Things I Have Enjoyed & Learnt 002
Welcome to Issue 002 of Things I Have Enjoyed & Learnt. Is "Issue" the right word? Maybe they should be Editions?
I didn't realise when I was setting up buttondown that the links in the first edition would come out as yellow-on-white, so hopefully I've fixed that for this one.
This one is shorter. It's been a busy start to the year, and we had The Inspectors in.
Things I Have Enjoyed
How Many Plants is a good beginner's guide to looking after your houseplants.
Rap Game Awful by Clavish, even if it is about fifteen tracks too long.
The celsiheit temperature scale.
Yasper's rap Two Shots from The Afterparty.
This printable wandering hour clock. I need to find someone with a 3D printer I can use.
The Stunt Awards. It's about time that stunt professionals were properly recognised, and the involvement of Priscilla Page is a good sign. The opening of Athena should clean up.
Things I Have Learnt
A manuport is a natural object that has been moved from its original environment and placed somewhere else, without being modified. If you take a shell from the beach and put it on your windowsill, that is a manuport.
RRR isn't available on Netflix in its original Telugu because the producers sold the Hindi and English rights to Netflix, but the Telugu rights to ZEE5, an Indian streaming service.
Because the Earth's magnetic field is three dimensional, and has a vertical as well as horizontal component, magnetic compasses have to be specially weighted because they will try to point to North through the Earth. A compass purchased in New Zealand won't work in the UK and vice versa; you need to purchase a compass for the correct magnetic zone.
Nicholas Lyndhurst is going to be in the Frasier reboot.
Stealth aircraft often fly with Luneberg lens radar reflectors to make themselves more visible or to hide their true radar signature.
Japanese houses "expire" over time, on a 22-year schedule set out by the government. The house and the land it sits on are treated very differently, and usually covered by two separate loans. Robb Report:
"The Western concept of a residence as a stable and secure long-term investment—more tree than flower—that will gradually increase in value over time directly opposes the Japanese view, which sees a house as a temporary structure that expires with its owner. A Japanese building is a short-lived consumer product, not so different from a car or an iPhone, that undergoes a period of fixed-term depreciation, set by the government at 22 years, after which it’s considered fit for the scrap heap. If an Englishman’s—or Westener’s—home is his castle, a Japanese one is a worthless piece of single-use plastic."
The interior of Russian submarines are painted yellow.
The End
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