Glenn Zorpette

Sports car startup Longbow is promising a 2,000-lb speedster that nevertheless has a 275-mi range. I'll believe it when I see it. autoweek.com/news/a64173203…

Oh, the irony

Remembering 1989 IEEE President Emerson W. Pugh. The IEEE Fellow worked for 35 years at IBM, where he developed a number of memory technologies for early computer systems. spectrum.ieee.org/in-memoriam-em…

@Microsoft Copilot drafts a pulp #Christmas scene that looks like it should go with a story.

Gen AI challenge #2: "Create a photorealistic image of a Christmas tree on a frigid, icy moon in another solar system with ionic activity generating light very high in the planet's atmosphere." On the left, Microsoft Copilot. On the right, Google Gemini. Microsoft wins this round

@stephencass and I just built the outstanding compact radio by Sjef Verhoeven (PE5PVB). It's based on the remarkable TEF6686 software defined radio chip. The December issue of IEEE Spectrum will have an article by Sjef explaining how you can build this radio for around US $100.

Turns out that rats have something in common with retirees in Florida: both enjoy driving theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscie…

@RonFilipkowski The people who would give a sh÷+, and who could take in all that material and understand what it all means and why it matters-- *none* of those people voted for trump. So it's hard to see what difference it would make. Sadly.

I have a better idea. Since the cases are over, let’s make everything public including the mountains of evidence and proffers given by cooperating witnesses which the public has never seen. Put it on the internet.

A few years after working at Apple, Pete Warden found a flaw in some Apple software that enabled tracking the location of anyone using iOS 4. He reported the problem to Apple, which ignored him. Then it blew up in Apple's face. spectrum.ieee.org/apple-security…

They want to repeal the CHIPS Act and kill thousands of manufacturing jobs. They want to kill the Affordable Care Act and deny healthcare to 50 million+ Americans. They want to gut Social Security and leave millions of seniors in financial jeopardy. They promise "economic hardship" for non-billionaires. They will nationalize a ban on reproductive freedom - because "women need protection whether they like it or not". Who is voting for these lunatics?

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, # 21: Virgil Finlay. The greatest illustrator pulp produced, the world will never see anything like him again. Despite dying at 56, and spending WWII in the Pacific, he produced 2,600 works over 35 years. lnkd.in/ejHw_W5g

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, # 20: Hannes Bok (Wayne Francis Woodard). One of a couple of true geniuses to come out of pulp illustration. This piece was for "Mr. Packer Goes to Hell," by C. M. Kornbluth, Stirring Science Stories, June '41 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bok

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, # 19: Albert & Florence Magarian. A wife-&-husband team; almost nothing is known about them. Florence did this stunning work for the story "Valley of the Black Sun" in the April, 1943 Amazing comics.org/creator/4282/

We’ve never had in the history of this country a president enter office promising to use the levers of govt power to get revenge & retribution on his enemies and the press, all while knowing he enjoys immunity from prosecution & pledging not to appoint people who will stop him.

Halloween countdown of great pulp artists, # 15: Elliott Dold. Born in 1889, he lived for much of his life in a sanitarium run by his father. He worked as an illustrator for pulps in the 1920s and 1930s. Here's a mid-'30s piece for Astounding Stories pulpartists.com/Dold.html

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, #14: Margaret Brundage. The only successful female pulp artist in the horror genre. Readers of Weird Tales loved her S&M-themed covers without realizing they were done by a woman. Here, the July, 1935 edition chicagology.com/chicagoartists…

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, #13: Vincent Napoli. A son of Italian immigrants, he began contributing interior artwork to Weird Tales in 1932, and then to many scifi pulps after WWII. This pen-and-ink illo is from the March '51 Weird Tales pulpartists.com/Napoli.html

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, # 12: Earle K. Bergey. He began his career in the mid-1920s as a pinup artist and in the pulps, branching out into scifi in the 1940s. This was a cover for a 1952 printing of "The Day of the Triffids." pulpartists.com/BE.html

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, # 11: Alexander Leydenfrost. He emigrated to the US from Hungary in '23, and painted his 1st piece for a pulp at 54. During WW II he painted patriotic scenes, including this one-"Skymaster's Christmas Mission" pulpartists.com/Leydenfrost.ht…

#Halloween tribute to great pulp illustrators, # 10: Wallace A. "Wally" Wood. He was equally adept at pulp and comic illustration. This piece was for "Success Story" by Earl Goodale, published in Galaxy, April 1960. lambiek.net/artists/w/wood…