"Evenflo is a hundred year old infant feeding brand." Probably named to market its baby bottles and accessories.
Everybody who grew up to listen to Pearl Jam had seen or used an Evenflo pacifier, baby bottle, or car seat. That's one reason the song already sounded so familiar.
In the mid-1990s I attended a convention, and on the first morning, I grabbed a blueberry muffin as a snack. The coastal summertime weather was pleasant, without much wind. It was an hour-long wait or more. The line was outdoors and serpentine, so there were people on all sides.
I was sitting down and eating the muffin, while a dude was standing in front of me, chatting and smoking a cigarette, and mostly holding the lit cigarette behind his back and in front of my face.
I believe that “No Smoking” signs were posted around the convention center. There were no ashtrays anywhere. So as I finished eating, I had the wrapper in my hand: a thick oven-safe wax paper. So wrapped up my fingers, took aim, and snatched the cigarette away, cherry and all, snuffing it with the wrapper.
The smoker guy was surprised and gave me a dirty look. He didn’t light another. I mentioned it later to my friends, who said that I deserved to get punched.
I only have rudimentary understanding of calculus, trigonometry, Google Sheets, and astronomy, but I was able to construct an accurate spreadsheet for astrometry calculations by using Grok and Gemini (both free, no subscription, just my personal account) to surface the formulas for measuring the distance between 2-3 points on the celestial sphere. The LLMs assisted me in also writing functions to convert DMS/HMS coordinates to decimal, and work in radians as well.
I found and fixed bugs I wrote into the formulas and spreadsheets, and the LLMs were not my sole reference, but once the LLM mentioned the names of concepts and functions, I used Wikipedia for the general gist of things, and I appreciated the LLMs' relevant explanations that connected these disciplines together.
There are yoga poses that can be done solo, that have the effect of massaging internal organs. This can also be helpful for the lymphatic system, in which lymph circulates passively, encouraged by movement of the relevant body parts.
The use of "qR cOdES®" appears to have developed from a previous system of colored "bar codes" algorithmically generated from the same types of invariant knots, but with less resolution. I suppose the "BAR coding" could be visually interpreted like resistor values in assembling or diagnosing circuit boards.
However, what they're doing is art. They are algorithmically generating beautiful artwork that can be admired for its colors, labyrinthine complexity, near-symmetry, shapes and analogy to real-world or theoretical knots.
They have not proposed any way of scanning or processing the art back into data, and in fact they point out that printing, display, visual inspection or comparison may not produce mathematically accurate results, so this is representational art that they can emblazon on their mugs, sugar cookies, tee shirts, and sell on Etsy.
The fault of naming "qr codez®" doesn't rest solely on the latest researchers, but they are "standing on the shoulders of giants" who generated "bar c0des", which may have started with some colored pencils, a cocktail napkin, and 3 pints in a pub.
The text QR Code® itself is a registered trademark and wordmark of Denso Wave Incorporated.
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