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Jim Easterbrook

jim_easterbrook@mstdn.social

<p>Retired research <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>engineer</span></a> at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRD" class="u-url mention">@<span>BBCRD</span></a></span>. Hobbies include <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ModelEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ModelEngineering</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>food</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/drink" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>drink</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cycling</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/singing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>singing</sp

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    Cheating from Milan. The assistant is supposed to place the mermaid according to the driver&#39;s directions, not their own judgement. #TramEM

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    RE: https://mas.to/@kt19weather/117167362219297894 Measurable rain at last. More please.

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    I&amp;#39;ve just renamed my garden pond &amp;quot;Lake Trump&amp;quot;.

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    I&amp;#39;m getting fed up with urban foxes dragging pond weed out of my pond. Wondering if an electric fence might work as a visually unobtrusive way to protect it.

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    Just picked a 350 g pear off one of the trees in my garden. #Garden #HomeGrown

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    I got today&amp;#39;s #BBCRadio3 &amp;quot;morning stretch&amp;quot; instantly. I usually can&amp;#39;t get it at all.

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    Whenever a politician (or similar) claims &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ve done nothing wrong&amp;quot; I&amp;#39;m reminded of my dad&amp;#39;s perfect response: &amp;quot;So why did you stop doing it when you were found out?&amp;quot;.

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@jim_easterbrook/117240696506074184 This got more attention than I expected. Over 300 boosts and 450 favourites, well more than anything else I&amp;#39;ve ever posted.

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    Spent an hour or more today trying to configure dnsmasq on my NAS to give ipv6 addresses for local machines before I realised that I hadn&amp;#39;t enabled ipv6 on the NAS. I&amp;#39;m glad I don&amp;#39;t do this for a living.

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    Today I learned that the best known Albinoni piece isn&amp;#39;t actually by Albinoni.

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    If your website says your app is better then you need to improve your website.

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    RE: https://mas.to/@kt19weather/117003391704061533 I&#39;m a bit fed up with this hot weather now.

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    I occasionally buy frozen food which is delivered in biodegradable packaging - sheepswool insulation in a compostable &quot;plastic&quot; bag. I&#39;ve been putting both on my compost heap as instructed. Today I started digging out compost from the old heap (I have a two heap rotation) and some of that packaging is still very much intact. I just fling it in the new heap for a second go, but is there any way to make it rot faster? #Garden #Compost

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    I&#39;ve just set up a new topping up system for my pond, to replace the previous gravity drip feed from my water butts. A 12 V peristaltic pump in a 3D printed mount is installed inside the garage, with 4 mm hoses from the water butts and to the pond. A time switch runs it for ½ an hour every 3 hours, to be adjusted as needed. #Garden #Pond

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    I&#39;m not following #EMFCamp posts, but a lot of people I follow are posting about it. I keep thinking it&#39;s the sort of thing I (or a younger me) might enjoy, but then I remember it&#39;s all about interacting with people.

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    RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@BBC3MusicBot/116464998631592296 Nice to hear a bit of Scheidt on Radio 3.

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    Just had probably my shortest ever dental appointment. I&amp;#39;m pleased that the dentist noticed my gums are looking much healthier than 6 months ago. I bought an electric toothbrush soon after the last check up and it has really made a difference. Less impressed that the dentist thought I was due for some X-rays, until I reminded him that he did a set last time. #Dentist

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    Saw some broad-winged damselflies on my walk this afternoon, I think a male doing a courtship display to a female. #Damselfly #Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calopterygidae

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    RE: https://chaos.social/@russss/116479186994929705 Whenever I see a video like this I can almost feel that lovely alpine air in my lungs.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/116489100135822771 Oooooooh, nasty!