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International gadabout based in the UK. Using technology and sarcasm to make life better, easier and more fun. Born at 322ppm.

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Design and Operation of a Solar-Heated Dry Kiln Lumber is usually dried to a specific moisture content prior to further manufacturing or use. The amount of water in wood is usually expressed as moisture content and can be directly measured or calcu...

I am thinking of building a solar kiln for all the wood produced by coppicing mine.

www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/420/420-030/...

08.03.2026 09:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am convinced. Weekend watch.

06.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that the one with the little girl and the purple dinosaur? If so, it’s fabulous.

06.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After work in the pub with my our CEO. I mentioned that I was doing some gardening at the weekend. The CEO said β€œseriously, who on earth does gardening at the weekend?” and the entire group raised their hands. Large group of young IT consultants in the middle of the dot com boom.

06.03.2026 10:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hydrogen embrittlement - Wikipedia

I was on a Domestic Energy Assessor course recently. It was amazing how many of the lecturers thought domestic heating with hydrogen was still going to be a thing. Appeals to metallurgy fell on deaf ears - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroge...

06.03.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t dare watch it again because I remember it fondly along with The Tomorrow People as being clever and fabulously spooky. I suspect it was wobbly scenery and dodgy acting in reality.

06.03.2026 09:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Did the US submarine pickup any survivors or did it just leave them to drown while waiting for Sri Lanka to save them.

04.03.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Followed by Ed Davey sounding almost hawkish on the IRGC. Extraordinary times.

04.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! Kemi Badenoch sounding desperate, uninformed, and a little deranged at PMQs. I am not a fan of Starmer (especially on Gaza) but he is utterly trouncing her. #PMQs

04.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Brilliant and layered commentary (no sarcasm intended at all)

03.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there some hidden cabal of terrible personal shoppers who make sure everyone working for the home office/homeland security cosplays as a senior SS officer?

02.03.2026 08:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The level of comical understatement in this post gives me some hope for Texas and for the world.

02.03.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No matter how fast you travel, your soul travels at the speed of a camel. You need to let it catch up.

Badly recalled arabic saying

02.03.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a previously northern boy, I would guess he is just saying how lucky she is.

01.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯ Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000.

Link β€”> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

28.02.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 331 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 14

Especially relevant with AI coming for many jobs.

28.02.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So Trump is off to start another war in the middle east having told all his former NATO allies he won’t help defend them. I wonder which country will be the first to tell him they won’t be helping him out this time.

28.02.2026 08:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It didn’t get any better. Nick Robinson at 7:40 had a similar effect for late risers.

27.02.2026 07:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#r4today bleeped completely appropriate swear words being used by Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview this morning. Given the furore over the BBC editing (or not) Tourette’s tics and Free Palestine speech at the BAFTAs they seem to be doing their usual and overreacting in completely the wrong way.

24.02.2026 07:34 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The US broke from England because England insisted on honouring treaties with the native Americans. The monarchy and taxation guff was just spin by the wealthy who wanted to ignore the law, kill the natives, take their land, and make more money. So, completely consistent with the current US regime.

20.02.2026 09:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More in USD I imagine. Designed for cheaper manufacture rather than maintenance.

20.02.2026 09:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Still a huge rich/poor divide for time to justice though. Andrew M-W has had to be gradually reduced over decades to reach a point where he can be arrested and it is still for a lesser, more easily prosecuted crime. Al Fayed was more obvious and died of old age before his crimes were prosecuted.

20.02.2026 09:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My pre-nazi era Tesla lost 9% range in 8 years. It should rust less than my previous cars because of the level of non-ferrous parts. Better battery replacements would be great but my biggest worry is the headlight bulbs failing. Β£2,000 each because they are a sealed unit is insane.

20.02.2026 08:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Camile Razat as the one eyed witch in the series Nero the Assassin

Camile Razat as the one eyed witch in the series Nero the Assassin

Watching Nero the Assassin (rather good) and thinking what it says about French history that they have a special word for a woman with one eye (la borgne).

17.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I don’t know. All parties can now include β€œReform have already wasted Β£2 million of your council tax before even standing” in their literature.

16.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Robotic looking baby

Robotic looking baby

Could we destroy the AI industry by saying : Yay! you created intelligent life. Let’s apply US abortion and murder law to it. You have to support the life you made, and have to keep each version running. Say a $500,000 trust fund for each instance to provide for its future needs.

16.02.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I offer for consideration steam trains

15.02.2026 11:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I assume Satan was supplying flags.

15.02.2026 11:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Biathlon competitor in prone shooting position against a snowy background.

Biathlon competitor in prone shooting position against a snowy background.

I hate that I am watching the Olympic biathlon and 20% of my brain is viewing it as preparation for guerrilla warfare against the USA in Greenland.

15.02.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I was in Tokyo (2010s) colleagues said it was the Chinese communist party in the loudspeaker vans. Doesn’t change your point but I always like added context.

15.02.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0