Scram : noun: an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor. It has been defined as an acronym for “Safety Control Rod Axe Man”, due to this story from Norman Hilberry: “When I showed up on the balcony on that December 2, 1942 afternoon [at the Chicago Pile, the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reactor], I was ushered to the balcony rail, handed a well sharpened fireman’s ax and told, “if the safety rods fail to operate, cut that manila rope.” The safety rods, needless to say, worked, the rope was not cut… I don’t believe I have ever felt quite as foolish as I did then. …I did not get the SCRAM [Safety Control Rod Axe Man] story until many years after the fact. Then one day one of my fellows who had been on Zinn’s construction crew called me Mr. Scram.”
(tags: scram nuclear reactor history etymology words shutdown emergency wikipedia 1942 science acronyms)South Lake Union Eats : holy moly, that’s a lot of food trucks (SLU is the district hosting Amazon’s Seattle campus)
(tags: food food-trucks seattle restaurants slu amazon)A Closer Look: Email-Based Malware Attacks : ‘The average detection rate for these samples was 24.47 percent, while the median detection rate was just 19 percent.’ That is *atrocious*. (via Tony Finch)
(tags: via:fanf fail malware filtering av smtp email viruses)LOITERING THEATRE – YouTube : ‘An excerpt from LOITERING THEATRE by Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan – a film exploring forbidden and inaccessible space in Dublin through flying drones equipped with cameras.’ Mountjoy Prison and Aras an Uachtairain, notably
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