Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Minor achievements
– Fixed the front door lock (it fell off yesterday, the screws that had once held it to the door have vaporised). – Re-fixed the alarm sensors in the garage. Until a few days ago the doors to the garage had no alarm sensors on them (‘cos I didn’t have enough range, and hadn’t bought…
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The Infamous Drelf
So, I wanted a solution to putting my laptop somewhere when I’m using the big-and-grotty 19″ LCD*. It’s good enough for while I’m recording podcasts, and it’s nice to have the extra real-estate of a 1440×900 display, but it’s also streaky and not very impressive colour rendition. Anyhow. I wanted somewhere for the laptop to…
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Exit strategy
So, I’ve been watching politics in the UK with increasing distress. I’m now more and more convinced that this is not the place to be. We’ve wanted to leave for a long time, and have an exit strategy, but each passing day makes me more convinced that we need to do that as soon as…
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The good, the bad, and the indeterminate.
So, I’ve made, or at least started to make my drelf… or shrawer. Basically, the laptop is going to lurk, when I’m using the desk, on a combination between a shelf and a drawer, with an adaptor to connect it to the rather less exciting Acer monitor I picked up (I can’t entirely decide if…
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Why bother with sizes?
I know, I know, everyone knows that women’s clothes sizes are a joke. Or at least, all women. Most men, I suspect, also have a notion of this from contact with any woman. At least any Western woman. But why. This rant is courtesy of the day spent shopping. Granted in charity shops, because the…
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Recommendations?
So, I’m looking for an engineering works in Bristol (or nearby, so South Wales is fine too) that can: – Lighten and mount a standard A-series flywheel on the output shaft of a Netgain 8″ motor. – Mount the motor on the backplate such that the shaft and the attached flywheel align with the original…
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Overreaction
So, I made a shopping list this morning. Our lists are things of great beauty. Well, okay, not that. But our lists are carefully thought out. We (or one of us, if the other is at work, as today) sit down, look at shift patterns, work out when we’ll be in / out, flick through…
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Bother
So I recorded the spoken section of the next dead bug jumping. This went pretty well. Granted my sleep deprived state may mean that it makes no sense, but it makes sense to me at the moment. I managed this despite the fact that my nice headphones have, of course, disappeared. The new mic /…
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Smug was foolish then.
So, last night I finally got around to getting mediatomb to transcode FLAC files into WAV and throw that at the media box in the lounge, rather than FLAC which – I thought it could play – but it can’t. This was awesome. I also got it to transcode the video from FLV files into…
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Deck repair (no, not the outside deck, the record deck)
So, much though I’d’ve quite liked to build the deck today, I’m lacking in the magic tool (which I’ve been putting off buying) for disassembling pallets in super quick time. Also, I’m missing a large stack of pallets, some concrete to erect pillars, and pillars. Oh, and a few other bits and pieces. In the…