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Add comment March 19th, 2013
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Snow 2013?
Snow is forecast at the weekend which is good as I have made a bet with the other half, if it snows in January I get a no holds barred night out with her holding the fort, if it doesn’t, she gets the night out. The snow has to settle outside our house, which is fine but the forecast is a bit wishy washy, some stating snow, some rain, and some say bursts of snow, sleet and rain, none of which sets the perfect conditions for a blanket of snow accumulating. Anyway will keep an eye on the weather as I always have and maybe post some pictures if there’s anything worthwhile.
1 comment January 11th, 2013
Are We Dead Yet?
Been checking out some old posts back in my days of packet radio and realised I seem to have lost a lot of enthusiasm in the things that interest me. I need to be aware of it so I can counter it, I still have lots of stuff going on in my head, just less time now to mull over it and maybe produce something of fruition along the way. The Bible says to put aside childish things to become a man, and wise up to your responsibilities, yeah fine, but I haven’t had an Action Man since I was eight, even then I tried to make him bionic.
Confusious (on the other hand) said:
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
Class philosophy matey, so if I feel some of my ambitions may be just an echo of a childish venture, I really should ignore that thought and carry on anyway! I can live with that, tell me I have to awake every morning at 5.30am sharp and work till 7pm doing a job that just distracts me from what I really want to be, or else I will not be able to pay my bills, and I might get a little anti-establishment. I could get enthusiastic at that very level, now I see how people can hone their enthuse into something a little more sinister. The thing is it’s nearly 2013 and we should all be dead really, and we’re not. So should I now do something? Or shall I continue blaming PKU and the complications involved with concentration ..blah blah bla!!! Bollocks? No.
Add comment December 25th, 2012
Life in Lake Ellsworth?
Lake Ellsworth is a sub glacial lake in the Antarctic and presently there are a group of British Scientists drilling 3.2KM through the ice to reach it. The mission is result of years of preparation to conclude whether life in bacterial form can exist in such extreme conditions and to explore the very boundaries at which life can exist. The lake itself is in liquid form mainly because of the enormous pressure above it, not only being below sea level it has a 1.8 mile ice block on top of it, these factors raise it pressure to 310 Bar or 4,496 psi, so the researchers have concluded (oddly the freezing point of water at that pressure is much the same at atmospheric so I’m guessing that was misreported), the heat from the earth’s core probably plays a significant role. Samples of the lake’s water will be brought to the surface and analysed
as well as a core sample from the bed of the lake, these studies along with carbon dating techniques, may give us information as to whether the Antarctic has always been frozen and clues to climatic conditions millions of years ago. If no life is found at all it will give us a boundary of the very limits of life, if however life is discovered, it opens endless possibilities of the existence of extra terrestrial life in places such as the icy moons of our solar system.
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Scientists Analysing Mud From Lake Bed
Ok, 25th Dec the latest I have is they have the spare part delivered for the boiler. Hopefully there is enough fuel left to complete the drilling process.
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Add comment December 16th, 2012
Hurricane Sandy
I am watching this with interest, the United States are getting prepared for the worse with Meteorologists predicting a “Frankenstorm” (referenced to the fact that Halloween falls on Wednesday) as it merges with a separate winter storm. A lot of media reports from the USA seem to be hyped up and it could be that sensationalism is driving hysteria with people emptying the shelves of local stores for the stock piling of essentials. But the intensity of the storm is not the key here it’s sheer size, with close to hurricane force winds it could be 300 miles across by the time it makes landfall tomorrow and affect 60 million people! Not only high winds are of concern, a storm surge could cause coastal flooding coupled with the possibility of up to 10″ of rain and 2 foot of snowfall affecting 12 states as it merges with an Arctic jet stream, forecasters said Sandy has all the ingredients to transform into a “super storm” unlike anything seen over the eastern United States in decades. So it may appear the preparations under way are not such a typical American over-reaction but a well justified precautionary measure, time will tell.
Add comment October 28th, 2012
Week Over
Right my week off is practically over and what have I achieved…Sod All! But that aint necessarily so. Off up to Budjinkan Eastbourne on Thursday to re-enroll and get training, trained there a couple of years ago with my brother, I wonder whether they’ve improved at all. On the compensator design front I have had to make some changes to the schematic, I’ve learned a bit more code and found a better way of doing things 😉 Spent some much needed time with Sophie as she’s growing up so fast, she started walking this week 🙂
It was my brother Larry’s 50th birthday on Friday and I drove my parents along with my sister and niece up to see him in Welwyn, he seemed quite content though looked a bit uncomfortable after downing 7 cans of coke within an hour. Again unphased by our presence as far as I could tell but it’s always worth the trip, I notice he doesn’t have a grey hair on his head unlike me at 8 years his junior 🙁 I guess he has little stress or worry. We look at him with all the ‘what ifs’ when he could be looking back at us with bewilderment, he will probably out-live the lot of us.
Add comment October 7th, 2012
This is quite amusing…
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Add comment September 23rd, 2012
Bugger!
.This suddenly developed over the Channel but drifted towards France, apparently there were a few strikes near Langney Point but nothing substantial, haven’t witnessed a decent storm in a few years now. Local winds were north-easterly so not much chance of it heading our way although it rained quite a bit… Metcheck have forecast an inch of rain for tomorrow morning (25.19mm) most of which will fall between 7am & 10am, rain’s a bit boring though, prefer a good old hurricane or thunderstorm this time of year 🙂
Add comment September 23rd, 2012
