Bill Ricker

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(Birders can distract themselves indefinitely. )

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No one calls it that, but if they did, it would be
Gray with an A.
[Wikipedia]

• proofreading the Internet since Archie & Veonica

(FWIW I’m enjoying the reruns. Especially from my pixelfed acct on desktop with big monitor. I’ve not done much digital B&W, mostly leaving that with analog chemical, only using monochrome to rescue digital images with unfixable wrong white balance and no RAW/DNF saved. Yeah, I did sometimes forget to put return WB=AUTO at the end of tricky shoot…)

@[email protected] I would expect SAGE to have detected jamming
(either as way too many simultaneous targets, in systematic patterns, OR absurd non-natural noise swamping Rx),
but
unless we had advance intel on the device, SAGE operators would’ve struggled to guide early fighters to intercept a significant % of actual incoming bandits, which would still be a mission failure.

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Right on!
All art is about people,
only some of it obviously.

Little boxes’ social commentary may not be obvious upon first hearing, but the ?third? Verse attempts to apply clue-by-four.

@[email protected] +1 Classical Allusion
(for refernce to the song)

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yes, Matt’s image is a very different view than the hackneyed standard Daly City postcard. Which would be better rendered with an easel and pastels than Kodachrome anyway.

Matt’s use of digital B&W in the built-environment particularly is approaching a digital Ansel Adams for a new century.

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Amusing comcept

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Ah well, then it’s at best a limited contingency for Secretary General to get a voice connection to some besieged capital. I expected better of a cold war institution.
(OTOH that would’ve been a decent contingency 50 years ago.)

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Looks really nice in your photo!

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I wouldn’t blame LeC for the excesses of Moses but yes, his and contemporaneous urban planning violated his own ‘human scale’ critereon; planned dystopias. We’re lucky so few visions were completed.

Is there a planned city drawn & built in the automobile era as successful as Paris or D.C., drawn & built for horse-carriages ?

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This view of the Secretariat only focuses thought on your discussion, considering it by itself as a historic building.✅️

Usually it’s reduced to straight-man for the GA building’s punchline, a study in contrast.
Which is fine, that was the point C & N &al were making. ( Similar to unicameral Nebraska statehouse. )

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Impressive fine detail!

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Geopolitical-aware nerds at the UN, figures.

I would expect the station would be dual-use in a communications emergency. There’s usually a reason besides staff morale to allow roof use like that: contingencies.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a Rockwell full coverage 5kW 0-30Mc transceiver from the supply available to the state CD bunkers in 1950s-60s. Beautiful.