Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own  (Read 346527 times)

Kim

  • An appetite for the epic, but no real stamina
Barakta now has a brother in law, and I've got a sore leg.
With regard to wood not being straight, what do you expect trying to make things out of a dead vegetable!

mcshroom

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Are those two related ???
RIDE if you can. WALK if you have to. CRAWL if you must - But DON'T GIVE UP!


Kim

  • An appetite for the epic, but no real stamina
Unfortunately, yes.
With regard to wood not being straight, what do you expect trying to make things out of a dead vegetable!

I was at the hairdresser today, and he was telling me about another customer who had had a few days in Dublin. She'd gone out for dinner in a smart restaurant and had been thrilled to see Bono at another table with several other people. She's a huge U2 fan and worships Bono. She was too chicken to go and speak to him, but when she went outside for a cig, she got chatting to one of the people from his table and told him how much of a fan she was. The bloke she was chatting to told her to go and say hello, saying Bono wouldn't have a problem with it and would be quite happy to say hello, but she didn't dare. When she'd finished her meal she asked for the bill, and the waiter said "no bill, Madam, Mr Springsteen has taken care of that for you."  :o :D

That's a great story, even if it is a bit FOAF so likely embellished and/or exaggerated (or just plain made up!)


Taking about the B&M Cyo, assuming that it uses a capacitor, which seems likely, then it's effective lifetime is more about duration than usage.

As Kim said, it'll last much the same time, regardless of how much you use it.  For a large capacitance device (which it will need to be), it'll most likely be an electrolytic, and whilst they tend to age more than other, smaller capacitance capacitors, it'll probably have a lifetime of a decade or more (this all assumes it's being used within it's spec).

We have electrolytic capacitors on spacecraft that have been in flight for 12 years, and the instruments were built before then, and the space industry is notoriously conservative in what components they use.

Something else on the light will probably break or fail before the capacitor does.
Actually, it is rocket science.
 

Kim

  • An appetite for the epic, but no real stamina
Or a massive improvement in LED technology will render it obsolete.
With regard to wood not being straight, what do you expect trying to make things out of a dead vegetable!

interzen

  • Surly.
  • Watch the birdie ...
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Is it me, or is the On-One website having a bit of a hissy fit?
Everything, and I mean everything appears to be out of stock  ???
More cowbell!

Is it me, or is the On-One website having a bit of a hissy fit?
Everything, and I mean everything appears to be out of stock  ???

They seem to have stocks of bicycles and framsets, but as you say, everything else appears to be out of stock.  I suspect something nasty has happened to their stock database, but why it hasn't affect some categories is a bit of a mystery.
Actually, it is rocket science.
 

Panoramix

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    • Some routes
All DSs driven in the UK should be RHD so that passers by can see you hang you arm out the window trailing a Gitanes and quoting Sartre. Or should that be a Gauloise and Belmondo? The mock-sheepskin seat covers on the other hand...

I think that Belmondo was more of a Renault 16 driver (at least in his movies!).

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/b3WTn_dItIg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/b3WTn_dItIg&rel=1</a>

The long distance walkers association annual 100mile walk (equivalent of PBP) is controlling at our village hall in Sunningdale before the final 6 miles into Windsor.

ETA 100 miles in 48 hours or 44 if you wanted to start at 2pm and must finish by 10am tomorrow.  :o

That's made me wonder how far I could walk. After all, 100 miles in 48 hours is only 2mph...

but that would be walking non stop. Even at a leisurely 3mph, you only get about 6 hours off per day (very-ish)

Is it over hill and dale, or roads? I reckon I  could go fairly well on tarmac or nice flat grass, but add in any hills and I slow right down....
If I had a baby elephant, it could help me wash the car. If I had a car.

See my recycled crafts at www.wastenotwantit.co.uk

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
I could happily cover 14 miles in 3.5 hours on the flat when I was 18 (and outwalk Giraffe uphill in Poole with the week's groceries in my backpack when I was rather older). If you're marching at 4mph, you only need 25 hours on the move to cover 100 miles, so it seems fairly feasible.

Due to having short legs I tend to scuttle rather than march, so I reckon I could keep up 3mph ok, and between 3 and 4 for some distance.

Subject to having perfectly comfortable shoes on of course. But then I do choose shoes for comfort above all else.
If I had a baby elephant, it could help me wash the car. If I had a car.

See my recycled crafts at www.wastenotwantit.co.uk

Kim

  • An appetite for the epic, but no real stamina
A friend of mine did some of this endurance marching stuff a couple of years ago.  Tiredness seems to be about as much a factor as it is in audax: ie. often very much secondary to things like knees, blisters and how many toenails have fallen off.
With regard to wood not being straight, what do you expect trying to make things out of a dead vegetable!

A friend of mine did some of this endurance marching stuff a couple of years ago.  Tiredness seems to be about as much a factor as it is in audax: ie. often very much secondary to things like knees, blisters and how many toenails have fallen off.

That was what I thought - like when I did my first century, on an upright, and my shoulders and bum hurt way before my legs felt like they were giving up.
If I had a baby elephant, it could help me wash the car. If I had a car.

See my recycled crafts at www.wastenotwantit.co.uk

citoyen

  • Cat 6 Racer
Brilliant review of new Top Cat film by Peter Bradshaw:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/31/top-cat-the-movie-review

d.
The UCI are terrorists, clowns, liars, no different to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Huzzah!

We were planning to go to the cinema this week, and that was one of the options.  We'll see summat else instead :)
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Is there no end to your devious, cake-pushing ways, Crinkles?

Big sign seen up at a carpark in Manchester:

Parking.

£8 for 24 hours
£4 for a day.

Huh?

(I assume there's a 'no overnight' clause to the 'day')
If I had a baby elephant, it could help me wash the car. If I had a car.

See my recycled crafts at www.wastenotwantit.co.uk

Brilliant review of new Top Cat film by Peter Bradshaw:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/31/top-cat-the-movie-review

Mark Kermode panned it as well, although possibly not quite as originally. :)
Actually, it is rocket science.
 

interzen

  • Surly.
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Brilliant review of new Top Cat film by Peter Bradshaw:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/31/top-cat-the-movie-review

d.
Now that was good.
I wasn't even aware that there was a Top Cat film ... ignorance, it seems, is bliss ;D
More cowbell!

MFWHTBAB

  • Maker of things! Betrothed to Arch!
This afternoon I found the jack handle from my bottle jack (a bit of 20mm steel conduit) resting on the rain gutter on the back of my box trailer. :thumbsup:  The gutter is only about 13mm x 5mm so it wasn't very secure there.

I put it there shortly after using it as an extension bar for releasing the prop-stand clamp on Saturday prior to (with Arch) moving it, loading it with logs and driving 15 miles to drop them off with a friend and then driving back again.  The journey included cobbles, speed bumps and motorways.

Brilliant review of new Top Cat film by Peter Bradshaw:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/31/top-cat-the-movie-review

d.

Superb!

And now I have the theme from Top Cat stuck in my head.

This afternoon I found the jack handle from my bottle jack (a bit of 20mm steel conduit) resting on the rain gutter on the back of my box trailer. :thumbsup:  The gutter is only about 13mm x 5mm so it wasn't very secure there.

I put it there shortly after using it as an extension bar for releasing the prop-stand clamp on Saturday prior to (with Arch) moving it, loading it with logs and driving 15 miles to drop them off with a friend and then driving back again.  The journey included cobbles, speed bumps and motorways.

Whoops! and also: Miraculous!

(and I should add that as we arrived at the log delivery address, MFWHTBAB reversed the trailer immaculately into a driveway, watched by a chap who was standing over the road, fettling the huge caravan in his drive. He made a point of saying well done afterwards!)
If I had a baby elephant, it could help me wash the car. If I had a car.

See my recycled crafts at www.wastenotwantit.co.uk

Brilliant review of new Top Cat film by Peter Bradshaw:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/31/top-cat-the-movie-review

Mark Kermode panned it as well, although possibly not quite as originally. :)

So, forewarned, I took my 4 brats (I have a couple of spares for the night) went to see this
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/XzZDFIbY0qE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/XzZDFIbY0qE&rel=1</a>
instead.  And very splendid it was too.  We saw the dubbed version - I think original language/subtitles might have been a step too far for the gang!
Quote from: Charlotte
Is there no end to your devious, cake-pushing ways, Crinkles?

Panoramix

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I went to see it with my daughter and it is indeed very good!

Cudzoziemiec

  • You can see to Wales from the top of this hill.
All DSs driven in the UK should be RHD so that passers by can see you hang you arm out the window trailing a Gitanes and quoting Sartre. Or should that be a Gauloise and Belmondo? The mock-sheepskin seat covers on the other hand...

I think that Belmondo was more of a Renault 16 driver (at least in his movies!).

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/b3WTn_dItIg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/b3WTn_dItIg&rel=1</a>
DS at 3:17! But now I want a Kawasaki. The 1970s Parisian driving is a bit like India, but speeded up  :o
Yet Another Audax Truant.

mcshroom

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I just passed 10,000 km on my tourer :D
RIDE if you can. WALK if you have to. CRAWL if you must - But DON'T GIVE UP!