It bums me out that the links to almost every project listed on sites like @hackaday are to YouTube videos instead of real websites.

I know some people like watching videos but it’s a terrible format for the sort of random access reads that documentation is used for and we all know that YouTube is a terrible archival store (not to mention that the ads make the videos unwatchable).

Reading "The United Fruit Company and Early Radio Development" (Drale, 2010) with interest, about the history of the Tropical Radio and Telegraph Company - later TRT Telecommunications.

Commercial radio transmitters and shipboard equipment to support the banana trade, and then a transition over the years into the international telecommunications business.

Mini duck-pond leak test!

As long as it checks out, I’ll be building a retaining wall around it, and backfilling with gravel and river stones, so that the ducks that are coming later this summer will have a nice place to splash around.

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A watering trough turned duck pond with waterfall. Landscaping isn’t yet done, so you can see the infrastructure, plumbing, pump, etc.

Farmers in Bastrop, TX were hopeful when Elon Musk bought land nearby, but now he’s turning the area into “an environmentally hazardous industrial park.” Authorities won’t do anything because they’re understaffed and “intimidated by their powerful new neighbor.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-vs-organic-farmers-bastrop/

#elonmusk #spacex #tech #texas #boringcompany