With all the talk of water shortages, hosepipe bans and drought orders, you’d be forgiven for overlooking all the water we do have. There is lots of water in East London, you just have to know where to look. Oh, and I really wouldn’t advise trying to drink any of it. There are many streams …
Continue reading “Water everywhere and not a drop to drink.”
Well, that was an interesting sociological experiment. Now can we please have 11 different councillors that: a) Have some kind of clue. b) Don’t wish to get suspended from the council for ‘telling the truth’. [1] c) Will not quit after a few months because they didn’t realise a) was a prerequisite. As pointed out …
Things are getting along quite well in the new lab. Large pieces of aluminium have been turned into small pieces of aluminium (and a lot of swarf), spectrometers have been upgraded and calibrated, and I’ve just finished building some constant current regulators for low currents. The current regulators don’t work how I thought they should, …
Continue reading “Happiness is a warm gun hot soldering iron.”
I first saw this poem on a poster as part of the Poems on the Underground project run by London Underground. I only saw it once, and could only remember a couple of lines – making it hard to search for. This morning I suddenly remembered much more of the poem and so was able …
If a title like that doesn’t bring the hits in, nothing will. The Thesis, my Magnum opus, is now finished, bound up and submitted. And I’ve just spotted a couple of typos in it. Bugger. Nothing severe like my last thesis, where I got the year wrong on the very first page. I didn’t spot …
