Lions can't fly
Just been down to the lab (or should I call it a sty) to set up the pigs for tomorrow. As you can see 3 are in flight and 2 ready to take off. They need quite a bit of height which has caused a slight...
New year's poor resolution
I live in a house just next to the college so walk to work every morning. It's pretty dark at eight o'clock so had to pick my way carefully past the rocks and roots that line the steep path past the haunted...
Perfect marmalade
There used to be a poster in the vinmonopol (Shop where you buy wine and spirits in Norway) that said "if you have made jam in the past 6 months then you don't need to show your proof of age", or something...
Pickup lines
I have a whole cupboard full of interfaces and sensors but realise that not everyone is so lucky, for that reason I am often on the look out for cheap alternatives. A couple of weeks ago I had the idea...
Gif wrapping
Animations are great to help with visualising physical concepts and I use them a lot in my teaching and web pages. On web pages I like to use gifs, this is because they run on the page without having...
Flight of the bumble pig
I've been looking for a flying pig ever since Mark Headlee sent me a copy of his worksheets for an experiment with a flying dinosaur. I see the pigs every time I walk past the Hamley's toy shop in Copenhagen...
WordMark
About a month or so ago I stopped using my old tablet for marking and moved over to using an ordinary PC for annotating word docs. I tried to use macros to make some customisations but failed miserably....
Painting by numbers
A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about how it wasn't so dark in Norway as people think it is. We get a lot of scattered light even though the sun isn't visible. If the light is scattered it should...
Not so dark
When I say I live in Norway people often react by saying that they couldn't live there because of the dark winters. Well its not dark all winter where I live, about 150km North of Bergen. At the moment...
Benian motion
I just got back in from a walk with my dog Ben and decided it was time he had a shower. He doesn't like having a shower but now accepts it. When he has a shower I always take my socks off, this is so...