I was about to buy a whole new portal of power, so thanks for the info davetrave!

It’s just RFID.

and a lump of plastic and a massive profit margin.
But what price a child’s happiness eh?

Cheers ds, sounds like a plan, if I use a reasonably robust base.
Should be able to get something sorted for £70 or so judging by what’s available on eBay. Someone’s selling ready made ones with Alfa Romeo seats for around £200, maybe I should try to make more than one…

Tatts at Vince Neil Ink, Vegas, and a track day car.
Worked for me when 40 and miserable, now 43 and happy.

Disc 1, track 5 says it all really.

The future Mrs rogg gave up on Netflix for her kids because the selection wasn’t that great.
Not sure exposing a nearly 9 year old to pronhub counts as responsible parenting, I’m not claiming to be an expert or anything, it’s just a hunch.

However I have got a Humax freesat box, so will investigate a network adaptor and read up on this ‘twonky’ thing.
Thanks!

how did the OP get those cool dots above “naivete”
very thorough!

Not for me the random caps and incoherent ramblings of your typical STW rant, oh no…

If you use Google to translate ‘Volvo 262C’ from Swedish to English it suggests ‘pimp’*:

*this may not be true.

Thanks for the answers so far.
The surround sound system has the dts processor built into the sub box, and has stereo in- or dts in as the only options, both phono/rca.
Other than the centre speaker being a bit weedy, the whole setup sounds great, so I’m loathe to replace everything. Maybe a second hand older blue ray player would be a better idea.

I lost a paddling pool, four garden chairs, a tent and the ball off the end of a swingball. Little ****ers.

Edit: and everything they didn’t eat was covered in poo. They will rue the day, oh yes….

No harm giving them a call and asking for feedback. And you never know, the other guy might change his mind.

What CZ said.

Have you tried parkatmyhouse.com ? Park in someone’s driveway for less than a tenner a day. A few within walking distance of Murrayfield.

Don’t think the airline or destination matters much – there was a similar ‘chair-kicking and threatened violence’ incident when I flew with Singapore Airlines a couple of weeks back.
Worst passenger I ever sat near was on a BA flight – coke’d out of her mind. I can only think she’d considered smuggling her stash, only to bottle it at the last minute and snort the lot before going through security. She spoke/swore/kicked/fidgeted/reclined/un-reclined/got up/sat down constantly, barely pausing for breath for about four hours.

I’ve just read the FAQs and Inkscape seems to be exactly what I’m after, so I’ll download it and have a play.
Thanks very much, another STW success – I owe you a beer…

Hats off in Canterbury Cathedral. Especially if it’s mid winter, as cold inside as outside and you’re a 3 year old. At least that’s what someone took the trouble to come and explain to me as I walked said 3 year old through the beautiful building.

Nice to see god’s got his eye on the really important issues.

I couldn’t give a stuff if someone wants to wear a hat indoors, it’s really none of my business.

The only time I’ve been asked to remove my hat was in a rugby club bar, we’d just come in from the cold and some busy-body coffin dodger who was just there for a drink asked my mate (who was a member) to ask me to take my hat off. Knowing what goes on in rugby club bars it seemed an odd place for someone to worry about ‘etiquette’.

I’d also be worried that if I asked someone to take their hat off it would turn out that they were undergoing chemotherapy or something.

once on the island I may regret this choice:

Why are people who don’t have and don’t like tattoos so desperate to tell people who do have and do like tattoos how much they hate them? And what do they seriously expect to gain as a result of imparting their opinion?
I’m genuinely baffled.

Whisky?
Pliers?
Piece of string round the door handle?*
Spill someone’s pint and hope they go for the right side of your face?

*one of my daughter’s friends did this when she was 6 to see if it worked. It did.

Watched this last night, a bit hipster-ish for me, but they’re having a laugh so good luck to them.

(and it’s roller derby, not roller ball, James Caan’s not anywhere to be seen and there’s no motorbikes)

What does it do to your insurance premiums?

Shouldn’t do anything should it, disability discrimination and all that?

You also need to check the age of a tyre as well as it’s (visible) condition, particularly with winter tyres.

Having said that, I’m happier buying second-hand tyres rather than second hand tyres already fitted to wheels – it means I’ve got to get them fitted, and a local tyre fitter will be only too happy to point out that your ebay bargains are potential deathtraps (\Faulds-Wood).

It’s that simple

😀

Sea cucumber here in Malaysia – the flavour’s ok, but the texture is pretty rank, like a mouthful of fat. It’s supposed to be one of the ‘five gems of the sea’, god alone knows what the other four are.

pendant alert

Oh, the ironing 🙂

Haven’t been back up there yet, will send the kids in first, they seem to know no fear when it comes to bugs.

squiff wins… What model is it?

I’ve got one of these:

DW-6900HM, from the crazy colours range. Not exactly packed with features, but looks good.

So we’ve established that every single Japanese car manufacturer has produced at least one bona fide classic then? Good.

Mazda AZ-1?

Surely more the Pao is more like this?

I’ve always wanted one of these bad boys:

Oh, and cheburashka? Barbie wants her car back.

– unless there is a library of 3D files for parts online anywhere?

Just answered my own question, there is:

http://www.thingiverse.com/

Internet, I love you.

Here’s a comparison of printers under $20K – cost, accuracy etc, including the Mojo (not very accurate) and the Formlabs (not much choice of material, apparently) printer:

http://www.additive3d.com/3dpr_cht.htm

All those RepRap machines should start printing a coffin for their machines

Presumably one very small piece at a time.

I want one NOW

What do you want to make with it? Sure, I’d like to have one too, but I don’t have the CAD skills to create the source file for whatever I was going to make, so I’d also need some sort of 3D laser scanner to get the dimensions of a sample component – unless there is a library of 3D files for parts online anywhere?

At the moment 3d printers are a compromise – you can either get a comparatively cheap machine that can only make very small parts, without particularly fine detail, in a limited range of materials, or you can spend 10s or 100s of thousands and make larger, finely detailed parts in materials which *almost* meet all your requirements. The parts produced either way will need cleaning to remove the support structure, final finishing and assembly. You’d also have to obtain the correct material(s), purge the machine between material types or material colours and clean it after use.
Even if the machines do get wider acceptance, I think it will still be a niche/hobbyist activity for a very long time.
I don’t have a problem with companies protecting their copyright, and some sort of DRM is probably inevitable, but can’t imagine what product I would want to copy on a 3D printer in my shed anyway – I’m not sure you could make anything bike-related that would be strong enough right now.

How’s he going to empty his hot tub?

Seeing as the x factor has nothing to do with music, it would have to be the Ramones, they were better looking and the popular press would never get behind the Clash.

as I was taught to do on a defensive driving course by a retired traffic cop…

How is blocking traffic ‘defensive’? Why would a retired traffic cop encourage you to break the law? No policeman I’ve ever spoken to has suggested winding up other motorists is a safe course of action.

and beetroot

Beetroot is the work of the devil.

Moroccan chicken salad (it’s got couscous, sultanas and butternut squash in it), with some hot sauce, and a can of tuna on top (it needed eating).

I’d give it 7/10. A success, but not an unqualified one.