The door bell rang earlier – I answered it to one of the lesser seen neighbours carrying a laptop. “Hello, I’m Brian from number 18, I wondered if you could do me a favour, Tony says you are good with computers.” “Hello, Er, Ok. What’s the problem?” Brian had been using someone else’s WiFi connection …
Category Archives: true stories
Buying condoms on petty cash
When you are practising science on a tiny budget you sometimes have to get creative with replacement equipment. The following happened nearly a year ago, I’ve just happened to find what I wrote at the time. Taken from a chat log at the time. [dtl-afk] I’m just about to ask stores to reimburse me from …
*BOOM* A tale of woe.
It has been said that young amateur scientists typically fall into one of four categories: those trying to make explosives, those with an interest in electronics, astronomers and those that like to take dead animals apart. I didn’t fit the classification so well, I had an active interest in all of those things. It was …
Revenge
Reminded of this by a post from Scaryduck today. DTL vs the Fluff-Ball The was and still is a misrable old bastard up the road from me. He walks a yapping bundle of fluff up the road twice per day, letting it shit where ever it wants. Complaints about this are shrugged of with “its …
Note to self:
Using a razor blade as a screwdriver really is a bad idea. The kind of bad idea that leaves you holding you hand up high while someone applies superglue and a plaster to your finger.