July 2007
Monthly Archive
Lake Biel the 3rd
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 19 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Allsorts
Right. Everybody knows Lake Biel the 1st… It’s the big, arrowhead shaped one that points towards the city. A few people even know Lake Biel the 2nd, also known as Manorsee. Even fewer, namely our neighbours and the motorists who drove through our street today, know about the 3rd. The name of our street was hardly ever as fitting as today: Seevorstadt!
The pictures both show the road coming from our house from different sides, so I was glad I had come home just as the hailstorm started.
Applied mathematics
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 16 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Food
Lunch is near… therefore we shall take a quick detour into how to calculate volumes:
A given cylinder of radius z and height a, as shown in the photo, has a volume of pi z z a.
Eh… yes, I am a bit hungry as a matter of fact.
An old one…
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 13 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Random Stuff, Hehe
But still funny as f…
No mistake
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 13 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Huh?
Just back from a coffee-break… The coffee-machine-technician has left behind the repair-log for our essence-of-life-dispenser. Had a quick browse through it and found an entry which made me laugh out loud:
Takes money, doesn’t give out coffee. No mistake found.
Depends whether you’re on the money-taking or the coffee-drinking side of the coin-slot, I suppose…
Re-Gotcha!
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 06 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Meta, Computers
Right… after a recent attempt at comment-spamming (as if I had any comment worth spamming…), I decided to put a captcha on the site. It’s not just any captcha though, by using it commenters actually help digitise books. More about the principle and the technology behind it at http://www.recaptcha.net
Deplastification of the Enfield
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 05 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Royal Enfield
I made the mistake of entering “Royal Enfield” into eBay at some stage… here’s some of the results:
This is the ignition cap. Original (on the left) looks like chrome, but it’s actually only chromed plastic. What you can’t see on this picture is that some of the chrome at the bottom of the cap had started to flake off as there is usually some oil in and around the ignition. The new cap (right) is polished aluminium with a dark red enamelled logo. (And yes, that is rust on the cylinder fins. Need to get a heatproof rust-covering paint…)
Here we have the tappet cover on the other side of the bike. Well… that wasn’t strictly plastic (this part gets quite hot), but since the guy on eBay had a nice version matching my new ignition cap… Hey, works for me.
And finally… destickerisation of the toolbox. Well, I found out the stickers are almost impossible to remove without taking the paint off as well, so I just painted over them. Drilling holes was a bitch, as the metal used for the toolboxes was probably designed to withstand a hand-grenade going off inside and as the brass badges are… well… not exactly Swiss-standard workmanship. A lot of filing and cursing ensued, but the result is worth it, methinks.