I remember when a contractor cut a large optical cable just up at the corner from Ryde bus depot, it took almost 4 days to splice it all back together a strand at a time.

Well it's time to get a coffee in.

Cheers.

Update: Spectrum in Yermo is back online, I did a speed test and it was 414/23, this should improve, this was at 4:04pm, email came back at 2:59pm.

The internet outage is still here, someone slashed a fiber optic cable, yeah the police think they caught the 33yr old who may have did the deed.

Wow... with our European personal rights and data protection laws, it is impossible... no... absolutely illegal... to publish such (arrest record) information. Only the police has access to such information in their internal databases, and courts have it in their files. Crazy.

Mr. McDuck. Police arrest records are almost a public free for all in the United States. Some records are not released while a majority are.

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Another era comes to an end as Tupperware files for bankruptcy.

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Grant
Darwin NT

What, Tupper is not selling his wares anymore?

It’s not a surprise with Rubbermaid, Ziplock, Glad and the many more products on the market.

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My missus was a great collector of the stuff which is all now packed away. I wonder if it all will be worth something down the track.

Anyhow I'll get back to watching this rising harvest moon.

Cheers.

What, Tupper is not selling his wares anymore?

It’s not a surprise with Rubbermaid, Ziplock, Glad and the many more products on the market.

They say it's not because of the products but about the younger generations who aren't accustomed to Tupperware parties but prefer online shopping instead. That is cheap, cheaper, cheapest.

They say it's not because of the products but about the younger generations who aren't accustomed to Tupperware parties but prefer online shopping instead. That is cheap, cheaper, cheapest.

In my opinion Tupperware has been going downhill way longer than I can think. They have been a exclusive brand. My grandmother is the last time I physically seen any Tupperware products. As for commercial advertising? Your guess is good as mine. I’d give it better than a decade or more.

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I still have 1 small Tupperware bowl, in Orange with no lid, I use it for pink packets.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Why the ‘Wow!’ signal is probably not be from aliens after all.

Interesting story in Popular Science discussing SETI. Not Seti@home, but the idea of using radio signals to find intelligent life. Here are some excerpts.

“The Wow! signal is fascinating to me because—as of now—nothing has ever come close to explaining it. It’s exactly the frequency you would choose if you were trying to send a radio wave a very long ways through space,” explains Seven Rasmussen, astronomer and author of the upcoming astrobiology book Life in Seven Numbers. “Personally, it’s my all-time favorite possible technosignature,” they add. However, the Wow! signal has yet to be detected again, leaving astronomers wondering what caused this weird observation."

"A lot of things in space actually emit radio waves, and astronomers use all wavelengths of light (radio very much included!) to study the cosmos. For example, radio waves enabled the famous first-ever image of a black hole from a few years back. They also helped Jocelyn Bell Burnell discover a strange type of dead star known as a pulsar, and revealed disks of gas that serve as nurseries for planets around other stars."

"All these natural sources have something in common: they emit a fairly broad range of radio frequencies. One kind of technosignature—a sign of technology, or equivalently, intelligent life beyond Earth—is a so-called narrowband radio signal. Whereas nature mostly produces broadband signals, technology can create very focused messages."

"Some astronomers are still searching for radio technosignatures (including a repeat of the Wow! signal from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius) such as with the Breakthrough Listen project, using radio telescopes like the Allen Telescope Array in California or the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Yet none of these surveys have yet to find anything more convincing than the Wow! signal, which was both narrowband and at an interesting, possibly specially-chosen wavelength: 21 centimeters, an important wavelength for one of the lines of atomic hydrogen, the most abundant component of the universe."

And another era comes to an end.
Servo owner retires at 94, offering "drivway service" until last day on the job.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Maybe Vincent VanGoh was not that crazy after all...
Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ align with a scientific theory, study finds

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind. A new analysis by physicists suggests the artist had an intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulent flow.

The 2028 Olympics, hopefully by then I'll own a used Chevy Bolt EV, a 2019 in Shock(Florescent Green) would be nice, since I could drive down there and back, it's 139 miles one way, though I might need a charge to get home after visiting my grandparents in Inglewood Cemetery, grandma died in 1968, grandpa gave up and died in late 1969, his house is still in Culver City CA almost as it was back then, almost.

My cat Grace is named for My grandma Grace Bertha Dougherty Bobier. I'm 64 now, then I'll be 68.

Grandpa was a bit complicated, he owned a dirt track race car team, an auto repair shop that later on after 1920 became a Buick/Star Cars Dealer, he was the Police Chief and later a City Councilman, an uncle who died before I was born was the Fire Chief, both were cause in about 1920 Culver City CA had just become a city and so they had need of a place that could house and repair the Police and Fire Vehicles since none existed yet, MGM Studios had helped out with putting out Fires in the area, MGM is now Sony Studios and used to have a Wall surrounding the studio complex, my extended family has my grandpa's Golden Badge. the Auto repair shop after WW2 is a mystery to me, it was an empty lot for a bit m then a parking lot and now is a real Fire Station with a plaque noting that my grandpa's shop was there once from 1920 to at least 1925, I have B&W pics from both years.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot
Drink up me hearties, yo ho
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot
Drink up me hearties, yo ho

Talk like a Pi rat day was on Sept 19th, nice post though.

Arr...

This would make kids want to go to school.
Deniliquin North Public School cleaner creates dazzling artworks on classroom rug

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Grant
Darwin NT

Very good!

That's what time is for!!

Enjoy!
Martin

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