Ha, that's interesting, good find! It is similar, but mine doesn't have the (faux?) wood framing and doesn't look quite as much like it's from an alternate timeline!
i would have thought the picture you found was from the 70s or something, but it says circa 1990 same as mine, who knows!
Here's a photo from right now of mine, still doing it's job continuously since circa 1990:
Mine also has "Power Back Up for Clock (9V)" which is a nice feature. With a life 9V battery, if the power goes out, it doesn't show the time and won't sound the alarm, but it keeps the time, so when the power goes back on it still has good time, and your alarm will still go off. For an intermittent power interruption in the middle of the night.
It occurs to me that some people have never actually experienced an old digital clock, but the more typical way to set the alarm (or time) was two buttons on the BOTTOM of the thing, one labelled "hour" one labelled "minute", and you had to pick up the device and press or hold each button to increment that portion of the time: 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, etc. Truly terrible UX! But universal for a couple decades! In my opinion the ones above were really an innovation! Which never caught on (probably were patented) before the decline of non-computerized digital alarm clocks.
It seems that often even Dracula is viewed as a "good bad book". Not high quality literature, but great to read.
I realise I've used vague terms in that sentence, even setting aside the tricky question of what makes the things often described as great works "greater" than things that are looked down on, but might be much more popular.
I once read a great foreword to a novel lamenting the loss of "good bad books", citing Dracula as an example. It was by a famous author (as I remember), but I can't remember, and can't find, the foreword or the novel I'm thinking of.
The Media Creation Tool (MCT) I downloaded from Microsoft but running it on Windows 7 gives an error message and won't run on W 7. But I have a computer with W 11 that might run that MCT.
I'm not sure I'm thinking about this correctly, but I'm not sure that it's relevant that elderly men die younger than elderly women. I think it would only be a bias is they were dying at a faster rate, relative to their population size, than other groups. That is, the size of the elderly male population was shrinking compared with the elderly female population.
I think also part of the KY-11 were the two telescopes the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) donated to NASA in 2012. I forget the details I read, but as I remember they were roughly equivalent to Hubble, but obselete for the NRO.
Interesting about it being destructive to the paper - the Wikipedia article seemed to describe old manuscripts lasting a long time with the ink. Is it that the paper we have now is less compatible? I'm guessing you might also be into paper, since you're into ink.
Do you collect your own galls? The main reason I found iron gall ink fascinating, was that the ink is described as being common and widespread, but made from something I had never heard of - or, at least, paid attention to. I like oak trees and acorns, and I'm quite sure I've never seen a gall. I think if I had, it would seem like an incredible thing for a tree to produce, until I heard the explanation about the wasps.
Galls remind me of bagworm moths (1). I saw one for the first time a couple of years ago, and it absolutely felt like encountering an alien creature until I found out what they are. The feeling lasted a few hours too, because I had no idea what name or word to search for. One of the many people I showed my video to recognised it.
Edit: I see a sibling comment answered my paper question.
> Is it that the paper we have now is less compatible?
The article describes how the oxidation, which causes the ink to darken, causes a reaction between tannic acid and these newly created ferric ions. Doesn't that neutralise the acidity? If so, perhaps it is a case of 'survivorship bias' in the old manuscripts which do survive, as they had just the right ratio of tannic acid to iron ions to completely neutralise, whereas the books written with ink containing not enough iron ions would be damaged and discarded.
As another poster already said, most old manuscripts were not written on paper, but on vellum or another kind of parchment (i.e. on leather), which has a very different chemical behavior from paper.
Paper was first used in Europe in the 11th century, by the Arabs. It has spread slowly during the next centuries, but it became really important only about the same time with printing.
As I understand, it is the mobile phone branch of Nokia which they sold to Microsoft, then bought back. I'm not sure quite how it ended up under the HMD name, but they have the rights to brand phones as Nokia.
I don't have much experience of Air Canada, but it's all been bad so far. Someone I know was not allowed on the flight because their ticket had been booked on their behalf and they didn't have that credit card with them. Air Canada gave no warning of this leading up to the flight, and there was nothing in their policy online.
I found Air Canada had previously apologised for a similar incident, but apparently they learned nothing from that.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sony_dream_machine_ez_4.html
I've never had one - I was just also curious, so I scrolled through more Dream Machine images than I should have.