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Saturday, 30 June 2012

3D Printing

Posted on 04:49 by Unknown
I'm still sick.

Really sick.

I remember feeling a bit sick when I was twenty, and thinking the world was out to get me. But that's nothing compared to how sick you can get when you go to the cleanest and shiniest, most superbly well maintained one year old's birthday party. The dribble alone could feed a bio warfare attack. It turns out twenty happy, healthy children extrude enough bacteria to drop every adult in attendance.

I don't think I've ever felt so old and tired and miserable.

Even the joint in my little toe aches.

I didn't even know there was a joint in my little toe.

It turns out I have two of them.

Everything hurts.

So I have nothing to blog about except that I found around 3 cubic foot of strawberry runners, and they are sitting on my kitchen floor in plastic bags topped off with a hand full of weeds, but still dying, because if I go outside in the cold I start a hacking cough that brings me right back to suck air from around the heater until I stop choking.

The only reason I'm even typing is because I'm hoping to get some karmic credit by (albeit misleadingly) making someone named mike (who has been a long time reader) briefly happy by making him think I was going to talk about 3D printing.

That was the best I could manage.

Mike has kindly offered to print anything I need on his 3D printer. I'm not sure if the offer extends to the rest of the world. I'd ask him if I were the rest of the world.

But more importantly, he also pointed me in an interesting direction which I wont talk about until I see if the people involved are all crazy or not.

This has to rank right up there as one of my most informative posts.

But enough about 3D printing, and more on baby-bio-hazard.

It can be like watching a clown pulling silk from its pockets.

Endless.

And a bit scary.

It can just go on for ever.

Drool.

An endless stream of colourful, bio-hazard drool that is always out there. 


It can't be bargained with. 


It can't be reasoned with. 


It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. 


And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. 








But it seems the real danger is in the well kept ones that aren't leaking all the time. 


Stealth babies.


Yep. Stealth baby-bio-hazard.








120 Things in 20 years sees me wondering if I'm the first person to come up with the "I missed, and kissed the air next to your forehead!" game, when it comes to kissing little people goodnight, in a desperate attempt to stay dribble free.
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Friday, 22 June 2012

Aquaponics - Cucumbers!

Posted on 05:11 by Unknown

Cucumbers!

I've been trying to grow cucumbers! for the entire time I've been involved with aquaponics, but have had a miserable time of it. I kept getting tiny cucumbers! that had failed to pollinate properly, and would shrivel up and die after they reached two centimetres in length.

But I just noticed this.

It's a cucumber!

Actually it's a stack of cucumbers!

I've been hand pollinating them with a cotton  bud. Q-tip? Whatever they call cotton on a stick in your part of the world.

It has worked.





That green thing on the one in focus is caterpillar poop.




120 Things in 20 years - Cucumbers!
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Aquaponics - Carrot growth

Posted on 14:28 by Unknown
My carrots are growing.

Which is nice.


They, or at least this one, looks like this.

Some stuff take a long time to grow.

I have very low levels of nitrate (plant num-nums) in my system due to having only two fish, and sleepy ones at that.

The water temperatures are sitting at around 10c, and the growhouse has similar air temperatures.

All that means my fish are almost dormant, and only eat a tiny amount every second day. No feed, and no activity mean no plant nutrient. I should have got some trout, (trout love the cold water) but I was waiting for some more silver perch, and also expected this grow house to keep temperatures up a bit higher. Unfortunately, the fish farm I normally get them from, had some kind of spawning fail, so I didn't get any.


In other news in the grow house, there is no new news. Everything is sleeping except lettuce.

I think I need to seal up my solar panel, and connect it to my fish tank heater. It's a 300 watt heater, which is quite powerful for a fish tank heater, but I suspect it won't do a lot in a thousand liters of water that's outside.



120 Things in 20 years needs to have bought a bigger and better grow house if it wanted decent aquaponics carrot growth.


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Monday, 18 June 2012

Plagiarist - My previous post

Posted on 18:15 by Unknown
Those who follow this blog will know that I go to a bit of effort to try to try not to rip off other people's ideas.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the internet today.

Yesterday I posted this...

     If you love something...

     Set it free...

     If it comes back to you...

     It's probably Stockholm Syndrome.

It was a little joke that occurred to me, that was inspired by an acquaintance the day before, telling me that he thought there was a component of Stockholm Syndrome in relationships.

But today I thought I'd search the net for the notion. Sometimes I ask google questions in plain english. eg "Hey google, do you know any good sourdough recipes?" Sometimes I copy and paste entire pages of stuff. Today I dumped my entire post in and found this tweet from someone named Pieter Rossouw . It's dated 5 days before my post and this is the first I've seen of it.

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If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's probably Stockholm Syndrome.
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Spooky.

Stockholm Syndrome is something 23% of hostages experience (according to wikipedia) whereby hostages end up defending their abductors.

The name relates to something that happened in a bank robbery in 1973. Nearly forty years ago. As far as google and I know, there are no other references that tie Stockholm Syndrome and the "If you love something set it free, if it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was." saying.  

Forty years, then two people come up with the same joke, word for word, five days apart.

I'm going to ask @PRossouw why he tweeted that this week. I've tried all kinds of things to see if there is any link between @PRossouw, my acquaintance, and me, but I cant find a thing. 

Anyway, it seems I plagiarized it without knowing. 

Sorry Pieter.

   

120 things in 20 years is guilty of plagiarism in my previous post.

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Sunday, 17 June 2012

Thinking - Caramel malt milkshakes

Posted on 09:44 by Unknown
[edit from the future - it seems I stole this without knowing. See here for the slightly interesting story]

     If you love something...

     Set it free...

     If it comes back to you...

     It's probably Stockholm Syndrome.





120 things in 20 years understands that sometimes titles like "Thinking - Caramel malt milkshakes" won't do much for your google search rankings when the rest of your post is about sleep deprivation.


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Friday, 15 June 2012

Thinking - Robots

Posted on 13:05 by Unknown
When caught in a futuristic robot war, and treating the injured with a bit of field surgery, I'm not completely convinced that carrying a stainless steal kidney shaped bowl around all the time to dramatically drop removed bullets into would rank high on one's list of "must carry" luggage , yet it seems everyone's doing it.

That's all.

I just thought you should know.




120 things in 20 years wonders if it's the robots that are the worry.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Aquaponics - Algae eating suckfish death

Posted on 07:09 by Unknown
The smaller of my two little algae eating fish died today.

It always looked a little off, and spent a few hours swimming upside down in the days after I first put them in there, but has since looked happy enough. I'm wondering if it got too cold for it. I was told they were happy in unheated water, but perhaps if it was already a bit sick...

The temperatures in my system, have been down around 10c the last few days.

I have a really bad cold, and have totally failed to seal up all the gaps in my grow house due to spending every spare minute of my life in bed. Those gaps include one big enough for me to get through.

I'm also not sure that this grow house really works. Even when it was first installed and was in the standard layout, it never seemed warm. I think I might need to investigate going back to a clear plastic version.

The other potential problem is that the relative size of the fish tank to the grow house means it acts as a massive heat sink, and takes 5 degrees of air temperature gain and turns it into 1 degree of water temperature gain. From memory, water has 5 times the thermal capacity of air, so that might be a large part of the problem.

In other words, a big grow house can heat a little fish tank, but a small grow house can't heat a large fish tank.





120 Things in 20 years discovers that sometimes an aquaponics algae eating suckfish can get dead due to a large thermal mass in your grow house (or something else). Who knew.
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