December 2007
18 posts
Sanger Engineering: specialists in rare model kits... →
Fer cryin out loud! Just try to get to one of their menu options. ….or don’t, and save yourself the anguish.
“ignition and electrical systems seem like white man magic to me, and I just...”
– Ben. Spot on. Reblogged from Geoffers (who beat me to tumbling this because his email electrons are quicker than mine.)
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I'm defibrillating, Jerry!!
I’m reading a paper on nano-fibrillar cellulose biocomposites, and thanks to the first author and the indelible mental scars of a 1990s TV sitcom, now I have this overpowering urge to burst dramatically through the doorway of the research office and shout “ya gotta help me Jerry! I need funding!!“…..or something like that.
“A mangelwurzel hurling championship was revived in the north Wiltshire village...”
– Yes. Indeed. The Norman. via wikipedia
“Mazda engineers back in the 70’s and 80’s were crack addicts who...”
– — via Geoffers (toyokogyo1976) I also regularly curse those Mazda engineers and would cheerfully garrotte them if I could. But I try to limit the suffering by pulling my 1300 apart a lot less regularly than Geoff does his.
“Rudd, like Blair, has inherited a healthy economy from a leader loathed by the...”
– Adapt or die - Rudd grasped it. The comparison of Rudd to Blair is kind of worrying, given how difficult it is to differentiate Blair from the society-rogering Tories that preceded him. I don’t think the comparison is drawing too long a bow, either. I really hope that the dude does more than...
The Old Sailor, by A. A. Milne
There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn’t because of the state he was in. He was shipwrecked, and lived on a island for weeks, And he wanted a hat, and he wanted some breeks; And he wanted some nets, or a line and some hooks For the turtles and things which you read of in books. ...
“Nano”. From the Greek. Meaning; “give me lots of research...”
– - from some dude at a conference whose name I forget now. So true. I’m currently involved in “leaveraging” funding through combining Nanotechnology and Sustainability. WHAMMY! That’s the two uber buzzword hype-research themes right there. Yeah baby!
The empty myths peddled by evangelists of unbelief →
Richard Dawkins is a buffoon, but at least his ridiculous books have sparked some good critical thinking and public commentary from people like John Gray. However, this is patently untrue: “Both (Christianity and Secular Humanism) are tissues of myth, serving a need for meaning rather than an interest in truth.” Christians and Secular Humanists and agnostics alike are interested in...
“Chiropractors…you trust them…you don’t know what they’re...”
– Eddie Izzard (via Vynjira)
Research
I’ve just spent pretty much my whole work day trying to buy a clear plastic polycarbonate storage box - similar to the sort of thing you’d use to store crap in under your bed. You wouldn’t think it would be that hard, but nobody sells a polycarb version of those boxes. A whole day to track down one box. Tomorrow I’ll be cable rigging my impact testing tower as if it were a...
