Iain AF Fleming 🐧
@legalweasel
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker. Francophile/phone. Quoad ultra denied [Clackmannan, Scotland]
The RCA Nuvistor -- the smallest thermionic valve -- was metal-canned and about the size of a small finger nail.
At least in 1976 we got lots of pictures of dried cracking mud in reservoir bottoms.
Our daft GSD cross gets them in her undercoat, so they have to be combed out. Which she hates.
Just No! (This is part of my home office bookshelves. The poetry, novels, geography, history, etc, are elsewhere ,and rather messier.)
I had one of Dali's "Metamorphosis of Narcissus". In retrospect, you made the better choice.
Now I'm planning how to best construct a tree house in the Sequoias, for hypothetical grandchildren to play in.
Temperature had dropped a bit, so now reading in the garden, listening to the crows squabbling.
Well, there are two sequoia trees right outside my house, right now, here in central Scotland. This is the smaller one.
Although there are two stores in Scotland (an "outlet store" in Livingston - not posh), and full "boutique" store on George St, Edinburgh (very posh)
We moved to a house with a large one in the garden. I didn't think I liked them, but it's rapidly becoming my favourite, other than the sequoias.