This is not a communication about the TV show Reaper, although I thought that was good fun. It is also not about Mr Grimm as what could I say about death? It is definitely not about the rock classic “(Don’t fear) The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult. This communication is about the rare ambiguity that occurs in iTunes.
I rather like the music genre of Aggrotech or as it is also known – Hellectro. There is a band called Reaper who have released some music and recently it appeared that is was quite cheap on iTunes so I downloaded all of it.
The problem is that when I played back the EP “Monsters in my head” it was quite clearly a different genre of music. It was more electro than hellectro. Perhaps this was an early Reaper piece but I had my doubts. A little bit of Internet research and I discovered that there were two Reapers of similar music but different enough for me to spot. Bugger. “Monsters in my head” is a little too clean for me.
So I checked the other Reaper downloads and it turns out that the Reaper album “Gardens of Seth” is by a metal band and definitely not anything whatsoever to do with Aggrotech. The ban might be Italian, definitely not from an English speaking country. As it stands “Gardens of Seth” is rather outdated and has a rather late eighties sound. It is quite good at what it is but not quite what I want. Perhaps I will listen to it more when I’m having an Iron Maiden revival.
The moral of this communication is that you should check discographies on the Internet before downloading songs by an artist whose tunes so far you have rather enjoyed.
Shatoetry
Just got the Shatoetry app. Been playing a bit but want to put some serious effort into re-creating some metal songs in Shatoetry. Shatner is a genius.
Here’s my first attempt:
More to follow. Search this site for “Shatoetry”.
Bridge
Here’s two pictures of the Forth Rail Bridge taken (while moving) from the Forth Road Bridge.
A Bit Early
Well, it’s the end of October and there are Christmas lights already up “decorating” the outside of a house. Mind you we are in Scotland and maybe they tolerate these things a little more than we English.
Quiet Skies
Here’s the skies over southern Scotland earlier today:
And here’s the view a few moments ago (30 Oct 17:30):
Much busier this evening. Spending a while in Cowdenbeath. Flying home soon. Sons loved the flight up.
Home Grown
Picture of a spider we found at the bottom of the garden. It was about 20 mm long in the body.
Cookie Wookie
Hi,
Having looked into the cookie law thing a bit I have pretty much confirmed that this website uses only essential cookies. These are defined as those that retain the choices you make to view this website. If you have the mobile version turned on or off or if you are logged into the administration area (only me doing that though) then Fooyah.net uses cookies to allow you to do that.
This website does not, to the very best of my knowledge, do any tracking of user data or anything like that.
So your consent is not needed according to EU Law.
If you would prefer to delete your cookies or learn about what they might do then you can visit this website.
This whole law thing is quite interesting because I can remember the trouble caused when cookies were introduced to browsers in the mid-nineties [June 1994]. It has taken 18 years for the law to catch up with the technological improvement. That’s quite a long lag-time. Would it take that long if porn could just be downloaded freely and easily? Oh, yes, it would!
Why 100 000?
I just don’t understand why this waterless urinal is labelled as saving “up to” 100000 litres of water a year. It rather seems a cop out. Perhaps they should have used the term “on average”? But then, perhaps some of the McDonalds clientele wouldn’t understand the use of the term “on” let alone the incredibly difficult word “average”. Why not just write the following:
This waterless urinal saves up to 1000000 litres of water per year and may be responsible for the saving of the whales and arctic ice sheet
My use of the words “up to” and “may” allow me to write whatever the hell I want. I prefer my version.
Best Place In The World
Here’s a few photos of the best place in the world. When you are an aircraft geek there’s only the Smithsonian in Washington DC, all other places pale in comparison.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Another of Space Shuttle Discovery
The Lockheed SR71A Blackbird
More Blackbird
A Grumman F14 Tomcat
315 Feet
The car had to go to the tyre and brake people this week. I had noticed the feel of the brake pedal was changing slightly from smooth to a bit jerky when releasing pressure. This didn’t really concern me but the fact that the rear discs were looking rusty and there was only a thin band of clean metal had me worried.
The car went in to ATS Euromaster at 08:30 and I’d had the call by about 09:30. New pads and discs at the rear (I’d expected that), two new tyres as the fronts were worn to just about legal. I hadn’t really expected that but then I don’t hang around and a little sliding when it’s damp is good fun (no kids in the car and only where it’s safe and there’s space). I had mentioned that there was a slow puncture on the nearside rear tyre and it’s just aswell.
When I went to pick up the car it was still on the jacks so the guys could show me the problem that was causing the slow puncture. The inside of the tyre where the join normally occurs and is “welded” nicely was just a split. It had gone down to steel and would eventually have caused some serious issues. They believe it was a manufacturing fault and the tyre has been sent back to Pirelli and I hope I get a refund and I ended up paying for 3 tyres.
An interesting little fact that I hadn’t considered was that the new tyres went on the rear of the car and the worn tyres were swapped to the front. This is to try and ensure that when the car is on the limit it will understeer rather than oversteer. Understeer is much safer that oversteer and so by keeping the grip at the rear of the car (especially an estate where the rear is quite light) the car is safer to drive. Nice.
315 feet is the stopping distance of a car travelling at 70mph. This is the number given in the Highway Code. Most cars will stop much shorter than that. Should you ever be lost for a stopping distance then the formula s=v+(v^2)/20 works to give you the Highway Code numbers. The thinking and reaction time is the same number of feet as miles per hour and then the actual breaking distance is proportional to the speed squared. It’s all down to kinetic energy! See the Wolfram|Alpha stopping distance calculation here.
