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Andy Arthur

October and already the leaves are fading away in the Adirondacks. 🍂 Most shocking to me is that we are less then a month away from November, which in many ways should be a sigh of relief with the craziness of work and with the deep blue skies and crisp days of that month.

Chain Lake

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Just a short stop at Chain Lake, which is down a ways from Queer Pond in the Pigeon Lake Wilderness.

Why You Should Stop Using Times New Roman (Research Explains)

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Many claim that Times New Roman is the most readable or accessible font –?but is this really true? We dive into font research to explore the accessibility of Arial, Comic Sans, and fonts like Open Dyslexic. Is there one that stands out from the rest? Or is the world of typefaces as subjective as our opinions about design

Resistance Dimmers

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Believe it or not they had noisy, hot resistance dimmers back when I was in elementary school on the stage. They were original - from the 1930s, still in use 50 years later! They aren't that bad but at 50% dim of a 500 watt load they discard nearly 200 watts of heat per channel. At lower or brighter dimming they aren't nearly as inefficient. Very crude technology but reliable as witnessed by the fact they were still using 1930s technology in the 1990s.