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RPM

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  1. Should have stuck his head in.
  2. Piano Man on the clock. Billy Joel is cancelling every concert on his itinerary, 17 shows in total booked at stadiums across North America and England, due to a recent diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH). “This condition has been exacerbated by recent concert performances, leading to problems with hearing, vision, and balance,” reads a statement from Joel’s team. “Under his doctor’s instructions, Billy is undergoing specific physical therapy and has been advised to refrain from performing during this recovery period. Billy is thankful for the excellent care he is receiving and is fully committed to prioritizing his health.” “I’m sincerely sorry to disappoint our audience,” Joel says in a statement, “and thank you for understanding.” Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus is a brain disorder where excess cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain’s ventricles. “[It] can affect several brain-related abilities, including thinking and concentrating, memory, movement and more,” reads an explainer on the Cleveland Clinic’s website. “The symptoms of NPH look very much like those of dementia, but NPH is sometimes reversible.”
  3. Dropped today. Good shit.
  4. Just watched Ep1. It's not the whitewashed NASCAR biopic you were expecting.
  5. It's funny because soccer is gay.
  6. I watched the OG on ABC. It was during the Schoolhouse Rock era.
  7. Does nobody remember the Bicentennial?
  8. Right now St Peter is saying "NORM!!!" and Coach is asking "Where you been?"
  9. Agree with about 90%. Marcello is fitting in nicely, but he needs more than ESL schtick. We get it, you speak spanish. Longfellow is under used. I hope he's more active in the writing room than on camera. Mikey Fucking Day is a national treasure, good sir. Fire Wickline into the river from that cannon Ringling Bros used to use.
  10. Really looking forward to this season. I just hope they learned their lesson last season with cameos like Cena. It was obviously shoehorned in, he did not add anything to the story, and was a distraction from those that do.
  11. RPM

    Getting old sucks

    Bursitis
  12. Semper Surly
  13. Thought it hit the bridge with it's mast.
  14. It's close enough to Winstar and Lake Texhoma you should be able to find entertainment.
  15. Where is Kristi Noem and what costume is she going to wear?
  16. InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it actually comes from a lab in Maryland. In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery that wouldn’t make it out of the lab. “All these people came to him,” said Alex Lau, CEO of InventWood, “He’s like, OK, this is amazing, but I’m a university professor. I don’t know quite what to do about it.” Rather than give up, Hu spent the next few years refining the technology, reducing the time it took to make the material from more than a week to a few hours. Soon, it was ready to commercialize, and he licensed the technology to InventWood. Now, the startup’s first batches of Superwood will be produced starting this summer. “Right now, coming out of this first-of-a-kind commercial plant — so it’s a smaller plant — we’re focused on skin applications,” Lau said. “Eventually we want to get to the bones of the building. Ninety percent of the carbon impact from buildings is concrete and steel in the construction of the building.” To build the factory, InventWood has raised $15 million in the first close of a Series A round. The round was led by the Grantham Foundation with participation from Baruch Future Ventures, Builders Vision, and Muus Climate Partners, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. InventWood’s Superwood product starts with regular timber, which is mostly composed of two compounds, cellulose and lignin. The goal is to strengthen the cellulose already present in the wood. “The cellulose nanocrystal is actually stronger than a carbon fiber,” Lau said. The company treats it with “food industry” chemicals to modify the molecular structure of the wood, he said, and then compresses the result to increase the hydrogen bonds between cellulose molecules. “We might densify the material by 4x and you might think, ‘Oh, it’ll be four times strong, because it has four times the fiber.’ But it’s actually more like 10 times stronger because of all these extra bonds that get created,” Lau said. The result is a material that has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s 10 times better, the company said. It’s also Class A fire rated, or highly resistant to flame, and resistant to rot and pests. With some polymer impregnated, it can be stabilized for outdoor use like siding, decking, or roofing. InventWood’s first products will be facade materials for commercial and high-end residential buildings, Lau said. Compressing the material also concentrates the colors. “You end up with something that looks like these richer, tropical hardwoods,” he added. Ultimately, InventWood is planning to use wood chips to create structural beams of any dimension that won’t need finishing. “Imagine your I-beams look like this,” Lau said, holding up a sample of Superwood. “They’re beautiful, like walnut, ipe. These are the natural colors. We haven’t stained any of this.”
  17. And that sequence is one of my favorite in From The Earth to The Moon. 1 man in the spacecraft knew what "SCE to AUX" meant. That man was Alan Bean. Class of '55.
  18. The U District is decent. Good elevation, not as many tunnels as Alaskan Way and Pike.
  19. Try using your Gameboy and get back to us.
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