Boing Boing

Spring, happily, has sprung. The winter dark is banished and the city is accordingly infused with optimism and a seasonal lightness of spirit quite at odds with its accustomed gloom. Of course, it won't last -- this time next week we'll be enduring blizzards or something -- but for now let's cherish the moment.

I took the opportunity to garden, hacking back the overgrown foliage of the balcony plants, debugging them and disposing of the rather too many casualties incurred during our Australian sojourn. Things are looking a lot sparser out there now, but that's mostly to the good.

After that, I left Ian playing the piano and cycled off with my camera to enjoy the relative balminess -- in truth it wasn't that warm, but fie on such oppressive actualism -- randomly turning west after crossing the river, meandering eventually to Battersea Park, then taking a north side route back. Relatively few photos were taken, but enough for a new CJ post to follow a few minutes after this one. Ah, continuity; how we do love it so.

School remains fun, but I can't claim to be -- you know -- achieving anything much. SICM, sigh. One day.

Very tangentially, and in hobbyist sort of way, I have been attempting to re-educate myself in basic electronics, it being more than 20 years since my O level. I have one specific project in mind to make, which will be useful in the laboratory, but the main impetus is just to have fun. Apparently there's not enough learning going on in my academic life at the moment. Or something.

So far the effort has been largely theoretical. While I have assembled many of the components necessary to start playing around, Maplin have yet to come up with the goods when it comes to resistors, without which it is pretty difficult to get anywhere. Hopefully that should be changing in the next week or so, but I have to admit to being a bit surprised and disappointed by this failure on the part of what I'd always taken to be a dependably geeky chain. Tsk. You live and learn.
Posted by matt at March 30, 2008 08:13 PM