As
Witty Rejoinder said:

sings

A pinch and a punch…

I think we’ve filled our June quota.

Let’s see what we can do with July.

All yours!

AussieDJ said:

As
Witty Rejoinder said:

sings

A pinch and a punch…

I think we’ve filled our June quota.

Let’s see what we can do with July.

All yours!

Ta. :)

AussieDJ said:

As
Witty Rejoinder said:

sings

A pinch and a punch…

I think we’ve filled our June quota.

Let’s see what we can do with July.

All yours!

it’ll never catch on.

https://www.sciencealert.com/evolution-keeps-making-crabs-and-nobody-knows-why

Link

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 5 degrees at the back door, overcast and still, pre-dawn light. We are forecast 12 degrees with light showers.

We will go to Hamilton this morning to order a new mattress. We will pay for it to be delivered and for them to take away the old one. It’s over 20 years since we replaced our mattress.

8.5° and cloudy here and I hope it lasts.

I got my groceries after work last night so I don’t need to don Going Out clothes and can wear my day pyjamas all day.

By Darren Incorvaia

June 30, 2023, 11:00 a.m. ET

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Most people try, or at least hope, to avoid ticks. The tiny arachnids spread a variety of harmful diseases, as they expand their range to new areas. But two scientists recently set out on a counterintuitive mission to collect as many bloodsucking ticks as possible.

“We had quite a few nice afternoons of frolicking around forests with bedsheets,” Sam England, a biologist at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, said. “Just dragging them, picking up the ticks.”

He and Katie L. Lihou, friends and doctoral students at the University of Bristol in England at the time, were attempting to combine their research topics into a single collaborative project. Dr. Lihou is a veterinary parasitologist who studies ticks, and Dr. England is an ecologist who studies electricity and electroreception.

The resulting paper, published Friday in the journal Current Biology, provides a new reason to worry about ticks. The scientists demonstrate that the static electric fields naturally produced by animals (including humans) can physically yank the ungainly creatures onto their hosts. By electrically extending their reach, ticks may be able to grab hold of hosts more easily. While the finding may add to ticks’ terrifying attributes, this knowledge could also be used to improve antistatic tick defenses.

Many a tick researcher has had to chase down an errant arachnid after it was flung about by static from plastic or nylon equipment because of static, said Sukanya Narasimhan, a biologist at Yale University who was not involved with the new study. But popping ticks were considered nothing more than a nuisance; “we’ve never given it much thought,” Dr. Narasimhan said.

To better understand what was happening, Dr. England and Dr. Lihou brought their ticks into a tightly controlled environment that attempted to mimic conditions they face when questing for a blood meal.

When a tick looks to feed, it stands atop a plant that is grounded, which means its electrical charge is dissipating down into the earth. To simulate this condition, the ticks were placed on a grounding plate. The researchers then passed an electrode, was charged to 750 volts, three millimeters over the ticks. This voltage is similar to or even lower than that of a typical mammal’s electric field. The ticks were invariably pulled upward against gravity onto the electrode. Holding the parasites close to a similarly charged rabbit’s foot produced the same flying tick phenomenon.

To get a sense of what this animal attraction might mean for a potential tick host in nature, Dr. England designed a computer model of the electrical field around a cow.

“The geometry of a cow is very complicated,” Dr. England said, so he used a technique that breaks up the dimensions into smaller elements, making it easier to develop a model for the entire cow’s electric field.

This model revealed that the static charge of a passing bovine could exert considerable attractive force on a tick searching for food atop a blade of grass a few millimeters away. And another experiment testing the minimum force required to attract ticks found that a 30-kilovolt surface charge — which is extreme but theoretically possible in humans — could vacuum up ticks as far as several centimeters away.

The ticks could be attracted to electric fields because they themselves are accumulating static charge as they creep and crawl through the world. If that’s the case, you’d expect them to be attracted to fields of opposite charge but repelled by fields of the same charge — but Dr. England and Dr. Lihou found that ticks are attracted to both positive and negative electric fields. This finding suggests that the ticks are polarized in some way, meaning positive and negative charge are separated in their bodies, but how exactly that polarization works is still unclear.

Dr. Narasimhan said the results were “super interesting,” but she cautioned that we can’t say for sure whether static electricity plays a role in the tick life cycle until it has been confirmed with live hosts outside of the lab. Dr. England agreed, suggesting a future experiment where some sheep go through a “carwash of antistatic spray,” while others don’t, would be “quite a funny idea,” he said.

But he also added that he’d be “very surprised if it doesn’t happen in nature.” Whether in the field or in the lab, he said, “the physics doesn’t change.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/science/ticks-static-electricity.html

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OCDC said:

8.5° and cloudy here and I hope it lasts.

I got my groceries after work last night so I don’t need to don Going Out clothes and can wear my day pyjamas all day.

Would have thought that was what day pyjamas are for.

roughbarked said:

OCDC said:

8.5° and cloudy here and I hope it lasts.

I got my groceries after work last night so I don’t need to don Going Out clothes and can wear my day pyjamas all day.

Would have thought that was what day pyjamas are for.

They are for home only, not out.

ChrispenEvan said:

By Darren Incorvaia

June 30, 2023, 11:00 a.m. ET

Sign up for Science Times Get stories that capture the wonders of nature, the cosmos and the human body. Get it sent to your inbox.
Most people try, or at least hope, to avoid ticks. The tiny arachnids spread a variety of harmful diseases, as they expand their range to new areas. But two scientists recently set out on a counterintuitive mission to collect as many bloodsucking ticks as possible.

“We had quite a few nice afternoons of frolicking around forests with bedsheets,” Sam England, a biologist at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, said. “Just dragging them, picking up the ticks.”

He and Katie L. Lihou, friends and doctoral students at the University of Bristol in England at the time, were attempting to combine their research topics into a single collaborative project. Dr. Lihou is a veterinary parasitologist who studies ticks, and Dr. England is an ecologist who studies electricity and electroreception.

The resulting paper, published Friday in the journal Current Biology, provides a new reason to worry about ticks. The scientists demonstrate that the static electric fields naturally produced by animals (including humans) can physically yank the ungainly creatures onto their hosts. By electrically extending their reach, ticks may be able to grab hold of hosts more easily. While the finding may add to ticks’ terrifying attributes, this knowledge could also be used to improve antistatic tick defenses.

Many a tick researcher has had to chase down an errant arachnid after it was flung about by static from plastic or nylon equipment because of static, said Sukanya Narasimhan, a biologist at Yale University who was not involved with the new study. But popping ticks were considered nothing more than a nuisance; “we’ve never given it much thought,” Dr. Narasimhan said.

To better understand what was happening, Dr. England and Dr. Lihou brought their ticks into a tightly controlled environment that attempted to mimic conditions they face when questing for a blood meal.

When a tick looks to feed, it stands atop a plant that is grounded, which means its electrical charge is dissipating down into the earth. To simulate this condition, the ticks were placed on a grounding plate. The researchers then passed an electrode, was charged to 750 volts, three millimeters over the ticks. This voltage is similar to or even lower than that of a typical mammal’s electric field. The ticks were invariably pulled upward against gravity onto the electrode. Holding the parasites close to a similarly charged rabbit’s foot produced the same flying tick phenomenon.

To get a sense of what this animal attraction might mean for a potential tick host in nature, Dr. England designed a computer model of the electrical field around a cow.

“The geometry of a cow is very complicated,” Dr. England said, so he used a technique that breaks up the dimensions into smaller elements, making it easier to develop a model for the entire cow’s electric field.

This model revealed that the static charge of a passing bovine could exert considerable attractive force on a tick searching for food atop a blade of grass a few millimeters away. And another experiment testing the minimum force required to attract ticks found that a 30-kilovolt surface charge — which is extreme but theoretically possible in humans — could vacuum up ticks as far as several centimeters away.

The ticks could be attracted to electric fields because they themselves are accumulating static charge as they creep and crawl through the world. If that’s the case, you’d expect them to be attracted to fields of opposite charge but repelled by fields of the same charge — but Dr. England and Dr. Lihou found that ticks are attracted to both positive and negative electric fields. This finding suggests that the ticks are polarized in some way, meaning positive and negative charge are separated in their bodies, but how exactly that polarization works is still unclear.

Dr. Narasimhan said the results were “super interesting,” but she cautioned that we can’t say for sure whether static electricity plays a role in the tick life cycle until it has been confirmed with live hosts outside of the lab. Dr. England agreed, suggesting a future experiment where some sheep go through a “carwash of antistatic spray,” while others don’t, would be “quite a funny idea,” he said.

But he also added that he’d be “very surprised if it doesn’t happen in nature.” Whether in the field or in the lab, he said, “the physics doesn’t change.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/science/ticks-static-electricity.html

Link

I wonder if leeches do something similar. They seem to hang about on foliage and drop onto you, although sometimes they “walk” up your boot to your leg. I assumed they detected body heat. They don’t like vibration, Mr buffy is safe while using the chainsaw, but when he stops they crawl up his boots.

OCDC said:

roughbarked said:

OCDC said:

8.5° and cloudy here and I hope it lasts.

I got my groceries after work last night so I don’t need to don Going Out clothes and can wear my day pyjamas all day.

Would have thought that was what day pyjamas are for.

They are for home only, not out.

I imagine so.

Cloud is starting to clear 😿

OCDC said:

Cloud is starting to clear 😿

Grey all over here. Rather, the blue seems to be missing.

ChrispenEvan said:

AussieDJ said:

As
Witty Rejoinder said:

sings

A pinch and a punch…

I think we’ve filled our June quota.

Let’s see what we can do with July.

All yours!

it’ll never catch on.

I’ve had Julys before. They tend to last only a month or so.

ABC News:

Well, as ‘authorities’ like governments likevto tell us, if you haven’t/hadn’t done anything wrong, you’d have nothing to worry about, right?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-11/fragments-from-france-wartime-orphan-found-by-australian-troops/10478466

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ChrispenEvan said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-11/fragments-from-france-wartime-orphan-found-by-australian-troops/10478466

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Kind of surprising that he could get married without any birth certificate or proof of citizenship.

Brekkie report: scramblegg, bacon, mushies (particularly noice today, in Cobram onion oil), spinach, avo, Gewurzhaus everyday egg spice mix

OCDC said:

Brekkie report: scramblegg, bacon, mushies (particularly noice today, in Cobram onion oil), spinach, avo, Gewurzhaus everyday egg spice mix

I had toasties with sliced mushroom warmed under the grill topped with fresh lentil sprouts and cheese. Cooked to perfection and munged with great satisfaction.

In other exciting news, I was exsanguinated yesterday. My lipids were the best they’ve ever been. I’ve been on a tablet for them for nearly twenty years now and they never reached target but had improved a bit. Keto has improved them even more.

….bump….

kii said:

….bump….

Cool!

1 deg C morning in Perth, proper cold

dv said:

1 deg C morning in Perth, proper cold

Not much different to here. A balmy 36°C at 7:47pm.

kii said:

dv said:

1 deg C morning in Perth, proper cold

Not much different to here. A balmy 36°C at 7:47pm.

Delightful!

Michael V said:

kii said:

….bump….

Cool!

It might take a few more bumps for the changeover to fully take effect.

OCDC said:

kii said:

dv said:

1 deg C morning in Perth, proper cold

Not much different to here. A balmy 36°C at 7:47pm.

Delightful!

“bUt It’S a dRY heAt!”

kii said:

OCDC said:

kii said:

Not much different to here. A balmy 36°C at 7:47pm.

Delightful!

“bUt It’S a dRY heAt!”

Until the monsoonal overflow.

Spiny Norman said:

A mate of mine must like the sim-racing scene, as he’s just bought a touch over $20,000 of gear for his computer.
I think that’s more than my real racing car costs ….

I’d like a good flight sim.

I saw a very good one – I think it might have been for a BAe Hawk – demonstrated at Avalon a few years ago.

A darkened room, floor-to-ceiling screens. The pilot hopped into the cockpit and started to ‘fly’.
The roomful of journalists all watching intently as the scenery flashed past during the take-off roll and climb.
All very good until the pilot rolled inverted.
A roomful of journalists all trying to hang onto the floor by their toes!

Great flight sim. Might be a bit exy, though.

Mr Norman, Sir.

The auto bed levelling is 16 points across the build plate. It also has auxiliary bed leveling. Sorta manual. 5 points (centre and 4 corners).

The auxiliary bed levelling can be way out. go to each point and manually adjust the z-axis offset until an A4 pieec of paper has just some friction under the nozzle.

The offset can vary from 0.15 to 0.6 depending on which of the 5 points. Adjust one of the points, and it will throw one of the previously adjusted points out again.

AussieDJ said:

Spiny Norman said:

A mate of mine must like the sim-racing scene, as he’s just bought a touch over $20,000 of gear for his computer.
I think that’s more than my real racing car costs ….

I’d like a good flight sim.

I saw a very good one – I think it might have been for a BAe Hawk – demonstrated at Avalon a few years ago.

A darkened room, floor-to-ceiling screens. The pilot hopped into the cockpit and started to ‘fly’.
The roomful of journalists all watching intently as the scenery flashed past during the take-off roll and climb.
All very good until the pilot rolled inverted.
A roomful of journalists all trying to hang onto the floor by their toes!

Great flight sim. Might be a bit exy, though.

Just use good VR goggles, it’ll be better and a lot cheaper.

Woodie said:

Mr Norman, Sir.

The auto bed levelling is 16 points across the build plate. It also has auxiliary bed leveling. Sorta manual. 5 points (centre and 4 corners).

The auxiliary bed levelling can be way out. go to each point and manually adjust the z-axis offset until an A4 pieec of paper has just some friction under the nozzle.

The offset can vary from 0.15 to 0.6 depending on which of the 5 points. Adjust one of the points, and it will throw one of the previously adjusted points out again.

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Mr Norman, Sir.

The auto bed levelling is 16 points across the build plate. It also has auxiliary bed leveling. Sorta manual. 5 points (centre and 4 corners).

The auxiliary bed levelling can be way out. go to each point and manually adjust the z-axis offset until an A4 pieec of paper has just some friction under the nozzle.

The offset can vary from 0.15 to 0.6 depending on which of the 5 points. Adjust one of the points, and it will throw one of the previously adjusted points out again.

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

Auto bed level heats the nozzle as part of the process itself to 125C before commencing. However it doesn’t maintain that, and just cools off again as it processes. The auto bed level screen shows nozzle temp on it.. I can’t over ride it.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Mr Norman, Sir.

The auto bed levelling is 16 points across the build plate. It also has auxiliary bed leveling. Sorta manual. 5 points (centre and 4 corners).

The auxiliary bed levelling can be way out. go to each point and manually adjust the z-axis offset until an A4 pieec of paper has just some friction under the nozzle.

The offset can vary from 0.15 to 0.6 depending on which of the 5 points. Adjust one of the points, and it will throw one of the previously adjusted points out again.

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

Auto bed level heats the nozzle as part of the process itself to 125C before commencing. However it doesn’t maintain that, and just cools off again as it processes. The auto bed level screen shows nozzle temp on it.. I can’t over ride it.

Okay. What about the bed? It has to be at least 50° or more.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

Auto bed level heats the nozzle as part of the process itself to 125C before commencing. However it doesn’t maintain that, and just cools off again as it processes. The auto bed level screen shows nozzle temp on it.. I can’t over ride it.

Okay. What about the bed? It has to be at least 50° or more.

Also make sure there’s no filament in the extruder assembly, you don’t want to cook the filament nor have any dribbling out of the nozzle.

Back later.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

Auto bed level heats the nozzle as part of the process itself to 125C before commencing. However it doesn’t maintain that, and just cools off again as it processes. The auto bed level screen shows nozzle temp on it.. I can’t over ride it.

Okay. What about the bed? It has to be at least 50° or more.

I can preheat the bed. I run at 60C. Doesn’t change anything, though.

I’m back. We ordered a mattress. Queen size, able to be flipped over (not many are made that way now, apparently) and “firm” (also not what is mostly sold). It will take a couple of weeks. We are going to pay for it to be delivered and for them to take away the old one.

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Auto bed level heats the nozzle as part of the process itself to 125C before commencing. However it doesn’t maintain that, and just cools off again as it processes. The auto bed level screen shows nozzle temp on it.. I can’t over ride it.

Okay. What about the bed? It has to be at least 50° or more.

Also make sure there’s no filament in the extruder assembly, you don’t want to cook the filament nor have any dribbling out of the nozzle.

Back later.

Yep. No dribble or anything from the nozzle. I don’t pull the filament back, though. Extruder and hotend work fine. Have had no issues, except when the extruder “clunks” laying down the initial layer, on the spots that you’ll see in the pics, when it’s too tight to put anything down.

If I manually adjust the z-axis offset manually as it’s putting down the initial layer, then that sorts it for that particular spot, of course, but stuffs up other spots. Manual z-axis offset during initial layer can very from 0.15 up to 0.6 depending on the spot on the build plate, to get a good layer down, at that spot.

buffy said:

I’m back. We ordered a mattress. Queen size, able to be flipped over (not many are made that way now, apparently) and “firm” (also not what is mostly sold). It will take a couple of weeks. We are going to pay for it to be delivered and for them to take away the old one.

And pillaz, MS Buffy. New pillaz?

Woodie said:

buffy said:

I’m back. We ordered a mattress. Queen size, able to be flipped over (not many are made that way now, apparently) and “firm” (also not what is mostly sold). It will take a couple of weeks. We are going to pay for it to be delivered and for them to take away the old one.

And pillaz, MS Buffy. New pillaz?

…… and a lecky blanket. I love my lecky blanket.

kii said:

dv said:

1 deg C morning in Perth, proper cold

Not much different to here. A balmy 36°C at 7:47pm.

Average July min in Perh is 8 deg C so this really is atypical weather.

buffy said:

I’m back. We ordered a mattress. Queen size, able to be flipped over (not many are made that way now, apparently) and “firm” (also not what is mostly sold). It will take a couple of weeks. We are going to pay for it to be delivered and for them to take away the old one.

Sounds good.

Does it have preheating?

BTW, Mr Norman, I think I’ve mastered the slicer. Using the supplied Creality Slicer. They’re all the same.

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

1 deg C morning in Perth, proper cold

Not much different to here. A balmy 36°C at 7:47pm.

Average July min in Perh is 8 deg C so this really is atypical weather.

Not really. I think this is a typical Perth weather pattern. In between series of cold fronts in winter you often get a few sunny days. If those sunny days are cloudless then it does get cold in the early morning. Clear sunny mornings are colder than rainy or cloudy mornings. Just being below average does not make it atypical.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Mr Norman, Sir.

The auto bed levelling is 16 points across the build plate. It also has auxiliary bed leveling. Sorta manual. 5 points (centre and 4 corners).

The auxiliary bed levelling can be way out. go to each point and manually adjust the z-axis offset until an A4 pieec of paper has just some friction under the nozzle.

The offset can vary from 0.15 to 0.6 depending on which of the 5 points. Adjust one of the points, and it will throw one of the previously adjusted points out again.

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

BTW, Mr Norman, Sir. The printer does not have any form of manual bed leveling. ie, wheels underneath that you adjust by hand.

Woodie said:

buffy said:

I’m back. We ordered a mattress. Queen size, able to be flipped over (not many are made that way now, apparently) and “firm” (also not what is mostly sold). It will take a couple of weeks. We are going to pay for it to be delivered and for them to take away the old one.

And pillaz, MS Buffy. New pillaz?

No, did that not so long ago.

:)

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

buffy said:

I’m back. We ordered a mattress. Queen size, able to be flipped over (not many are made that way now, apparently) and “firm” (also not what is mostly sold). It will take a couple of weeks. We are going to pay for it to be delivered and for them to take away the old one.

And pillaz, MS Buffy. New pillaz?

…… and a lecky blanket. I love my lecky blanket.

We’ve never owned an electric blanket. We do have an expensive sheepskin mattress overlay which I bought recently. It’s very comfy and warm.

buffy said:

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

And pillaz, MS Buffy. New pillaz?

…… and a lecky blanket. I love my lecky blanket.

We’ve never owned an electric blanket. We do have an expensive sheepskin mattress overlay which I bought recently. It’s very comfy and warm.

1 x winter woollen quilt (queen size on my single bed) keeps me warm enough.

party_pants said:

dv said:

kii said:

Not much different to here. A balmy 36°C at 7:47pm.

Average July min in Perh is 8 deg C so this really is atypical weather.

Not really. I think this is a typical Perth weather pattern. In between series of cold fronts in winter you often get a few sunny days. If those sunny days are cloudless then it does get cold in the early morning. Clear sunny mornings are colder than rainy or cloudy mornings. Just being below average does not make it atypical.

It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter here although there was a light frost at the redoubt this morning.

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

Woodie said:

…… and a lecky blanket. I love my lecky blanket.

We’ve never owned an electric blanket. We do have an expensive sheepskin mattress overlay which I bought recently. It’s very comfy and warm.

1 x winter woollen quilt (queen size on my single bed) keeps me warm enough.

Is that with the bedroom heated though?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

We’ve never owned an electric blanket. We do have an expensive sheepskin mattress overlay which I bought recently. It’s very comfy and warm.

1 x winter woollen quilt (queen size on my single bed) keeps me warm enough.

Is that with the bedroom heated though?

Don’t usually bother with any bedroom heating, no.

Lunch report: smoked cheddar, stuffed baby peppers, chicken terrine, pastrami, pork rillettes, pickled onions, dill pickles, air fryer keto wrap crackers

Ctrl-C Ctrl-V tomorrow

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

Woodie said:

…… and a lecky blanket. I love my lecky blanket.

We’ve never owned an electric blanket. We do have an expensive sheepskin mattress overlay which I bought recently. It’s very comfy and warm.

1 x winter woollen quilt (queen size on my single bed) keeps me warm enough.

1x summer synthetic quilt is my winter heating

Bubblecar said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Bubblecar said:

1 x winter woollen quilt (queen size on my single bed) keeps me warm enough.

Is that with the bedroom heated though?

Don’t usually bother with any bedroom heating, no.

Spartan, that’s what OCDC is.

OCDC said:

Lunch report: smoked cheddar, stuffed baby peppers, chicken terrine, pastrami, pork rillettes, pickled onions, dill pickles, air fryer keto wrap crackers

Ctrl-C Ctrl-V tomorrow

Sounds a delectable deli diet.

OCDC said:

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

We’ve never owned an electric blanket. We do have an expensive sheepskin mattress overlay which I bought recently. It’s very comfy and warm.

1 x winter woollen quilt (queen size on my single bed) keeps me warm enough.

1x summer synthetic quilt is my winter heating

Do the kitties keep your feet warm?

Witty Rejoinder said:

OCDC said:

Bubblecar said:

1 x winter woollen quilt (queen size on my single bed) keeps me warm enough.

1x summer synthetic quilt is my winter heating

Do the kitties keep your feet warm?

They try to sleep on my face resulting in no sleep for me, so they are banished from the bedroom.

few wittle wainies on’t roof, hears a wagtail chirpy cheeky

coffee landed, I has a few sweet biscuits, more than needed, a single one is in fact more than need

and looking at chainsaws, to buy

to buy a chain or chainsaw, this is the question

I oughts have look at sprocket behind centrifugal clutch, makes sure not worn out, yeah do that first in old one

and the bar is very worns out, knows that, bit bent too probably

sun’s out again

1911. Maximum speed only about 19k/h, so the remarks about “owner-controlled speed” and “overspeeding” seem odd to the modern reader.

transition said:

few wittle wainies on’t roof, hears a wagtail chirpy cheeky

coffee landed, I has a few sweet biscuits, more than needed, a single one is in fact more than need

and looking at chainsaws, to buy

to buy a chain or chainsaw, this is the question

I oughts have look at sprocket behind centrifugal clutch, makes sure not worn out, yeah do that first in old one

and the bar is very worns out, knows that, bit bent too probably

sun’s out again

there’t is, bin worned out

transition said:

transition said:

few wittle wainies on’t roof, hears a wagtail chirpy cheeky

coffee landed, I has a few sweet biscuits, more than needed, a single one is in fact more than need

and looking at chainsaws, to buy

to buy a chain or chainsaw, this is the question

I oughts have look at sprocket behind centrifugal clutch, makes sure not worn out, yeah do that first in old one

and the bar is very worns out, knows that, bit bent too probably

sun’s out again

there’t is, bin worned out

Treat yourself to a new machine.

Bubblecar said:

1911. Maximum speed only about 19k/h, so the remarks about “owner-controlled speed” and “overspeeding” seem odd to the modern reader.

They left something out of the description. It says ‘built for hard service’, but they didn’t mention that it’s also built for hard arses. That seat doesn’t look luxurious.

Especially with the solid rubber tyres and (confident wager) absolutely bugger all in the way of suspension

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

1911. Maximum speed only about 19k/h, so the remarks about “owner-controlled speed” and “overspeeding” seem odd to the modern reader.

They left something out of the description. It says ‘built for hard service’, but they didn’t mention that it’s also built for hard arses. That seat doesn’t look luxurious.

Especially with the solid rubber tyres and (confident wager) absolutely bugger all in the way of suspension

I sees leaf springs reckons, plenty bouncy bouncies

Why Frogs Survived the Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
Not too big, not too small—they were just the right size to live through Earth’s worst day

Riley Black
Science Correspondent

November 29, 2022

No creature could have prepared for the disaster. When an asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago, the world was shaken up as earthquakes reverberated out from the impact site and falling debris from the collision heated the air to the equivalent of an oven on broil. Three years of “impact winter” followed; temperatures plummeted, and photosynthesis nearly ceased. And yet, through it all, many frogs survived what the mighty Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops could not.

Read more:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-frogs-survived-the-asteroid-impact-that-wiped-out-dinosaurs-180981195/?

transition said:

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

1911. Maximum speed only about 19k/h, so the remarks about “owner-controlled speed” and “overspeeding” seem odd to the modern reader.

They left something out of the description. It says ‘built for hard service’, but they didn’t mention that it’s also built for hard arses. That seat doesn’t look luxurious.

Especially with the solid rubber tyres and (confident wager) absolutely bugger all in the way of suspension

I sees leaf springs reckons, plenty bouncy bouncies

I assume pedestrians were sometimes splattered with muck and oil from the exposed chain.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

captain_spalding said:

They left something out of the description. It says ‘built for hard service’, but they didn’t mention that it’s also built for hard arses. That seat doesn’t look luxurious.

Especially with the solid rubber tyres and (confident wager) absolutely bugger all in the way of suspension

I sees leaf springs reckons, plenty bouncy bouncies

I assume pedestrians were sometimes splattered with muck and oil from the exposed chain.

you reminds of the seventies, flared pants, ideal for getting in bicycle chains, I really miss that

transition said:

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

1911. Maximum speed only about 19k/h, so the remarks about “owner-controlled speed” and “overspeeding” seem odd to the modern reader.

They left something out of the description. It says ‘built for hard service’, but they didn’t mention that it’s also built for hard arses. That seat doesn’t look luxurious.

Especially with the solid rubber tyres and (confident wager) absolutely bugger all in the way of suspension

I sees leaf springs reckons, plenty bouncy bouncies

Oh, yeah, i think you’re right.

In which case, the load would need to be firmly secured to the vehicle. And the people firmly secured to the seat. Perhaps the first seatbelts in the world?

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

I sees leaf springs reckons, plenty bouncy bouncies

I assume pedestrians were sometimes splattered with muck and oil from the exposed chain.

you reminds of the seventies, flared pants, ideal for getting in bicycle chains, I really miss that

And even if they didn’t get stuck in the chain, you’d be wearing indelible oil stains.

Except for the few sensible enough to wear bicycle clips.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

I assume pedestrians were sometimes splattered with muck and oil from the exposed chain.

you reminds of the seventies, flared pants, ideal for getting in bicycle chains, I really miss that

And even if they didn’t get stuck in the chain, you’d be wearing indelible oil stains.

Except for the few sensible enough to wear bicycle clips.

yeah the oil stains, miss that, bet me mum does too

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

captain_spalding said:

They left something out of the description. It says ‘built for hard service’, but they didn’t mention that it’s also built for hard arses. That seat doesn’t look luxurious.

Especially with the solid rubber tyres and (confident wager) absolutely bugger all in the way of suspension

I sees leaf springs reckons, plenty bouncy bouncies

Oh, yeah, i think you’re right.

In which case, the load would need to be firmly secured to the vehicle. And the people firmly secured to the seat. Perhaps the first seatbelts in the world?

that mention of automatic governor reads like an invitation to adjust it, if want more speed, to me anyway

Bubblecar said:

1911. Maximum speed only about 19k/h, so the remarks about “owner-controlled speed” and “overspeeding” seem odd to the modern reader.

Interestingly, it’s an oversquare motor (bore larger than stroke). That’s very unusual for 1911, when undersquare motors were the thing.

They still sell bicycle trouser clips.

Don’t need them on my bike of course, as the chain is enclosed.

Bubblecar said:

They still sell bicycle trouser clips.

Don’t need them on my bike of course, as the chain is enclosed.

Surely it should have a bulb horn?

Parp-parp!

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

They still sell bicycle trouser clips.

Don’t need them on my bike of course, as the chain is enclosed.

Surely it should have a bulb horn?

Parp-parp!

Might get one fitted after its long-needed service and repairs.

ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GARLICK, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

PermeateFree said:

ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GARLICK, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

This is the kind of thing that imagine consumes my missing socks.

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

They still sell bicycle trouser clips.

Don’t need them on my bike of course, as the chain is enclosed.

Surely it should have a bulb horn?

Parp-parp!

Might get one fitted after its long-needed service and repairs.

Does your bike have a name, like Father Brown’s ‘Bucephalus’?

Early 70s.Terrigal.

Bubblecar said:

They still sell bicycle trouser clips.

Don’t need them on my bike of course, as the chain is enclosed.

Could the Ross people help you get that to someone who could get that back on the road?

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

Surely it should have a bulb horn?

Parp-parp!

Might get one fitted after its long-needed service and repairs.

Does your bike have a name, like Father Brown’s ‘Bucephalus’?

She’s content to be known as “Bubblecar’s grandma bike.”

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

They still sell bicycle trouser clips.

Don’t need them on my bike of course, as the chain is enclosed.

Could the Ross people help you get that to someone who could get that back on the road?

Probably, but I need to lose sufficient weight first. I’m really too heavy for it.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Okay. What about the bed? It has to be at least 50° or more.

Also make sure there’s no filament in the extruder assembly, you don’t want to cook the filament nor have any dribbling out of the nozzle.

Back later.

Yep. No dribble or anything from the nozzle. I don’t pull the filament back, though. Extruder and hotend work fine. Have had no issues, except when the extruder “clunks” laying down the initial layer, on the spots that you’ll see in the pics, when it’s too tight to put anything down.

If I manually adjust the z-axis offset manually as it’s putting down the initial layer, then that sorts it for that particular spot, of course, but stuffs up other spots. Manual z-axis offset during initial layer can very from 0.15 up to 0.6 depending on the spot on the build plate, to get a good layer down, at that spot.

Best to not make manual adjustments on the fly. Just stop the print and start again, less chance of the nozzle gouging a groove in the bed.

Have a read of this thread – https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/18932/how-do-you-make-a-new-cr-10-smart-do-auto-bed-levelling – it mentions for the ABL to work properly you might need to do a firmware update.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Mr Norman, Sir.

The auto bed levelling is 16 points across the build plate. It also has auxiliary bed leveling. Sorta manual. 5 points (centre and 4 corners).

The auxiliary bed levelling can be way out. go to each point and manually adjust the z-axis offset until an A4 pieec of paper has just some friction under the nozzle.

The offset can vary from 0.15 to 0.6 depending on which of the 5 points. Adjust one of the points, and it will throw one of the previously adjusted points out again.

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

BTW, Mr Norman, Sir. The printer does not have any form of manual bed leveling. ie, wheels underneath that you adjust by hand.

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

Might get one fitted after its long-needed service and repairs.

Does your bike have a name, like Father Brown’s ‘Bucephalus’?

She’s content to be known as “Bubblecar’s grandma bike.”

In Dutch it is called an Omafiets.

Why do you think the 3d printer isn’t working??

party_pants said:

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

Does your bike have a name, like Father Brown’s ‘Bucephalus’?

She’s content to be known as “Bubblecar’s grandma bike.”

In Dutch it is called an Omafiets.

Ja waar.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Weird. A 16 point probe should be plenty to sort it out.
Last Wednesday night I sorted out that very problem with a mate of mine and his new printer. I did much the same procedure as you just mentioned to get the four corners level with each other.
Quick thought – did you do it with the bed and nozzle hot?

BTW, Mr Norman, Sir. The printer does not have any form of manual bed leveling. ie, wheels underneath that you adjust by hand.

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

BTW, Mr Norman, Sir. The printer does not have any form of manual bed leveling. ie, wheels underneath that you adjust by hand.

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

i was thinking the same.

ChrispenEvan said:

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

i was thinking the same.

It’s got a glass bed so it’ll very likely be very flat. I wonder about the build plate though.

If you are creating wide pieces you’ll find that warping can occur.

Spiny Norman said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Spiny Norman said:

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

i was thinking the same.

It’s got a glass bed so it’ll very likely be very flat. I wonder about the build plate though.

yes, and no specks of dirt on the glass making a bump in the built plate.

Useless info – I’m designing a very small printer, so small that’s designed to only be able to print one part – the ubiquitous Benchy model. The Benchy is a yardstick that can be used to help find-tune the various setting in your printer but it’s also used to see how fast it can print. It takes over an hour on a printer like mine or Woodie’s, but the fastest ones are down to about 2.5 minutes.
Anyway this is just done for fun, I’m not likely to ever build it but I’ll upload the files at some point if someone wants to try it.

And a Benchy, a mere 60 mm or so long.

Spiny Norman said:

Useless info – I’m designing a very small printer, so small that’s designed to only be able to print one part – the ubiquitous Benchy model. The Benchy is a yardstick that can be used to help find-tune the various setting in your printer but it’s also used to see how fast it can print. It takes over an hour on a printer like mine or Woodie’s, but the fastest ones are down to about 2.5 minutes.
Anyway this is just done for fun, I’m not likely to ever build it but I’ll upload the files at some point if someone wants to try it.

And a Benchy, a mere 60 mm or so long.

Cute boat :)

TIL about a couple of Javanese 9th century temples and temple complexes: Prambanan (Hindu) and Borobudur (Buddhist).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prambanan

Michael V said:

TIL about a couple of Javanese 9th century temples and temple complexes: Prambanan (Hindu) and Borobudur (Buddhist).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prambanan

Impressive sites. Night view of Prambanan.

An amazing result from a Japanese team for a glider flight over water. It sent waaaay further than I thought it would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22zljTcRRSg

As you know, Spocky is learning Gaelic. Until yesterday the only word I knew was slarn (sp?) which means goodbye.
But yesterday I doubled my Gaelic vocabulary to two words. The Gaelic word for pizza, is pizza. :)

This creeps the absolute FK out of me for some reason.

https://www.iflscience.com/foal-hoof-30515

Spiny Norman said:

An amazing result from a Japanese team for a glider flight over water. It sent waaaay further than I thought it would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22zljTcRRSg

Well done.

Spiny Norman said:

This creeps the absolute FK out of me for some reason.

https://www.iflscience.com/foal-hoof-30515

not me.

sarahs mum said:

Spiny Norman said:

This creeps the absolute FK out of me for some reason.

https://www.iflscience.com/foal-hoof-30515

not me.

It’s an interesting provision of natural selection.

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

BTW, Mr Norman, Sir. The printer does not have any form of manual bed leveling. ie, wheels underneath that you adjust by hand.

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

BTDT. A good steel ruler. You can see light under it in the middle, but not at the sides. As you know, Mr Norman, Sir, it only takes it to be out by 0.2 – 0.3 mm out and your stuffed.

ChrispenEvan said:

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

i was thinking the same.

I’ve watched ALL the Creality Service Tutorial youtubes. More than once.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

BTDT. A good steel ruler. You can see light under it in the middle, but not at the sides. As you know, Mr Norman, Sir, it only takes it to be out by 0.2 – 0.3 mm out and your stuffed.

Not even that much for the first layer. I’m still a bit mystified as to how the glass plate could be that far out though.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

BTDT. A good steel ruler. You can see light under it in the middle, but not at the sides. As you know, Mr Norman, Sir, it only takes it to be out by 0.2 – 0.3 mm out and your stuffed.

Not even that much for the first layer. I’m still a bit mystified as to how the glass plate could be that far out though.

Have you tried flipping the plate over?

Spiny Norman said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Spiny Norman said:

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

i was thinking the same.

It’s got a glass bed so it’ll very likely be very flat. I wonder about the build plate though.

The glass bed seems flat. That sits on the heating plate. I’ve removed and replaced the heating plate. It did have a few mounting screws loose when I unboxed it. Bastard of a thing to get back on. No manual adjustments of any sort. There are 16 screws with little support tubes that screw it too the quite heavy steel y-axis that is attached to the pulleys.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Okay that’s very odd, I’ve never seen one without them. The ABL routine should compensate for any wobbles though …. but it appears not to be for you.

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

BTDT. A good steel ruler. You can see light under it in the middle, but not at the sides. As you know, Mr Norman, Sir, it only takes it to be out by 0.2 – 0.3 mm out and your stuffed.

Nearly all steel rulers are slightly warped.

Spiny Norman said:

As you know, Spocky is learning Gaelic. Until yesterday the only word I knew was slarn (sp?) which means goodbye.
But yesterday I doubled my Gaelic vocabulary to two words. The Gaelic word for pizza, is pizza. :)

It’s a tough language to learn :)

Spiny Norman said:

Useless info – I’m designing a very small printer, so small that’s designed to only be able to print one part – the ubiquitous Benchy model. The Benchy is a yardstick that can be used to help find-tune the various setting in your printer but it’s also used to see how fast it can print. It takes over an hour on a printer like mine or Woodie’s, but the fastest ones are down to about 2.5 minutes.
Anyway this is just done for fun, I’m not likely to ever build it but I’ll upload the files at some point if someone wants to try it.

And a Benchy, a mere 60 mm or so long.

Benchy is fine, as it’s only in one small footprint on the plate once any sort of initial layer is down. So is the calibration cube. However, if you use a “skirt” even the skirt around the cube doesn’t lay down properly. Fine in one area, nozzle too low on the other side.

Interview with Aunt Mimi
Sandbanks, Poole 1970
QUESTION: What do you really think of the Beatles?
MIMI SMITH: The boys had talent, yes, but they also had a lot of luck as well. When they first played “Love Me Do” I didn’t think much of it.
QUESTION: How did you view the troubles the Beatles have been going through these last few years?
SMITH: I don’t know all this business between John and Paul is about and I don’t dare ask John. I did ring Paul about it, and he told me things would straighten up. The boys have been friends so long. I remember them coming home from school together on their bikes, begging biscuits. I’m sure they’ll get back together soon. This is just a phase they’re passing through.
QUESTION: These days your nephew is very involved in a variety of social, political, and avant-garde causes. How do you feel about that?
SMITH: I’ve just quit reading the papers these days. Apple sends me his records, but I won’t play them. And I’ve asked my friends not to tell me about them. The shameful album cover and that art show of his. He’s been naughty and the public doesn’t like it, and he’s sorry for it. Now he wants sympathy. That’s why he’s come out with all these fantastic stories about an unhappy childhood. It’s true that his mother wasn’t there and there was no father around, but my husband and I gave him a wonderful home. John didn’t buy me these furnishings, my husband did. John, Paul, and George wrote many songs together sitting on the sofa you’re sitting on now, long before you’d ever heard of the Beatles. Why, John even had a pony when he was a little boy! He certainly didn’t come from a slum! None of the boys did. The Harrisons weren’t as well off as the other families, perhaps, but George wasn’t from a slum, either, the way the press had it. And that’s why you never saw photographs of John’s boyhood home. We certainly weren’t imperished, the way John’s talking now?
QUESTION: What do you think changed John so much from his early days as a carefree kid?
SMITH: She’s responsible for all this, Yoko. She changed him, and I’m sure she and Linda are behind the split between John and Paul. Cynthia was such a nice girl. When she and John were in art college, she’d come to my house and say, “Oh, Mimi, what am I going to do about John?” She’d sit there until he came home. Cynthia really pursued him. He’d walk up the road and back until she got tired of waiting and went home. I think he was afraid of her, actually.
QUESTION: You realize, of course, that to many people John is something of a political leader with such songs as, “Power to the People,” for example …
SMITH: Don’t talk to me about such things! I know that boy. He doesn’t know what he’s saying! It’s all an act. If there were a revolution, John would be the first in the queue to run! Why, he’s scared to death of things like that! That’s Yoko talking, not John! Yoko is not exactly right in the head. Everytime John does something bad and gets his picture in the papers he rings up to smooth me over. See that new color television? It was a Christmas present, but he had it delivered early. A big present arrives every time he’s been naughty. I usually have a huge photograph of John hanging in the lounge. When he’s a good boy, it’ll go back up again!

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Useless info – I’m designing a very small printer, so small that’s designed to only be able to print one part – the ubiquitous Benchy model. The Benchy is a yardstick that can be used to help find-tune the various setting in your printer but it’s also used to see how fast it can print. It takes over an hour on a printer like mine or Woodie’s, but the fastest ones are down to about 2.5 minutes.
Anyway this is just done for fun, I’m not likely to ever build it but I’ll upload the files at some point if someone wants to try it.

And a Benchy, a mere 60 mm or so long.

Benchy is fine, as it’s only in one small footprint on the plate once any sort of initial layer is down. So is the calibration cube. However, if you use a “skirt” even the skirt around the cube doesn’t lay down properly. Fine in one area, nozzle too low on the other side.

Toot toot.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Useless info – I’m designing a very small printer, so small that’s designed to only be able to print one part – the ubiquitous Benchy model. The Benchy is a yardstick that can be used to help find-tune the various setting in your printer but it’s also used to see how fast it can print. It takes over an hour on a printer like mine or Woodie’s, but the fastest ones are down to about 2.5 minutes.
Anyway this is just done for fun, I’m not likely to ever build it but I’ll upload the files at some point if someone wants to try it.

And a Benchy, a mere 60 mm or so long.

Benchy is fine, as it’s only in one small footprint on the plate once any sort of initial layer is down. So is the calibration cube. However, if you use a “skirt” even the skirt around the cube doesn’t lay down properly. Fine in one area, nozzle too low on the other side.

Time to hit it with a hammer then.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Useless info – I’m designing a very small printer, so small that’s designed to only be able to print one part – the ubiquitous Benchy model. The Benchy is a yardstick that can be used to help find-tune the various setting in your printer but it’s also used to see how fast it can print. It takes over an hour on a printer like mine or Woodie’s, but the fastest ones are down to about 2.5 minutes.
Anyway this is just done for fun, I’m not likely to ever build it but I’ll upload the files at some point if someone wants to try it.

And a Benchy, a mere 60 mm or so long.

Benchy is fine, as it’s only in one small footprint on the plate once any sort of initial layer is down. So is the calibration cube. However, if you use a “skirt” even the skirt around the cube doesn’t lay down properly. Fine in one area, nozzle too low on the other side.

Sounds very frustrating.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Just watched this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhmslJpqTo – and it seems pretty straightforward. Can you get a nice straight ruler to check how flat the bed really is perhaps?

BTDT. A good steel ruler. You can see light under it in the middle, but not at the sides. As you know, Mr Norman, Sir, it only takes it to be out by 0.2 – 0.3 mm out and your stuffed.

Not even that much for the first layer. I’m still a bit mystified as to how the glass plate could be that far out though.

me too. If it is the glass plate, it is imperceptible to the eye, or laying it on any other surface. I’ve toyed with the idea that the y-axis rails underneath are not perfectly level/flat. ie a bit bent up/down vertically. But again, imperceptible, if they are. I’ve loosened/tightened them off, to no avail.

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

BTDT. A good steel ruler. You can see light under it in the middle, but not at the sides. As you know, Mr Norman, Sir, it only takes it to be out by 0.2 – 0.3 mm out and your stuffed.

Not even that much for the first layer. I’m still a bit mystified as to how the glass plate could be that far out though.

Have you tried flipping the plate over?

Yews. No diff. Does the same thing in the same spots.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Useless info – I’m designing a very small printer, so small that’s designed to only be able to print one part – the ubiquitous Benchy model. The Benchy is a yardstick that can be used to help find-tune the various setting in your printer but it’s also used to see how fast it can print. It takes over an hour on a printer like mine or Woodie’s, but the fastest ones are down to about 2.5 minutes.
Anyway this is just done for fun, I’m not likely to ever build it but I’ll upload the files at some point if someone wants to try it.

And a Benchy, a mere 60 mm or so long.

Benchy is fine, as it’s only in one small footprint on the plate once any sort of initial layer is down. So is the calibration cube. However, if you use a “skirt” even the skirt around the cube doesn’t lay down properly. Fine in one area, nozzle too low on the other side.

Time to hit it with a hammer then.

Then chuck it in the dam.

sarahs mum said:

Interview with Aunt Mimi
Sandbanks, Poole 1970
QUESTION: What do you really think of the Beatles?
MIMI SMITH: The boys had talent, yes, but they also had a lot of luck as well. When they first played “Love Me Do” I didn’t think much of it.
QUESTION: How did you view the troubles the Beatles have been going through these last few years?
SMITH: I don’t know all this business between John and Paul is about and I don’t dare ask John. I did ring Paul about it, and he told me things would straighten up. The boys have been friends so long. I remember them coming home from school together on their bikes, begging biscuits. I’m sure they’ll get back together soon. This is just a phase they’re passing through.
QUESTION: These days your nephew is very involved in a variety of social, political, and avant-garde causes. How do you feel about that?
SMITH: I’ve just quit reading the papers these days. Apple sends me his records, but I won’t play them. And I’ve asked my friends not to tell me about them. The shameful album cover and that art show of his. He’s been naughty and the public doesn’t like it, and he’s sorry for it. Now he wants sympathy. That’s why he’s come out with all these fantastic stories about an unhappy childhood. It’s true that his mother wasn’t there and there was no father around, but my husband and I gave him a wonderful home. John didn’t buy me these furnishings, my husband did. John, Paul, and George wrote many songs together sitting on the sofa you’re sitting on now, long before you’d ever heard of the Beatles. Why, John even had a pony when he was a little boy! He certainly didn’t come from a slum! None of the boys did. The Harrisons weren’t as well off as the other families, perhaps, but George wasn’t from a slum, either, the way the press had it. And that’s why you never saw photographs of John’s boyhood home. We certainly weren’t imperished, the way John’s talking now?
QUESTION: What do you think changed John so much from his early days as a carefree kid?
SMITH: She’s responsible for all this, Yoko. She changed him, and I’m sure she and Linda are behind the split between John and Paul. Cynthia was such a nice girl. When she and John were in art college, she’d come to my house and say, “Oh, Mimi, what am I going to do about John?” She’d sit there until he came home. Cynthia really pursued him. He’d walk up the road and back until she got tired of waiting and went home. I think he was afraid of her, actually.
QUESTION: You realize, of course, that to many people John is something of a political leader with such songs as, “Power to the People,” for example …
SMITH: Don’t talk to me about such things! I know that boy. He doesn’t know what he’s saying! It’s all an act. If there were a revolution, John would be the first in the queue to run! Why, he’s scared to death of things like that! That’s Yoko talking, not John! Yoko is not exactly right in the head. Everytime John does something bad and gets his picture in the papers he rings up to smooth me over. See that new color television? It was a Christmas present, but he had it delivered early. A big present arrives every time he’s been naughty. I usually have a huge photograph of John hanging in the lounge. When he’s a good boy, it’ll go back up again!

They were all a bit embarrassing.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Not even that much for the first layer. I’m still a bit mystified as to how the glass plate could be that far out though.

Have you tried flipping the plate over?

Yews. No diff. Does the same thing in the same spots.

Very weird. I’m running out of ideas then sorry.
Using Klipper firmware would solve the problem very quickly but it’s a pretty big step up for a beginner.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Have you tried flipping the plate over?

Yews. No diff. Does the same thing in the same spots.

Very weird. I’m running out of ideas then sorry.
Using Klipper firmware would solve the problem very quickly but it’s a pretty big step up for a beginner.

I seem to remember that you have a bit of a computer tech background, is that right? Klipper may not be much of a challenge for you then.

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Yews. No diff. Does the same thing in the same spots.

Very weird. I’m running out of ideas then sorry.
Using Klipper firmware would solve the problem very quickly but it’s a pretty big step up for a beginner.

I seem to remember that you have a bit of a computer tech background, is that right? Klipper may not be much of a challenge for you then.

Have a quick look at this to get an idea of how to install Klipper.

https://3dprintbeginner.com/how-to-install-mainsailos-on-raspberry-pi/

And FWIW I spent about three years trying to get my current printer to work well. You printer is a much better thing to start with than mine.

Not a fan of 60s -70s rock’n’roll (or any rock n’ roll) myself, but if I had to choose, I’d say dumb little T-Rex were sexier than all your Beatles and Stones etc.

Bang a Gong (Get It On) by T.Rex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEhDrJzM8E

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Spiny Norman said:

Very weird. I’m running out of ideas then sorry.
Using Klipper firmware would solve the problem very quickly but it’s a pretty big step up for a beginner.

I seem to remember that you have a bit of a computer tech background, is that right? Klipper may not be much of a challenge for you then.

Have a quick look at this to get an idea of how to install Klipper.

https://3dprintbeginner.com/how-to-install-mainsailos-on-raspberry-pi/

I’ll take a look. taa.

Bubblecar said:

Not a fan of 60s -70s rock’n’roll (or any rock n’ roll) myself, but if I had to choose, I’d say dumb little T-Rex were sexier than all your Beatles and Stones etc.

Bang a Gong (Get It On) by T.Rex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEhDrJzM8E

Better video, plenty of tambourine action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNkwe86LY6Q

Spiny Norman said:

And FWIW I spent about three years trying to get my current printer to work well. You printer is a much better thing to start with than mine.

Currently got a 30hr+ print going on it. Just the driver’s carriage body (not the underframe).

This from Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274441

It has quite fine detail on it, that only shows up in the slicer, if I use a 0.3mm nozzle or less. Note the little handrails below the drivers window, and the vertical bit in the driver’s side window. slicing with 0.4 nozzle, the finer detail like that doesn’t show up in the slicing when “preview” of the slicing layers, and of course, does not print these bits either..

However, it’s producing “squirty bits” out the sides using the 0.3mm nozzle. And the extruder “clunks” every now and then. I think I’m over-extruding and need to set an appropriate flow rate for the smaller nozzle.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

And FWIW I spent about three years trying to get my current printer to work well. You printer is a much better thing to start with than mine.

Currently got a 30hr+ print going on it. Just the driver’s carriage body (not the underframe).

This from Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274441

It has quite fine detail on it, that only shows up in the slicer, if I use a 0.3mm nozzle or less. Note the little handrails below the drivers window, and the vertical bit in the driver’s side window. slicing with 0.4 nozzle, the finer detail like that doesn’t show up in the slicing when “preview” of the slicing layers, and of course, does not print these bits either..

However, it’s producing “squirty bits” out the sides using the 0.3mm nozzle. And the extruder “clunks” every now and then. I think I’m over-extruding and need to set an appropriate flow rate for the smaller nozzle.

Lots of patience and many swearwords required, it seems.

Mind you putting together music on Cubase is similar.

Jumble-face Jake, Jumble-face Jake,
I say make no mistake about Jumble-face Jake

Mind you this sort of music was very welcoming of neurodiverse kids of the time.

We all need more random expressiveness, or expressive randomness, in our lives.

Telegram Sam (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbwVkZ8L8d8

Quite a lot of pieces of hen that need clearing so tonight I’m doing a casserole in the ordinary oven.

Hen, broccoli, beans, peas, onion, garlic, herbs and all the rest of it.

Oh….. and Mr Norman, Sir, this is what I’m aiming for with print quality. I’m a long way off. Albeit he used resin, not filament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITwdyp0WOA&t=222s

Luke Towan is a brilliant modeller. Maybe Parpyone take a look as well.

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

And FWIW I spent about three years trying to get my current printer to work well. You printer is a much better thing to start with than mine.

Currently got a 30hr+ print going on it. Just the driver’s carriage body (not the underframe).

This from Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274441

It has quite fine detail on it, that only shows up in the slicer, if I use a 0.3mm nozzle or less. Note the little handrails below the drivers window, and the vertical bit in the driver’s side window. slicing with 0.4 nozzle, the finer detail like that doesn’t show up in the slicing when “preview” of the slicing layers, and of course, does not print these bits either..

However, it’s producing “squirty bits” out the sides using the 0.3mm nozzle. And the extruder “clunks” every now and then. I think I’m over-extruding and need to set an appropriate flow rate for the smaller nozzle.

If I may suggest that you try very simple prints until you get the machine sorted.

Bubblecar said:

Quite a lot of pieces of hen that need clearing so tonight I’m doing a casserole in the ordinary oven.

Hen, broccoli, beans, peas, onion, garlic, herbs and all the rest of it.

White wine.

Woodie said:

Oh….. and Mr Norman, Sir, this is what I’m aiming for with print quality. I’m a long way off. Albeit he used resin, not filament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITwdyp0WOA&t=222s

Luke Towan is a brilliant modeller. Maybe Parpyone take a look as well.

Yeah looks good. The resin printers are much better with detailed work like that. And faster.

Dinner report: chicken, feta, pistachio and rocket sausages with broccoli and sugar snap peas with garlic and herb butter

Just had a phone call from the Chinese Embassy, important notice.

But it all sounded Greek to me, so I hung up.

OCDC said:

Dinner report: chicken, feta, pistachio and rocket sausages with broccoli and sugar snap peas with garlic and herb butter

That’ll be nice.

I must admit I have some feta in stock but won’t be including it in this casserole. It’s for naughty snacks later.

Spiny Norman said:

Woodie said:

Spiny Norman said:

And FWIW I spent about three years trying to get my current printer to work well. You printer is a much better thing to start with than mine.

Currently got a 30hr+ print going on it. Just the driver’s carriage body (not the underframe).

This from Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274441

It has quite fine detail on it, that only shows up in the slicer, if I use a 0.3mm nozzle or less. Note the little handrails below the drivers window, and the vertical bit in the driver’s side window. slicing with 0.4 nozzle, the finer detail like that doesn’t show up in the slicing when “preview” of the slicing layers, and of course, does not print these bits either..

However, it’s producing “squirty bits” out the sides using the 0.3mm nozzle. And the extruder “clunks” every now and then. I think I’m over-extruding and need to set an appropriate flow rate for the smaller nozzle.

If I may suggest that you try very simple prints until you get the machine sorted.

I need something that spans the build plate to sort this levelling thing out.

sarahs mum said:

Winston? It was always the Republic in my day.

Gosh, i had been wondering if maybe i should get a 3D printer.

All these posts have decided for me: no f****ing way, Jose.

I got the poops so badly with the hassles of an inkjet printer that i simply threw away the last one, and life without one is only just marginally more inconvenient, and vastly less bothersome.

All this finicky finagling with a 3D printer would be the end of me.

It seems like these problems are getting to the stage where they need their own thread. Or maybe their own forum.

Seriously thinking I ought to get this butterscotch blonde electric guitar to complete the guitars.

It’s only snobbishness that has prevented me having some fun with the electric ones.

https://www.artistguitars.com.au/buy/Artist-TL69BND-Thinline-Electric-Guitar-Butterscot/70433

Peter Northcote finds it quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-Fw5XzRjA

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Winston? It was always the Republic in my day.

captain_spalding said:

Gosh, i had been wondering if maybe i should get a 3D printer.

All these posts have decided for me: no f****ing way, Jose.

I got the poops so badly with the hassles of an inkjet printer that i simply threw away the last one, and life without one is only just marginally more inconvenient, and vastly less bothersome.

All this finicky finagling with a 3D printer would be the end of me.

It seems like these problems are getting to the stage where they need their own thread. Or maybe their own forum.

As Woodie is finding, 3D printing is a steep learning curve. These are not “appliances for the masses”. A long-standing passion to do this type of creation is required.

But as for inkjet printers, they’re normally quite simple :)

My cheapy Canon printer has been serving me well for the last decade.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

I assume pedestrians were sometimes splattered with muck and oil from the exposed chain.

you reminds of the seventies, flared pants, ideal for getting in bicycle chains, I really miss that

And even if they didn’t get stuck in the chain, you’d be wearing indelible oil stains.

Except for the few sensible enough to wear bicycle clips.

Chain guards…

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Winston? It was always the Republic in my day.

Ah, wrong pub of similar vintage.

I have a cousin and wife who are on their way from Perth to Hobart. We have arranged to meet up on the 5th.

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19 m ·
Big bad problems…we stopped in a low bridge street unable to go forward. .. reversed caravan out and blew our clutch out so after a long time ( not going into details ) have been towed to Geelong.caravan park and will have to wait till monday for mech to open to get a new clutch , Hobart delayed till when mech can do it hopefully monday order it tuesday fit it !!! in the mean time rest up and do cleaning and washing .

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Winston? It was always the Republic in my day.

Ah, wrong pub of similar vintage.

Easy enough to do. And it is what you would expect of the Republic.

OCDC said:

Dinner report: chicken, feta, pistachio and rocket sausages with broccoli and sugar snap peas with garlic and herb butter

We are having fish and chips from the local shop. Which re-opened today with new people running it. We know all the old stuff was thrown out and a lot of cleaning has happened in the past 2 weeks. If nothing else, the food should be fresh. I’ve got some Brussels sprouts steaming for accompaniment.

buffy said:

OCDC said:

Dinner report: chicken, feta, pistachio and rocket sausages with broccoli and sugar snap peas with garlic and herb butter

We are having fish and chips from the local shop. Which re-opened today with new people running it. We know all the old stuff was thrown out and a lot of cleaning has happened in the past 2 weeks. If nothing else, the food should be fresh. I’ve got some Brussels sprouts steaming for accompaniment.

Fish and chips with Brussels sprouts is a new frontier.

Bubblecar said:

Seriously thinking I ought to get this butterscotch blonde electric guitar to complete the guitars.

It’s only snobbishness that has prevented me having some fun with the electric ones.

https://www.artistguitars.com.au/buy/Artist-TL69BND-Thinline-Electric-Guitar-Butterscot/70433

Peter Northcote finds it quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-Fw5XzRjA

I’m not convinced,

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Seriously thinking I ought to get this butterscotch blonde electric guitar to complete the guitars.

It’s only snobbishness that has prevented me having some fun with the electric ones.

https://www.artistguitars.com.au/buy/Artist-TL69BND-Thinline-Electric-Guitar-Butterscot/70433

Peter Northcote finds it quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-Fw5XzRjA

I’m not convinced,

What’s the problem?

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

OCDC said:

Dinner report: chicken, feta, pistachio and rocket sausages with broccoli and sugar snap peas with garlic and herb butter

We are having fish and chips from the local shop. Which re-opened today with new people running it. We know all the old stuff was thrown out and a lot of cleaning has happened in the past 2 weeks. If nothing else, the food should be fresh. I’ve got some Brussels sprouts steaming for accompaniment.

Fish and chips with Brussels sprouts is a new frontier.

And a monstrosity. One does not have steamed veg with F&C.

I will soon be marinating chicken in tandoori spice and yoghurt for tomorrow.

OCDC said:

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

We are having fish and chips from the local shop. Which re-opened today with new people running it. We know all the old stuff was thrown out and a lot of cleaning has happened in the past 2 weeks. If nothing else, the food should be fresh. I’ve got some Brussels sprouts steaming for accompaniment.

Fish and chips with Brussels sprouts is a new frontier.

And a monstrosity. One does not have steamed veg with F&C.

Can’t help thinking it’ll be a strange green irrelevance.

Deep fried battered sprouts have novelty value.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Seriously thinking I ought to get this butterscotch blonde electric guitar to complete the guitars.

It’s only snobbishness that has prevented me having some fun with the electric ones.

https://www.artistguitars.com.au/buy/Artist-TL69BND-Thinline-Electric-Guitar-Butterscot/70433

Peter Northcote finds it quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-Fw5XzRjA

I’m not convinced,

Why I’m inclined to trust Mr Northcote’s judgement on the virtues of a cheap guitar:

>You may or may not know Pete Northcote – but you certainly have heard him!

Arguably the most recorded guitarist in Australian history, and winner of the 2007 Musicoz Best Instrumentalist Award, turn on the TV and he plays on 90% of the ads you see and hear, pick your favourite show and there is a good chance he played guitar on the track or wrote the music. Peter can also be heard in the house band on channel 7’s Weekend Sunrise every week.

As for record dates, Pete has recorded with Australian Idol cast albums, Anthony Callea, Bob Downe, Daryl Braithwaite, Doc Neeson, Dragon, Grace Knight, Guy Sebastian, Hi5, Human Nature, Jenny Morris, Jimmy Barnes, Julie Anthony, Marcia Hines, Margaret Urlich, Marc Hunter, Neil Murray, Paul Kelly, Shannon Noll, Sharon O’Neill, Simon Philips and Yothu Yindi to name but a few! Pete has also performed and toured with international acts: Elton John, Cher, Shania Twain, Billy Joel, The Monkeys, Rod Stewart, Bo Diddly and Tom Jones.

Pete’s first solo album Conditions Apply won critical acclaim from virtuoso guitarist Steve Vai (David Lee Roth, Frank Zappa, Whitesnake) and after only one packed house performance at Sydney’s Basement, Conditions Apply is now in its second printing.

His second album Poindexter and The Genius Sex Act is a concept album with a difference. Borne out of the quagmire of Pete’s eclectic but focused imagination, this album is a major turning point in his already expansive career. “More like a pantomime than a gig”, Pete performs the entire album as it is on the disc complete with a running monologue and a few props and surprises thrown in for good measure.

His third album Chill Axe is as the title suggests… a chill out album. Written with cafés, nightclubs and long love making session in mind, Chill Axe was a return to his library/production music catalogue that now spans more than 300 works.

Album number four, Slow Love is a 6 track EP. You’ll like this.

Although somewhat virtuosic, Pete’s music is not your typical ‘widdly widdly’ guitar instrumental. Nor is it the same blues licks you’ve heard guitarists emulate since Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Accessible, melodic, fun and fresh. exciting, assaulting and emotional. Peter’s music will have you tapping into some deep emotional, spiritual and sensual areas of your being whilst at times have you giggling inside at some more than familiar circumstances.

Pete is still happy to make other people famous, but his live shows will have you wondering why he hadn’t done this sooner.

https://qso.com.au/about/artists/peter-northcote

Oven is preheating, time to chop stuff for the casserole.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Seriously thinking I ought to get this butterscotch blonde electric guitar to complete the guitars.

It’s only snobbishness that has prevented me having some fun with the electric ones.

https://www.artistguitars.com.au/buy/Artist-TL69BND-Thinline-Electric-Guitar-Butterscot/70433

Peter Northcote finds it quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-Fw5XzRjA

I’m not convinced,

What’s the problem?

Nothing I suppose. It will bring you joy and I suppose it is never too late to become a prog rock gitar player.

I think I will doctor a frozen pizza.

sarahs mum said:

I think I will doctor a frozen pizza.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

I’m not convinced,

What’s the problem?

Nothing I suppose. It will bring you joy and I suppose it is never too late to become a prog rock gitar player.

It would just be for occasional fun :)

Not likely to intrude into my proper music.

OCDC said:

sarahs mum said:

I think I will doctor a frozen pizza.

I like pineapple. but that’s going a bit far.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

What’s the problem?

Nothing I suppose. It will bring you joy and I suppose it is never too late to become a prog rock gitar player.

It would just be for occasional fun :)

Not likely to intrude into my proper music.

….similar to me buying a banjo :)

But likely to be used more often than the banjo which is now really just a music room prop, until I can find a replacement tailpiece and replace the strings with Nylgut.

Bubblecar said:

Seriously thinking I ought to get this butterscotch blonde electric guitar to complete the guitars.

It’s only snobbishness that has prevented me having some fun with the electric ones.

https://www.artistguitars.com.au/buy/Artist-TL69BND-Thinline-Electric-Guitar-Butterscot/70433

Peter Northcote finds it quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-Fw5XzRjA

Most musicians got over that hurdle decades agp.

And the fish and chips was excellent. Looks like they are doing their own batter. And the sprouts were also good. We had raw carrot earlier. So that means we had our 3 veg…

Good evening folks!

monkey skipper said:

Good evening folks!

evening

OCDC said:

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

We are having fish and chips from the local shop. Which re-opened today with new people running it. We know all the old stuff was thrown out and a lot of cleaning has happened in the past 2 weeks. If nothing else, the food should be fresh. I’ve got some Brussels sprouts steaming for accompaniment.

Fish and chips with Brussels sprouts is a new frontier.

And a monstrosity. One does not have steamed veg with F&C.

you’ve never lived.

roughbarked said:

monkey skipper said:

Good evening folks!

evening

Hey RB. Apparently in the Amazon there is a walking palm tree thing that can grown roots that move the tree around the forest when the area of location become nutrient deficient or too shady due to neighbouring trees.

monkey skipper said:

Good evening folks!

What can the monkey clan expect for dinner tonight, or have they already been fed?

monkey skipper said:

roughbarked said:

monkey skipper said:

Good evening folks!

evening

Hey RB. Apparently in the Amazon there is a walking palm tree thing that can grown roots that move the tree around the forest when the area of location become nutrient deficient or too shady due to neighbouring trees.

Shades of the Ents! :)

bit of a plastic plant, needed check if real

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

Bubblecar said:

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

I wonder if any monkeys get peanut allergies.

transition said:

bit of a plastic plant, needed check if real

They do have that gloss estapol type finish.

Bubblecar said:

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

dinner time with the family, where are you in there, master car

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

dinner time with the family, where are you in there, master car

Is it insult time?
Did’ne hear your usual request.

Bubblecar said:

Spiny Norman said:

An amazing result from a Japanese team for a glider flight over water. It sent waaaay further than I thought it would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22zljTcRRSg

Well done.

We need one built for the Moomba bird-man rally.

Although, I don’t think the Moomba take-off run is as long as the Japanese one. It might shorten the flying distance somewhat.

roughbarked said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

dinner time with the family, where are you in there, master car

Is it insult time?
Did’ne hear your usual request.

go ahead

mights has a nap while dinner cooks

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

dinner time with the family, where are you in there, master car

Just an observer, but I’d join in if they insist.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

dinner time with the family, where are you in there, master car

Just an observer, but I’d join in if they insist.

not mind some peanuts, me self

good looking animals, probably whole lot less trouble than peoples

transition said:

roughbarked said:

transition said:

dinner time with the family, where are you in there, master car

Is it insult time?
Did’ne hear your usual request.

go ahead

Is toye daughter Amy?

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Monkeys enjoying peanuts.

dinner time with the family, where are you in there, master car

Just an observer, but I’d join in if they insist.

If a gang of monkeys insist, you don’t have much choice. They’ll run rings around you.

transition said:

mights has a nap while dinner cooks

That’s a damn good idea that I was about to suggest.

Casserole will be cooking for an hour or more so I might as well implement a grandmother slumber.

Might go with this tonight. Apparently it’s a series which we haven’t seen, but this seems to be a one off episode.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/intelligence-a-special-agent-special

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-01/territory-day-australias-last-cracker-night/102541428

It’s not that uncommon for people to let off fireworks around here. I assume they’re people on party holidays. Where they get them from, I have no idea.

buffy said:

Might go with this tonight. Apparently it’s a series which we haven’t seen, but this seems to be a one off episode.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/intelligence-a-special-agent-special

Sounds interesting.

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-01/territory-day-australias-last-cracker-night/102541428

It’s not that uncommon for people to let off fireworks around here. I assume they’re people on party holidays. Where they get them from, I have no idea.

Happens here too. I presume they have connections to truckies who can traffic them from the Northern Territory.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-01/territory-day-australias-last-cracker-night/102541428

It’s not that uncommon for people to let off fireworks around here. I assume they’re people on party holidays. Where they get them from, I have no idea.

Happens here too. I presume they have connections to truckies who can traffic them from the Northern Territory.

Can you still buy them in the ACT?

AussieDJ said:

Bubblecar said:

Spiny Norman said:

An amazing result from a Japanese team for a glider flight over water. It sent waaaay further than I thought it would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22zljTcRRSg

Well done.

We need one built for the Moomba bird-man rally.

Although, I don’t think the Moomba take-off run is as long as the Japanese one. It might shorten the flying distance somewhat.

Looks like the Japanese team was competing in their version of the Birdman Rally, if you read the comments.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-01/territory-day-australias-last-cracker-night/102541428

It’s not that uncommon for people to let off fireworks around here. I assume they’re people on party holidays. Where they get them from, I have no idea.

Happens here too. I presume they have connections to truckies who can traffic them from the Northern Territory.

Can you still buy them in the ACT?

You can apply for a license here. The local school sometimes has a firework night,

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-01/territory-day-australias-last-cracker-night/102541428

It’s not that uncommon for people to let off fireworks around here. I assume they’re people on party holidays. Where they get them from, I have no idea.

Happens here too. I presume they have connections to truckies who can traffic them from the Northern Territory.

Can you still buy them in the ACT?

No.

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Happens here too. I presume they have connections to truckies who can traffic them from the Northern Territory.

Can you still buy them in the ACT?

You can apply for a license here. The local school sometimes has a firework night,

If you have a pyrotechnics license, you can let them off anywhere. The watchers have to stand over there though. The peeps aren’t allowed to hadle their own fireworks.

When ah wurr a lad…

…and fireworks became harder/impossible to get, we simply made our own stuff that went bang.

While little of it would count as ‘fireworks’ as commonly understood, it was vastly entertaining. I have no idea why we weren’t all killed at an early age.

Perhaps if the authorities had known that a mob like us would eventually produce a smoothbore cannon that could fire beer cans filled with concrete over a respectable range with reasonable accuracy, they might have been more inclined to let us continue buying fireworks.

captain_spalding said:

When ah wurr a lad…

…and fireworks became harder/impossible to get, we simply made our own stuff that went bang.

While little of it would count as ‘fireworks’ as commonly understood, it was vastly entertaining. I have no idea why we weren’t all killed at an early age.

Perhaps if the authorities had known that a mob like us would eventually produce a smoothbore cannon that could fire beer cans filled with concrete over a respectable range with reasonable accuracy, they might have been more inclined to let us continue buying fireworks.

:) I recall the Finks had a chapter at Barellan. They used to load home made cannons and fire nuts and bolts at each other. Went swimmingly until one bloke got nailed to the Barellan pub verandah post by his ears.

A new and strange macOS malware called “JokerSpy” has been identified, with its first known backdoor creation hitting a crypto exchange.
While Mac threats are relatively rare compared to Windows, the number of instances where macOS is the target has continued to grow. In a new discovery, it seems there’s one more backdoor-creating malware to add to the list of potential threats.

Initially reported by researchers by Bitdefender with independent research also carried out by Elastic Security Labs, the malware known as JokerSpy is still relatively unknown, in part due to a lack of samples. So far, BitDefender is working on four samples in total, while Elastic focused on the breach of a “prominent Japanese cryptocurrency exchange.”

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/27/new-mysterious-macos-malware-infiltrates-crypto-exchange

roughbarked said:

A new and strange macOS malware called “JokerSpy” has been identified, with its first known backdoor creation hitting a crypto exchange.
While Mac threats are relatively rare compared to Windows, the number of instances where macOS is the target has continued to grow. In a new discovery, it seems there’s one more backdoor-creating malware to add to the list of potential threats.

Initially reported by researchers by Bitdefender with independent research also carried out by Elastic Security Labs, the malware known as JokerSpy is still relatively unknown, in part due to a lack of samples. So far, BitDefender is working on four samples in total, while Elastic focused on the breach of a “prominent Japanese cryptocurrency exchange.”

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/27/new-mysterious-macos-malware-infiltrates-crypto-exchange

PC users to Mac users:

The Russians are coming?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-issues-ddos-warning-after-attacks-hit-multiple-us-orgs/

https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/cybersecurity/dos-and-ddos-attacks-against-multiple-sectors-2/

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

A new and strange macOS malware called “JokerSpy” has been identified, with its first known backdoor creation hitting a crypto exchange.
While Mac threats are relatively rare compared to Windows, the number of instances where macOS is the target has continued to grow. In a new discovery, it seems there’s one more backdoor-creating malware to add to the list of potential threats.

Initially reported by researchers by Bitdefender with independent research also carried out by Elastic Security Labs, the malware known as JokerSpy is still relatively unknown, in part due to a lack of samples. So far, BitDefender is working on four samples in total, while Elastic focused on the breach of a “prominent Japanese cryptocurrency exchange.”

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/27/new-mysterious-macos-malware-infiltrates-crypto-exchange

PC users to Mac users:

:)

Bubblecar said:

monkey skipper said:

Good evening folks!

What can the monkey clan expect for dinner tonight, or have they already been fed?

um… they had sausages and a pasta bake with some vegetables. I had a sausage sandwich with cheese and bbq sauce. I was off watching some 60 minutes videos.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

bit of a plastic plant, needed check if real

They do have that gloss estapol type finish.

lipstick lily

monkey skipper said:

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

bit of a plastic plant, needed check if real

They do have that gloss estapol type finish.

lipstick lily

Another of Gaia’s fascinating creations.

captain_spalding said:

When ah wurr a lad…

…and fireworks became harder/impossible to get, we simply made our own stuff that went bang.

While little of it would count as ‘fireworks’ as commonly understood, it was vastly entertaining. I have no idea why we weren’t all killed at an early age.

Perhaps if the authorities had known that a mob like us would eventually produce a smoothbore cannon that could fire beer cans filled with concrete over a respectable range with reasonable accuracy, they might have been more inclined to let us continue buying fireworks.

I was also part of a mob that launched sand-filled beer cans out of a smoothbore cannon at a group of people approaching through the bush in the dark, apparently to gatecrash our party.

Well, we were somewhat surprised to find out that the group was in fact the fully armed TRG, who had been called out to a “firefight” in the bush behind town. The firefight was us chucking aerosol cans into the bonfire, and launching beer cans into the bush with a heavy duty spud gun.

The TRG were not amused. We sobered up rather rapidly when faced with large caliber barrels. The party was called off.

Kingy said:

captain_spalding said:

When ah wurr a lad…

…and fireworks became harder/impossible to get, we simply made our own stuff that went bang.

While little of it would count as ‘fireworks’ as commonly understood, it was vastly entertaining. I have no idea why we weren’t all killed at an early age.

Perhaps if the authorities had known that a mob like us would eventually produce a smoothbore cannon that could fire beer cans filled with concrete over a respectable range with reasonable accuracy, they might have been more inclined to let us continue buying fireworks.

I was also part of a mob that launched sand-filled beer cans out of a smoothbore cannon at a group of people approaching through the bush in the dark, apparently to gatecrash our party.

Well, we were somewhat surprised to find out that the group was in fact the fully armed TRG, who had been called out to a “firefight” in the bush behind town. The firefight was us chucking aerosol cans into the bonfire, and launching beer cans into the bush with a heavy duty spud gun.

The TRG were not amused. We sobered up rather rapidly when faced with large caliber barrels. The party was called off.

Sent home with tails between legs?

captain_spalding said:

When ah wurr a lad…

…and fireworks became harder/impossible to get, we simply made our own stuff that went bang.

While little of it would count as ‘fireworks’ as commonly understood, it was vastly entertaining. I have no idea why we weren’t all killed at an early age.

Perhaps if the authorities had known that a mob like us would eventually produce a smoothbore cannon that could fire beer cans filled with concrete over a respectable range with reasonable accuracy, they might have been more inclined to let us continue buying fireworks.

chuckle, that’s a good story

Kingy said:

captain_spalding said:

When ah wurr a lad…

…and fireworks became harder/impossible to get, we simply made our own stuff that went bang.

While little of it would count as ‘fireworks’ as commonly understood, it was vastly entertaining. I have no idea why we weren’t all killed at an early age.

Perhaps if the authorities had known that a mob like us would eventually produce a smoothbore cannon that could fire beer cans filled with concrete over a respectable range with reasonable accuracy, they might have been more inclined to let us continue buying fireworks.

I was also part of a mob that launched sand-filled beer cans out of a smoothbore cannon at a group of people approaching through the bush in the dark, apparently to gatecrash our party.

Well, we were somewhat surprised to find out that the group was in fact the fully armed TRG, who had been called out to a “firefight” in the bush behind town. The firefight was us chucking aerosol cans into the bonfire, and launching beer cans into the bush with a heavy duty spud gun.

The TRG were not amused. We sobered up rather rapidly when faced with large caliber barrels. The party was called off.

We never fired ours at people. We were irresponsible, but not insane.

We did fire them at a variety of targets. Plywood was like tissue paper to our projectiles, panels made of loading pallet pine didn’t even slow them down, breeze blocks resisted to some degree but were no match for a good hit. A good size drum full of water made for a spectacular hit.

captain_spalding said:

Kingy said:

captain_spalding said:

When ah wurr a lad…

…and fireworks became harder/impossible to get, we simply made our own stuff that went bang.

While little of it would count as ‘fireworks’ as commonly understood, it was vastly entertaining. I have no idea why we weren’t all killed at an early age.

Perhaps if the authorities had known that a mob like us would eventually produce a smoothbore cannon that could fire beer cans filled with concrete over a respectable range with reasonable accuracy, they might have been more inclined to let us continue buying fireworks.

I was also part of a mob that launched sand-filled beer cans out of a smoothbore cannon at a group of people approaching through the bush in the dark, apparently to gatecrash our party.

Well, we were somewhat surprised to find out that the group was in fact the fully armed TRG, who had been called out to a “firefight” in the bush behind town. The firefight was us chucking aerosol cans into the bonfire, and launching beer cans into the bush with a heavy duty spud gun.

The TRG were not amused. We sobered up rather rapidly when faced with large caliber barrels. The party was called off.

We never fired ours at people. We were irresponsible, but not insane.

We did fire them at a variety of targets. Plywood was like tissue paper to our projectiles, panels made of loading pallet pine didn’t even slow them down, breeze blocks resisted to some degree but were no match for a good hit. A good size drum full of water made for a spectacular hit.

I was one of the people chucking aerosol cans into the bonfire, the guy who was launching cans at people was a nutcase, and eventually did time for roadraging in a drive through KFC, climbed into the server window and yanked the comms unit off the wall.

He was a rich guys kid who never had to deal with consequences till he was an adult.

Anyway, today I got the lawn mowed, edges trimmed, driveway and paths pressure washed, washing done(thanks Ms Kingy), emails done, and scored my next earthworks job.

For a brief moment yesterday my operating balance went positive, until the urgent bills got paid.

Apart from two building companies who haven’t paid their overdue invoices, several bobcat breakdowns, and telstra being their usual utterly incompetent selves, things are going ok.

This seems to be a good idea…

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The SeaWing integrated solution combines kite technology with an automated flight control system developed by the aerospace industry to harness the power of the wind.

Safe, clean, reliable, and compact, the system can be used easily by virtually any commercial ship to reduce emissions and fuel consumption by an average of 20 percent.

The control interface enables automated operations and monitoring of Seawing from the wheelhouse.

The EcoRouting solution, allows the ship to benefit from weather opportunities to maximize fuel savings through advanced Digital Twin technology, a route optimization algorithm developped by Maxsea, which optimizes the ship’s route according to the weather forecast while maintaining the planned ETD and ETA, as well as user-friendly procedures, adapted to real ship operations.

The SeaWing hardware consists of three parts:

The bridge equipment oversees the operation and monitoring of Seawing and the EcoRouting system.

The deck equipment enables the automated take-off and landing of the parafoil wing. It consists of a mast, trolleys, winches, and a storage space.

The wing is pulled out of the storage by the trolley system before inflating at the top of the mast for take-off.

The flying equipment, which includes the parafoil wing, a flight control pod, and an umbilical cable, controls the automated and optimal flight of the wing.

The wing is linked to the pod, which is connected to the ship via the umbilical cable, handling traction, transferring data, and providing power to the pod.

During the flight, the pod steers the wing to maximize the system’s power and ensure safety.

AirSeas’ SeaWing technology requires minimal deck space and is bolt-mounted, making it easy to retrofit during a short port stay.

It does not interfere with cargo operations, is not limited by height restrictions, and can be installed on virtually all ship types.

The mission is to harness wind power, and two unique features allow it, enabling over 20 percent fuel and GHG savings.

SeaWing flies at an altitude of over 200 meters to harness steadier and stronger winds.

SeaWing flies dynamically on a figure-of-8 trajectory at over 100 km/h, which generates 10 times more traction power than a static kite or sail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKOfHCNf-o

Kingy said:

This seems to be a good idea…

—————————

The SeaWing integrated solution combines kite technology with an automated flight control system developed by the aerospace industry to harness the power of the wind.

Safe, clean, reliable, and compact, the system can be used easily by virtually any commercial ship to reduce emissions and fuel consumption by an average of 20 percent.

The control interface enables automated operations and monitoring of Seawing from the wheelhouse.

The EcoRouting solution, allows the ship to benefit from weather opportunities to maximize fuel savings through advanced Digital Twin technology, a route optimization algorithm developped by Maxsea, which optimizes the ship’s route according to the weather forecast while maintaining the planned ETD and ETA, as well as user-friendly procedures, adapted to real ship operations.

The SeaWing hardware consists of three parts:

The bridge equipment oversees the operation and monitoring of Seawing and the EcoRouting system.

The deck equipment enables the automated take-off and landing of the parafoil wing. It consists of a mast, trolleys, winches, and a storage space.

The wing is pulled out of the storage by the trolley system before inflating at the top of the mast for take-off.

The flying equipment, which includes the parafoil wing, a flight control pod, and an umbilical cable, controls the automated and optimal flight of the wing.

The wing is linked to the pod, which is connected to the ship via the umbilical cable, handling traction, transferring data, and providing power to the pod.

During the flight, the pod steers the wing to maximize the system’s power and ensure safety.

AirSeas’ SeaWing technology requires minimal deck space and is bolt-mounted, making it easy to retrofit during a short port stay.

It does not interfere with cargo operations, is not limited by height restrictions, and can be installed on virtually all ship types.

The mission is to harness wind power, and two unique features allow it, enabling over 20 percent fuel and GHG savings.

SeaWing flies at an altitude of over 200 meters to harness steadier and stronger winds.

SeaWing flies dynamically on a figure-of-8 trajectory at over 100 km/h, which generates 10 times more traction power than a static kite or sail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKOfHCNf-o

Interesting.

But that launching and recovery gear needs to be 110% foolproof.

There’s skippers and crews out there running merchant ships who can foul up the simplest things, given half a chance.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Might go with this tonight. Apparently it’s a series which we haven’t seen, but this seems to be a one off episode.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/intelligence-a-special-agent-special

Sounds interesting.

Don’t bother…

Oh, I forgot to insult transition.

Umm, your dog looks like an old mop.

Sorry, that was the best I could come up with at short notice.

captain_spalding said:

Kingy said:

This seems to be a good idea…

—————————

The SeaWing integrated solution combines kite technology with an automated flight control system developed by the aerospace industry to harness the power of the wind.

Safe, clean, reliable, and compact, the system can be used easily by virtually any commercial ship to reduce emissions and fuel consumption by an average of 20 percent.

The control interface enables automated operations and monitoring of Seawing from the wheelhouse.

The EcoRouting solution, allows the ship to benefit from weather opportunities to maximize fuel savings through advanced Digital Twin technology, a route optimization algorithm developped by Maxsea, which optimizes the ship’s route according to the weather forecast while maintaining the planned ETD and ETA, as well as user-friendly procedures, adapted to real ship operations.

The SeaWing hardware consists of three parts:

The bridge equipment oversees the operation and monitoring of Seawing and the EcoRouting system.

The deck equipment enables the automated take-off and landing of the parafoil wing. It consists of a mast, trolleys, winches, and a storage space.

The wing is pulled out of the storage by the trolley system before inflating at the top of the mast for take-off.

The flying equipment, which includes the parafoil wing, a flight control pod, and an umbilical cable, controls the automated and optimal flight of the wing.

The wing is linked to the pod, which is connected to the ship via the umbilical cable, handling traction, transferring data, and providing power to the pod.

During the flight, the pod steers the wing to maximize the system’s power and ensure safety.

AirSeas’ SeaWing technology requires minimal deck space and is bolt-mounted, making it easy to retrofit during a short port stay.

It does not interfere with cargo operations, is not limited by height restrictions, and can be installed on virtually all ship types.

The mission is to harness wind power, and two unique features allow it, enabling over 20 percent fuel and GHG savings.

SeaWing flies at an altitude of over 200 meters to harness steadier and stronger winds.

SeaWing flies dynamically on a figure-of-8 trajectory at over 100 km/h, which generates 10 times more traction power than a static kite or sail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKOfHCNf-o

Interesting.

But that launching and recovery gear needs to be 110% foolproof.

There’s skippers and crews out there running merchant ships who can foul up the simplest things, given half a chance.

Because they have been partaking in some alcoholic beverages, most days?

Got trouble with the youngsters in France it seems.

Kingy said:

This seems to be a good idea…

—————————

The SeaWing integrated solution combines kite technology with an automated flight control system developed by the aerospace industry to harness the power of the wind.

Safe, clean, reliable, and compact, the system can be used easily by virtually any commercial ship to reduce emissions and fuel consumption by an average of 20 percent.

The control interface enables automated operations and monitoring of Seawing from the wheelhouse.

The EcoRouting solution, allows the ship to benefit from weather opportunities to maximize fuel savings through advanced Digital Twin technology, a route optimization algorithm developped by Maxsea, which optimizes the ship’s route according to the weather forecast while maintaining the planned ETD and ETA, as well as user-friendly procedures, adapted to real ship operations.

The SeaWing hardware consists of three parts:

The bridge equipment oversees the operation and monitoring of Seawing and the EcoRouting system.

The deck equipment enables the automated take-off and landing of the parafoil wing. It consists of a mast, trolleys, winches, and a storage space.

The wing is pulled out of the storage by the trolley system before inflating at the top of the mast for take-off.

The flying equipment, which includes the parafoil wing, a flight control pod, and an umbilical cable, controls the automated and optimal flight of the wing.

The wing is linked to the pod, which is connected to the ship via the umbilical cable, handling traction, transferring data, and providing power to the pod.

During the flight, the pod steers the wing to maximize the system’s power and ensure safety.

AirSeas’ SeaWing technology requires minimal deck space and is bolt-mounted, making it easy to retrofit during a short port stay.

It does not interfere with cargo operations, is not limited by height restrictions, and can be installed on virtually all ship types.

The mission is to harness wind power, and two unique features allow it, enabling over 20 percent fuel and GHG savings.

SeaWing flies at an altitude of over 200 meters to harness steadier and stronger winds.

SeaWing flies dynamically on a figure-of-8 trajectory at over 100 km/h, which generates 10 times more traction power than a static kite or sail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKOfHCNf-o

Sorry, that video was unwatchable because of the narration. Can’t stand it.

party_pants said:

Kingy said:

This seems to be a good idea…

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKOfHCNf-o

Sorry, that video was unwatchable because of the narration. Can’t stand it.

When that narration gives you the irrits (I agree, by the way, it sounds like AI-generated audio), you can always try reading the transcript.

Click on the three dots on the right-hand side section under the video, and select Show transcript.
That might help.

party_pants said:

Kingy said:

This seems to be a good idea…

—————————

The SeaWing integrated solution combines kite technology with an automated flight control system developed by the aerospace industry to harness the power of the wind.

Safe, clean, reliable, and compact, the system can be used easily by virtually any commercial ship to reduce emissions and fuel consumption by an average of 20 percent.

The control interface enables automated operations and monitoring of Seawing from the wheelhouse.

The EcoRouting solution, allows the ship to benefit from weather opportunities to maximize fuel savings through advanced Digital Twin technology, a route optimization algorithm developped by Maxsea, which optimizes the ship’s route according to the weather forecast while maintaining the planned ETD and ETA, as well as user-friendly procedures, adapted to real ship operations.

The SeaWing hardware consists of three parts:

The bridge equipment oversees the operation and monitoring of Seawing and the EcoRouting system.

The deck equipment enables the automated take-off and landing of the parafoil wing. It consists of a mast, trolleys, winches, and a storage space.

The wing is pulled out of the storage by the trolley system before inflating at the top of the mast for take-off.

The flying equipment, which includes the parafoil wing, a flight control pod, and an umbilical cable, controls the automated and optimal flight of the wing.

The wing is linked to the pod, which is connected to the ship via the umbilical cable, handling traction, transferring data, and providing power to the pod.

During the flight, the pod steers the wing to maximize the system’s power and ensure safety.

AirSeas’ SeaWing technology requires minimal deck space and is bolt-mounted, making it easy to retrofit during a short port stay.

It does not interfere with cargo operations, is not limited by height restrictions, and can be installed on virtually all ship types.

The mission is to harness wind power, and two unique features allow it, enabling over 20 percent fuel and GHG savings.

SeaWing flies at an altitude of over 200 meters to harness steadier and stronger winds.

SeaWing flies dynamically on a figure-of-8 trajectory at over 100 km/h, which generates 10 times more traction power than a static kite or sail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKOfHCNf-o

Sorry, that video was unwatchable because of the narration. Can’t stand it.

I didn’t mind the narration but the kite supposedly towing the huge ship wasn’t very convincing.

Maybe in real life the numbers add up.

Tasmanian History
Tim Firth · 6 h ·

sarahs mum said:

Tasmanian History
Tim Firth · 6 h ·

Wonder if it still exists.

Ou et le Frog Bicyclettes de la jour une, Parpyone. Ou et le on le tele.

Woodie said:

Ou et le Frog Bicyclettes de la jour une, Parpyone. Ou et le on le tele.

If Phil Liggett and the ghost of Paul Sherwin were narrating I’d be tempted. But I fear my Tour de Frog days are past.

buffy said:

Got trouble with the youngsters in France it seems.

Not going away quickly either.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Tasmanian History
Tim Firth · 6 h ·

Wonder if it still exists.

It does. It was resold not all that long ago.
About 13 yars ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSiLEU0lfHA

Alan Arkin has died, aged 89

Another day.
Listened to “Throw Your Arms Around Me” by Neil Finn & Eddie Vedder played in Season 2 The Bear, a great series.
Felt a bit teary.

dv said:

Alan Arkin has died, aged 89

Judi Farr has died, aged 84.

Awful shit from the B side of British TV, 1978. But eight years later Bonnie Langford would become a companion on Dr Who.

Lena Zavaroni & Bonnie Langford Sing A Medley Of Songs From The Lena & Bonnie Show 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XxTq-FUpdU

Bubblecar said:

Awful shit from the B side of British TV, 1978. But eight years later Bonnie Langford would become a companion on Dr Who.

Lena Zavaroni & Bonnie Langford Sing A Medley Of Songs From The Lena & Bonnie Show 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XxTq-FUpdU

More horror from 1970s UK TV pop, Glyn Poole singing Milly Molly Mandy.

One of the stars of ITV Yorkshire’s Junior Showtime, Glyn subsequently sank without trace. But on this number he at least sings in tune, quite nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z153oB_iUgI

kii said:

dv said:

Alan Arkin has died, aged 89

Judi Farr has died, aged 84.

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

4.3° and foggy. Supposed to clear to 14° and sunny.

Brekkie and lunch reports for later: same as yesterday

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees at the back door, overcast and dull. We are forecast a cloudy 12 degrees.

Going to the bush today. I’ve made cheese and pickled onion sammiches for lunch. I should eat something for breakfast too.

OCDC said:

4.3° and foggy. Supposed to clear to 14° and sunny.

Brekkie and lunch reports for later: same as yesterday

1.1 °C
Feels like -0.7 °C fosty and froggy out there.

roughbarked said:

kii said:

dv said:

Alan Arkin has died, aged 89

Judi Farr has died, aged 84.

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

I know Alan Arkin from “100 Centre Street”. If you ever get the chance to watch that series, do so.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Judi Farr has died, aged 84.

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

I know Alan Arkin from “100 Centre Street”. If you ever get the chance to watch that series, do so.

OK. Thanks for the tip but I’d never heard of 100 Centre Street either. I’ll have to look tha up.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

I know Alan Arkin from “100 Centre Street”. If you ever get the chance to watch that series, do so.

OK. Thanks for the tip but I’d never heard of 100 Centre Street either. I’ll have to look tha up.

We watched it way back in the early 2000s and I’ve never seen it available again. Might be on a streaming service perhaps, but we don’t use those.

roughbarked said:

kii said:

dv said:

Alan Arkin has died, aged 89

Judi Farr has died, aged 84.

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

kii said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Judi Farr has died, aged 84.

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

Thelma Bullpitt (Kingswood Country)

Showing my age…but I have seen her in other things. Familiar face when you see it.

kii said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Judi Farr has died, aged 84.

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

I remember McGooley and Nancarrow etc. That’s a long time ago.

buffy said:

kii said:

roughbarked said:

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

Thelma Bullpitt (Kingswood Country)

Showing my age…but I have seen her in other things. Familiar face when you see it.

Pretty sure Kingswood Country was during the time when I didn’t have a TV. I remember the show, but never watched it.

buffy said:

kii said:

roughbarked said:

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

Thelma Bullpitt (Kingswood Country)

Showing my age…but I have seen her in other things. Familiar face when you see it.

Didn’t see a lot of Kingswood country. Only a couple of nits when at other people’s houses. Same with The Hoges show and all that.
Went without television for about a dozen years from about 1970 on. Only had TV for about three years before that. Brought home a free B&W TV when Life on Earth started, to stop the wife taking the kids to neighbours houses to watch it. She said, “You’re not bringing that in here. We agreed no TV years ago” when I brought it home but I insisted that if our kids were going to be watching TV, it was best that they did it in our house rather than other people’s.

kii said:

buffy said:

kii said:

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

Thelma Bullpitt (Kingswood Country)

Showing my age…but I have seen her in other things. Familiar face when you see it.

Pretty sure Kingswood Country was during the time when I didn’t have a TV. I remember the show, but never watched it.

Same.

roughbarked said:

kii said:

roughbarked said:

‘Fraid I’ve not heard of either of them.

Happy Sunday you mob.

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

I remember McGooley and Nancarrow etc. That’s a long time ago.

That was a rather top line Australian cast in that show, with John Meillon and Gordon Chater.

Meillon played it over the top because that was the nature of Wally’s character, but could produce some vividly contrasting emotional and empathetic moments for the character, too.

And Gordon Chater as Dominic McGooley was something of masterpiece of character acting.

Morning Pilgrims.
Good turn out at mass this morning.
Better make the most of this bright sunny day, according to the dart throwers it’s going to be a wet week.
Over.

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning Pilgrims.
Good turn out at mass this morning.
Better make the most of this bright sunny day, according to the dart throwers it’s going to be a wet week.
Over.

Yes, supposed to rain here, too.

A couple of mentions of it in the media as ‘unseasonal rain’, but from the decades we’ve been living in SE Qld, it seems to me that a rainy interlude around about this time of year is quite aregular thing for the region.

The TARDIS coordinate controls failed, performing a neat corporectomy on poor Gandalf.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Judi Farr, Australian actor. Starred in numerous shows like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

I remember McGooley and Nancarrow etc. That’s a long time ago.

That was a rather top line Australian cast in that show, with John Meillon and Gordon Chater.

Meillon played it over the top because that was the nature of Wally’s character, but could produce some vividly contrasting emotional and empathetic moments for the character, too.

And Gordon Chater as Dominic McGooley was something of masterpiece of character acting.

It was a work with class. Yes.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

I remember McGooley and Nancarrow etc. That’s a long time ago.

That was a rather top line Australian cast in that show, with John Meillon and Gordon Chater.

Meillon played it over the top because that was the nature of Wally’s character, but could produce some vividly contrasting emotional and empathetic moments for the character, too.

And Gordon Chater as Dominic McGooley was something of masterpiece of character acting.

It was a work with class. Yes.

It was set in Balmain, and the Stillers were definitely working class. As a kid at the time of the series, i spent a lot of time in Rozelle, which is next to to Balmain, and me and my friends there roamed far and wide. I’d recognise a lot the settings of the exterior scenes, especially around the waterfront.

Balmain was largely working class then, but the beginnings of its gentrification came not long afterwards. I wonder if you could still find a working class family within a cannon’s shot eastward of Darling Street wharf?

One Misty moisty morning out there.
Didn’t see any old man walking all a clad in leather though.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

That was a rather top line Australian cast in that show, with John Meillon and Gordon Chater.

Meillon played it over the top because that was the nature of Wally’s character, but could produce some vividly contrasting emotional and empathetic moments for the character, too.

And Gordon Chater as Dominic McGooley was something of masterpiece of character acting.

It was a work with class. Yes.

It was set in Balmain, and the Stillers were definitely working class. As a kid at the time of the series, i spent a lot of time in Rozelle, which is next to to Balmain, and me and my friends there roamed far and wide. I’d recognise a lot the settings of the exterior scenes, especially around the waterfront.

Balmain was largely working class then, but the beginnings of its gentrification came not long afterwards. I wonder if you could still find a working class family within a cannon’s shot eastward of Darling Street wharf?

It has all changed so much since then.

roughbarked said:

One Misty moisty morning out there.
Didn’t see any old man walking all a clad in leather though.

Oakman?

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

It was a work with class. Yes.

It was set in Balmain, and the Stillers were definitely working class. As a kid at the time of the series, i spent a lot of time in Rozelle, which is next to to Balmain, and me and my friends there roamed far and wide. I’d recognise a lot the settings of the exterior scenes, especially around the waterfront.

Balmain was largely working class then, but the beginnings of its gentrification came not long afterwards. I wonder if you could still find a working class family within a cannon’s shot eastward of Darling Street wharf?

It has all changed so much since then.

I said ‘eastward’. I meant ‘westward’.

(You can see why i’d always double-check my navigation calcs.)

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

It was set in Balmain, and the Stillers were definitely working class. As a kid at the time of the series, i spent a lot of time in Rozelle, which is next to to Balmain, and me and my friends there roamed far and wide. I’d recognise a lot the settings of the exterior scenes, especially around the waterfront.

Balmain was largely working class then, but the beginnings of its gentrification came not long afterwards. I wonder if you could still find a working class family within a cannon’s shot eastward of Darling Street wharf?

It has all changed so much since then.

I said ‘eastward’. I meant ‘westward’.

(You can see why i’d always double-check my navigation calcs.)

Ha. You’d get lost easily if you didn’t. Wonder what it would be like to wake up in Balranald with a Naval destroyer parked on the nature strip.

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

One Misty moisty morning out there.
Didn’t see any old man walking all a clad in leather though.

Oakman?

One misty moisty morning

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

It has all changed so much since then.

I said ‘eastward’. I meant ‘westward’.

(You can see why i’d always double-check my navigation calcs.)

Ha. You’d get lost easily if you didn’t. Wonder what it would be like to wake up in Balranald with a Naval destroyer parked on the nature strip.

I did that once in a chartwork exercise.

Had to follow a complicated series of instructions, plot courses and bearings on a chart, and, at the end, report your final position.

I missed something along the way, and had to report that there was a 2,700 ton destroyer escort some several nautical miles to the west of Ballarat.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

It was set in Balmain, and the Stillers were definitely working class. As a kid at the time of the series, i spent a lot of time in Rozelle, which is next to to Balmain, and me and my friends there roamed far and wide. I’d recognise a lot the settings of the exterior scenes, especially around the waterfront.

Balmain was largely working class then, but the beginnings of its gentrification came not long afterwards. I wonder if you could still find a working class family within a cannon’s shot eastward of Darling Street wharf?

It has all changed so much since then.

I said ‘eastward’. I meant ‘westward’.

(You can see why i’d always double-check my navigation calcs.)

Balmain. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I lived there for a little while in 1974-75.

Ruddy eck, it is struggling to get past 7 degrees out.
Dart tossing Liars told me it was going to get to 14.

roughbarked said:

Ruddy eck, it is struggling to get past 7 degrees out.
Dart tossing Liars told me it was going to get to 14.

We’re supposed to get to 19C today. Last sunny day for a week, showers predicted for the rest of the week.

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

Ruddy eck, it is struggling to get past 7 degrees out.
Dart tossing Liars told me it was going to get to 14.

We’re supposed to get to 19C today. Last sunny day for a week, showers predicted for the rest of the week.

No sunny days here this week.

roughbarked said:

Ruddy eck, it is struggling to get past 7 degrees out.
Dart tossing Liars told me it was going to get to 14.

fine..with gale force winds.

roughbarked said:

Great photos this morning Roughy.

Not easy as there was a slight enough breeze to add to handshake…

roughbarked said:

Not easy as there was a slight enough breeze to add to handshake…

Considering that these webs are about two inches across.

“The number of Victoria Police employees self-identifying as “gender neutral” has more than quadrupled since last year, new figures show, as the force confirms it is investigating reports some of its officers are gaming the HR system in order to gain an extra $1300 a year.
Alternative news outlet Discernable first posted on Monday that it was hearing “unconfirmed reports from inside Victoria Police that management is pulling their hair out after a majority of a CIU (Crime Investigation Unit) in Southern Region changed their profile in the HR system to be ‘gender neutral’”.
“Members have confirmed that they will receive an extra ~$1300 per year as a result of doing so and that it appears in their pay as a clothing allowance,” the site wrote.”

Dear oh dear, coppers rorting the system.
It’s not right.

Peak Warming Man said:

“The number of Victoria Police employees self-identifying as “gender neutral” has more than quadrupled since last year, new figures show, as the force confirms it is investigating reports some of its officers are gaming the HR system in order to gain an extra $1300 a year.
Alternative news outlet Discernable first posted on Monday that it was hearing “unconfirmed reports from inside Victoria Police that management is pulling their hair out after a majority of a CIU (Crime Investigation Unit) in Southern Region changed their profile in the HR system to be ‘gender neutral’”.
“Members have confirmed that they will receive an extra ~$1300 per year as a result of doing so and that it appears in their pay as a clothing allowance,” the site wrote.”

Dear oh dear, coppers rorting the system.
It’s not right.

It is rife though.

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

“The number of Victoria Police employees self-identifying as “gender neutral” has more than quadrupled since last year, new figures show, as the force confirms it is investigating reports some of its officers are gaming the HR system in order to gain an extra $1300 a year.
Alternative news outlet Discernable first posted on Monday that it was hearing “unconfirmed reports from inside Victoria Police that management is pulling their hair out after a majority of a CIU (Crime Investigation Unit) in Southern Region changed their profile in the HR system to be ‘gender neutral’”.
“Members have confirmed that they will receive an extra ~$1300 per year as a result of doing so and that it appears in their pay as a clothing allowance,” the site wrote.”

Dear oh dear, coppers rorting the system.
It’s not right.

It is rife though.

An extra hundred bucks or so per month for stating something that’s probably going to be inconsequential to you that can’t be disproven?

Who wouldn’t?

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

“The number of Victoria Police employees self-identifying as “gender neutral” has more than quadrupled since last year, new figures show, as the force confirms it is investigating reports some of its officers are gaming the HR system in order to gain an extra $1300 a year.
Alternative news outlet Discernable first posted on Monday that it was hearing “unconfirmed reports from inside Victoria Police that management is pulling their hair out after a majority of a CIU (Crime Investigation Unit) in Southern Region changed their profile in the HR system to be ‘gender neutral’”.
“Members have confirmed that they will receive an extra ~$1300 per year as a result of doing so and that it appears in their pay as a clothing allowance,” the site wrote.”

Dear oh dear, coppers rorting the system.
It’s not right.

It is rife though.

An extra hundred bucks or so per month for stating something that’s probably going to be inconsequential to you that can’t be disproven?

Who wouldn’t?

The money trough has a lot of snouts in it.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

“The number of Victoria Police employees self-identifying as “gender neutral” has more than quadrupled since last year, new figures show, as the force confirms it is investigating reports some of its officers are gaming the HR system in order to gain an extra $1300 a year.
Alternative news outlet Discernable first posted on Monday that it was hearing “unconfirmed reports from inside Victoria Police that management is pulling their hair out after a majority of a CIU (Crime Investigation Unit) in Southern Region changed their profile in the HR system to be ‘gender neutral’”.
“Members have confirmed that they will receive an extra ~$1300 per year as a result of doing so and that it appears in their pay as a clothing allowance,” the site wrote.”

Dear oh dear, coppers rorting the system.
It’s not right.

It is rife though.

An extra hundred bucks or so per month for stating something that’s probably going to be inconsequential to you that can’t be disproven?

Who wouldn’t?

That’s sounds like the approval of a man who wears lace panties under his business slacks.

Peak Warming Man said:

“The number of Victoria Police employees self-identifying as “gender neutral” has more than quadrupled since last year, new figures show, as the force confirms it is investigating reports some of its officers are gaming the HR system in order to gain an extra $1300 a year.
Alternative news outlet Discernable first posted on Monday that it was hearing “unconfirmed reports from inside Victoria Police that management is pulling their hair out after a majority of a CIU (Crime Investigation Unit) in Southern Region changed their profile in the HR system to be ‘gender neutral’”.
“Members have confirmed that they will receive an extra ~$1300 per year as a result of doing so and that it appears in their pay as a clothing allowance,” the site wrote.”

Dear oh dear, coppers rorting the system.
It’s not right.

Seems a bit odd that there needs to be a special clothing allowance for this.

Witty Rejoinder said:

roughbarked said:

Great photos this morning Roughy.

Thanks. :)

SpaceX launches Euclid in big step to unlock more secrets of dark matter
ByKatrina Miller
July 2, 2023 — 10.49am

At 1.12am on Sunday (AEST), the Euclid spacecraft launched into its mission to chart the history of our universe as far back as 10 billion years ago.

The space telescope, built by the European Space Agency, will use its instruments to record more than one-third of the extragalactic sky over the next six years, creating the most accurate 3D map of the cosmos to date.

Read more:

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/spacex-launches-euclid-in-big-step-to-unlock-more-secrets-of-dark-matter-20230702-p5dl44.html

Witty Rejoinder said:

SpaceX launches Euclid in big step to unlock more secrets of dark matter
ByKatrina Miller
July 2, 2023 — 10.49am

At 1.12am on Sunday (AEST), the Euclid spacecraft launched into its mission to chart the history of our universe as far back as 10 billion years ago.

The space telescope, built by the European Space Agency, will use its instruments to record more than one-third of the extragalactic sky over the next six years, creating the most accurate 3D map of the cosmos to date.

Read more:

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/spacex-launches-euclid-in-big-step-to-unlock-more-secrets-of-dark-matter-20230702-p5dl44.html

Hot fkn stuff

Ian said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

SpaceX launches Euclid in big step to unlock more secrets of dark matter
ByKatrina Miller
July 2, 2023 — 10.49am

At 1.12am on Sunday (AEST), the Euclid spacecraft launched into its mission to chart the history of our universe as far back as 10 billion years ago.

The space telescope, built by the European Space Agency, will use its instruments to record more than one-third of the extragalactic sky over the next six years, creating the most accurate 3D map of the cosmos to date.

Read more:

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/spacex-launches-euclid-in-big-step-to-unlock-more-secrets-of-dark-matter-20230702-p5dl44.html

Hot fkn stuff

A spokesperson for St John’s Ambulance told the ABC the man was taken to hospital in a “very serious” condition.

He was suffering injuries extending from his elbow to his chest, to undergo immediate surgery.

The spokesperson confirmed the man “lost his hand” in the incident.

Darwin Police Watch Commander Sean Patterson said a second man was located nearby with injuries to his lower body.

The 23-year-old remains in a serious condition, while the second man is in a “serious but stable” condition at the Royal Darwin Hospital, according to NT Health.

roughbarked said:

A spokesperson for St John’s Ambulance told the ABC the man was taken to hospital in a “very serious” condition.

He was suffering injuries extending from his elbow to his chest, to undergo immediate surgery.

The spokesperson confirmed the man “lost his hand” in the incident.

Darwin Police Watch Commander Sean Patterson said a second man was located nearby with injuries to his lower body.

The 23-year-old remains in a serious condition, while the second man is in a “serious but stable” condition at the Royal Darwin Hospital, according to NT Health.

Alcohol involved?

Oh, it’s the NT. Silly question.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

A spokesperson for St John’s Ambulance told the ABC the man was taken to hospital in a “very serious” condition.

He was suffering injuries extending from his elbow to his chest, to undergo immediate surgery.

The spokesperson confirmed the man “lost his hand” in the incident.

Darwin Police Watch Commander Sean Patterson said a second man was located nearby with injuries to his lower body.

The 23-year-old remains in a serious condition, while the second man is in a “serious but stable” condition at the Royal Darwin Hospital, according to NT Health.

Alcohol involved?

Oh, it’s the NT. Silly question.

Fireworks incident.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

A spokesperson for St John’s Ambulance told the ABC the man was taken to hospital in a “very serious” condition.

He was suffering injuries extending from his elbow to his chest, to undergo immediate surgery.

The spokesperson confirmed the man “lost his hand” in the incident.

Darwin Police Watch Commander Sean Patterson said a second man was located nearby with injuries to his lower body.

The 23-year-old remains in a serious condition, while the second man is in a “serious but stable” condition at the Royal Darwin Hospital, according to NT Health.

Alcohol involved?

Oh, it’s the NT. Silly question.

Fireworks incident.

Yes, i’d gathered that.

But, it was still silly of me to wonder if alcohol was or was not involved.

I actually remember working with one of these:

https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/6495462970a27_i00dogf76oua1__700.jpg

It was heavy and awkward, and a bitch to use.

captain_spalding said:

He’s pointing the skyrocket the wrong way. ;)

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

Alcohol involved?

Oh, it’s the NT. Silly question.

Fireworks incident.

Yes, i’d gathered that.

But, it was still silly of me to wonder if alcohol was or was not involved.

It was.

captain_spalding said:

I actually remember working with one of these:

https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/6495462970a27_i00dogf76oua1__700.jpg

It was heavy and awkward, and a bitch to use.

I used one during farm management training in 1981?

It was amazing. My dad was still doing the farm budget using the old mechanical calculator where you push the number buttons and then pull the lever to get an answer. I tried to explain to him what it was and why it was so good, but it was too expensive for him.

Nope, there are some straight lines that i just will not touch.

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

captain_spalding said:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Aww, we had that last Sunday.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Aww, we had that last Sunday.

Ate it all except the feathers?

I mights needs has to haves a sleep, a nap at least

transition said:

I mights needs has to haves a sleep, a nap at least

Did that yesterday.

hey peoples

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Somethings should stay in the past ….although when I was a youngster I did eat herring often … I don’t think I could as an adult but still like sardines on toast

monkey skipper said:

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Somethings should stay in the past ….although when I was a youngster I did eat herring often … I don’t think I could as an adult but still like sardines on toast

Mrs S’s dad was Swedish.

As a little kid, late 1950s early 1960s, she used to eat rollmops (pickeled herring) and love it.

She wouldn’t touch one with a bargepole now.

Me, i love anchovies! Can eat ‘em right out of the jar.

monkey skipper said:

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Somethings should stay in the past ….although when I was a youngster I did eat herring often … I don’t think I could as an adult but still like sardines on toast

I quite like kippers.

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Kingy said:

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Peak Warming Man said:

monkey skipper said:

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Somethings should stay in the past ….although when I was a youngster I did eat herring often … I don’t think I could as an adult but still like sardines on toast

I quite like kippers.

I have not had kippers for breakfast for literally decades.

Now i have a quest.

captain_spalding said:

monkey skipper said:

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Somethings should stay in the past ….although when I was a youngster I did eat herring often … I don’t think I could as an adult but still like sardines on toast

Mrs S’s dad was Swedish.

As a little kid, late 1950s early 1960s, she used to eat rollmops (pickeled herring) and love it.

She wouldn’t touch one with a bargepole now.

Me, i love anchovies! Can eat ‘em right out of the jar.

I love rollmops.

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

monkey skipper said:

Somethings should stay in the past ….although when I was a youngster I did eat herring often … I don’t think I could as an adult but still like sardines on toast

Mrs S’s dad was Swedish.

As a little kid, late 1950s early 1960s, she used to eat rollmops (pickeled herring) and love it.

She wouldn’t touch one with a bargepole now.

Me, i love anchovies! Can eat ‘em right out of the jar.

I love rollmops.

…but not wrapped around bananas.

captain_spalding said:

monkey skipper said:

captain_spalding said:

Tonight’s dinner suggestions:

Bananas wrapped in pickled herrings.

Accompanied by:

Go on, it’s Sunday, do something special.

Somethings should stay in the past ….although when I was a youngster I did eat herring often … I don’t think I could as an adult but still like sardines on toast

Mrs S’s dad was Swedish.

As a little kid, late 1950s early 1960s, she used to eat rollmops (pickeled herring) and love it.

She wouldn’t touch one with a bargepole now.

Me, i love anchovies! Can eat ‘em right out of the jar.

Family von OCDC all love rollmops. And some love anchovies, but not the one whose pizza delivering car smelt like cat fud.

Anyway my motivation to go to work tomorrow is exactly zero. But I have non-anchovy cat fud to buy.

$19,950 MG YA saloon. Supposedly fully restored.

it could be worse.

OCDC said:

Anyway my motivation to go to work tomorrow is exactly zero. But I have non-anchovy cat fud to buy.

When will you be able to go part time?

Michael V said:

$19,950 MG YA saloon. Supposedly fully restored.

Pleasing motor car.

sarahs mum said:

it could be worse.

Been very still all day here in the middle.