Morning.
Thursday.
Damply dry.
Calm.
Blue sky in parts.
Wanly sunny.
Chilly in here at 12.4 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.
997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.467 psi, (up from 988 last night),...
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Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 12:42.
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Ssoooo, it's rock salt, then bird shot, then buck shot, then slugs.
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Anyone got a sabot handy whilst I pop around to t'mill? Askin' for a friend, like.
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Dry (currently).
Grey.
Wanly sunny if you use imagination.
Windy.
Chilly in here at 12 deg, 10 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.
997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.467 psi, (down from...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 21:52.
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^^^ The Industrial Revolution took decades. AI is apparently rivalling and surpassing the rate of change of those "internet years" we used to hear about 25 years ago.
And once it's self aware the human race is intercoursed and not in A Good Way.
Baked...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 17 February 2026, 22:28.
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Done: Off to Oxfam with it: Supposed to be vol 1 of 2: the 2nd was never written. Lots of geometry which I didn't bother figuring out and square roots of 2, 3, and 5.
. The Stonehenge bit was more inneresting than the Egyptian Pyramids bit. I'd never heard of "The Sanctuary"...
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Don't Panic! Don't Panic! They don't like it up 'em Mr Mainwaring.
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Morning.
Tuesday.
Blue sky.
Sunny.
Chilly in here at 12.2 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.
1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (untapped), 62% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 17th of March 2020 AndyGarbs,...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 17 February 2026, 18:47.
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Project Sundial: plenty of Cobalt Thorium G available to go into that.
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Makes the Tsar Bomba look a bit weedy.
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https://www.mirasafety.com/blogs/new...love-is-back-1
Not quite sure how you loft a 10Gt device*, the Tsar Bomba was big enough.
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Happy Unbirthday LM.
Morning.
Monday.
Damp.
Grey.
Hints of blue sky.
Wanly sunny.
Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.
995.5 mBar, 29.4 in Hg, 746.7 Torr, 14.44 psi, (up...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 17 February 2026, 09:21.
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Morning.
Sunday.
Wet.
Grey.
Sunless.
Dreary.
Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric)....Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 15 February 2026, 22:10.
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Done: off to Oxfam with it. I very much doubt any of that will remain in my memory, though "rhumb lines" and "loxodromes" might, assuming I could understand them. Shoulders of Giants.
Next: "The Geometry of the Sun god" by Keith Squires. A nicely obscure epic...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 15 February 2026, 09:32.
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Morning.
Saturday.
Sunny.
Blue sky.
Nearly frosty.
Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 4 in the saltinghouse.
1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 65%...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 14 February 2026, 22:23.
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Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "Why girls can't throw... and other questions you always wanted answered" by Mitchell Symonds.
Filled a need for something rather lighter than Mercator. No idea where or when I bought it and there's no remainder sticker
. Must...
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Morning.
Friday apparently.
Wet. Very wet.
Sunny, wanly.
Grey.
Blue sky in parts.
Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.
994.5 mBar, 29.37 in Hg, 745.9 Torr, 14.424 psi, (down from...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 14 February 2026, 13:59.
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They're watching you.
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Do they know you're from Liverpool?
Just askin' for a friend, like.
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<- since I was reminded of it back in 2020 this very morn.
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Morning.
Thursday.
Irritating beeping from one or other of the smoke detectors. Then the batphone.
Grey.
Wanly sunny.
Damply damp.
Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.
982 mBar,...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 12 February 2026, 20:45.
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Grey.
Sunless.
Dreary.
Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.
981 mBar, 28.97 in Hg, 735.8 Torr, 14.23 psi, (up from 979 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 12 February 2026, 09:13.
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Done: off to Oxfam with it. Mildly inneresting in its way: The Stimson Scorcher: a fine suicide machine and The Triumph Mayflower: a car so remarkably hideous that I recall that a chap down the road had one about 60 years ago IIRC.
Next: "Nodding Dogs & Vinyl Roofs: the weird world...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 10 February 2026, 13:32.
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