History, Politics And Current Affairs

Remember when Stuart got a Hummer H2? . Someone told him the horrible truth and it was gone in a week!

Oh look a Wrangler dressed up in a Darth Vader costume. How sweet. How's the Death Wobble?

That's a great approach. Here's a flight simulator manual with range fuel curves http://www.carstenrau.de/diverses/ivao/ ... 72-500.pdf

No I'm not talking about little planes, I mean 500km+ transport for 100s of PAX.

I'm too well dined to work it out but at what point in Wh/kg does a battery powered passenger aircraft start to make sense?

For context a gas pump at a not very fast 35 litres(, or 9 US gallons) per minute is delivering 20 MW, or in Musk's measurements 15000 mph (all in my head). Triple that for hi-flow diesel, which oddly my SUV can take, despite only having a 70 litre tank. According to AI Voltage Levels: A powerline d...

I wish our driveway were 100m long. I swear new world records would be broken by the run for the van by our delivery drivers. OK I assume they are paid piece-rate.

Lots of photos, not much analysis

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-02/ ... /106077706

Irfanview has a plugin for that https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm#: ... %20plugin)

@NW2 there's a drop down menu on the right allowing you to select which basin archive you are looking at, and then a selector on the left to choose what measurement you want

Here's a link to the best source of hurricane stats (but not landfalls). If you look in the basin archives you'll see that globally the Accumulated Cyclone Energy shows no trend, yet North Atlantic shows an increasing trend. https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Re ... loc=global

My mother was not the world's greatest cook. Her legendary prowess with the pressure cooker resulted in an endless diet of overcooked veg. (it wasn't all bad but this is my story and I'll tell it the way I want). But She had one super power. She made fantastic bubble and squeak. (for the uninitiated...

Hmm, not keen on the impact driver, but other than that, fascinating. Slightly irrelevant when I was an apprentice you either used a ring spanner or a speed brace for nuts and bolts, anything else got you a clip round the ear from the foreman or leading hand.

My best find in the last decade was proper plasterboard inserts. These are large diameter large pitch self tapping plastic screws. You then screw a normal screw into the plastic screw. https://www.bunnings.com.au/ramset-nylon-wallmate-plasterboard-anchor-10-pack_p2260973?region_id=116042&gclsrc=...

https://rdw.com/capabilities/sabresat/ Interesting project.

Handy? No. Interesting? Yes https://itiner-e.org

By the bye we went to the exhibition of Viking bullion called the Galloway Hoard. Well worth it.

I used to sing tenor in the school and church choirs, we had the most fun other than the sopranos. My schoolfriends then decided to sing bass, so I did as well, but it doesn't suit my voice. Now I sing in a small choir, I'm in the altos because I'm mainly there to keep my (new singer) wife company, ...

That was very enjoyable. Was this conductor shipped in for the night ? If so he's just theatrics, which i guess suits the NY frame of mind. Who ran the rehearsals? I thought the sound balance favored the instruments more than usual especially the brass/woodwinds - not bad just different.

The Guardian didn't like it. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Lovely piece of music, and singing in cathedrals is fun.