Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #52: Ride a train through water several feet deep, at 5mph, after the station at Dovey Junction becomes flooded,...
View ArticleSwimming To Work
I turned up to work this morning, bright and early, and the first thing I noticed was that my desk, the four computers and the UPS block under it, the KVM switch and ethernet switch on top of it, one...
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My house is full of it. This isn’t good. Much thanks to Welsh Water, where a friendly man talked me through the quirks in my stop tap (who’d have thought that it would be so hard to turn a tap off and...
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Oxford Under Water
Parts of Oxford have been flooded for the last few days, and apparently the worst is yet to come. I worked from home yesterday, intimidated by the available choices of traversing flooded roads or else...
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Cosmo – Building A Watercooled PC (Part 1)
Recently, I’ve reduced my hours working at the Bodleian in order to be able to spend more time working on Three Rings and engaging in other bits of freelance work… and to increase my flexibility so...
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Devon – the trip we’ll never forget
Update: following feedback from folks who found this post from Twitter, I just wanted to say at the top of this post – we’re all okay. Our holiday in Devon last week turned out to be… memorable… both...
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[Repost] Drowning cow saved by ‘mermaid’ on 200-mile swim
A drowning cow was rescued from a river by a passing “mermaid” on a 200-mile swim of the Thames. Lindsey Cole splashed into the river in a wetsuit, tail and hat at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on...
View Article[Repost] Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity
Plasma Ben (YouTube) This is just…wooooah. Proper “dude, my hands are huge” grade moment, for me, when I watched the bubbles form in the droplet of water. I had an idea about what would happen, and I...
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[Article] Water Science
This afternoon, the kids and I helped with some citizen science as part of the Thames WaterBlitz, a collaborative effort to sample water quality of the rivers, canals, and ponds of the Thames Valley to...
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Who’d have thought that my onboarding fortnight at @WooCommerce / @Automattic would conclude with a very literal “on-boarding”. Hang five! Twitter
View Article[Video] Pyjama Party Water Fight
There comes a point where you’ve run out of new lockdown activity ideas, and you just start combining random pairs of activities you’ve already done. This morning’s first activity was… “Pyjama Party /...
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[Article] My New Route Home From Work
Tide permitting, I’ve been taking a new route home from work. It’s not much of a shortcut, not even taking 30 seconds off my time to get home, but it’s certainly a lot more fun than the regular route....
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