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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
About Me
- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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Blog Archive
Recently read
- NARA-Typenbücher 5: Avions de Transport Regional ATR 42 H-J Becker. With a feel of being glued together from press releases.
- Girls’ Last Tour, 1 Tsukumizu. Nothing is really dangerous.
- Ju 52/3m g3e–g11e Bedienungsvorschrift-Fl (Stand Februar 1943) One gets a feeling for the hard work put in by the mechanics.
- Pedagogisk portfölj – för karriär och utveckling K Winka & Å Ryegård. Excellent and easily-read summary of the subject.
- Biggles jagar kidnapparna W E Johns, transl M K:son Lindberg. Disappointly little flying.
- Duell på månen S C Swahn. [Reread] The film would have had a soundtrack by Ralph Lundsten.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
2 comments:
Reminds me of when Adrian Mole tries to sniff glue off his Airfix kit and manages to glue the plane to his nose.
CA isn't really good for sniffing.
But, for your enjoyment, here is a picture from an earlier occasion, when I managed to glue an Aeroclub Corsair to my fingers:
http://tinyurl.com/2dmadu
Furthermore, it turned out that the bottle with debonder was child-proof and couldn't be opened without the use of both hands, so I had to wait for someone to come home and free me…
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