I own an LXD55 10″SN telescope from Meade Instruments. It’s a fine telescope, big mirror, decent enough mount (just), goto, tracking… However it is on the cheaper end of their catalogue thanks to the Schmidt Newtonian design – spherical primary mirror with a corrector plate at the front, this is cheaper to manufacture than their […]
A friends blog mentions a NewScientist article relating to a tribe that apparently cannot understand numbers beyond three. The conclusion by the researchers is that language determines thought. Although i don’t have training in this field, I don’t believe the conclusion for three reasons: 1.The tribes understand three. So their thought works on “one, two,
Today I went on a customer visit, a very rare thing for me. A few years ago Sun Ireland gave out some hardware to computer societies in various Universities around the country. As one of the first members of such a societiy (timf was a founding member) let me tell you a little about it.
Finally got around to taking my new car to work today. Its a 2000 Nissan Almera Hatchback. Described as “boringly reliable” by Top Gear, which suits me just fine. However, I should have been driving it all week, but that didnt hapen due to a clutch failure on the way to a wedding on Saturday.