Early Risers.

[simontaylor484]

I have done something to my left shoulder it doesn't half hurt. Some ibuprofen gel has been rubbed in by myself.

I never saw Andy Pandy on tv but i did have a load of the books when I was little.

 

I have finally seen one of those resin 3d printers on YouTube. I had seen the filament type with the strimmer wire. 

 

It was quite surreal watching a HO footbridge appear Terminator style out of the gloop

[polybear]

Bear here.....

Well that was a fun afternoon.....cleaning up the H/S/L after this morning's fun (FUN??).  At least the "bits" are now safely inside Mickey the Miele and all looks clean(ish) again.  Hopefully there's not too much dust (none would be nice....) floating around to make it's way into any of the bedroom or lounge; all doors are being kept shut and I also have the zip-up door dust guards on patrol.

 

The mobile decided to throw a wobbly earlier - the battery had run down so I put it on charge; once charged it then asked me to set the phone up - which required the Apple ID and password.  Turdycurses.

Fortunately I was able to go onto the Apple website and play the "forgot ID" and "forgot password" game and reset them - once back into the fone it seemed quite happy again and I didn't have to set the whole thing up again from scratch.  I had images of having to shell out for a new jobbie - which I don't really want cos' they all seem to be the size of very thin housebricks now.  Panic over - though I'd quite like to know why it happened in the first place.

[monkeysarefun]

13 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

 

 

It was quite surreal watching a HO footbridge appear Terminator style out of the gloop

Tempered by the times you go to check how an overnight print turned out to discover something went wrong  with your setting calculations or support structure and  nothing has appeared out of the goop!

 

When they do work though the detail resin printers can achieve  is worth the disappointments.

 

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[Coombe Barton]

... Not much change ... suppose we’ll have to get ready ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/waiting-for-the-next-one/

[Ozexpatriate]

All this talk of Number 10, and no one has referenced "Won't get fooled again"

Quote

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

 

[Ozexpatriate]

20 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

I was stationed in California (south of Fresno, NAS Lemoore) when that came out and one weekend we went up there to see what it was all about; man did we come back to base vastly disappointed! It was not really any  different from any other CA coastal town.

What on earth was the USN doing in Fresno? No ocean there. 😉

 

It's even bigger than it used to be after NAS Miramar was transferred to the USMC and is now the home of "the Navy's entire west coast fighter/attack capability" and home to five carrier air wings.

 

I bet Mendocino has gone a lot more upmarket than when you were last there. Plenty of seaside / wine country retreats, art galleries etc, but still a Northern California beach town.

[Gwiwer]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I anxiously await his forthcoming BBC Natural History Documentary series on this topic (narrated, of course, by the great Sir David Attenborough)

 

But what to call the series?  Gwiwer’s The Attractive Planet perhaps?

Commentary by Sir David might not be a problem. 
 

Dr. SWMBO sees him frequently and they speak sometimes; she is a huge fan and he has, very publicly, singled her out for praise when addressing a large audience of influentual peers. 
 

“The Attractive Planet” has its …. errr …. attractions as a working title. 
 

Do I get expenses-paid trips to far-flung and exotic corners* of the planet? 
 

In other news the entire area around continues to be deafened, as it has been for several hours now, by Diwali fireworks. His Furship isn’t bothered and despite being wary and skittish has always been well-behaved during fireworks. The dog upstairs is wailing like a banshee. 
 

* There are no corners to the planet. Ut is geoid in shape. If it were flat with sharp corners cats would have pushed everything off the edge long ago. 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just been watching another of those derelict house/barn rebuild programs on TV. Quite interesting. The channel is HGTV available on BTTV 42, Freeview 44, Sky 158 and Virgin 286. Very much the same genre as 'Help, I bought a village but UK based and individual buildings rather than an entire village.

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

... Not much change ... suppose we’ll have to get ready ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/waiting-for-the-next-one/

Thanks for the date info John, I'll remind my neighbours tomorrow. What with Trafalgar day only 4 days earlier it's a good time of year.

 

Jamie

Edited October 24, 2022 by jamie92208

[Coombe Barton]

1 minute ago, jamie92208 said:

Thanks for the date info John, I'll remind my neighbours tomorrow. What with Trafalgar day only 4 days earlier it's a good time of year.

 

Jamie

Was going to do the Non Nobis Domine from the Branagh film, or something from Walton Henry V, the wartime thing, but found some earlier RVW. All will be revealed tomorrow

[simontaylor484]

13 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just been watching another of those derelict house/barn rebuild programs on TV. Quite interesting. The channel is HGTV available on BTTV 42, Freeview 44, Sky 158 and Virgin 286. Very much the same genre as 'Help, I bought a village but UK based and individual buildings rather than an entire village.

Caroline Quentin presented a series Restoration Home iirc that has been repeated a couple of times that was good.

There was another one fronted by Simon O  Brien can't remember the name but that was good too

 

My dream derelict home was the title

Edited October 24, 2022 by simontaylor484
Further thoughts

[Ozexpatriate]

DIY conversations remind me of a painting segment from "Ask this Old House" where a homeowner wanted to update a radiator cover.

 

They tested it for lead - it was positive and then in disposable full hazmat* (with respirators) took the radiator cover into the front yard on plastic drop sheets. They didn't take it back to 100% bare metal.

 

* goggles, gloves, coverall suits, booties, and an N100 respirator.

 

I understand the dangers of lead poisoning and how sanding will create small particles in the air but it did seem to be 'full on'. I was less surprised by the extent they went to (positive air pressure) when removing asbestos on a project.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I bet Mendocino has gone a lot more upmarket than when you were last there. Plenty of seaside / wine country retreats, art galleries etc, but still a Northern California beach town.

 

 

Mentioned by Frank Zappa in "Camarillo Brillo", but  it is surpassed later in the same  song by the couplet:

 

She stripped away Her rancid poncho

And laid out naked by the door

We did it till we were un-concho

An it was useless any more

 

 

What a wordsmith he was, suspiciously  like Shakespeare and I have researched the reason why.

 

 

Shakespeare:

 

 

 

Zappa:

 

Note similar little beardy thing.  Coincidence? I think not.

Edited October 24, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

14 hours ago, polybear said:

 those 'orrible scary killer spidder jobbies).

 

Just for you -  at the 30 sec mark...and the 3.34 mark.... and the  4:47 mark.....

 

 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Apart from this morning’s shopping trip, I’ve done burger all today.

 

Well that’s not strictly true, actually, for the last couple of weeks I’ve still been struggling to get a fully working prototype of the modified turntable control board. So  last night I looked at the schematic drawings I’d been using and spotted a mistake, meaning that all the versions I’ve built have all had the same inherent fault. So, I decided to print a hard copy of the functioning model I’ve created on my computer using the ‘Crocodile Clips’ software I have installed on it. This is a very useful piece of kit as it lets the user build virtual circuits and test them out. It’s great fun too, especially when something goes wrong, as some of the components ‘blow up’ on screen! To get it working again, you have to repair or remove the faulty components, all virtually of course. Last night I drew up another rough sketch of a strip-board plan. Once happy, I then drew un a much neater and accurate plan, then left it until today to check. I found a couple of omissions, but on the whole it’s looking good. So, happy with my component layout plan, I then drew a track cutting plan. I’m now quite confident that I’ve got a correct drawings now, they will be used to build the next prototype, which will hopefully be a fully working version.

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Not up to speed on here so hope all is well.

A busy day here, awkward letter white and awkward phone call had, about three hours work and walked to the garden centre at Cawthorne with SWMBO and Sydney. By the time I’d watched yesterdays F1 and taken Sydney for two evening walks (and despite this he didn’t leave me a present to pick up) the day was as good as over.

Anyway it’s late so goodnight,

Robert

[Erichill16]

13 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

@Barry O yes we did enjoy the show Thank you. Although it was busy I could get around ok on my crutches and could get to see the layouts. 

@Erichill16 we were there at a similar time so our paths may have inadvertently crossed. 

Sorry to have missed you Simon, I didn’t now you were going.
I was the one wearing an anorak and walking around with a carrier bag!

Maybe you’re  coming  to our exhibition in a couple of weeks ?

ps Baz, I enjoyed the show as well. Reading on another topic, what more do people want, I spent most of my time watching a roundy roundy layout, admittedly it wasn’t going at break neck speed. 

Edited October 24, 2022 by Erichill16
Add ps

[simontaylor484]

1 hour ago, Erichill16 said:

Sorry to have missed you Simon, I didn’t now you were going.
I was the one wearing an anorak and walking around with a carrier bag!

Maybe you’re  coming  to our exhibition in a couple of weeks ?

ps Baz, I enjoyed the show as well. Reading on another topic, what more do people want, I spent most of my time watching a roundy roundy layout, admittedly it wasn’t going at break neck speed. 

When is it and where?

I had a blue body warmer on and crutches 

Edited October 25, 2022 by simontaylor484

[J. S. Bach]

Night owl from the Piedmont.

[jjb1970]

17 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

 

Such ships do exist but are expensive and there are the obvious capacity and logistics issues. At the moment they seem to work for some premium priced high value small volume cargo - which doesn't fit the definition of oil and coal. Perhaps in land-lubber's terms, it's why those of us with oil-fired central heating get a large tanker come round rather than some bloke on a tricycle with a few jerry cans on the back. 

 

Two articles I saw earlier in the year which talk about the issues more fluently than I can: 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/14/replacing-container-ships-with-sailing-boats-cargo-shipping-wind-power 

 

https://coffeecode.co.uk/wooden-ship-to-transport-coffee/

 

There are already good solutions for ships on short voyages, the difficult segments are large ships on trans-oceanic voyages. Those ships need a lot of energy, there are several good solutions such as methanol, ammonia, synthetic e-fuels and even liquified hydrogen. There are also advocates for small modular nuclear power packages, technically that would be a good way forward but politically it is less clear. The issues with alternative fuels are availability of green alternatives (most commercially available ammonia and hydrogen has much higher lifecycle emissions than fuel oil because of how it is produced) and also energy density. To replace 200 million tonnes of fuel oil (significantly less than the annual use of international shipping) needs about 450 million tonnes of ammonia, that's about 200x currently available green ammonia and the amount of renewable energy needed to make it is almost 70% of global renewable electricity output. We need an enormous increase in clean electricity production, and then you run into the issue that because of the low energy efficiency of electrolysers and synthetic fuel processes allocating a huge amount of available clean electricity to such uses would actually increase overall emissions by shifting other demand to fossil electricity until we get that massive increase in renewable energy. Unfortunately, it's such an emotive subject and many ignore the issues. None of them are insurmountable and it's clear we need to reduce emissions but it's not as simple as just telling a global industry to stop using oil or gas without having an idea of what and when for the alternatives.

Even then, a capesize bulk carrier could take a load of 200,000T of coal. Even if the ship is zero emission it doesn't alter that it is carrying 200,000T of coal (which is just carbon, it's the highest carbon factor of any of the widely used fuels) to burn. A lot of people in the energy sector like to point at transport as it reduces focus on their own emissions (not that I'm a cynic or anything).

[jjb1970]

18 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Yes. I remember well. We stopped over in Singapore when we occasionally flew with their airline or if we were on the Emirates flight which called in there. 
 

Cabin crew were immaculately and soberly dressed. But shop staff and others not actively engaged in the flight side of things could be very nearly dressed. 

 

 

The standards required of Singapore Airlines crews would probably be unlawful in Europe, they're rather rigorous, even down to stipulating standard hair styles. They'd probably be on a sticky wicket with performance demands too. My brother-in-law once advised me to be careful with feedback as apparently all feedback is taken seriously and traced back to the crew concerned. If it's positive the crew concerned get a 'well done' and it is considered when assessing whether crew should be promoted. If it's negative they are informed and it goes in their file, if there is a trend then they're down the road. I guess from a passenger perspective the result of this rigorous approach to crew standards (and it's very much a prestige job here with very high selection standards so their people tend to be excellent anyway) means passengers are well looked after. In our last home a lady on a different floor in the block was a flight attendant for MAS, their uniform is very similar to SQ but with different colours. I'd sometimes see her going to or returning from work and I'm not exagerating to say she looked like she could walk into the pages of Vogue or something, absolutely immaculately presented.

[Ozexpatriate]

1 hour ago, jjb1970 said:

The standards required of Singapore Airlines crews would probably be unlawful in Europe

Female flight attendants on *some* Asian airlines look like clones. It wouldn't surprise me if there were "weigh-ins" with a "do not exceed" threshold.

 

I remember flying on a (now-defunct) domestic airline in India where the service was impeccable, but the cabin crew looked like they all had exactly the same uniform size.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Cricket admin completed before this visit to ERs. Pah!

 

Yes @Erichill16you can't please everyone.. but generally the feedback we had was very positive.

 

Singapore Airline attendant on the flights I have been on were very good. Very charming and very helpful.. compare that to Virgin, Boeing Always and one or two American airlines is easy. SAL staff are customer centric..

 

Time to drink my tea and get ready for some busy days from now until next Monday.

 

Enjoy your day!

 

Stay safe,

 

Baz