I think a rainbow has to count as amazing, but so too do thunder clouds and lightning. I used to live in Stuttgart, my flat was high up on one of the hills overlooking the city and I have a vivid memory of watching a dramatic thunder storm pass over the city, lightning striking down […]
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Maybe it is just me… Jax doesn’t think it is at all odd, anyway.
Something Amazing II
Crookes Radiometer Never have quite “got” this improbable little thing. Pretty though, I used to have one on my bedroom windowsill when I was at school, it used to go mad in direct sunlight.
Something Amazing I
Newton’s Cradle No matter how often I see one of these, they still fascinate me.
They don’t get it
They really, really don’t get it. One of the crassest and most totally idiotic examples of mindless web design that I have ever seen. http://www.co-op.ac.uk/
Pants
A man who chose “Lloyds is pants” as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to “no it’s not” BBC :rofl:
Boom
I have just got back from watching the Tinsley Towers, the two large cooling towers by the side of the elevated section of the M1 in Sheffield, being demolished. Tinsley Towers 3am No Tinsley Towers 3:01am The first time I have been to see a demolition. Quite extraordinary.
Missed
A couple of posts elsewhere have made me think of some things which I missed, when I had the chance – that is to say, places I didn’t visit, things I didn’t do, when I lived right next to them. These include: Living 4 miles from Sutton Hoo and never going to see it. Living […]
Heard Today
“Small, I can’t look up the shop online, not all shops are online.” Just wonder when the first parent had to explain that.
One For Map Nuts
Took the Smalls to meet up with Jax and batch of schoolfriends at the cinema yesterday. Whilst hanging around waiting, I added to my Geograph collection, had an overpriced Starbucks coffee and browsed around Borders shop. I love maps, new, old, doesn’t matter, they fascinate me. I hadn’t really spent any time looking at Cassini […]