History, Politics And Current Affairs

@NW2 there's a drop down menu on the right allowing you to select which basin archive you are looking at, and then a selector on the left to choose what measurement you want

Here's a link to the best source of hurricane stats (but not landfalls). If you look in the basin archives you'll see that globally the Accumulated Cyclone Energy shows no trend, yet North Atlantic shows an increasing trend. https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Re ... loc=global

My mother was not the world's greatest cook. Her legendary prowess with the pressure cooker resulted in an endless diet of overcooked veg. (it wasn't all bad but this is my story and I'll tell it the way I want). But She had one super power. She made fantastic bubble and squeak. (for the uninitiated...

Hmm, not keen on the impact driver, but other than that, fascinating. Slightly irrelevant when I was an apprentice you either used a ring spanner or a speed brace for nuts and bolts, anything else got you a clip round the ear from the foreman or leading hand.

My best find in the last decade was proper plasterboard inserts. These are large diameter large pitch self tapping plastic screws. You then screw a normal screw into the plastic screw. https://www.bunnings.com.au/ramset-nylon-wallmate-plasterboard-anchor-10-pack_p2260973?region_id=116042&gclsrc=...

https://rdw.com/capabilities/sabresat/ Interesting project.

Handy? No. Interesting? Yes https://itiner-e.org

By the bye we went to the exhibition of Viking bullion called the Galloway Hoard. Well worth it.

I used to sing tenor in the school and church choirs, we had the most fun other than the sopranos. My schoolfriends then decided to sing bass, so I did as well, but it doesn't suit my voice. Now I sing in a small choir, I'm in the altos because I'm mainly there to keep my (new singer) wife company, ...

That was very enjoyable. Was this conductor shipped in for the night ? If so he's just theatrics, which i guess suits the NY frame of mind. Who ran the rehearsals? I thought the sound balance favored the instruments more than usual especially the brass/woodwinds - not bad just different.

The Guardian didn't like it. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Lovely piece of music, and singing in cathedrals is fun.

On one particularly enjoyable cadet holiday (sorry, CCF camp) we went to the range with a bucket of different prehistoric firearms. I got my rotator cuff ripped up by some pistol (I'd only ever shot rifles and shotties before), and then got a Sten. The instructor said, don't drop it, it'll go off, s...

S1E7, OK hotting up.

Oddly that's the second reference to HoD I've seen today. I'll give it a poke.

Switch to cabinet making? Or you could start modelling submarines and hide them under the carpet.

You uber-modellers have fantastic talents, don't crush them.

Indeed, nicely done.

A reasonably serious hypothesis that the actual universe is 2d and we live in a 3d projection of it. Produced by some quantum guys trying to reconcile with Einstein https://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2024/ ... ogram.html

Got to S1E3 so far. Spy Kids meets Aliens. Not impressed by the plot or the script.

Where I worked we had a similar issue. We got on the Matlab bus early on, and have written and validated a vast amount of code in proprietary toolboxes. These allow us to take data from rigs, test equipment, cars and labs, and simulations, and process it in the exact same way which makes correlation...

Can anyone explain why the AF is flying a retired model and intends to do so for the 9 years?