Falcon Heavy boosters landing
Eventually these will be routine, but for now it’s worth watching again …
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Space
Edinburgh Bus Nostalgia
Not being a bus anorak I can’t identify the type, but I do remember the style! Transport for Edinburgh 🙂
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AI and robotics
Box handling robots …
Thanks to BBC Click for this one .. more amazing robots from Boston Dynamics.
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Troll Kärrings Låten
This is a tune I have recently come across, from Phil Lyon at the Edinburgh Scandi Session. I really loved
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Dragon arrives at ISS
It was great today to see the SpaceX Crew Dragon arriving at the International Space Station today (complete with crew
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Computers
Power glitch reset my BIOS!
Well here’s a thing. Yesterday there were a couple of brief power outages, both under a second, separated by an
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Celtic Connections – 2
Our second visit to Celtic Connections this year – this time to hear The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, who were supported
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Celtic Connections – 1
It’s January so it must be Celtic Connections. We had interesting seats in the Royal Concert Hall, enabling me to
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Total Eclipse of the Moon
When I was a lad it used to be called a total eclipse of the Moon. Now the media call
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China on lunar farside
Wonderful to see these superb images from the Chinese lander Chang’e-4 on the far side of the Moon. See more
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A fiddly 2019?
Yesterday I went to my first fiddle evening class for a while. I’ve rejoined the class at the Scots Music
Christmas Market 2018
We went in to the Christmas market today so that Marwyn could get her annual fill of bratwurst. Good weather,
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Advent candles
After a couple of weeks of horrible cold I’m beginning to feel a bit more Christmassy – here’s our Advent
Harps of Gold 2018
First rehearsal today for the Harps of Gold concert – book early to get a ticket! An acticity of the
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Fiddle Festival 2018
Another great Scots Fiddle Festival. We went to all three concerts, every one was excellent. The Friday evening concert started
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Physics
Fusion energy in 5 years?
Hmmmm …. fusion energy appears to be getting closer than I had thought. Let’s see how this goes. Article on
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‘Oumuamua as a bit of alien space hardware
image from https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1737/ Today I came across something on the web that’s actually interesting. It’s on the spaceweather.com website that I
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AI and robotics
Droid running over obstacles !
This is pretty impressive – so much so that I’m saving it here and have added a new category to
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Last bit of summer?
A glorious day today, I had time for a quick Edinburgh circuit by bike after we had been shopping. I
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