Twitter Updates for 12-09-2011

• Tory MP gets out of prison early? Well the £14k he stole is worth a lot less now. ;P 13:26:31, 2011-09-12
• @blueybirdy Guessing you're there for the birds not the whiskey? in reply to blueybirdy 13:50:29, 2011-09-12
• @korrok They're the ones going against ebay's TOS, so ebay should favour you in a dispute? in reply to korrok 14:01:22, 2011-09-12
• @artsyhonker Would work well in faux leather & brass buckles in reply to artsyhonker 14:21:44, 2011-09-12
• @pseudomonas Ok! in reply to pseudomonas 18:36:46, 2011-09-12
• Putting final touches on the plastic master for the new degasser's sealing gasket.. 18:38:06, 2011-09-12
• IMPORTANT: I still really like this ship – http://t.co/a1UsYnk 18:40:53, 2011-09-12
• Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed, coffee to stomach.. 18:45:26, 2011-09-12
• That superglue seems to have done the trick! Getting a bit past-it tho, so will leave it to cure a while longer. 19:02:35, 2011-09-12
• I think the older I get the more I empathise with Invader Zim. 19:06:28, 2011-09-12
• Oooh, that old portable DVD player display I've got is 7". That touch-screen I picked up from the hackspace might fit it! 19:12:33, 2011-09-12
• @thepandalion Pertinent to your interests: http://t.co/TQXSLaA 19:16:20, 2011-09-12
• Urge to make "pew-pew" noises.. rising.. 19:17:38, 2011-09-12
• @sevenhelz 'Tis unlikely. The filthy things myself and The Massive get up to are currently confined only to my imagination. in reply to sevenhelz 19:29:53, 2011-09-12
• Have started just opening old packets of components rather than trying to translate the hand-written scrawl on the outside. 19:35:24, 2011-09-12
• Seven MM74HC161N ICs. "Synchronous Binary Counter with Asynchronous Clear". Good for frequency counter maybe? #PartsTrawl 19:38:52, 2011-09-12
• Five M74HC85B1 ICs. "4-BIT MAGNITUDE COMPARATOR" Ummm. Okay. Could be of use in something. #PartsTrawl 19:44:03, 2011-09-12
• Three "DUAL 2-TO-4 LINE DECODER/DEMULTIPLEXER" Trying to think what the person I got these from was going to make.. 19:46:18, 2011-09-12
• Okay, not going to list all of them. I really should take proper inventory of the things sometime tho. 19:46:43, 2011-09-12
• @penguat @inmywindow And now I'm humming the theme to "Bewitched". in reply to penguat 19:56:32, 2011-09-12
• @inmywindow Good grief! O_O in reply to inmywindow 20:03:06, 2011-09-12
• @inmywindow You're a Thermos of tea away from a perfect journey :) in reply to inmywindow 20:05:55, 2011-09-12
• Trying to remember the name of a tool. Like a transfer-punch, but you screw it into holes, like a sharpened bolt. 20:07:53, 2011-09-12
• @inmywindow oooh, will remember that for folks visiting. in reply to inmywindow 20:08:53, 2011-09-12
• @inmywindow For £10 a night, I'm tempted to go there just to take a break from home for a few evenings. in reply to inmywindow 20:12:02, 2011-09-12
• @penguat No.. you put in in something with existing tapped holes so you can mark mounting points on another surface. in reply to penguat 20:12:48, 2011-09-12
• @inmywindow I like my bed, but I seem to sleep more intensely in strange places. Think my body sleeps deeper faster, just in case. in reply to inmywindow 20:19:19, 2011-09-12
• @inmywindow And might well do after Expo. Until then I gotta keep preparing. :/ in reply to inmywindow 20:19:51, 2011-09-12
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/C0hAD3X Silent Movie Trailer 20:25:01, 2011-09-12
• Good grief, I YT "liked" that video over a week ago! YouTube does not update Twitter quickly. :P 20:27:23, 2011-09-12
• It's not a steadycam, but drilled & tapped three holes, & now the broken divers camera rig is a homebrew "fig rig". Should make vids better. 20:53:33, 2011-09-12
• Experimenting with the Thixotropic before shutting up for the night. 21:30:18, 2011-09-12
• You'd think hazardous chemicals would have better pouring spouts.. 21:38:11, 2011-09-12
• Okay, working with thixotropic makes silicone like painting with very sticky smooth mud. Tricky, but don't need a lot to cover. 21:57:13, 2011-09-12
• It looks like I have the worlds largest and thinnest iced donut on my bench. http://t.co/TVv6UTo 22:04:47, 2011-09-12
• Indoors again now. Going to have a shower. Uploading that Twitpic crashed Chrome. Weird. 22:15:18, 2011-09-12
• So many stunning cosplayers on DeviantArt seem to be in Russia. 22:26:57, 2011-09-12
• No, must not look at food-porn. All I have in the fridge are some mini hotdogs. 23:01:42, 2011-09-12
• Also, punches I was looking for earlier are heimann transfer punches. Apparently only sold in the USA, and expensive. 23:03:41, 2011-09-12
• Will try and put some steel bolts aside. May make my own. Find hardened steel pins, drill a push-fit hole for it in head of bolt. 23:05:12, 2011-09-12
• And I need a "slave flash" for my camera. Filter built-in flash so IR flash sets of remotes. Maybe for xmas. 23:08:36, 2011-09-12

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.

9/11/2011

I remember something from “Tales of the Afternow”. A quote about the millennium; “People thought the world would end then.. and the world did end, just nobody noticed”.

More than a few people have said they can’t believe the 9/11 attacks happened a decade ago; that they feel like they happened just a short time ago.
For something to be relegated to our past, we have to be able to forget it, to let other memories over-write, add or subtract from them. We overcome through distraction, of letting life go on and not dwelling. But in this last ten years I doubt there’s been a single day when the attacks haven’t been exposed to us in the media in some form. The events have been kept fresh for the world for 3562 days, fresh in our minds, never allowed to be relegated to memory. It’s always just happened yesterday.

The world ended on 9/11/2001, because time stopped.

As a small aside, the day of the 7/7 bombings in London my sister got a call from an acquaintance of hers in Scotland telling her he couldn’t believe it. Not because of what had happened, but because it was all a conspiracy, it was all being faked just to scare “us” (him).

Distance is a powerful aid to delusion. Just because you can’t comprehend a thing, doesn’t mean it’s a lie.

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.