Steveg58 / is on Nostr

Retired Configuration Manager, Game Player, Fountain Pen collector, Garden Railway afficionado.

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2024-11-15 01:39:09

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Apart from their own cartridge Jowo also make specially threaded cartridges of manufacturers such as TWSBI. However, the #6 nibs can be extracted and interchanged between cartridges or other compatible pens such as Jinhaos.
I have done this with TWSBI pens in the past.

2024-11-02 05:39:51

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I've been a longtime Ubuntu user but now I am looking to change distros and the reasons are the Firefox snap and Ubuntu Pro. I can't even imagine why they are this bad.

2024-10-23 03:23:51

#RandomThought
One of the probable reasons that universal healthcare is so vilified in the USA is that once you are no longer dependent on your employer for access to reasonable health care then it is a lot easier to leave a shitty job without putting your family at risk.

2024-10-14 05:34:16

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I learned my mandolin skills from Tubular Bells. When one is about to slice vegetable one must pull it out, flourish t grandly and decry, "MAN DO LIN". Technique perfected.

2024-10-13 10:14:26

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16 maybe? No clue what the MB is in aid of. Although, something to do with the colour spectrum perhaps?
Okay I found that type B is a tungsten film ... still no Idea about the M.

2024-10-12 04:35:38

Thinking of when I worked for a Newspaper ... there are two thing that bug me (actually there are many things but 2 will do for now).
Back in the day we had a line printer in the operators room that logged all the wire feed stories coming in from Reuters. Editorial had their own printer but they could be relied on to stuff it up so ours was a reliable backup. The stories were short just a paragraph or two at most an were just factual reporting - no reporter "value" add. But I could see more news go by every shift than Google news gives me in a week. I miss those feeds.
The other thing was that I was eventually the maintainer for the electronic library and that had a story query mechanism that worked. I was so disappointed that web searches have never gained a fraction of the capability of a proper text query system. For a time google had a "search within your previous query" mechanism but that would get confused and never worked reliably so they quietly dropped it. A proper web text query engine would be so powerful

2024-10-12 01:18:27

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Eh, it's okay. You'll get a much better picture in low light conditions than by push processing a film. And it it is really really cheap (per shot) so it should appeal to the masses. But that dependence on batteries and rechargers? Can it ever replace your Hasselblad?

2024-09-17 08:13:56

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Luke, my wife is in London ATM and she has been looking for a birthday gift to bring back for me ... where might she be able to get one of your Tube Mapper photo books please?

2024-09-13 00:10:29

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There is a story that the Naturalist Harry Butler used to tell. At one point during the 60's he was doing a job in the South West of Western Australia and he was bitten by one of the local venomous snakes so he applied first aid and presented himself to the local hospital to get the antivenene. As there are several antivenenes for different species he carefully described and identified the snake to the doctor so the correct antivenene could be selected. The doctor hurried off and came back some minutes later without the antivenene.
"I'm sorry there is a problem. We have to confirm the snake identification with an expert in Perth and they are not answering the phone."
"Who's the expert? I may know an alternative contact."
"A Dr. Butler."