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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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Recently read
- Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1681: The Dynamical System Generated by the 3n + 1 Function G Wirsching. Occasionally I could follow the reasoning.
- Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol 2: Boeing 707 R Mak. Planespotter pictures in random order.
- Airlines series, volume 1: Garuda Indonesia J Mols. It’s always the poor people who are paying for everything.
- The de Havilland DH.60 Moth S McKay. The women’s plane in its glory.
- Handbook on Rigid Class 23 Airships Admiralty Airship Department. An industry fumbles with high-tech.
- Barney Barnfather: Life on a Spitfire Squadron A Mansfield. Focussed on the progress of the war from the perspective of Barnfather’s squadrons.
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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