Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Saturday, February 28th, 2015
We made a rare trip to Essex from Devon last Christmas, crossing the Thames at Dartford. We spent the last few miles before the crossing looking for the notices that used to tell us how much it was to cross so we could get the coins ready. We noticed some ...
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Thursday, December 19th, 2013
One of life's reassuring constants has just quit on me: my bicycle dynamo. I bought it from a German website about 10 years ago after a German colleague told me such a thing existed. This was in the days before translation engines on the web, so I recall some trial ...
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
I first saw the video of the Chang'e 3 lunar landing at LiveLeak and have to say I thought it was beautiful: the smooth motion and clear images reminded me of looking out of the window of an aeroplane as it banks while lining up to land at a destination ...
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Among other efforts to reduce our South West Water bills, we employ
If it's brown
flush it down.
If it's yellow
Let it mellow.
- which saves a lot of money, but the bathroom always smells of wee. Fortunately for us, we live in rainy Devon and there's a rainwater butt fed by the drainpipe ...
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
Someone forwarded me a photo of Muslims in burqa / niqab today by email with a comment about "incongruity". Here it is:
I wasn't immediately convinced it couldn't have been improved for comic effect using something like gimp. I searched for "Image Search", thinking I could just find similar images and ...
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