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2014-06-07 The Dreck Begins
2014-06-08 Western Swing: The hotbed of understated alcoholism disguised as sexism, disguised as humour.
2014-06-09 Wine in Country Music
2014-06-09 Bicycle Tyre Valve Research
2014-06-10 Replacing deteriorated dowels on tea trolley
2014-06-11 Book Finished: 3D Printing For Dummies
2014-06-14 Tom Corbett: A Trip To The Moon
2014-06-15 If Tabloid Editors wrote song titles...
2014-06-18 What is on your browser favourites bar?
2014-06-19 No Photos Please
2014-06-20 Book Finished: Fire on the Clay
2014-06-21 High-heel sneakers
2014-06-25 Book Finished - The Adventures of Kimble Bent
2014-06-30 Book finished: white bicycles
2014-07-01 Angle Between Solstices Where I Live
2014-07-07 Repairing An Old Barometer
2014-07-08 Book finished: Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition
2014-07-11 Book finished: Lost To Time
2014-07-11 I Got Dem Ole Plagiarism Blues Again
2014-07-13 Book finished: River Out of Eden
2014-07-20 My guitar pick holder is older than me!
2014-07-20 Book finished: The End of Money
2014-07-28 Book finished: Wierd Things Customers Say in Bookshops
2014-07-28 Book finished: Nebula Awards Showcase 2012
2014-08-01 Recognising music: how does the brain do it so well and so fast?
2014-08-04 Book NOT finished: Musical Forces
2014-08-04 Book finished:The Art of Procrastination
2014-08-06 Book finished: The owl that fell from the sky
2014-08-09 Book finished, mercifully: Play It as It Lays
2014-08-10 Hard-to-find: - A7 Notebook
2014-08-13 In Which I Embiggen the Occurrence of a Neologism.
2014-08-15 The Scandal of the Ubiquitous Reset Button
2014-08-15 Connecting Puss N Boots to Johnny Cash
2014-08-17 Science Fiction: The lure of "What if?"
2014-08-24 Who Knows Where The Time Comes From?
2014-08-30 Book finished, well, finished with: The Time Traveller's Almanac
2014-09-01 What have I got, and what have I not?
2014-09-06 Good Girls vs Bad Girls
2014-09-22 Book finished: How Music Works
2014-09-27 India’s Bargain Mars Spacecraft Cost Less Than Many Space Movies
2014-10-01 Restoring antique wind instruments
2014-10-03 Book finished: Blue Smoke
2014-10-05 Tracks into the past: Dawn Penn's "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)"
2014-10-07 A Track From Past Into Present: Junco Partner
2014-10-08 In which we examine the conflation of two Flamenco artists' pictures to fabricate a cover picture for one.
2014-10-12 Give me more floorspace!
2014-10-18 Book finished: Quirk
2014-10-20 A dance track back to Spain from Cuba: Bailando por guajiras en el pasado
2014-10-22 Book finished: 31 Songs
2014-10-26 Book finished: The Translator
2014-10-26 The Beatles Go Latin
2014-10-30 Book finished: be different
2014-11-02 Telecom re-brand to Spark: A triumph of wrongheaded creatives over technical knowledge.
2014-11-13 Book finished: The Ancient Paths
2014-11-16 Cleaning up an old record: New Zealand's first LP, "South Sea Rhythm"
2014-11-23 Book not finished: The Book of Secrets
2014-11-23 "What have I got, and what have I not?" Answered
2014-11-24 My search for info on my little vase
2014-11-29 Blues Surprises
2014-12-01 Book finished: The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus
2014-12-01 The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts
2014-12-01 The War Prayer by Mark Twain
2014-12-07 Whose day? Tue'sday!
2014-12-08 Art Department Fail: Cover for The Hollies' single "Carrie Anne"
2014-12-11 Book finished: "Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land"
2014-12-14 In which I satisfy myself my interest in "Americana" music is not racist.
2014-12-17 What I have been noting on YouTube
2014-12-19 Book finished: "Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier"
2014-12-22 The Accoutrements of Xmas
2015-01-01 Book not finished: "A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields"
2015-01-03 Black hole stardust: A new spin on astrophysics
2015-01-07 A spot of Entomology
2015-01-07 For the love of god? How many more?
2015-01-18 "It's for You": Lennon-McCartney songs first released by other artists
2015-01-19 Thoughts on Auckland vehicle density
2015-01-19 More Maruhon Ware, cake dish 1920s - 1930s
2015-01-21 Sock Odds, or, Odd Socks
2015-01-28 Get out your hankies: Songs for a funeral
2015-02-01 Who's doin' who? Etta James & Janis Joplin
2015-02-03 Artist Names in My Collection (novel and not so novel)
2015-02-07 Book finished: The Dawn of Tibet
2015-02-09 The Optical Coincidence System of Indexing Information
2015-02-12 The India - Pakistan wall. Another monument to Intolerance.
2015-02-16 A patch of Lichenology
2015-02-21 I really did a number on my letterbox
2015-02-23 A new toy:- Hitachi V1050 100Mhz Oscilloscope
2015-02-23 Book finished: The Portable Atheist
2015-02-26 New Zealand Top 20 - 15 September 1966
2015-02-28 Book finished: Behind the Burly Q
2015-03-09 Advanced For Its Age - They Had That Then?
2015-03-12 On the undesirability of "heaven"
2015-03-15 The Beatles - Who did they cover?
2015-03-22 Can I crush this problem?
2015-03-25 Steel wouldn't, can wood?
2015-03-27 Can crusher progress
2015-03-28 Can crusher progress II
2015-03-29 WWII-era Portelec phonograph and records
2015-03-29 WWII-era 16" 33 1/3 records list
2015-03-31 "Smoke Dreams": A trail of associative links leads to a surprising destination.
2015-04-02 Can problem crushed
2015--04-10 A tool I didn't know I needed: The vernier caliper
2015-04-27 Why I look forward to retirement
2015-04-28 In which we discover from old Hopalong Cassidy 78 rpm records that Merchandising is not such a new concept.
2015-05-03 In which I attempt to realise a dream, and find I am very NOW!
2015-05-04 Berry Blues, who knew?
2015-05-12 Restoring four tubular steel & plywood chairs
2015-05-17 Coon Creek Girls: The Pussycat Dolls of old-time American music
2015-05-23 Sworn Virgins of Albania
2015-05-24 Get out your Sabre, cut up some Rock, what do you get? Love Sculpture!
2015-05-24 An awesomely gigantic case of evaporation
2015-05-25 More Manufactured Musical Maidens
2015-05-30 Big Boys' Toys: The Ummagumma cover
2015-06-02 Sarah Jarosz: A multi-talented young artist
2015-06-14 A visit to the world of the Tool Fetishists
2015-06-19 The Crookes Radiometer
2015-06-23 Best. Record Cover. Ever.
2015-06-24 New, but no Toy - KA-BAR model 1217 USMC Fighting and Utility Knife
2015-06-29 My Eighties-made "Rock Sampler" Mixtape: - How would you do it now?
2015-07-05 Blind Devotion: Have women moved on from the besotted doormats of the 1950s & 1960s?
2015-07-11 A revelation of Oral Culture: Mole vs Moll
2015-07-19 Movie seen: Amy
2015-07-23 I did another number on my letterbox
2015-07-31 Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Concert
2015-08-12 Galloping galaxies! Careering through the Cosmos
2015-08-15 Under the sea, out in space, the omnipresent Flying Spaghetti Monster
2015-08-16 The Scientific Process: Until Proven Otherwise
2015-08-23 Trying to get what I want from a computer.
2015-08-24 Shedding some light on my work process
2015-09-06 You Can't Fight City Hall? My Try for a Safe Path
2015-09-20 The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
2015-09-21 My old 10 inch LP - Carlos Montoya - Fiesta Flamenca Nixa SLPY 140
2015-09-28 Turf War
2015-10-12 Astoundingly Obvious Facts
2015-10-15 Tearjerkers and classic schmaltz
2015-10-19 An Exploration of non-Flamenco Rumba
2015-11-01 Absolutely Awesome Accuracy: The Cosmic Constancy of the Latest Laser-locked Clock
2015-11-10 The Art of Memory, or just a mess?
2015-11-16 The Futility of Ranking Cultures
2015-11-20 We're trying to get it sorted: - What was your name again?
2015-11-26 What's Up? Blue Origin Have Got It Down!
2015-12-06 E-Voting: - Democratic Innovation, Or Dumb Idea?
2015-12-13 Anti-jokes
2015-12-23 SpaceX Success: Booster Brought Back To Base!
2016-01-01 Marimbula: The Giant Thumb Piano
2016-01-10 Who Says a Dictionary Has To Be Dry?
2016-01-12 Pastafarian Celebrant in NZ
2016-01-17 1951 + 65 = 2016
2016-02-08 Urban Renewal: Preservation or Progress?
2016-02-21 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Not Where People Think You Are
2016-03-07 Dumbness Proliferates
2016-03-13 Solar Eclipse: - A Different Viewpoint
2016-03-20 Beware! Deep Thought Ahead
2016-03-28 The Rolling Stones - Who Did They Cover?
2016-04-10 On Average, Girls And Boys ARE Different
2016-04-16 ANOTHER SpaceX Success: Booster Brought Back To Barge!
2016-04-24 It's the Hurdy Gurdy, man.
2016-05-02 Another Time, Another Pace: The Musical Rework
2016-05-04 20th Anniversary of Departure for TOSOTW
2016-05-07 SpaceX Barge Ahead With Yet Another Success
2016-05-14 Electrifying Reading: E-Books & E-Readers
2016-05-21 Hyperloop: Another Elon Musk Concept Moves Forward
2016-05-22 Some Fun Things with Wood And Strings
2016-05-28 Rhythm & Blues: Thirty Unearthed Gems 1949 - 1965
2016-05-30 SpaceX Nail It Again! 3 Times in a Row!
2016-06-06 What Is a Blues? The Perils of Binary Thinking
2016-06-18 I Was Thinking in the Shower....
2016-06-26 Food for the Soul: The Women Get Cookin'
2016-07-11 Book Finished: The Invention of Nature
2016-07-18 Book Finished: the address book
2016-07-24 SpaceX Pull Off Yet Another Booster Return
2016-07-31 Book Finished: LANGUAGE The Cultural Tool
2016-08-06 Rocket Science in Simple Terms
2016-08-20 Book Finished: Deadly Beautiful
2016-09-26 Book finished: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
2016-10-31 Book finished: Erewhon by Samuel Butler
2016-11-21 A Microwave Oven Rescued
2017-01-02 Book finished: The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
2017-01-03 Book finished: Toledo, the Story of an Old Spanish Capital
2017-02-05 Book finished: Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
2017-03-05 Sarah Jarosz Awarded Two Grammies
2017-04-02 SpaceX: - Second Time First!
2017-04-24 Tony Joe White: Storyteller of the Southern Swamps
2017-05-01 Book finished: The Prince
2020-04-05 Seminal Sounds: A Personal History
2020-08-09 Multi-Multimeters
2020-08-23 Multimeter Repair Hioki TX-20
2020-08-31 Multimeter Repair Sanwa CD720-C
2020-09-06 Making Up a Guitar Pedal Cable
2020-09-20 The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
2020-09-21 It's A Beautiful Day for "Influences"
2020-10-25 100 Successful Flights: SpaceX video celebrates
2021-02-25 NASA Nails It! Marvellous Mars Mission
SpaceX's diagram of the difficult feat they have accomplished
Note the Flip Maneuver at the top, where the speeding rocket must be faced the other way to brake its descent.