Everything seems to be going USB-C, supposedly due to an EU order that all connectors on devices sold in the EU be USB-C after a certain date. So if that were your only quibble I'd just suggest you get a USB-C charger and move on. Even a cheap one should have enough output to charge a watch quickly.

Where do you get it? I used it in tubes years ago, and have looked for it recently but haven’t been able to find any. I got the impression from somewhere that they’ve been out of business for a while.

Anti-Boeing headlines get clicks these days, so that's the way the "news" is presented. Even if the fault is not very likely to rest on Boeing.

And the airlines had facilities for working on them. I know some of those planes are still flying, but I wonder if most maintenance shops can work on all of the engines.

I guess my real uncertainty comes from the fact that the engines seem to be on top of the wings and can be accessed only from the rear. (I don’t think wing surfaces are usually made for maintenance crews to stand on and work for extended periods, although maybe these wings are.)

Flight testing will show whether the theoretical benefits show up in the real world. As well as currently unidentified problems. I wonder, for example, about the cost/convenience of maintenance on top mounted engines as compared to those slung under a wing. My impression is that radical new designs often, if not usually, have unanticipated problems.

ROTC in college and commissioned 2LT 1965, then 3 years delayed duty while I went to law school (on my dime.) Ordered to active duty as a JAG (with rank of Capt - never was a 1LT) and spent '68-'72 at Beale AFB in Northern CA. Lived with B-52s and SR-71s with their associated tankers. Also had the D-21 drone program on base but nobody knew it - even the Deputy Base Commander didn't know what the 4200 Support Squadron did with their own B-52 in their fully secure and highly classified hangar. Returned to private practice in '72, but all the other lawyers in the office at the time I left stayed on active duty for full careers and retired as Colonels. I've often wondered . . . what if I'd stayed too?

Not sure that's the Devil. According to an eyewitness, "I heard about him but I never dreamed, he'd have blue eyes and blue jeans . . . "

I print a lot (up to 1,000) of B&W images that go into books as Christmas presents for family. When I switched to Canon Pro-10 printers years ago I found that adding a very slight sepia tone gave a more pleasing look on the Red River paper that I use, so I made a Lightroom preset to do that. (I have never gotten comfortable with the Lightroom sync function, which I gather would be another way to do this.)

But that's the only preset that I've ever made.

I seem to recall that the catalog listing for Sears radial arm saw that I bought ~50 years ago said something like "1/4 HP motor produces 1.5 HP." All of their stationary tools had that kind of description. Advertising has always contained a lot of fantasy.

I have a remote key fob for my car, which I wear around my neck on a dogtag chain (along with a door key and a pill bottle with one dose of my daily 8 pill regimen.) I'm retired, and now only wear ties to weddings and funerals, so the keys hang inside my shirt. Still have to think about the wallet and phone, but at least the keys are taken care of. And if for some reason I DO forget, I can't get into the car without going back to find 'em.

I've read that the original plan was to build a tunnel, and work had actually begun on approaches to a tunnel when somebody decided they could save money if they built a bridge instead. (Would be interesting to know if perhaps it was a bridge builder who wasn't going to participate in the tunnel work who got to a decision maker with a bridge-is-cheaper proposal.) So yes, financial savings were behind the original decision to build a bridge, and (I assume) are always present during the design stage of any construction project.

I'd guess that a panel falling off a plane that has been in service for more than a few months is far more likely to be the fault of someone in maintenance than the manufacturer.

I recently bought a 2TB USB hard drive to use for backup and transfer of files. It's thinner than a deck of cards and just slightly larger in the other directions, so shirt pocket size for at least some shirts. It's a Western Digital My Passport, $70 at a variety of sources. (A 4TB is just a bit over $100.) Came second day, same as Amazon Prime would have, but I got this one from B&H with their PayBoo card and got sales tax credited back.

This is a spinning disk, and while it writes faster than similar models in the past it's not as fast as a SSD would be. But a 2B WD My Passport SSD is $160, and since the duty cycle will be write occasionally/read occasionally, the old tech is good enough for my purposes. YMMV, of course.

This understates the effort involved in this capture, and the miracle that he pulled it off. Adams was using an 8x10 view camera at the time. He had a shooting platform on top of his station wagon, and a ladder to get up there, but taking this shot required setting up the tripod (8x10 tripods are big, heavy beasts, and I don't think his had a ball head so it had to be leveled with the legs only) on the roof, then setting up the camera (8x10 cameras are big, heavy beasts) and getting it aligned and focused, the shutter and aperture set for the shot, then loading the film (ever handled an 8x10 sheet film holder? They're big, heavy . . . ) Admittedly this was equipment Adams was intimately familiar with, so he would have handled the setup as efficiently as possible, but all of it had to be gotten up onto the platform in the first place.

I believe he has said he tried for a second shot, which would only have involved inserting the dark slide on the first side of the film holder, removing and reinserting the holder for the second side (assuming it was a 2-sheet holder), removing the dark slide and taking a second shot. All of which would have taken only a few seconds compared to the initial setup. But the light was gone from the crosses by that time, so he didn't take it.

I have a small matted (official) print of Moonrise in my darkroom - a gift from my Air Force roommate who was a lifetime photographer too. And our art museum did an Adams show many years ago - they were even more stunning when displayed and lit in that environment.