We (my SO and me) made a first attempt at firing some #clay objects in a fireplace.

To reach the fireplace they had to be carried for a bit of a walk, so for the first attempt we only brought 3 different whorls, one tiny vase and a round sample bit; one of the whorls (the thickest one) broke near the beginning (and we could only find one piece), but the rest came out decently, even if we accidentally let the fire slow down earlier than planned (they remained at temperature for something like a hour and a half).

The mini-vase is currently sitting on my kitchen sink, half-full of water and at 5 °C less than its surroundings. Before the next summer I want to make one of those refrigerating flasks…

TFW you are on a commuter train between Varese (Italy) and Como (Italy) and an announcement warns you that you are now leaving the European Union!!1ONE!!! (and if you are carrying about a truckload of money or valuables you should leave the train at the next station to declare them)

(I knew I was going to leave Italy for part of the trip, I just didn't expect the EU bit)

tilo.ch/en/Collegamenti/Colleg… ---> this is the line, going through Switzerland.

Filed under: reality oversteampunking fiction.

Today I saw a flogo-pneumatic gun (wikipedia article in italian only, but it has a picture) built by Volta in 1776. The museum guidebook mentions that he commented “feel free to laugh, but don't be afraid of that word”. There is no mention whether the phrase continued with “you fools! BUAHAHAHAH”.

Oh, and it was inside the Volta Temple, which was designed to be a (small) museum, but it's in the shape of a temple, inspired by the Pantheon (so, if this was the discworld, there would now be a god called Volta)

#steampunk #flogiston #flogoPneumatic

JC

2019-09-13 12:54:11

Vanilla @debian is installed/running on my @olimex TERES-I laptop via debian-installer. If you experience a black screen upon bootup, there is a workaround: remove the installation media at the debian-installer boot select menu. What does this mean? You can easily create your own installer media (a ~90MB image) to install the operating system the way it was designed to be installed. You don't need a custom image sourced from a vendor.

wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebi…

@Gruppo Linux Como

For some reasons, when I saw this at the egyptian museum in Turin I thought about mastodon :D

It's the report of a strike by the (relatively elite) workers from Deir el-Medina who were building the current pharaoh's tomb, when they stopped receiving payments/food rations.

bad picture is bad, but this is the first result I found with a quick search and it has another picture and a lot of information dianabuja.wordpress.com/2012/0…

this. this. this.

A step in the wrong direction is "locking firmware", where a loadable firmware is made read-only by storing it to a ROM. (…) This is madness that needs to stop.

I've tried to make an oil lamp with a small jar, a slice of cork covered with foil and a wick made with thread plied a few times.

The bottom of the jar is filled with water, with rice oil (i.e. an old and slightely rancid oil I had around the house) on top.

apparently, coming with superior numbers and conquering their cities is not something you're supposed to do to your SO.

I don't really understand why :D

#carcassonne #board-games

I might have accidentally bought some new #ink...

Text reads:

I wonder if being in love with the blood-red ink I've recently bough is yet another sign of the fact that I can't prove I'm not a vampyre(sic).
I should start wearing the black ribbon whose precepts I've always followed (with no plans to stop).

At least this looks like fresh blood and not something used to sign a pact with the devil.

The ink is Rohrer & Klingner writing ink, merinda.

#calligraphy #dipPen

waaaay overdue #tourDeFleece update: on day 13 I did indeed spin some wool I carded myself (forgot to take a picture while still on the spindle, but here it is before being lightly blocked:

I think that for the rest of the fleece I want to try combing it, but with this bit I also want to try some naalbinding.

Then I finished some generic black roving from the yarn shop (that I had started before #TdF19 and kept as my to-go "spin for 5 minutes" project), spun worsted, and then, instead of being able to write this post life happened again, badly, and I just didn't have the energies for it.

In the next few days I also spun another bit of generic blue roving from the yarn shop, this time woolen, and that was it for my spinning this month.

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners

It's again that time of the year... :D

#DebConf19 has started and as usual the video team needs MOAR volunteers to provide full streaming and recordings coverage at the quality we're used to: if you are attending please attend one of the training sessions (they are announced in the [url=https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2019/07/msg00009.html]daily announcement emails like this one): some of the tasks are pretty easy and you can sign-up for shifts during talks you wanted to attend anyway (they will not prevent you from following the talk, and in some case they may even help you do so).

If you are remoting (like me :( ) you can still help: hop on #debconf-video@OFTC to help with reviewing the recordings before they get published. If there are enough of us we can aim to release most¹ of the recordings before the conference is done! This is really helpful for people in different timezones or those who would like to attend two talks at the same time, but mostly, it's fun.

¹ except for the very last batch, of course.

#tourDeFleece update: on day 8 I did the Gotland samples as planned

Then on sunday (day 9) instead of spinning I washed a bit of the “distraction” I posted earlier, on monday life happened and I had a forced day of rest; on tuesday I mostly respected the day of rest (but I started a bit on the Coburg Fox sample) and today I finished them both.

And that's it for my basic plan for #TdF19 , which has been completed way early thanks to the power of lowered expectations!

But... tomorrow it's challenge day, when I want to try and spin some wool that I've (badly) carded myself (with dog brushes), so this evening I've done that

And then I must confess I couldn't resist starting to spin a bit of it, to see how it would be

(this one is going to be spun woolen, and then one day I think I'll buy or make a pair of combs, as for most of the things I want to do with the yarn worsted would be more appropriate)

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners

#TourDeFleece update: day 5 went as planned, with the Rhoen Sheep sample:

and then, instead of killing zombies I got distracted by a sack of unknown sheep fleece, received the evening before:

Day 3 and 4 of #TourDeFleece: yesterday I spun the Romney sample, as usual half as worsted and half as woolen.

Then I had… issues… as I discovered that the floss game flare now has a shiny new campaign and… let us just say that a) I didn't post any update and b) I'm very surprised that today I still managed to spin all of the mixed brown top I planned to spin :D

Tomorrow I have a carded band of Rhoen shep waiting for me (and/or zombies and skeletons to kill, choices, choices…)

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners

Days 1 and 2 of #TourDeFleece: yesterday I managed to spin half a sample of white Eider sheep (worsted):

And then today I did the rest of that sample (woolen):

for a total of about 10g, followed by the brown Eider sheep, about 12g again spun half worsted and half woolen:

I seem to be on a good start to go through the samples before the end of #TdF19… unless I get distracted by some other wool that may happen to appear around here for some reason O:-) but in that case I'll also be happy :)

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners