Retired Configuration Manager, Game Player, Fountain Pen collector, Garden Railway afficionado.
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Last Notes npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Like the balancing monks. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Sounds like the SES in Australia. Is this just a locality by locality thing or are there state level resources and training available to the volunteers? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Maybe just a lighter weight thread then rather than a reduced ply count? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 It might not be waxed but fixing that is only tedious. There is at least one other supplier as well but I've never dealt with them. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 In the past I've used Melbourne Etching Supplies but they only seem to go down to 3 cord. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I take it you are not banking with Bankwest then? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 A few weeks ago a #FountainPen person from #NewZealand was looking for fountain pen shops. Today I bumped into one in Auckland that did not show up in my web searches. It has at least Nahvalur, Pilot, Platinum, TWSBI, Cross, Kaweco, Ferris Wheel Press, Lamy, and probably others I have forgotten. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Chicken salt? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 To create exam questions that require the sitter to demonstrate understanding, The current ones obviously don't. Any exam question that allows someone with no actual knowledge to pass is obviously flawed. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Maybe this could lead to better exam questions? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Watching the Giro Italia on SBS, there were two alternating speech to text sources and one of them got race terms, team names, and rider names correct and in the next sentence there would be pseudo phonetic mash which you had to sound out to work out what the text actually referred to. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 The degree of effect will also depend on the quality of the tipping. Tipping is supposed to be a harder material to protect the nib but some low end manufacturers use cheaper materials. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 The Schmidt nibs seem to have a stranglehold on the wood turners pen kit market. I don't like them because I think they are really mediocre nibs but some of my friends do so YMMV. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 They used to be highly prized for light things like clothes and bedding. Possibly because of the moisture resistant lining. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I just remember actual tea chests. They were a standard size (for packing in ships). somewhere around 2 feet square and maybe 3 feet high. Made of thin wood with thin metal reinforcing on the edges and corners and lined with tinfoil. The wood was a kind of plywood but very prone to delaminating if it got damp. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I gave up on the phonetic symbols when I found that the sound are not invariant across accents. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I did a search on youtube and found a small handful of videos .. 2 used plaTINum, one was silent, one used both, and one used plaTIGnum but said he had no idea how to pronounce it. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I've always use plaTIGnum but I cant have ever heard anyone else say it more that once or twice in my lifetime. And that pronunciation was formed before I ever discovered Platinum as a brand. I had always assumed that they had differentiated themselves from platinum the metal deliberately. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I really liked Magpie by The Unthanks at the end. There has been some really nice folk motifs in the music cropping up in Series 13 and now this one. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 You'll get tagged with an "all boomers are super hostile" meme. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 That looks a bit ... deforested. Is it supposed to look like that? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I also use celery leaves to make salted herbs. Chop up finely with whatever other herbs you have weigh and add 1/4 that weight in cooking salt. stick in a clean plastic or glass jar and store in the fridge. Substitute a teaspoonful for 1/2 a teaspoonful of salt in soups, stews etc. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Interesting ... Is the notebook by Lami or Lamy? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I think @npub19rc…m3mw means this one: https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/114208728254766900 npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I tried to find any link between Haas and the three founders of the CIFF, Micheal Kutza, King Vidor, and Colleen Moore. but drew a blank. Kutza might have grown up watching Haas films (he as 22 in 1962) and Vidor certainly would have moved in the same circles in Hollywood but then don't seem to have ever worked together. Moore was finished acting long before Haas came to the USA. So, nothing obvious. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 😆 Although I'm used to seeing it spelt innit. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 A couple of days ago I rediscovered my copy of Life Cloud by Hoyle and Wickramasinghe. Maybe I need to re-read it and see how it held up. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Given how far in advance this was trumpeted you would have thought that they would have had a change prepared and ready to go as soon as the official announcement dropped. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Look under the brand badges and there are a lot less companies. But availability may also depend on the country and its RFI laws, npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Powerline Ethernet is generally held to be a bad idea because it has poor noise rejection and creates large amounts of radio frequency interference so not many companies support it. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Apart from their own cartridge Jowo also make specially threaded cartridges of manufacturers such as TWSBI. However, the #6 nibs can be extracted and interchanged between cartridges or other compatible pens such as Jinhaos. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I've been a longtime Ubuntu user but now I am looking to change distros and the reasons are the Firefox snap and Ubuntu Pro. I can't even imagine why they are this bad. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 #RandomThought npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 I learned my mandolin skills from Tubular Bells. When one is about to slice vegetable one must pull it out, flourish t grandly and decry, "MAN DO LIN". Technique perfected. npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 16 maybe? No clue what the MB is in aid of. Although, something to do with the colour spectrum perhaps? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Thinking of when I worked for a Newspaper ... there are two thing that bug me (actually there are many things but 2 will do for now). npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Eh, it's okay. You'll get a much better picture in low light conditions than by push processing a film. And it it is really really cheap (per shot) so it should appeal to the masses. But that dependence on batteries and rechargers? Can it ever replace your Hasselblad? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 Luke, my wife is in London ATM and she has been looking for a birthday gift to bring back for me ... where might she be able to get one of your Tube Mapper photo books please? npub1e8cc8cqrker2030a26ww6gly7tr5vlv6xtpj4972e4m65shc8eqqpkfwlu Steveg58 There is a story that the Naturalist Harry Butler used to tell. At one point during the 60's he was doing a job in the South West of Western Australia and he was bitten by one of the local venomous snakes so he applied first aid and presented himself to the local hospital to get the antivenene. As there are several antivenenes for different species he carefully described and identified the snake to the doctor so the correct antivenene could be selected. The doctor hurried off and came back some minutes later without the antivenene.
