Fruits of 101 labours
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Today I have made some things! Well, one of them is an unmade thing really.
We have pretty much finished the Stirling engine(#49). It's (mostly) made out of cardboard, from a kit we got from the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It runs for an hour on a mug of boiling water. I also made a video as proof!
Home-made Stirling engine from Clare Boothby on Vimeo.</p>
The other thing I did was to cut down the triffid in our front garden(#42). It's some climber which generates very long, whippy branches, which twine themselves around anything convenient. Say, phone cables. Very tightly. I have now extricated it from the cable, and the gutter, and several neighbouring plants, and it won't be doing that again for a while. About half of it is in the green bin now, but I've saved this piece:
Also I have made meatballs (no number), increased the speed of my laptop (thus ensuring continuing sanity, a prerequisite for any of the other numbers), photoshopped photos for family Christmas presents(#4), and posted this post(#39).
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Today I have made some things! Well, one of them is an unmade thing really.
We have pretty much finished the Stirling engine(#49). It's (mostly) made out of cardboard, from a kit we got from the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It runs for an hour on a mug of boiling water. I also made a video as proof!
Home-made Stirling engine from Clare Boothby on Vimeo.</p>
The other thing I did was to cut down the triffid in our front garden(#42). It's some climber which generates very long, whippy branches, which twine themselves around anything convenient. Say, phone cables. Very tightly. I have now extricated it from the cable, and the gutter, and several neighbouring plants, and it won't be doing that again for a while. About half of it is in the green bin now, but I've saved this piece:
Also I have made meatballs (no number), increased the speed of my laptop (thus ensuring continuing sanity, a prerequisite for any of the other numbers), photoshopped photos for family Christmas presents(#4), and posted this post(#39).
