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 …
Category Archives: true stories
*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.
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 …