T-Day

So I've just been to not one but two Thanksgiving parties, and I am full of turkey, ham, stuffing, sweetcorn and gravy. Also brownies and pumpkin pie. All very tasty, and just what you need when there's snow and icicles outside. After helping to fix a printer, we played a game of Apples to Apples which was noisy and hilarious, as usual. Big thank-yous to Nojim and his family for inviting us!

Proper engineer's tv

I was watching an episode of Mythbusters where they were testing the strength of CDs to destruction and I was reminded of a show I used to watch as a teenager; Tim Hunkin's Secret Life of Machines. He used to explain how everyday appliances worked but in a very entertaining way; usually by sawing them in half. I taped them all to VHS, ready to one day digitize them, but it looks like someone's done that for me. I've watched the first series already - in the final episode he set fire to a tower of working televisions. I've always said it should be mandatory to show it in schools.

Perfect Pud

It is my duty as someone born in York to share this
important new scientific research.
The liquid amount is a bit vague, but they are right about making sure the fat is hot; get it in the oven as fast as you can.

OK

This weekend I helped split firewood for the grandparents.
There were golden leaves all over the field, it was lightly snowing and I had a large axe. I almost felt like a lumberjack; after all, I did sleep all night after working all day.

And now the completely different something is a man who does watercolors of ninjas attacking sushi.

And the link-posts begin...

Today's link is about a facinating link between physics and hard-core number theory. Readers of Douglas Adams will be pleasantly amused as well.