In the book I'm currently reading the author expounds on her tendency to become ill while travelling: “…and I ask you—I beg of you!—who gets sunburned in Stockholm?”
Well, I do. Quite regularly every summer, even though I try to stay out of the sun. Did she think we all live underground and never go out?
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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
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- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Spitfire Voices D Sarkar. Some pilots had very short careers.
- Algiers to Anzio with 72 & 111 Squadrons: Experiences of an RAF Officer in North Africa and Italy 1942–46 G Farish & M McCaul. “Me 109 Mk 9” Really!?
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. III T Docherty. Better photos.
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. II T Docherty. Disappointingly bad photos.
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. I T Docherty. Not for the political analysis.
- Unity in Action, Third Edition: Multiplatform game development in C# J Hocking. One of those good dependable introductions.
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.
- Piled Higher and Deeper Mike Slackenerny, that's me. Free food, anyone?
- 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:
Haven't you heard? We've got a different sun here - only out at night...
Getting sun-burnt in London would be far more impressive.
It's like my mother always insists I put on extra woollen socks when I visit her, because “the cold is different outside the city”…
I don't know about London, but I've gotten sunburned in Cambridge.
Åh, hon dotter av skabbiga hundar. ENda anledningen till att jag inte blir solbränd är att jag i princip inte går ut på sommardagar utan väntar till kvällen, och smörjer mig med spf 30 vareviga timme när jag väl är ute. Hmpf! Har hon inte hört talas om hålet i ozonlagret?!?!?!?!?
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