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Great read if you have a WSJ subscription.

It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman

Extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is what they are talking about and it makes microchips.  

Six companies on earth own these machines.   One Dutch company is the only one that makes them.

The air in the room where the machine is located is 100x cleaner than an operating room.

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ASML teamed up with a German optical company to develop mirrors so flat that if they were scaled up to the size of Germany itself, their largest imperfection would be less than a millimeter.  

The precision of EUV machines is comparable to directing a laser beam from your house and hitting a ping-pong ball on the moon.   

 

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1979  MSU wins NCAA Tournament

1983  Tigers finish second, but you can sense what's coming

1984  Tigers win the World Series

1986  The Red Wings come out of their 15 year coma and get to the conference finals vs. Edmonton

1987  Red Wings lose to Edmonton again, but Edmonton is full of Hall Of Fame players

1987  Tigers make a miraculous final week run to take the division

1987  Pistons go to ECF lose heartbreaker to Celtics 

1988  Pistons lose to the Lakers in an EPIC NBA FInal

1989  Michigan wins  NCAA Tournament

1989  Pistons get over the hump and sweep the Lakers,  SE Michigan is Basketball USA

1990  Pistons repeat.  Set The Microwave to 0.07 !!!!!

1991  The Lions destroy Dallas in the playoffs,  get to NFC Championship game. 

1994/95  Red Wings get to Stanley Cup Finals

1997   Red Wings win the Stanley Cup

1998   Red Wings win the Stanley Cup

2000  MSU wins NCAA Tournament  

2002  Red Wings win the Stanley Cup

2004  Pistons win NBA Title

2005  Pistons lose NBA Final (Never leave Horry open!)

2006  After years of flounder the Tigers get to the World Series

2008   Red Wings win the Stanley Cup

2009  Michigan State loses NCAA Final

2011   Tigers get to the ALCS

2012  Tigers get to the World Series

2013  Michigan loses NCAA Final

2013   Tigers get to the ALCS

2018   Michigan loses NCAA Final

2023  Michigan wins NCAA Football Championship

2023  Lions win 2 playoff games and get to the NFC Championship

2024  Tigers get into the playoffs with a miraculous run

2024  Lions repeat as division champions and earn the #1 seed

 

 

There is so much more coming after a rough decade.  

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Minor nitpick, you have the Wings behind a year in the 86-87.  They made the Campbell finals in 87, then again in 88 in the Goose Loonies series.  87 was the year they came back from 3-1 against Toronto in one of my favorite playoff experiences ever.

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My favorite podcast to listen to is The Rewatchables, run by Bill Simmons and his Ringer group.  It's them talking about movies that are "Rewatchable", meaning we've all seen them a million times on cable, etc.  It forces me sometimes to either watch a movie I just passed over all these years (even if they haven't done it yet but they keep referenceing it) or to revisit a one and done movie I just forgot about.  Sea of Love and Running Scared are examples of this.  

The reason I'm posting this is when they did Running Scared a few months ago I searched for it and it was on Tubi.  They make fun of Tubi.  I made fun of Tubi.  An old friend is a local actor and he stars in a series that's shown on Tubi, it's Detroit made.  So I went to Tubi to watch Running Scared.  My verdict?

Tubi ****ing rules.  It's got nearly everything.  Yeah commercials.  I don't care about that.  If you like to watch TV and movies or are considering giving up the ohter streaming sites, give this one a shot.   

 

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She ended up speaking and taking a few questions for over 20 minutes.  Just linking the short version but you can find the long one easy enough.

I guarantee she did not want to do this.  But they have been taking a beating since the problems at Lafyette came out last week.  She basically had no choice but to do this and she did a great job.

 

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On 1/22/2025 at 9:00 AM, oblong said:

My favorite podcast to listen to is The Rewatchables, run by Bill Simmons and his Ringer group.  It's them talking about movies that are "Rewatchable", meaning we've all seen them a million times on cable, etc.  It forces me sometimes to either watch a movie I just passed over all these years (even if they haven't done it yet but they keep referenceing it) or to revisit a one and done movie I just forgot about.  Sea of Love and Running Scared are examples of this.  

The reason I'm posting this is when they did Running Scared a few months ago I searched for it and it was on Tubi.  They make fun of Tubi.  I made fun of Tubi.  An old friend is a local actor and he stars in a series that's shown on Tubi, it's Detroit made.  So I went to Tubi to watch Running Scared.  My verdict?

Tubi ****ing rules.  It's got nearly everything.  Yeah commercials.  I don't care about that.  If you like to watch TV and movies or are considering giving up the ohter streaming sites, give this one a shot.   

 

I like Tubi best of all of them, mainly because they are easier to use and have on demand.

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On 1/27/2025 at 2:09 PM, Deleterious said:

She ended up speaking and taking a few questions for over 20 minutes.  Just linking the short version but you can find the long one easy enough.

I guarantee she did not want to do this.  But they have been taking a beating since the problems at Lafyette came out last week.  She basically had no choice but to do this and she did a great job.

 

The Rats live at American, but they prefer to eat at Lafayette.   

If rat poop is in my coney chili, I'm fine with it because  60 years later no coney dog from Lafayette ever has made me sick and it's delicious.  

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8 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I have no sympathy for the driver.  Either they were texting or they just decided to ignore the warning.   They'll probably sue the railroad and win.    

If he was paying no attention, he would have hit the back of the line of cars stopped at the gate. He went around them, so either he looked up and swerved around them at the last minute without realizing those cars were stopped for a train, or he just tried to beat the train.

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On 2/9/2025 at 9:15 AM, Deleterious said:

Heads up for the cord cutters. Tubi will stream the super bowl in 4k and for free.

Or ... and I'm just spitballing here ... a device called an "antenna" attached to the TV should do it, too.

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7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Or ... and I'm just spitballing here ... a device called an "antenna" attached to the TV should do it, too.

Unless you're located too far from the "Sticks" to get any decent reception without erecting your own tower

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6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Or ... and I'm just spitballing here ... a device called an "antenna" attached to the TV should do it, too.

Seriously, since the conversion to digital, I don't think I've talked to anyone this far away (A^2) who is using over the air.  On the west side of A^2 we never got analog over the air very well from Det even with pretty large antennae - Toledo was as good and then you needed a rotor to get back and forth. Is the range for broadcast digital supposed to be worse, better, comparable?

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