Alien

Here’s #2 son with a bike helmet on. Most amusing I think you’ll agree!

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Reaper

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 As it stands “Gardens of Seth” is rather outdated and has a rather late eighties sound.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.

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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.

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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.

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Quiet Skies

Here’s the skies over southern Scotland earlier today:

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And here’s the view a few moments ago (30 Oct 17:30):

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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.

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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.

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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

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Another of Space Shuttle Discovery

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The Lockheed SR71A Blackbird

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More Blackbird

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A Grumman F14 Tomcat

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