin. Just $18 for 30 titles.

As with similar bundles, the books come from Kobo and there may be region restrictions!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/wizard-earthsea-and-more-ursula-k-le-guin-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_2_layout_type_threes_tile_index_3_c_wizardearthseaandmoreursulakleguin_bookbundle

Getting lectures ready for the last week of classes, just described an overdamped oscillator as "slouching toward equilibrium."

@fesshole Esquire

The folks who made “Hot Frosty” should make a Netflix Original about a handsome small-town shop owner helping a displaced big-city business woman rediscover the true meaning of Black Friday (family).

This is also how my conquest of the Earth will be recorded.
https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/113556906573770268

@DrHyde An interesting tidbit is that the "state of the art" at the time of Michell's work, would have probably been Bradley's measurement of c via aberration of light from distant stars. His value was off the currently accepted value by only about 0.4%!

[random, interesting to me]
I grew up in East Tennessee, so I was aware of how the TVA disrupted some communities. But I had no idea there was a thriving freshwater pearl industry nearby, that dried up once the dams were in place.

https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/05/a-pearl-rush-grips-clinch-river.html

The most terrifying Halloween story I know.
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/111329860712410917

☝️The most terrifying Halloween story I know.

It’s happening.

These were waiting for me on the lectern when I got to class this morning. Not sure who left them. Do we think they are safe to eat or what?

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born #OTD in 1910. He established an upper limit on the mass of stable white dwarf stars, and made numerous contributions to astrophysics and relativity.

Above the Chandrasekhar Limit – about 1.44 solar masses – electron degeneracy pressure cannot prevent a stellar remnant’s gravitational collapse into a neutron star or black hole.

Photo: Stephen Lewellyn / AIP

Eh, it’s back now