what I have learned today.

[Tim Hall]

Not to be confused with shipshape objects, presumably.

Hopefully the ship-shaped object is shipshape thobut.

But is it Bristol-fashion? And if it is, what number on the Bristol Scale?

Ship-shaped, not shit-shaped.

[rafletcher]

The meanings of "numinous" and "algor". Oh and "liminal" though I already had an idea of that one.

[ElyDave]

That just as there are bike-shaped objects, there are ship-shaped objects. "A ship-shaped, turret-moored FPSO." Looks like a ship to me, but no, FPSO = floating production, storage and offloading unit.

Ship-shaped, but with no ability to self-propel, they rotate around the turret into the wind/tides. 

As a consequence, in an emergency, the optimum direction of escape may not be aft, where the accomodation is generally located.  On the induction tour always look for the safe refuge at the pointy end

[ElyDave]

$1.5 billion I think this one was.

Shell's new one off Aus - Prelude, is a floating LNG production unit, and is the largest "vessel" in the world at >300m long.  It's f'ing huge

[andytheflyer]

That Dorset and back from Chester in a day is a bloody long way.  Particularly when you have to sit at Oldbury Viaduct on the M5 for an hour on the way back because some van's broken down in the roadworks.

It'll take me all day to recover.  I bought a couple of beers from the shop when I got home, but only drank 1.  I was that tired.

[T42]

Audax UK rider.

Yeah. I suppose it was more block that puzzled me: not having cycled in the UK since the 60s it's not a term I'd heard for a cassette. Back then I had an SA hub.

They'll be calling a crossbar something else next.

[Canardly]

That (strong) leather can be made from fish skin.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That (strong) leather can be made from fish skin.

I think that historically most Inuit clothing was made from fish skin. At any rate there used to be a display of Eskimo clothes and tools in the museum here, which was mostly made from fish skin.

[redshift]

That (strong) leather can be made from fish skin.

I read that report, and immediately went off to see if any of my preferred suppliers sell it.  Sadly, they don't. The quoted prices compare well with similar weight cow and goat leathers.

[rafletcher]

That there is pink asparagus.

[ElyDave]

That there is pink asparagus.

I grow pacific purple in my garden.  With most of these, teh colour disappears on cooking

[T42]

And they all smell the same down t'other end.

[rogerzilla]

Laptop battery lost capacity?  Getting warnings from the BIOS that it needs replacing?  Put the battery in the freezer for a day or so, thaw it out in the fridge and you should find it's more or less back to normal.  Freezing breaks up the large crystals that form over time.

[Mrs Pingu]

Laptop battery lost capacity?  Getting warnings from the BIOS that it needs replacing?  Put the battery in the freezer for a day or so, thaw it out in the fridge and you should find it's more or less back to normal.  Freezing breaks up the large crystals that form over time.

Not for lithium batteries apparently. NiMH or NiCd only.

[rogerzilla]

Laptop battery lost capacity?  Getting warnings from the BIOS that it needs replacing?  Put the battery in the freezer for a day or so, thaw it out in the fridge and you should find it's more or less back to normal.  Freezing breaks up the large crystals that form over time.

Not for lithium batteries apparently. NiMH or NiCd only.

Mine's Li-ion and it worked.  Went from not charging at all to over 2 hours' real-world capacity.

[Kim]

This: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=111871.msg2391189#msg2391189

[andrewc]

That the S1 trainline out of Hamburg splits in two before it reaches the airport, and that if you haven’t checked the information on the front of the train you can end up feeling slightly foolish.  I had to double back 2 stops & get the correct train.  Luckily I believe in having good safety margins so I’d plenty of time.

[ian]

Laptop battery lost capacity?  Getting warnings from the BIOS that it needs replacing?  Put the battery in the freezer for a day or so, thaw it out in the fridge and you should find it's more or less back to normal.  Freezing breaks up the large crystals that form over time.

Not for lithium batteries apparently. NiMH or NiCd only.

Mine's Li-ion and it worked.  Went from not charging at all to over 2 hours' real-world capacity.

Having seen my Dell spontaneously combust I wouldn't mess with Li-based batteries. Which reminds me, I have new one for my geriatric Macbook Air. Alas to say, that while the box came with the requisite tools, it was missing any appropriate swears (though if YouTube is to be believed, it's just a case of removing about a million screws and not losing any or having a cat march through the middle of proceedings).

[andrewc]

Speaking of lithium batteries, my flight is currently stuck at Hamburg, while they search the hold luggage for one which some idiot has checked in. 

[Nuncio]

Manx Shearwaters are long-lived. One was trapped in Northern Ireland in 2003 which had been ringed in 1953. And it would have had to have been an adult to have been ringed, so was at least 55 years old.

Given their lifespan and migration patterns they could well fly over 5 million miles in a lifetime.

Half the population live on Skomer, which I visited last week, but they only return to their burrows at night, so I didn't see any. (A disappointment more than made up by the puffins).

[mark]

That the S1 trainline out of Hamburg splits in two before it reaches the airport, and that if you haven’t checked the information on the front of the train you can end up feeling slightly foolish.  I had to double back 2 stops & get the correct train.  Luckily I believe in having good safety margins so I’d plenty of time.

I almost did the same thing on a late night TGV from Pau to Paris years ago. I was reading the various official notices around the train car out of boredom when it dawned on me that train I was on was going to split, and the half I was on was headed for someplace in Switzerland. Dragging a boxed bicycle and other luggage through 3 or 4 cars of sleeping people did not make me popular.

[andrewc]

Courtesy of the always educational & amazing Charlotte, the Italian for "Big Knickers"..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GYPDB_xVpA&frags=pl%2Cwn

[Efrogwr]

That (strong) leather can be made from fish skin.

I read that report, and immediately went off to see if any of my preferred suppliers sell it.  Sadly, they don't. The quoted prices compare well with similar weight cow and goat leathers.

Dictum in Germany used to sell salmon skin leather. It's worth looking at the website to see whether or not it's still available.


I've just checked. There is no salmon skin, but they have stigray skin.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That Gloucester is in Essex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts Some early settlers were mighty confused.

[Basil]

This.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=86532.msg2391705#msg2391705

Great geeking, Chris.
And that video. Wow!