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Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Five

28th November 2022 El Cnutador 2168 Comments

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a while – you may want to refresh your memory [more…]

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Chaos Theory – A gentle introduction

28th November 2022 Going Postal 1675 Comments

Question: Do snails understand mathematics? Ok here’s an idea. Start with the value 0 and 1 and then apply the following rule. Take the last 2 numbers you have and then add them, to make [more…]

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Mitchell’s Spitfire

23rd November 2022 SharpieType301 2843 Comments

Earlier this year, we revisited The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley, primarily because we wanted to see the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard exhibits once again. Now living only a few miles away, a quiet [more…]

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How I came to mistrust, then detest the Main Stream Media

21st November 2022 Moscow Fred 1916 Comments

Ed. This was sent to me in 2018 by Moscow Fred, sadly he was never able to finish it. RIP Fred. I was reminded of it by the documentary on The Herald of Free Enterprise [more…]

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Tremors and logs

14th November 2022 GrumpyAngler 2478 Comments

Fracking is once again in the news, once again you will hear of the dire consequences, the disasters and the earthquakes caused by drilling and fracturing the shale underground. It was suggested that the proposed [more…]

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Calculators and Reverse Polish Notation

7th November 2022 Going Postal 3710 Comments

At the end of September, Doc Mike Finnley posted an interesting article about early pocket calculators that caught my eye (I avoided reading any comments). I enjoyed his construction notes, given many of these older [more…]

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Pumpkin time

30th October 2022 SharpieType301 2420 Comments

By now, you will doubtless have figured out that I have a very keen interest in glass, so while we were visiting the lovely Northeast of England for a few days recently, we took the [more…]

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Coronavirus – the first thousand days

14th October 2022 Going Postal 2684 Comments

The earliest stats on the coronavirus that I can find  – numbers of cases and deaths – were recorded by John Hopkins university on 19th January 2020, with 204 cases and 3 deaths.  There are [more…]

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Pipeline Sabotage and the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

10th October 2022 Patrick Barron 3773 Comments

In the course of history there sometimes occurs events that are monumentally important yet were hardly noticed by much of the world at the time. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 went [more…]

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