A long while back I posted a bit about soldering, and linked to a page about the basics (it’s gone now, and I had to link to an Archive.org page – and what with link rot and domain changes, it could be gone tomorrow). So I came across this page The Art Of Soldering and … Soldering Skillz

Here is my latest Newsletter, so if you like this kind of thing go sign up for it (I don’t send them out very often, but when I do I try to make it fun and entertaining 😛 ) Hi Everybody!   I’ve been working on a bunch of stuff I thought you might be … Some stuff I’m doing

It is for me again, when I see how much Muggy loves things like this:

I found these rocks, wouldn’t it be cool if they were dinosaur bones? Dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period – just joking, if anything they would be late Pleistocene. (Click on images for full size): This looks like this egg found in China: This looks like the head of a femur, and it even looks … Dinosaur bones? Or freak rock formations?

Wow, I hope I look this good at 70: Emily Singer writes a terrific review of his birthday bash all-star concert, you can read it here. Apparently it was pretty special, his all star lineup was: Wally Palmar – guitar, bass, harmonica, vocals Rick Derringer – guitar, vocals Edgar Winter – keyboards, saxophone, vocals Gary … Happy 70th Birthday Ringo!

One of our local TV channels KPLR 11 did a feature on this guys ultimate man cave: Check out a photo gallery of it, it’s an amazing 3 stories and 17,000 square foot dwelling in a limestone cave: Photo gallery of the cave house

This pic from Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut who tweets live from the space station. Full story at Discovery.com: Images: Earthly auroras in Skitland, Alaska (top) and viewed from 220 miles above the planet aboard the space station. Credit: Lance Parrish, Spaceweather.com; JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi via Twitter.