My first stone circle of the trip — hooray — and the family came too (and my Mum). I think it is a good one, not being an expert, but Burl says that Long Meg is the sixth largest stone circle of them all (other sources say that it is the third …
Pen1 In Action
I know I said that I’d update when I’m back after Easter, but I did actually manage to get a working pen together before I left the studio. This is it in action. It seems to work ok - it certainly gets picked up and placed …
Still no luck convincing the family that a wet trump around some two-thousand-year-old stone circles is what Easter should be all about. Instead of this we made a trip to Low Sizergh Barn. As this is an organic farm, there was a great biodiversity to be had in the field …
Drive To Arnside as rendered by Qgis
We drove up to Arnside yesterday in Mum’s car. Despite weather warnings to the contrary, the drive proceeded uneventfully. Once freed from the strictures of driving, I took a quick evening walk up the [Knot](https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/52916 …
As promised, here’s an update about making our old pen plotter sustainable in terms of pen supplies by using archival ink provided by the Lamy M22 refill:
Recently, I’ve been obsessing about the network here at home, now we have our own connection to the Internet and router (in the last flat, we shared this via an Ethernet cable that came from our neighbour’s flat).
Having met at the Humboldt University Library
Mensa
(about the best place to eat in that part of town I think),
Martin& I set out
down the banks of the Spree for a jolly equinoctial exploration of
likely sites in Tiergarten. We’re both kind of looking for a place …
After totalling three pens of the precious supply I got with our HP DraftPro EXL (7576A) pen plotter (see earlier post), I realised that this was unsustainable and promised myself to find a solution for the future.
In my constant and daily attempt not to have to boot into Windoze to perform the tasks I need to complete I found myself having to update (remake) my portfolio for an application today. I made the application itself in lovely old LaTeX which gives me such a buzz to …
