Elektronik

Elektronik ingenieur


Philips Electronic Experiment Kits in the various forms of the EE-series

(via the Cartoonist)

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Comments: elektronik

Science! Technology! Your Friend Electricity!

I remember mucking around with these kits as a tweenie.

Not the Philips ones though. T'was some Brit outfit like Branners? - vaguely connected with Meccano in some way as I half remember.

Anyway the big breakthrough was discovering how to deliver mild electric shocks to an unsuspecting sibling. "Just hold this for a second, thanks."
Posted by Nabakov at September 1, 2004 02:25 AM

A qualifier. "unsuspecting" at first.It got quite Pavlovian after a while.
Posted by Nabakov at September 1, 2004 02:28 AM

I think I was the unsuspecting younger sib in our family. My brother had an Electronics kit - but it was the chemical set that was to be feared.
I preferred the milder sport of engineering crashes on his train set.
Posted by boynton at September 2, 2004 12:53 PM

labradorsky

Labradorský retrívr

from Vintage Dog Postcards (via life in the present)

It's been a lean month here for dog blogging. Who knows - this may be a good thing.

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Comments: labradorsky

90 year old retriver (retrivr) and as sweet as ever (smile)
Posted by Jozef at August 31, 2004 08:26 PM

One gulp, they could do it in one gulp...
Posted by David Tiley at September 1, 2004 02:25 AM

yes, (my dog)Napoleon feels that a dog related post every once in awhile, keeps the balance right...
Posted by michelle at September 1, 2004 09:42 AM

yes, (my dog)Napoleon feels that a dog related post every once in awhile, keeps the balance right...
Posted by michelle at September 1, 2004 09:42 AM

Jozef - My old Labradorsky is even older, and sweeter ;)
Butter wouldn't melt in the mouth, David.
although I think there's a 'all for one' brotherhood look about that trio.
Napoleon is well balanced, Michelle.
(and thanks for all the great links)
Posted by boynton at September 2, 2004 01:02 PM

moon stroke

And googling Davies' Moonrise led me to this 1999 Poetry Kit interview with poet Coral Hull...

My mother mostly despised Beethoven and especially his fifth symphony, which I held as the essence of life. She also refused to visit art galleries with me when I was an adolescent, complaining to other relatives that I would stare at one painting for twenty minutes. I remember doing this with ‘Moonrise’ by David Davies. I went somewhere else through his work, although I don’t know how long I was away

A more recent interview: David Prater in Converstaion with Coral Hull

And in one of those moments of found synchronicity I read her prose poem
Pop’s stroke shortly after reading another: Mal at Dick Jones' Patteran Pages...

Strange word, ‘stroke’ - a gentle sleep
and then you wake up,
changed

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Comments: moon stroke

I found some blogs I very much like on your roll. One, (can't remember which) has a Moon phase logo (advertising the moon?) which I liked so grabbed. Umm, I wonder where the word 'stroke' comes from?
Posted by Link at August 30, 2004 09:47 PM

I can't recall the blog either...but it looks good on yours.
There are some great blogs over there, and out there. I keep finding new ones - which is heartening and a bit scary at the same time.
One day soon the who world and her dog will have a blog.
Posted by boynton at August 31, 2004 01:43 PM

err - that is, the WHOLE world (and her dog)

Didn't correct this typo because I think the 'WHO' world may be closer to the mark.
Posted by boynton at August 31, 2004 02:24 PM

Update: Blog with moon phases is OKIR - of course.
And whose original Moon post has been tagged and tracked.
Posted by boynton at September 3, 2004 05:34 PM

moon web

wanted to wax lyrical about the moon on Friday night having been struck by the perfect beauty of a moonrise somewhere between Davies and Long that makes you want to dance or kick a football or find paintings that match.

Then I read Okir and thought of the web and the moon. The Globe.
And today read more at fait accompli, these reflexive connections.

And another moon story at Fragments - from Floyd. Milky Moonlight

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Comments: moon web

it's the blue moon tonight... unfortunately the lympics are over, so it won't turn gold for the headline writers
Posted by nardo at August 30, 2004 03:19 PM

"And then there suddenly appeared before me..."
coodabeen a headline

Alas, the sky was cloudy last night. Missed it
Posted by boynton at August 31, 2004 01:36 PM

and pelty with rain to boot. We are doomed to astronomical disappointments. Remember Halley's wretched excuse for a comet, even though the light was literally unearthly?
Posted by David Tiley at September 1, 2004 02:27 AM

paddle

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Comments: paddle

When's she going to take a nap?
Posted by Tony.T at August 29, 2004 06:51 PM

when the drowning racket settles down
Posted by boynton at August 29, 2004 07:00 PM

shake

Serve chilled with Celery stick

A blogger's beverage. Bottoms up.

(via bifurcated rivets)

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Comments: shake

Add an eggcup or two of vodka and you've got a spamshot.
Posted by Nabakov at September 1, 2004 10:41 PM

verses

There is no season such delight can bring,
As summer, autumn, winter, and the spring
William Browne, in "Variety

Oxymoronic Verse
(via J walk)

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
(via bifurctaed rivets)

Higgeldy-Piggeldy verse collection
(via fishbucket)

sockless

I don't know if it's the sudden socklessness, the unlucky magpies on the verge, petals on the footpath, flowers in the air or the reacquaintance with a long lost hat, but spring seems to be here. Or a harbinger.
All I know is I was reading the paper in the sun and had to move. To that thing suddenly called shade.

warm august night

Just heard in a distant room that it was a record overnight temperature last night, but didn't catch the exact figure.

Checking into the Bureau I see this month's feature

Find out what the weather was like yesterday....

Who knows. These days my forecasts may well be more accurate than my hindsights.

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Comments: warm august night

What was it like yesterday?
Posted by Nora at August 26, 2004 10:37 PM

or: What will it be like yesterday?

It was a lovely day tomorrow.
Posted by boynton at August 27, 2004 10:09 AM

Apparently in Queensland, there are no Tropical Cyclone Related Warnings.

Also apparent, F goes before both N and P.
Posted by Tony.T at August 27, 2004 01:37 PM

always better alpahabetically to be placed within PR.

btw: T is a long way down the roll.


and yes - no current warnings.
or yesterday: warnings current no.
Posted by boynton at August 27, 2004 04:04 PM

weather update.

No cyclone warnings for FNQ

on the local front FNP will remain unsettled ;)
Posted by boynton at August 28, 2004 12:33 PM

oi oi oi

Australia didn't medal in the Art.

Art Competitions, Alpinism and Aeronautics - Medals Won by Countries (1912 - 1948)
Pl. Nation Abbr. 1st 2nd 3rd Totals

1. Germany GER 8 7 9 24
2. Italy ITA 5 7 2 14
3. France FRA 5 4 5 14
4. Great Britain GBR 4 5 1 10
5. United States USA 4 5 0 9
6. Switzerland SUI 4 4 1 9
7. Austria AUT 3 3 3 9
8. Denmark DEN 0 5 4 9
9. Poland POL 3 2 3 8
10. Belgium BEL 2 1 5 8


See also Artists and the Olympic Games (via a Media Dragon)

When Arts were on the Podium

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Comments: oi oi oi

"Alpism" a dificult art form for us australians
Posted by Andy F at August 26, 2004 11:00 PM

and yet we're so close to austrians.
Just an al away.
Posted by boynton at August 27, 2004 10:12 AM

grip

The games are starting to grip everyone’s imagination
 

false positive

"People in a negative mood provide more accurate eyewitness accounts than people in a positive mood state, according to new research. "
(via Barista)

'(The researchers) found that women and men with asymmetrical extremities – ears, fingers or feet of different sizes or shapes – were more likely to react aggressively when annoyed or provoked'
Check ears before you pick a fight via diversionz

On such a spring like day, so many degrees above average, I can't say I could postively identify any asymmetrical strangers who may have crossed my path.

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Comments: false positive

I have no ear lobes & anybody who laughs gets their fucking face busted...
Posted by Dick Jones at August 26, 2004 05:43 AM

not LOL ;)
Posted by boynton at August 26, 2004 02:06 PM

o lympic

Robert Frost has been disqualified in the Pretentiousness 400 Meter Individual Medley after it was discovered he had been taking knowledge cavalierly when recent testing for illogical substances came up positive.

Grapez Out of the running


Obscure sport that is ignored until your country wins a medal
Olympukes a font of 52 pictograms
(via the ultimate insult)

The word "mascot" goes back to 1867 and is derived from the provincial French "mascoto" (1850), derived from masco - magician, witch - which comes from old provençal "masco" (1396) of pre-Roman origin
A timeline of Olympic mascots

staging shakespeare

Vitamin Q Twelve hard things about staging Shakespeare
Gloucester loses his eyes in ‘King Lear’
An old man is blinded on the order of his bastard son. The eyes are usually small condoms full of water

(News to me. I've only ever seen the lychee version. A friend once gave us a sneak preview over lunch. The lychees were very convincing.)

Eeksy Peeksy The Merry Conceited Humours of Bottom the Weaver

old ring

Unlike my nice cordless digital phone with its pleasing cadence, this Wesson Electric rotary has the sort of ring usually reserved for fire drills or warnings of invading armies. It shocks my cats into bolting under the bed. And when I pick up, a different sort of screech greets me. "You've been impossible to get ahold of," says my mother. "I don't like this experiment." Tech 54 Where are you?

A wired writer goes retro for 10 days, and contends with no remotes and rotary dial phones. (via Exclamation Mark)

I have a collection of 5 rotary phones. None of them works. But I miss the ring. However the fire-drill cadence of the door bell makes up for it. We also have a new small cooking timer shaped like a Hobbs kettle. It mimics the doorbell. I'm often rushing off to answer the kettle these days.


and a futuristic glance from 1961:

Will Life be Worth Living in 2,000 AD?
You may eat: Tablets, dried and processed food
You may drive: A hovercraft and a helicopter

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Comments: old ring

Strange but true (and here I see my future).

Radio (probably a casein cased Kreisler) sat on shelf atop sink. Despite vigorous turning of the volume dial, nary a drop of water to quench the expectant parched kettle in mother in law's hand.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 24, 2004 03:27 PM

At least the washer held out on the Radio.
Otherwise there'd be a slow drip of Parliament,
or a torrent of talkback.

That's a great image, and rather inspiring.
I'd like to place such dials around the house.
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 03:56 PM

One of the few regrets in my life is hippin' my Mum to email. It just multiplied her options for asking me if I'm eating well. And getting in a tizzy when I don't email back IMMEDIATELTY!

An actual online dialogue.

(Mother in wary technophobe mode): "Are you there. Is this working?"

(Me in sarky mode): "No Mum, I didn't get this email."

(Mother rising to the challenge) "So should I send it again - or are you just going to answer this one you didn't get."

You can't outsmart a mum. They know where the nappies are buried.
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 08:38 PM

I'd run with "I didn't get this email" for as long as possible. Like a toddler, if I had to.

How about if mums n dads n kidz n aunts discover
Did they read it? - which I read about on J walk.
Very Scary product and site.
http://www.didtheyreadit.com/
Posted by boynton at August 25, 2004 12:28 PM

ogle

Update on the TV viewing choice of Sunday night.
If only a bare-chested Mr Darcy could play whiff whaff at Olympic level.

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Comments: ogle

And if only a b... Elizabeth ...

(All in the interests of equal rights.)


Posted by Sedgwick at August 24, 2004 02:50 PM

Shutup and watch the B Volley Ball, Sedge ;)

Then again, it may well be a way to spice up the sport. "Squash" tried the same thing a while ago, didn't it?. But then, "squash" is well named for such experiments...
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 03:24 PM

Whiff whaff with lashings of bennetian bustle for me.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 24, 2004 03:33 PM

I recall Shakepseare playing at Wimbledon,
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/001284.html
and I think that 'Round the (Regency House) Table' could possibly be an Exhibition sport at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Marvellous Melbourne.

Alternatively at least one of the endless dance sequences in P&P XXVIII could certainly be replaced with a round of Whiff Whaff, without the whole suffering too greatly. imho.
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 04:25 PM

If yer like a bit of historical cheesecake, check out Hillary Swank in "The Affair Of The Necklace." Sexiest sneer since Elvis.

Kit Walken's not bad either as Caligostro if yer that way inclined.

Unfortunately, despite Swank, Walken and Pryce's game efforts, the flick itself is more paste than diamond.
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 08:46 PM

"Alternatively at least one of the endless dance sequences in P&P XXVIII could certainly be replaced with a round of Whiff Whaff, without the whole suffering too greatly. imho."

Richard Curtis was onto it with the second of his studies of cold-climate love and mating habits, "Four Weddings, A Funeral and Several Ho-hum Fcuks."

"Love is like Ping Pong, except with smaller balls."
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 08:52 PM

I....love....him
Posted by mcb at August 25, 2004 08:07 AM

May check out Kit in historical kit, but meanwhile
that's gotta be the Ping Pong QOTD.

Yep - no dots about it, mcb.
Tenth time round, he's still looking good.
Posted by boynton at August 25, 2004 12:34 PM

what - only ten?!
I'm disappointed, B.
Posted by wen at August 26, 2004 03:24 PM

Scary thing is, wen -
I have the whole series taped. (natch)

And I still wait for next week's episode. In Anticipation.
It's that old thrill of the serial format.
Posted by boynton at August 26, 2004 08:37 PM

p and p

Tough choice on the TV tonight.
Olympic Ping Pong on SBS or the games of the 28th Pride and Prejudice on ABC.
Think P&P might just win out over the PP.
But then Miss Boynton could always venture out into the carport for a hit herself, if she can muster up a partner.
Things have been a bit quiet on the whiff whaff front since the Regiment decamped.

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Comments: P and P

Won't be watching P&P meself, I wouldn't want to risk missing one gripping minute of the last 3495 hours of the disco beach volley ball.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 22, 2004 08:02 PM

i HATE Beach volley Ball with a Prejudice.
But then I guess I'm not the target audience.

When Ch7 delayed Roy and HG for this silly beach pastime, they lost the plot.Again.

More Darcy Watch for me.
Posted by boynton at August 22, 2004 08:08 PM

There's a target audience?!?!

(Pulls himself up to his maximum H.G. decibels and shouts ... TRAVESTY!!!!!!)

It IS a nonsense ... and not a very good nonsense at that.

Bring back rounders! In bathing costumes ... with modesty panels.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 22, 2004 08:34 PM

Pride & Prejudice was a definite for me, poor Jamin-kun went upstairs to bed because he couldnt handle the excitement I displayed at seeing Mr. Darcy.

Oh my!
Posted by Crayon at August 23, 2004 03:37 PM

The Men's Final was a real batbiter.
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 12:21 AM

the women's beach volleyball is evidence of all that's wrong with today's society... a greedy obsession for everything bared, when the shorts and knee-high socks of traditional volleyball e.g. russia vs cuba is infinitely better pervin... (incidentally, russia started ill-omened, with a player called gamova, and were never going to win)
Posted by nardo at August 24, 2004 12:50 PM

Yes, Crayon, and it was that vintage episode that sent all the hearts a flutter where Darcy takes a plunge. A Regency Triathalon. Equestrian, Swimming and Brooding.

So I missed the Men's Final.

And Sedge and Nardo - I endorse your sentiments entirely. Sporting attire should be more cumbersome. Pervin should be strictly heritage.
An edwardian flash of ankle or knee.
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 02:28 PM

toogle

I tested Toogle The most comprehensive image buggery on the web
(via Grow a Brain)

Apparently Miss Boynton looks like Ringo.

Alternatively boynton looks like this

A labrador unfurled slolwy but was worth it.

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Comments: toogle

Just so you know
A Toogle for "star" returns this:
http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=star
Whereas a Toogle for "aus" gives us this dickensian character:
http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=aus
Posted by Lance Boyle at August 23, 2004 06:47 AM

Galaxy and Heaven R not US

Southern Cross is in order

but Aussie is very disturbing
http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=aussie
Posted by boynton at August 23, 2004 12:31 PM

http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=Toogle
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 12:19 AM

toogle's timing out today...
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 05:20 PM

Toogle's back...

http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=rorschach
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 07:10 PM

rotary browser

Rotary dial browser. Now you're talking.

(via diversionz)

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Comments: rotary browser

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/victorian/

"You have a popup box, sir."
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 12:28 AM

I want one now.
Posted by Dick Jones at August 24, 2004 08:01 AM

boyo loophole

I was half tempted to learn Welsh having read in The Age of the new regulations for UK citzenship

British mockery of the Australian accent and vernacular has boiled over into outright hostility with new regulations demanding that Australians submit to English language tests before taking out British citizenship.

Home Secretary David Blunkett has decreed that applications for a British passport must be supported by certificates of proficiency in English, supplied by designated English teachers

An unnamed Australian writer with two degrees has failed.
I wouldn't like boynton to get the third degree in language proficiency, so would be tempted to opt for the welsh loophole myself.

Applicants who speak English have to demonstrate their proficiency, but those who claim to speak the notoriously treacherous and consonant-laden Welsh language, or the indigenous Scottish Gaelic, are exempt from testing

A Welsh accent might be just as challenging to fake as dinkum Aussie. The original Guardian article on this story, Pommie lingo test is unfair dinkum, mate claims that we still speak old strine:
They may describe women as "sheilas" and use "bastard" as a term of endearment but, apart from pedants, few suggest Australians cannot speak English.

Sadly, few of my cobbers ever use the word sheila now, the bastards.

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Comments: boyo loophole

A propos "sheila". One of my chinas in travelling the same cockney road that leads us to china, uses the term "potato". (In unguarded moments, "spud".)

He also doesn't think there hasn't been a *real* poet since C.J. Dennis popped his quills.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 20, 2004 04:07 PM

The mind boggled but I googled and was glad to see that Potato is polite.

I wanted to add the disclaimer: I sincerely lament the passing of old strine and 'sentimental bloke' speak. Especially given the global net-speak that has replaced it. I wish there was a way of reviving old slang, and protecting the last stands from imports.
Posted by boynton at August 20, 2004 04:18 PM

Yo sista!

Gorstrooth! I think we well-meaning crypto-slango-troglo-dytes should appropriate the Eureka flag and make one last glorious stand.

(And make Lenny Lower compulsory reading.)
Posted by Sedgwick at August 20, 2004 05:37 PM

Here's luck, dude.

btw I have priors on both the slang (well an obscure dialect anyway)

http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/002694.html
and the flag.
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/005414.html

so sign me up as a fellow crypto-slango-troglo-dyte.
Posted by boynton at August 21, 2004 06:59 PM

nothin wrong with strayan as she is spoke on the hibiscus coast, aaayyy

...and I always thought that punctuating aaayyy was a kiwi thing, but time amongst the banana benders (up and down the Bruce Highway) has set me straight...
Posted by nardo at August 22, 2004 02:47 PM

Is the Hibiscus Coast F NQ - or just Q?

A correspondent informs me that aaayyy is pretty big in the Latrobe Valley, too. I only ever noticed a thick rise of the inflections, but.
Posted by boynton at August 22, 2004 06:46 PM

err ... Improper use of the vernacular...
that should be of course be more:
"Can't say I noticed.
Did notice a thick rise of the inflections, but."
Posted by boynton at August 22, 2004 07:50 PM

if you're heading north, pass the Gold, Sunshine, Fraser, and Coral Coasts... you'll find it just past Mackay, aaayyy
Posted by nardo at August 23, 2004 06:53 AM