Spring, when a young pisshead lady’s fancy lightly turns to sitting outside Heathway station shouting out “Slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!” and “Oi! Frigid!” and “Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor!” To any other young lady that dares to walk past. This coming from two aspiring young alcoholics wearing skirts so high and tops so low they were on the verge of exchanging places. …
Monthly Archives: March 2005
I was on a roll as well…
Earlier today I picked up an Intel StorageStation networked disk storage box for £3. I got it home to find that the disks are missing and that the OS was stored on one of the missing disks. No real problem, google shows that the device runs FreeBSD and an OS image was on Intel’s website. …
RCA cleaning silicon
I’m sure the RCA process for cleaning silicon wafers was invented when Werner Kern got drunk in the lab one day and decided to have some fun… How else would any sane man come up with the idea of taking a half litre each of several of the most corrosive things you can image then …
Fire! A true story.
Back in the heady days of the early 90s, our garden consisted of a patch of grass, two fishponds, a rather large wooden shed and three of the largest sycamore trees I’ve ever seen. The shed had seen many years and the years had not been kind to it. To make room for a new …
The joys of trying to publish a scientific paper…
So, you’ve got some decent results at last and want to let the world know? Then you want to publish a paper. You write it, submit it to the journal, they send it to 2 or more referees who being conscientious professionals, read it and report back promptly. Corrections are made and the process is …
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