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A piece of good news and a miracle of sorts. After nearly 6 days Motley showed up. Apparently OK. Where he was is a mystery. I will keep further opinions of that whole situation to myself. :roll: Good that furry family was reunited with his people. :) mnem Dogs come when they are called. Cats take ...

mnem
Do not feed him after midnight.

mnem
*retaliatory strike*

Oh dear... just a week away. Is anybelly coming to meet for lunch this time? Cheers, mnem yes, you may touch it. I would love to go but Blondie is having the remaining kidney stones removed on Friday. Def a higher priority. The June one is usually the biggest of the season unless we get rained out,...

nixiefreqq wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 9:50 pmps for the love of god ........if med buys that 1725 and paints it blue........don't anyone tell me.

mnem

Oh dear... just a week away. Is anybelly coming to meet for lunch this time?

Cheers,

mnem
yes, you may touch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1KRueLhJv4 https://www.youtube.com/@ReBootRewindDoc https://linktr.ee/rebootrewind I dunno aboot you guys, but ReBoot was an important part of my youth, and there's a project trying to restore it and re-release it in its original glory. This involves resurrecting 30...

I like that. I did it slightly differently. I'd go see my boss, say that I wanted a Tek but that I didn't think we could justify the list price of £xxxxx. I'd suggest that we could perhaps justify £xxxxx and what did he think? We would generally agree on an absolute limit and I'd go back and haggle...

mnem
that is all.

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3241 In yesterday's Discord, someone mentioned "The Wandering Earth II" , which turned into a bit of a rabbit-hole for me; these movies are Chinese Domestic productions of Liu Cixin's other works. That led me here: https://www....

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3205 Jeebus... just dug ourselves out, and now blizzard conditions again starting right in the middle of the morning commute. Fuck, but mother nature is being a cunt this winter. mnem ehhh… she probably saw Rump's State of the Onion Addr...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3202 https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3203 https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3204 Pics from digging ourselves out yesterday after the 2nd "Storm of the Century" in the la...

So far the "blizzard" here has been a non event. Yes, we have significant snow and some blowing but so far it's much less than the storm a month ago. Easily managed and dealt with. But not so in NYC, Long Island, and where Paul and Pat are located in Connecticut. I'm about 50 miles from t...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=3173&mode=view Well, I foolishly bought another treasure on fleabay, without realising how big it is. I've decided to use it as scenery for a futuristic (no steam engines!) OO/HO train layout, representing some form of electrical grid installation...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3198 . https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3199 . https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3201 https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3200 a few pics from the last st...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=3197 This storm is projected to be much worse than the last one; supposedly 13-20"/33-50cm over the next 2 days, and they're warning that with expected freezing rain power outages could last 3-8 days. This is the first we've seen where the severe...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 4:24 pm Batten down the hatches.

Welp… that’s enough of that…

mnem
*fucks off back inside where there’s hot fresh home-made waffles and bacony eggs*

Started tweaking the calibration on the P11 485. First on the agenda was to clean the attenuator switch decks, especially the 1M path. They were dirty. A dab of deoxit then flush with 100% IPA and blow dry. The 50 ohm path on both channels looks pretty good. 10MHz square. The trailing edge ringing ...

Sweet! https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2502-16-Felines/i-X9S9d3K/0/KJ7mPDRhztTrW2255j5wJDNt64zh3PC99gDCHHw6v/XL/25-03-15%20Marconi%2011-XL.jpg That cat has an air of brooding malevolence and barely contained rage. He saw somebody reaching for the power switch on his nutsack-warmer! :lol: mnem &q...

...and NOW:



And it is still BLIZZARD conditions... and some wingnut is out there in it down the street with a snowblower.

mnem

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 23, 2026 1:50 amThis is why I'm glad Harley is an indoor cat. I can just imagine what he might drag home.

mnem

This morning over coffee: https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3161 Just now: https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3162&sid=717a6c550daed2b0b2e8aadaa9c02850 It was 4°F/-16°C this morning; now 14°F/-10°C. As Mike said; we're not goin' nowhere, jus...

mnem
And so... it begins.

Going to be a fun weekend. Frigid temps, winds, and snow.....lots of snow. Upwards of 2 feet predicted. That's a once in 5 to 10 year storm. We'll see if the predictions are accurate. I'll post photos from the balcony. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/zx1E3U.jpg https://teanonymous.com/f...

While walking the dog I came across a semi-autonomous paint pot trundling along a lane towards some playing fields. Somewhat like this one in Milton Keynes The first time I saw one of those, the thing which occurred was the scope for mischief such contraptions offered. This is an early model. The n...