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Eclipse
Between gaps in the cloud yesterday I managed to record pretty much the whole of the (partial) solar eclipse.
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A change is as good as a soaking
The cake summer is a Lie!
Poll -
Poking and prodding USB
I bought a cheapish GPS waypoint logger thing yesterday. £25 from Maplins. It is tiny, sports one button and two LEDs. The internal battery is supposed to be good for 40 hours logging ( Read more... ) -
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I've just acquired a stainless steel surgical mallet. -
Canada
Suggestions for things to do and places to stay in Canada (general area of Edmonton) please.
I'm going to be there from about the 18th to the 27th - perhaps longer if I'm given good ideas. The 20th to 25th is already taken up with a conference, that that still leaves a few days to kill. -
Bee
This fellow (or perhaps she is a lady, how do you tell with bees?) landed in front of me a few days ago as I was photographing other things. Quite cute, I think.
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Zoo
I've got to go to London Zoo sometime soon. My favourite Engineer / Artist / Geek has recently installed his latest work there:
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Organisation
In a fit of something-or-other I've started to re-organise my bookshelves. No longer shall The Marmite Cookbook be sandwiched between my PhD thesis and the Camel Book. It's high time for Gaiman to stop nesting on top of Hawking and Vonnegut. Order will be imposed ( Read more... ) -
FAIL!
*creak-creak*
*ping*
*rattle-rattle-bonk*
*thud*
"FuckTurns out that 84' of 6mm diameter stranded copper wire + PVC insulation is a bit heavier than you'd guess and exerts more stress than self made S-hooks can take. First they creak a bit, then they shear (*ping*), then they and the pulley slide down the roof (*rattle-rattle-bonk*) before finally ( Read more... ) -
Blacksmithery
Today I decided to teach myself something of the fine art of blacksmithing by making a couple of S-hooks for the purposes of stringing a wire antenna between two high places ( Read more... )