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Snell-Pym » The School Holidays Begin
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. The School Holidays Begin. It is that time of year again when there are no school runs and I have no completely free child time - Jean however is almost ten so I can work whilst she is around now. In fact at the moment she is helping me! So we let Jean plan the first day of the holiday - it was without Mary for most of it as it was a pre-school day and they continue during the holidays. This of course started with us grubbing up potatoes from the ga...
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Snell-Pym » Alaric
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. I think the best analysis of the possible consequences, whichever way the referendum went, was this: Martin Lewis' guide to voting in the EU referendum. So, I'm sad on many levels about how this referendum turned out; but I wouldn't have been very much happier if we'd voted to remain. Fri 24th Jun 2016 9:04 pm. Towards the Family Mainframe. Last September, I posted progress on the construction of our domestic mainframe. The socket panel on the left ...
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Snell-Pym » Electronics
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. Towards the Family Mainframe. Last September, I posted progress on the construction of our domestic mainframe. Since that blog post, I've finished the metalwork, painted it with automotive paint using a spray gun (which was a massive job in itself! Fixed it to the wall, and fitted nearly all of the electronics into it. From a USB stick, then connected it to the network and installed Xen. Now I have Xen installed, I'm working on a means of building V...
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Snell-Pym » sarah
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. Before the lens…. There was the brush. I took a little set of travel water colour paints and a sketch book with me to South Africa, and I painted, generally from memory. I also sketched in pen bits I saw around me especially when the camera kept running out of battary! Lynn an Lionel's garden or a montage of bits of it anyway. Here at least are some paintings of Mary's animal friends 😉. There were lots of plants and flowers and landscapes to paint&...
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Snell-Pym » Building Maintenance
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. Towards the Family Mainframe. Last September, I posted progress on the construction of our domestic mainframe. Since that blog post, I've finished the metalwork, painted it with automotive paint using a spray gun (which was a massive job in itself! Fixed it to the wall, and fitted nearly all of the electronics into it. From a USB stick, then connected it to the network and installed Xen. Now I have Xen installed, I'm working on a means of building V...
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Snell-Pym » Computing
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. Towards the Family Mainframe. Last September, I posted progress on the construction of our domestic mainframe. Since that blog post, I've finished the metalwork, painted it with automotive paint using a spray gun (which was a massive job in itself! Fixed it to the wall, and fitted nearly all of the electronics into it. From a USB stick, then connected it to the network and installed Xen. Now I have Xen installed, I'm working on a means of building V...
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Snell-Pym » Learning things
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. I love learning new things. I'm usually struggling to find new things to learn; the last fun bit of computer science I learnt about was Bloom filters. And they didn't hold my attention for long. The last. Bit of computer science I learnt about would be content-addressed storage. And I'm still having fun with that. Of course, this past week I've been learning TIG welding. Who turns out to design broadcast transmission antennas for a living, who answe...
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Snell-Pym » TIG Welding: The First Day
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Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times. TIG Welding: The First Day. Today, I took the day off work to take my new TIG welder. I started by getting some pure argon shielding gas; prices for this stuff vary widely ( 10 litres full of gas at 200 bar for 35 plus 15 shipping. Or the same for 77.90 including shipping. But I managed to get a 9 litre cylinder filled for 25 at Target Tools and Supplies in Gloucester. They don't seem to have a web site, but they're here. Next, I cut off some 10mm s...
