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An Afternoon at the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum

20th May 2019 Tom Pudding 0

Although we moved from Yorkshire to the South Coast 38 years ago and despite living only two miles from his premises in New Milton, I had only once previously visited Sammy Miller’s wonderful motorcycle museum [more…]

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Project Mower Refurb

8th May 2019 Sweaty Dave 0

It is the Easter holidays. The Missus is at work for the day, so I’m not being dragged around the shops, the kids are revising/ generally avoiding dad. I’ve pottered for a day or so [more…]

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An essay on Autism. Not “weirdos”

25th April 2019 Lugosi 0

I’ve been thinking of writing about Autism for a few months. When Greta Thunberg or, Saint Greta of Climate as I call her, started to pop-up in studios and in conversations with politicians she also [more…]

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Euthanasia Machine

22nd April 2019 Guardian Council 0

It all started innocently enough with my dad. Namely, with a botched Chinese take away for his 79th anniversary. He got so badly over it he had to go to hospital and had to stay [more…]

Mathematics

Where Astrophysics meets Climate Science

19th April 2019 Going Postal 0

– Astrophysicists have succeeded in decoding Solar activity and the results show that  climate scientists have some questions to answer. There is an interesting collision about to take place between astrophysics and climate science. This [more…]

Computing

Civil Contingencies: Preparing for Internet Shutdown and Censorship with Mesh Networks

8th April 2019 Katabasis 0

We have entered the most fraught political and social climate I have yet experienced in my lifetime. Having discussed this with several GPers in person it is clear we need to start seriously considering contingency [more…]

Arts

Inside the Neolithic Mind

4th April 2019 Going Postal 0

This is a rather niche book, but I know there are (at least) a few Puffins keen on archaeology, so I thought it might be of interest. It explores, as the subtitle says, ‘consciousness, cosmos [more…]

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Eight

4th March 2019 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction During the first half of the 19th century great leaps forward were made in firearms technology and by the 1870s soldiers who 50 years earlier would have been supplied with flintlock, smoothbore muskets were [more…]

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Seven

25th February 2019 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction By the 1860s it had become obvious that the days of the muzzle loading firearm were numbered and that any government that failed to re-arm its troops with breechloaders would quickly be left behind [more…]

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