Craig Sawyers

Oh dear - damascus steel chassis. I can just imagine the etched grain pattern of the layers. I have no idea why the bits of my brain that control desire are illuminated so brightly at that thought.....

Problem with liquid helium is the latent heat of vapourisation is bugger all. The heat capacity of the vapour is huge, which is where all the cooling power is. Liquid nitrogen has a huge latent heat, and bugger all heat capacity of the vapour That is why you precool a superconducting magnet with (cheap) liquid nitrogen, and only go from 77K to 4.2K with helium. The final conclusion is: cool the drink with liquid nitrogen directly. Using it to cool balls of some sort, and then use them to cool the booze just adds a further step, and loses cooling efficiency. Just sling the liquid nitrogen straight in - a sort of nitrogen sling

With my new fibre broadband

That was fucking awesome!

That is freakin' lovely

Especially since they are no longer made. Rubycon pulled the plug on making them for Mr Gate-san a couple of years ago.

You too, Birgir? I have got just far too much "stuff" in your typical compact (by US standards) UK house.

ISRAELI efforts to convince the world of the gravity of Iran's suspected atomic drive had web surfers quacking up on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warning over Tehran's "nuclear duck". "If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, then what is it? That's right. It's a duck. But this duck is a nuclear duck!" declared Netanyahu,

Katy Perry = Grayson Perry

This really warms the cockles - cheers! We're off for a week of walking (and a bit of running) in the English Lake District tomorrow morning, so unless I can find a WiFi hub I'll be off line for a week.

You have to crystallise the meth before it becomes dope

^Constipation is never an attractive look

^That is so Japanese. I've visited on business a couple of times, and it is a fine country - but some things really do give you a WTF moment for sure.

Holy crap! Like they say, it trashes the saw. And if it was a regular table saw that sort of force would buckle the axle and frame, so an entire new saw. But better than a lost limb.

As cluttered at my office. Different kind of clutter though

^That is hilarious!

Great pics. Hi did pretty damned well, produced some fine music and lived long, considering he was fueled for large parts of his career on cocktails of dope and booze. A great survivor.

Happy birthday - and have a great one, OK

That is awesome

I turned off the India special. Having visited India, and met its wonderful people, I found the TG Christmas treatment insulting, patronising and juvenile. The Indians are a people of great dignity and friendliness, operating in conditions of grinding poverty - 300 million of them live below the poverty line - defined as an equivalent of $75 per year. They deserve better than Top Gear dished out.

Long term, they eat output devices. My KSA100 from the mid 80's blew a number of them, once in a rather incendiary way. I'm not sure I can find the quote, but Krell said they went away from pure Class A with a huge standing current of a fair chunk of an amp because of reliability reasons.

Nope - I was misremebering. He didn't use controlled explosives - he knocked the lower structure away, and put wooden props in place. He then set fire to them.

This was our own homegrown guy, Fred Dibnah. Spent his life demolishing factory chimneys, and then got into controlled explosive demolition. But it was his calm life philosophy that made him something of a celebrity here in the UK. Quite a few you tube vids of the guy. Many years dead - a combination of smoking, and demolishing chimneys coated with toxic stuff did for him in the end. The "engine" is his steam traction engine that he spent many years restoring - it has recently sold for £250k - a mark of Dibnah's cult status.