Today I got around to properly inspecting the slide-rule I rescued when we were sorting through Pa's worldly goods ( Read more... )

"This is fine dining now, so Steve must remove the outer skin from each individual pea." Meades on fine form.

"Hardly anyone still lives in former rolling stock." I missed this the first time round. Bang on and no mistake.

Hemp-based 'raw protein powder' smells and tastes more or less exactly like the back of a rickyard after a light shower. Even if you try to drown the taste with a good handful of raspberries.

This is all terribly previous. Fills in some gaps in the mental landscape, mind. Imagine my surprise that there's a subheading named 'Nonconformity'.

( Wide-open fridge pix )

Why the seventies were a different planet: Mule Train.

At the tail end of the week, I managed to bootstrap myself into the more recent present and stuff enough memory into my phone such that it would hold a third of my MP3 pile rather than its previous pitiful fraction. I'd also not bothered using the Android as a music player because the installed effort is by and large hateful, and I had a lumpy- ( Read more... )

I was walking about Bath yesterday afternoon for the purposes of fresh air, exercise and quietly thinking about a problem. The nature of the light, the colour of the leaves and the act of exploring reminded me of the state I was in on the way up I-95 to Martha's Vineyard. Both excited and somewhat trepidatious about meeting people and learning ( Read more... )

I recall reading the edition of Byte where they investigated the Lisa (Byte used to do computers properly, I guess because each one was new and strange. They'd have the lid off to look at the circuitry, talk to the designers of hardware and OS and maybe even show you some example code ( Read more... )

It was the countryside. There were no buses. Well, there were - one a day into and out of Cheltenham (the 'work' bus, because it got you there for just before nine and left again circa ten to six) during the week, ditto Saturday (but towards lunchtime) and one once a week in the other direction for people who liked to visit Winchcombe on a ( Read more... )

It turns out that if you have managed to make something best referred to as coulis, you can just tip it back into a saucepan and boil the stuff until it sees sense ( Read more... )