the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[ecar3483]

I have to agree with the sign.

I'd find it hard to wear either of those hats, ha ha.

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[ecar3483]

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[ecar3483]

That's something that I never got round to - modifying a theremin to make it into a sensor for a "cockroach" robot.

Instead of the robot "feeling" it's way along the wall, with an "antenna/feeler" as it scurried down the corridor, it would use the theremin circuit as a sensor.

A simple rundown on the theremin - http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/theremin.htm

As you move your hand / the wall closer to it, it registers a "presence".

Depending then on the circuitry, the "cockroach brain" the robot would behave appropriately - scurry along beside, but not touching, the wall.

At least that's the theory.

But I never got round to it, so maybe it works and maybe it doesn't, ha ha.

Somewhere, maybe, in a box or at the back of a shelf (or somewhere suitably dark and secluded, ha ha) there's a cockroach robot, lurking, waiting for me to find some batteries and unleash it, once again, after all these years, upon the world.

Mwah ha ha ha ha!

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[ecar3483]

There's a towel, smaller than a bathmat, bigger than a hand towel, lurking on the back seat of the car.

I know it's there because every time I get back to the car, after it's been parked out in the sun for a couple of hours, I see it.

Fat lot of use it's doing there, too, ha ha.

A pair of leather gardening gloves, dare I say "on the other hand", without eliciting groans, ha ha, sitting on the passenger seat, in full view... Well I can see where I'm going with this, ha ha.

The good ideas I have when I'm sitting inside, in the cool shade...

This busy life... I said, one time, that I should get a notebook and write these things down just in case I forget.

Then I forgot to get a notebook, ha ha.

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[tasfleur]

[ecar3483]

There's an old man bird has been coming by over the last few weeks.

He's not a great fan of people - respect his twenty or so foot "if you get any closer I'll run away" zone, and you're right as rain, ha ha.

Who was it that was sitting on the bench by the back door, peering through the flyscreen, yesterday...?

Shy...

On his terms, ha ha.

A broken old bird he might be, but he's found somewhere he's happy, and that'll do.

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[ecar3483]

That banana...

That banana that sat on the shelf, during the heatwave....

Very well ripened... ha ha.

I held the banana, as you do, and gripped the top, to peel it...

So of course the first third of the banana neatly broke off.

Great. Now I have two pieces of unpeeled banana.

I'll put this one down, and peel the other piece, first...

Which wouldn't be the hardest thing to do if it wasn't for the over eager wattlebirds, who have no concern for my fingers, ha ha.

My "favourite" bird, the one who even now sometimes forgets that it's a wild bird, and follows me around, led the charge...

The desire for mushy, overripe banana overrides all other concerns, ha ha.

I heard the the squawk from outside - the baby magpie has been "offended" by one of the cockatoos...

I'd better look, just in case.

I know that she's well and truly capable of looking after herself, but I still keep an eye out for her.

And she knows it.

And she takes advantage of it, ha ha.

By the time I got to the back door, guess who was already standing there...? ha ha.

"That cockatoo was mean to me about a piece of bread... Obviously, I need a piece of my own...", ha ha.

With my fingers more or less intact, and the baby magpie once more safely reassured that all she needs to do is snap her fingers and I'll jump, without asking "How high?", first, all that's left is to face the galahs who have abandoned any pretence of being shy, and reserved - sitting on the arch, less than a foot away from me, Telling me - "Put the food There! Put the food There!!", ha ha.

And the cockatoos? They're their usual demanding selves - If I sit here outside the back door and say "Food? Food? Food?" often enough, eventually you'll respond, ha ha.

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[ecar3483]

I went to put some air in one of the tyres, while I was out.

Cobweb on the wheel rim?

I thought I drove more often than that, ha ha.

A little closer inspection revealed a travelling companion... And I don't mean the gum leaf, ha ha.

Yes, that's a nice bright red stripe on it's bum...

The air nozzle? I think it's on the other side of the rim, a good few inches away, so no worries there...

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[tasfleur]

*Gags with horror at the redback spider (and the rest of it's family no doubt somewhere else in the car)*

[ecar3483]

I'm not looking forward to the "Somewhere in the car" bit...

A judicious application of surface spray - it works quicker on spiders than fly spray does, and then there's the airing...

Thankfully I have a couple of fine days ahead...

And a well thought out plan for where to start spraying, so I don't spend too much time in that noxious environment, breathing fumes...

Of course, there's getting all the loose things out of the car, first...

Fun... meet Games...ha ha.

I'll be 'right.

I haven't finished building the longship which will, in due course of time, float on the local lake, and on which my mortal remains will be cremated, yet, so obviously this isn't going to be my time, ha ha.

(And I'm yet to find an archer half way worth their salt, who can fire a flaming arrow, at dusk, that will follow an elegant arc, landing with pinpoint accurate precision, that will start the great fire that signals to all my final journey to meet my Ancestors, as my clansfolk gather on the lake shore, to weep and sing of my life, and my passing, as night falls).

So yes, I'm pretty confident about getting through the whole process of de-bugging the car, unscathed, ha ha.

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