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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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August
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- Veckans ord: bågsekund
- Kul med språket: Obfuskera Svenskans recension av ...
- Love in the Old Town
- Friends in high places
- Veckans ord: cellofan
- Sittin' on the dock of the bay
- Let them eat cake
- Still un(der)determined
- I am easily amused
- “Nature”
- Empty in one sense
- Notes from the underground
- Veckans ord: utvickningsflicka
- Clouds
- Even more impressive
- Stormy weather
- Feeding frenzy
- There and back again
- Cover me, I'm going in!
- Word of the Week: streptease
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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.
6 comments:
If that isn't Kafkaesque, then I don't know what is.
You remind me of A. A. Milne's Eeyore (I-or) so much right now...
:D
But… I have a tube of Karlsson's Klister, right here?
What? Are you planning to glue the fish to the tin before pouring out the liquid?
Maybe I can sculpt fishes out of glue?
If you try sculpting fishes out of the glue, I strongly advise not to put the resultinto your Jansson´s Temptation... Unless you plan to pour the Jansson into the waste bin.
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