Give me the dappled shade of a tree and a cooling breeze. We are forest folk not meant for this heat.

Do you know how difficult it is to film a hummingbird hawk moth while wearing shorts and following its manic flight through a field of 5 foot tall stinging nettles?

#moths #wildlife #nature #insect #Lepidoptera

Scotland concede the fastest goal of the world cup so far, at 72 seconds.

'We travel 530 miles to Lowestoft so our son can have a haircut.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyd9yzg46yo

My Quansheng brings all the nerds to the yard
And they're like it's better than yours
Baofeng, it's better than yours
I could teach you, but I'd have to charge

@jamesb

TL:DR
Don't abuse CHIRP to trick your radio to accepting 126.505 as an airband frequency, steps of 8.33 mean it can't be.

Only @jamesb and @bloor might have any interest in this.

Sometimes the problem exists between radio and chair.

A professional who works at an airport got frequency and channel confused, tricked some unrelated software into loading those settings and repeatedly blamed the firmware developer when they couldn't hear anything on airband.

https://youtu.be/Dpf3QzkDdaQ

Niche https://youtu.be/VceteHs5TsA

@jamesb @yvan

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FabMusacchio/116529625252630872

I tried this on a real photo I just took and the lines don't converge on the same point.

Lens distortion and inaccuracies in buildings mean ideasised perspective lines don't always match what you'll see in photos. Anyone who's ever tiled a room will attest to how crooked walls, floors and ceilings really are.

#bbcmicrobot 🚀
MO.0:P.'"The smouldering ashes"'"of Sierpinsky":V.5:F.X%=0TO1023:F.Y%=0TO1023
IFX%ANDY% Y%=Y%+(X%ANDY%)DIV2
PLOT69,X%+Y%DIV2,Y%
N.,:V.1

So you can't report an ongoing brushing scam to Amazon unless you sign up for an Amazon account.

Nope.

New, old stock, British Gas 5¼" floppy discs.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

I wonder if this book from 1979 lives up to its promise.

"One exciting experiment with this machine is to wipe out its memory, roll it into a room with its battery charger, and close the door for a couple of days. Leave him alone in there for a month. if you want, but the machine won't be idle. It will be snooping around its environment, building up its own impressions of what the world is like and developing ways to cope with it."

I'll swap you two pots of Gentleman's Relish for a tank of petrol.

It's all gone a bit Mad Max out here.

https://ebay.us/m/qbnPfS

Fail.

Testing out the NHS website with rhyming slang.

https://www.nhs.uk/search/results?q=Chalfont%20St%20Giles

NHS "find a pharmacy" search is borked.

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/pharmacy/find-a-pharmacy/results/Hemel%20Hempstead?latitude=51.75261501574524&longitude=-0.47232158964620297

For a start it thinks the closest pharmacy to Hemel is on Seven Sisters Road, London. 🔭

Secondly, what's up with that precision?
latitude=51.75261501574524

17 decimal places?!

6 decimal places is within about 10cm.

@russss

#bbcmicrobot 🚀
MO.2:*FX9
FORX=-128 TO1280 STEP4
FORY=0 TO1024 STEP4
GCOL 0,(((X AND Y)MOD(1+X-Y))/3)MOD19
PLOT69,X+128,1024-Y
N.,
V.5,1

For a future restoration project I'm going back to 1980.

The rare and elusive Transam Tuscan. An S-100 bus computer that made the commodore PET look dainty.

The entry-level model apparently cost £2,125 without the twin floppy drives.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@geoffl/116138623350608931

Posting into the void again. Where is anyone?