Craig Sawyers

And while we are on dog things

Not at all. It is simply that Hedy Lamarr is principally known as an actor. The equally striking lady below is the founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits, at the leading edge of product development in Quantum Computing https://oxfordquantumcircuits.com/ At the helm of a company currently with 79 staff and rising.

Hedy Lamarr. Apart from being drop dead gorgeous she co-invented spread spectrum communication as a secure communication method as WW2 was getting going.

Too fucking right Grahame. We have a morally bankrupt government here who have decided to deflect the raft of woe that they have inflicted on the UK population after 12 years in charge by adopting an inhumane policy and showcasing it. If it was easy to find a solution to dangerously overcrowded rafts crossing the busiest shipping channel in the world - why in fucks sake have they not done it before now? Answer: political expediency. Fuck fuck fuck them all.

A very belated happy birthday, Nate!

Happy birthday!

Had a great day and follow on. Went out for a meal on the day to a restaurant down a goat track. Serves devilled kidneys as a starter - what is not to like? And we have just got back from a walking weekend on Exmoor. Awesome walking, lots of hills - freezing cold (2C and a stiff wind) across the tops, including this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkery_Hill . Also spent a day visiting a cousin who lives in Plympton. Great guy, as is his wife. Ex Royal Marine Commando (the UK equivalent as a Navy Seal), long retired - he's 78 now - but has some really hairy stories of what he got up to back in the day.

Happy birthday, Naaman!

That dates us - that we can remember the irritating windows paperclip

Want to see a truly creepy UK car advert?

Sounds like the probable outcome, considering everything.

Happy birthday Dan!

Here's a reason that we've fucked the climate up. Way back a hundred million years or more, the world had a hot and tropical climate. Over tens of millions of years, trees fell, the continents shifted and buckled and locked up much of the greenhouse gasses that originally caused a hot world. Safely underground. Fossilized at coal, and gas from the products of tree decomposition. The resulting temperate climate allowed - well us - to evolve. So when we dig up all that locked away carbon dioxide that took a geological age to produce, and burn it in a few decades, there is little wonder that we're heating the planet up again. It ain't rocket science.

Yes, but he also envisions chemical and biological clandestine attacks on the West. IOW Europe. He's already done that in Salisbury a couple of years ago with Novichok nerve agents. And poisoned Litvinenko on London with radioactive Polonium, resulting in Litvinenko being buried in a lead coffin. That is the clear and present danger.

There is no such thing as exact complementary transistors. The effective masses for holes and electrons are quite different, as are hole and electron mobilities. So no matter how you tweak the transistor geometries to get some sort of match, there are always differences between npn and pnp complementary transistors.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Steve! Hope you had a great day !!

Oh damn. Raquel. RIP.

That is seriously fucking weird.

In Feb. 1964, Sgt. Buddy Dresner of the Miami Police Department provided security to the Beatles while they were in town to do Sullivan. They hit it off, and Buddy invited them to have dinner at his home.

I always wondered why Russia would sabotage their own pipelines, particularly when the sale of gas to Europe (particularly Germany) was funding the war in Ukraine. A third party always looked more likely.

The news gets worse and worse for Turkey and Syria. Another aftershock hit a number of hours ago. Rescue workers are having problems because roads are out. The airport is so full with rescue workers that incoming aid relief are having to wait in the planes on the tarmac until the airport is clear enough. There are those still alive and knocking on pipes from below the rubble waiting for rescue to arrive and relatives digging with bare hands. Made even worse by truly awful weather conditions My heart goes out to Syria too - war torn, and only one open border crossing with Turkey. RIP the thousands who have died. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-map-magnitude-7-8-scale-quake-tremor-death-toll-gaziantep-kahramanmaras

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned that earliier - but my all time hero of groundbreaking scifi, Greg Bear died at age 71 after heart surgery, in November. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/29/greg-bear-obituary RIP Greg Bear

They are truly a truly superb couple, who seem to have a permanent ball of a life together. I've always though Toyah Willcox was super hot. Looking truly spectacular at 64.

TWO Krenov style planes, one with a Hock blade? Well the Veritas shoulder plane is nice, as is the Kunz spokeshave. But the Krenov style planes are lovely. Lucky you! $15 wouldn't even come close to buying the Hock blade!