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Bill hook machete
mia_mcdavid has a bill hook machete, very well employed in her large garden. The hook was a length of steel rod riveted to it to gather in the brush so it could not escape. Unfortunately, a week ago the hook broke when I was using it. Continue reading
The Origin of Polynesia [???]
Samoan Minoans from Ancient Crete. This is just plain nuts, but, as the RogueClassicist said, “it’s fun to say ‘Samoan Minoan'”
“…the prominent thin profile of the iPad2”
Monday Night Irish Class, August 8, 2011
Irish Class, August 8, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 8ú lá Mí na Lúnasa 2011
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Burma Shave
Maintaining Gaffneyis Gear
We took four of colgaffneyis polearms (3 pikes and a partisan) to Fort William and back last weekend. You can see how they traveled here.These take a lot of abuse at our events. The heads are always getting rusty. The shafts have not received any maintenance in 5 years to my certain knowledge, and I suspect much longer. The problem was similar to that of rehabbing old tools, which I often done before (e.g. these posts). However, there was an issue of scale. The partisan is 6 feet long. Two of the pikes measure 10 feet, and the third 14. Continue reading
The Smallest Mini-Galaxy in the Universe!
Updating a well known commercial
From xkcd.
Captain Kirk, Batman, and Alexander the Great
William Shatner and Adam West reflect on their toga days
from RogueClassicism
One additional thought: William Shatner is now 80 years old. Alexander the Great was 33 when he died.
The End of Time …
The Big Crunch: Physicists Make Time End
Physicists Recreate ‘End Of Time’ in Lab
(The technical details) Hyperbolic metamaterial interfaces: Hawking radiation from Rindler horizons and the “end of time”
It should be noted that this is a simulation of one possible way our universe might evolve, one that current observations suggest is incorrect. However, it is a solution of Einstein’s equations of General Relativity, and as such well worth studying.
When I was much younger something like this might have been called an “analog computer.” I have not seen that term much lately.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 