Archive for the ‘Useful’ Category
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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Monday, December 31st, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1508" align="alignright" width="293"] With the sides knotted up during the day[/caption]
I'm not keen on central heating but I don't like feeling cold in bed. The house we're currently renting never seems to get very warm: turning up the heating seems only to increase the bills and the 'musty old ...
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