Lindsay 👩🔬🚲
@broadwell
PhD candidate. Bike nerd. Train enjoyer. Possibly BlueSky's leading expert on outrigger monorails. Nuclear power is pretty cool. Support my research: 🇬🇧🇳🇱
guess who found out the quite expensive new wheels for the van (which now really, really need to be fitted because one of the old tyres now has a gash in it) won't fit without a set of wheel spacers and new, longer bolts which together cost €150 that I don't have it's me 📸: @dynode.eurosky.social
whenever I have a song in one of my playlists that poses a question, there's a good chance that I'll put a certain Durry song in after it
my guess for what the next failure will be: one of the rusty clamps on the cat's cradle that is the liquid cooling loop will give up the ghost. so at some point I'm going to have to have it open again, drain away the coolant, and replace the old clamps with new stainless steel ones
there was about a tablespoon of conductive dust inside there, causing an earth leak and apparent "insulation failure"
sending these to the dealer that told me they couldn't just check clean, and replace the rotor brushes because "that might not be the problem" anyway here's 15 years of graphite dust that I just cleaned out, which was what was tripping the insulation fault sensor
slowly turning three junk recumbents into one non-junk recumbent, for science
"did you buy that stuff just to do this" fool that you are I already owned all this stuff
my friends be like: "are you okay" and I'm like "yes, now blessed be the henry"
heartbroken to see that the current Kangoo model is not the pleasingly dorky little fellow of old but instead looks like it's the bastard lovechild of the old Kangoo and a Dodge RAM
"....it's for a car, right?" (1960s hub in a 2000s bike with a 2020s belt drive, wheee)
The thunder in Amsterdam was biblical last night. We got a strike about every ten seconds at the peak.
reading everything the HSE has on working safely under vehicles (here's a link: www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg43...) and every time I come across a recommended practice I'm like:
my current playthrough of The Outer Worlds is somewhat informed by Louis Renault (or, more specifically, his plant employees): go along to get along while you actually sabotage the shit out of everything
As for shading: there's more than just trees to consider. Shibam in Yemen was built centuries ago. Using building-to-building shading, high thermal mass material, and white render, it keeps a lot of the heat away. 📸: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh... 📸: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh...
To whoever decided to paint my building black, causing my window frame to hit ~60°C: I just want to talk.