claude shannon

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,928

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 22, 2025

This is the grave of Claude Shannon. Born in 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, Shannon grew up in the nearby town of Gaylord. This was a solidly middle class family. His father was a businessman and probate judge and his mother was principle of a high...

CPeanut I hear it happens in bathtubs all over, you have to watch what gets put in your cocktail at bars.
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CPeanut That as also my thought. They vet the recipients pretty extremely to make sure a donor organ has the best chances of succeeding -- taking into account things like likely medication compliance (which...
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Doog I did the sound for Kris Kristofferson (with Rita Coolidge) at a concert at the Berkeley Community Theater around 1970. He was drunk and disagreeable, but I've admired him for supposedly telling...
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Chet Murthy All Cassidy is thinking about, is covering his own ass, trying to recover his own career/position/power. The Obamas? Black Americans? other Americans? Pfft! They're all NPCs to him....
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Jorma No doubt about it he lacks charisma. Some people have it and some don't. Still MAGA and worse despise Urp with a hot hatred, because they are race traitors so Urp was booing that.
Italian crowd refuses to accept the moral authority of the International Olympic Committee · February 7, 2026