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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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- 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
- 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.
- Last of the Ten Fighter Boys J Corbin. A humble pilot, more interested in booze and women than glory and heroism.
- A Splendid Little War D Robinson. RAF pilots and the Russian people, both so different from us normal people.
- 1491—New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 2nd ed C C Mann. Mann aims to shatter colonial preconceptions, yet at the same time argues US exceptionalism is based on Native traditions.
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.
3 comments:
Nej, en bågsekund är det där ögonblicket av ovisshet innan man inser att det bara var båg alltihop.
eller 1/60-dels bågminut...
jag kommer inte kunna komma på måndag btw. min vän kunde inte styra om planerna. hoppas ni får trevligt!
Jag gillar Martins teori bättre måste jag säga. Men mest för att jag tycker "båg" är ett så underbart uttryck.
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