Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@sciencebase Nice tache. We have a tea cup with a guard for such a one, was my grandfather's, who came back from Ypres unscathed.
@freemo I typed my PhD thesis to save money. It was in a mainframe with no formatting until it was printed. My speed was 52 wpm and it took forever.
Dr Keith Walker
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So it turned out that the real threat to the sanctity of Remembrance weekend came from the very far-right thugs first legitimised by the Home Secretary herself
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-far-right-hate-marchers-whipped
Dr Keith Walker
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Austrian Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. via @IAEA
@sciencebase Lost voice. Advice = avoid alcohol.😭
@sciencebase Luckily it was 1976. Ladybower empty - I walked on the bottom amid the drowned village remains.
@sciencebase I had C120 ones sometimes. Had to leave it out all day regardless.
@sciencebase One feature of leaving it out all day was that the wee darlings shat on it.
@sciencebase This thing was a stamp-size grill in the plastic case with a mic under it. It used it unless you plugged in one to pretend you were Robert Plant.
@sciencebase It ate batteries. Four of those big cylinder ones per recording session (day at school). It had a "condenser mic" built in, whatever one of those is.
@sciencebase I used to play back the tapes and I had an actual LP of bird song to compared it with.
@sciencebase Come a long way from my Pifco cassette recorder left on the garage roof all day.
@davidallengreen The ones from Ashbourne (Derbyshire) must be considered although they call them gingerbread.
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Dr Keith Walker
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Could someone remind please, what is the epithet for a person, who without any expertise in your discipline, still tells you how you should do it 'properly'?
@sciencebase Are there any butterflies which have huge feathery ones? I can't think of one.
@sciencebase I hadn't noticed that. Nor on the Burnets. Something for me to look out for, there are loads of both round here in the Summer.
@sciencebase They're a bit like Speckled Wood to me.
Dr Keith Walker
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Love the Umpire on #SASWhoDaresWins saying of Hatt
Mancock: 'I just don't think he's able to wipe that look off his face' and 'He's a political animal, that makes him a twat, it doesn't make him shit at this!'
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
