One year ago today
You need a 1.5 ton gamelan, and I know where you can get it: Jon Singer is custodian of a traditional Javanese gamelan (~1.5t worth) and it needs a home.
Five years ago today
Homemade motorcycle ad on Craigslist: The seat blew out a few years ago and I made do with a sofa cushion, duct tape and a couple of 2x 4’s ( the ultimate fix! ). It runs like a champ but does smoke alot.
Ten years ago today
How many bytes to store all human speech, ever? A 5 exabyte store would roughly be eight thousand times too small to store “all words ever spoken by human beings”, at least in audio form.