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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: - The triumph of form over function in Fashion
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
2014-12-02 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
2015-01-02 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!
2016-01-07 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