AndyID

17 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Yippee! The UP Big Boy is coming to Idaho in July! It's going to Soda Springs and that's only 600 miles from here.

And in a different time zone 🤣

Yippee! The UP Big Boy is coming to Idaho in July! It's going to Soda Springs and that's only 600 miles from here.

12 hours ago, BR60103 said:

We have mosquitoes in Ontario and Winter.

But more feared are the Black Flies.    Black Fly Song

 

We had to leave a campground in the Adirondacks PDQ thanks to then. That probably explained why it was so easy to find a space in such a nice campground.

9 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 

As to calculus, or was it the calculus.  I did it for A level but never really understood it.  

Likewise. I think the problem was the teachers only understood how to do it without really understanding what you can do with it. I twigged that later and found it really useful.

2 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

How warm is it in SW BC? We've seen a record high yesterday (above 90°F / 32°C).  Very warm again today, but less so tomorrow - perhaps 27°C - still very unseasonable. 

 

Mountain snow is melting fast in these temperatures.

 

It's 72F now in my shop at the moment. The lake is full.

8 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Considering abandoning* Microsoft Excel? 

 

* aka not purchasing Office for home.

 

From your blog post - yes the "somebody else's problem" notion is one of Adams' funniest insights (along with the total perspective vortex which I find to be closely related psychologically). They both speak to the ease with which humans willfully embrace cognitive dissonance - yet simultaneously identify as being rational.

 

One of the many aspects I enjoy about Star Trek is that this is the essence of Spock's character - his Vulcan side representing pure rational thought as distinct from literally everything humans (who are thoroughly irrational in every way) do.

 

Do not eff around. Just get Open Office.

1 hour ago, BR60103 said:

 

As was a gent called Albert Einstein. Unfortunately, or otherwise, he demonstrated there is a horrific relationship between mass and energy,

48 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

 

So is my "Zero-turn" mower:

Pssst: It'll do about 10 or so mph, too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice! Where do the front and rear snow-blades and the backhoe attachment go? 😁

48 minutes ago, skipepsi said:

Do they get to drive the tractor?

Of course! And even exercise the backhoe, although that might require a little instruction. It's a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.

3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Jill and a pal got all the rockery plants put in today. My part was just to mix the compost and grit/compost mixture into which the plants were placed, deliver barrowloads of gravel, brush up some of the mess and provide tea and biccies on demand. I must admit that they have done an excellent job and were quite tired when they finished so drinks and nibbles were provided before dinner was served. Jill is now undertaking an eyelid inspection prior to me calling her if the aurora borealis visits again tonight.

 

Dave  

If they want to nip over here for a bit there's a few jobs need doing here too.

41 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

Almost a Disco Polo hit that.

 

 

 

Popular at weddings it is

 

Warning.

 

Your brain may melt

 

Andy

Is that Peter Davison at the end? 🤔

6 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Apparently.

 

They both use rhe same technology and a fly zapper can be converted into a static grass applicator using a fine sieve and a minimal amount of ingenuity!

 

I've recently read a comment about the possible adverse effects of using static grass applicators

Anything that can produce an electrical spark is a good source of electromagnetic interference across a wide range of radio frequencies. (That can include model railways.)

Under certain conditions that can couple enough energy into pacemaker electrodes inserted into the heart to stimulate a heart muscle contraction. The electrodes are acting as radio antennae.

The good news is radio frequency field strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.

5 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

That might have a rather negative effect on Britain's reputation with the other countries after a while.

Possibly, but it could go either way.

2 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

For a particular meaning of 'interesting'?

😇

 

Dave

 

 

No comment.

Another colorful Scottish character who ought to be remembered. Mum and dad knew him from before the war and we met him in Paris in the early 60s. I was bit too young to fully appreciate just what he had done.

https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/news/archive/2021/tartan-pimpernel-war-hero-minister-honoured-in-paris

10 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 and have been married for nearly 54 years 😅

 

Just a couple of years behind you Dave. I can't say it hasn't been interesting 🤣

2 hours ago, GMKAT7 said:

Good evening folks,

 

To me it was a real change seeing Gregor Fisher in the tv series The Tales of Para Handy, compared to his Rab C character.

 

Being joined by some of the other Rab C regulars made it an interesting watch, not knowing any of the history of the stories.

 

Cheers, Nigel.

 

Edit:  I even started using the phrase "more steam McPhail, more steam" when we needed to get a wriggle on when out drinking, etc.

Of course none of my friends had a scooby what I was on about 😆

I was spoiled watching this version with Duncan Macrae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para_Handy_-_Master_Mariner

And, of course, the BBC dumped them because they were in black and white 😢

(My mum knew Macrae from her time at Jordanhill teacher training college.)

3 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

If its going to be a string vest, the hat should be a baseball cap, worn back to front...

 

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

I thought his name was Andy, not Onslow?

 

 

(Not a string vest day)

Rab came to mind.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d0mhw

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

We had the same, but it was newts.  According to the wildlife people there are no newts on Fraggle Rock - pah, wrong!

Um, maybe they are all as p****d as newt?

3 hours ago, pH said:

West, surely? There’s not many of us about 3,000 miles west of you!

We tend to ignore that bit. It's a bit like anything North of Watford.

8 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Well we played out on motorbikes with a mate, which went well.  Then played with the trains in the garage/layout room, that went......less than well.  Put decals and nameplates on this.......my Ruby Wedding (welding, copyright Oldudders) Anniversary pressie.

 

 

Then as per destructions wafted on acrylic matt varnish.  Decals dissolved, lining dissolved, main paint reacted badly, (totally FUBAR in fact), but not as badly as I did.  Turdycurses does not even begin to cover my reaction to the reaction.  I thought acrylics were supposed to be benign?  NHN wonders if it has the wrong stuff in the can.  or the lids have been transposed in the shop?  I is NOT a happy bunny, not at all.

 

In recompense I see the 'B' hadn't adhered properly, but the varnish would have sorted that.....should....

Looks just fine from this side of the Atlantic.

3 hours ago, pH said:

This morning, I drove my wife to a hospital appointment. At that appointment, she got a requisition for blood work to be done. For hospital out-patients, that kind of thing is done in stand-alone labs. I had a recurring requisition due about now, so we went as drop-ins to the nearest lab. As my wife remarked, things are getting bad when going together for blood work counts as a date!

What's her point?

7 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

W S Gilbert got it right in the gaurdsmans song in Iolanthmore than a century ago. 

 

When all night long MP's divide, we hope with brain and cerebellum too.  They have to leave their brains outside, and vote just as their leaders tell Em too.  

 

For the prospect of a host of dull MP's alt thinking for themselves is more than mortal man can face with equanimity.

 

Sullivan got a knighthood for his music but Gilbert never got an honour.  He'd upset too many bigwigs.  

 

Jamie

Ah Ha!

You really struck a chord with that one Jamie!

I still have a very old Tri-Ang 3-TF named Iolanthe. It was presented to me after my appearances as the page-boy in that G&S production in the Kings in Glasgow quite a long time ago.

34 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Can you hear my shrieks of laughter?

Perhaps a more appropriate response would be "coat this" 😁

3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

....and sit in Parliament.

 

Dave

Isn't that a requirement?