John Wayne Gacy

The arrangement, playing and production of Jolene is one of the most perfect things ever wrought. Chip Young invented that guitar part on the spot.

She's a very smart , tough lady. She has a charisma that exceeds her physical appearance. Even early on, on the Porter Wagoner Show the room got real quiet when she sang.

> The true answer is that they aren't two different things but two expressions of one thing: electromagnetism.

Whether we call it electricity or magnetism is almost an artifact of how we measure it. Although the needle on an old-school analog voltmeter is a magnetic device...

I always liked the cover to Richard Lyon's "Understanding Digital Signal Processing". It's not specifically about E&M but the picture just lights the idea up for me:

https://books.google.com/books?id=UBU7Y2tpwWUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

> They just weren't giving any priority to comedy.

Excellent point.

I suspect tempo is a big problem with a lot of sitcoms. I can't say that categorically. But really, a great sitcom isn't engineered - it's lightning in a bottle. There are too many factors. But timing is really significant in comedy in general.

A lot of the newer sitcoms, they're "working too hard" or something. But that has to be quite individual or possibly generational.

It was less a bolt from the blue than The Rural Purge. Was My Three Sons ever really funny? I do not recall. And yeah - the longer And Griffith ran the less funny it was.

Green Acres was pretty much brilliant the whole time. It morphed into a sort of surrealism and all the performers had incredible timing.

He would have said that was Woody Guthrie, at least at one point.

Kinky Friedman did it first :)

Might present this as a prequel - this is before Perry Mason became the 1957 series version. I like 'em both.

They definitely go a "more lawyer route". I know what your Dad means; it was an adjustment.

There's a third prong - the Junkers ( Prussian big landowners with a longstanding , serious military culture ) based leadership class died out. Paul von Hindenburg was one of the last of them.

That led to a major power vacuum, and SFAIK, historians will use a power vacuum in explanations every time.

Ditto Russia. The enfeeblement, isolation and stubborn insistence on doubling down on absolute monarchy of Nicolas II contributed to that disaster.

Not a bad synopsis, although "Have Gun Will Travel", "Branded" , "The Rifleman" and dozens of other westerns come to mind. It would be difficult to explain the phenomenon if it were not for IMDB.

If we didn't see 'em in real time, they were on syndication - still are ( see Grit TV in all its pharma ad and reverse mortgage ad glory ).

I'm not sure it's really prestige though. Too soapy really. I'll still watch it because it's mildly ridiculous and does a decent job of rewarding willing suspension of disbelief.

The triode is much more of a Lee de Forrest thing - the Audion.

Whether a tube is Westinghouse, RCA, Telefunken is a matter of manufacturing. Tubes are sought after because they're "cool" , not because they are, strictly speaking, necessary any longer in most domains.

I've been on teams that had to get Part B before. Makes me grumpy about it :)

I still feel like the vendor has some measure of liability here. Part B isn't the same level as an electrical hazard but I'd at least try to get a healthy discount on upgraded converters. Find out the depreciation schedule for them , blah blah blah.

Any rate, an interesting issue and thanks for it.

> They are the ones that told me solar inverters are except from section 15 part b of their regs.

Gaaah! Well, poot then.

> The only solution is replace all 24 inverters.

You are a very thorough human being :)

So being a nerd, I gotta ask - those were NOT granted Part B but because green, they're exempted? I honestly thought everything ever made had to have Part B.

I'd lean on the solar panel vendors to put a grounded Faraday cage on the inverters. At their expense. I'm also wondering why an inverter is emitting in that band... That's pretty high up in frequency for an inverter. Is it a square wave inverter? This is very clearly a design defect.

My experience is that requests like that on legal stationery/letterhead get more attention.... lawyers love doing that sort of thing for you. Especially since there's clearly a tort; FCC regs do not constitute a fully legally binding exemption. Er, they used to not anyway. You're one guy and I imagine the solar panel people have more than one customer...

> which has too much interference on it.

Edit: I'm being very literal about "interference" here but hopefully, the other pathologies are spelled out.

That doesn't sound right. That should be licensed bandwidth. I can easily see simply R squared loss or multipath being a problem ( multipath rejection being the one killer feature of 3.0 ) but if anybody's emitting on that band, I'd bet the FCC would like to know.

They'll take it less seriously than HF/UHF interference on aviation comms of course.

Then again, 7 is at the edge of a band plan.

https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/areas/interference-resolution

You're correct - it cannot see ATSC 3. I somehow missed that that was a constraint here. Oops!

I'm in flyover country so ATSC 3 hasn't made it here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cordcutting/ might qualify

Depending on your threshold of pain, there are quite cheap DVRs available. The one I have loses programming on power fails but it's got some cool metering for signal strength. It's the "iView 3300STB ATSC Converter Box".

I think it's $30.

Tuners run like $30 bucks for one that can't tolerate things like power failure well.

Kellogg ( the Kellogg Brothers really ) invented corn flakes. One reason was because they thought that this food would reduce ... self abuse compared to traditional breakfasts of meat.

Kellogg also stood as a mentor/influence over the popular historian Will Durant.

The Flying Circus was on PBS lateish ( 10:30?) on Saturdays ( Fridays?) on the Dallas ( KERA ) affiliated PBS stations. I used to see it then.

This would have been like 1974-1975.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/meet-ron-devillier-the-dallas-tv-program-manager-who-introduced-monty-python-to-america-8947710

The first time I saw "Holy Grail" it was a 16MM print shown at a frat house in 1979.

The scathing take on these sorts of shows from "Don't Look Up" is reference-grade. I'm sort of surprised that name stars actually participated. Perhaps there is hope after all.

I dunno; Alfie Solomons is a fantastically great character. You get the vibe that they just let him roll with it and some of it may be more or less improvised.

The suppressed rage of James Delaney is something else though. Great series.

The US government was of two minds about indigenous people. They'd establish treaties and then break them as the treaties became inconvenient.

Nobody could stand in the way of land speculators. This is what's behind Andrew Jackson's ( apocryphal ) "Mr Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it" concerning Worchester v. Georgia.

The Mexican government could declare El Norte theirs but they really couldn't hold it. By the time railroads could be built it was too late for Mexico to pursue claims. Even then; fly over the border now. You see settlements that seem logistically untenable.

The incredible thing about the Texicans is that they simply refused to admit defeat against the Commanche. S. C. Gwynne's "Empire of the Summer Moon" outlines the persistent pattern of this phenomenon of memory loss in detail. There's some credibility to the theory of Walker Colt also having a hand in subjugating the Comanche. The Rangers really were hired killers first and foremost. This continued through the 20th century, with Frank Hamer leading the team that assassinated Bonnie and Clyde.