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From: darsy on 19 Apr 2010 05:48 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:30:06 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: >We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >drugs began to take hold. I remember darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> saying >something like: > >>>What next, eh? What next from our reptilian masters? >> >>and I, for one, welcome our new Icelandic Overlords. > >The dust is like free pepper. Come to think of it, there was a coating >of dust on the vehicles on Thursday morning, which I didn't think much >of, assuming it was simply wind-blown dust from the fields. The penny >didn't drop until later. I noticed it immediately, because I'd given the >vehicles a proper wash on the Wednesday and was a bit pissed off at my >once-yearly cleaning being for nothing. my car is the sort of colour (titanium metallic finish) that doesn't normally show dirt. At the moment, the roof is a light tan colour, and you can see the tracks of the windscreen wipers where I've had to use the jets to clear it. -- d.
From: 'Hog on 19 Apr 2010 05:49 darsy wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:30:06 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon > <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: > >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> >> saying something like: >> >>>> What next, eh? What next from our reptilian masters? >>> >>> and I, for one, welcome our new Icelandic Overlords. >> >> The dust is like free pepper. Come to think of it, there was a >> coating of dust on the vehicles on Thursday morning, which I didn't >> think much of, assuming it was simply wind-blown dust from the >> fields. The penny didn't drop until later. I noticed it immediately, >> because I'd given the vehicles a proper wash on the Wednesday and >> was a bit pissed off at my once-yearly cleaning being for nothing. > > my car is the sort of colour (titanium metallic finish) that doesn't > normally show dirt. At the moment, the roof is a light tan colour, and > you can see the tracks of the windscreen wipers where I've had to use > the jets to clear it. Same here in York. I'm assuming it makes good fertiliser for the gardens. -- Hog
From: darsy on 20 Apr 2010 02:53 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:31:16 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: > Some of the bits around 1 or 2 mm retroreflect very >strongly. pah - even our cat can do that. -- d.
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 19 Apr 2010 18:31
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:49:26 +0100, 'Hog <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote in <4bcc2735$0$2527$da0feed9(a)news.zen.co.uk>: > darsy wrote: >> my car is the sort of colour (titanium metallic finish) that doesn't >> normally show dirt. At the moment, the roof is a light tan colour, and >> you can see the tracks of the windscreen wipers where I've had to use >> the jets to clear it. > Same here in York. > I'm assuming it makes good fertiliser for the gardens. As I've mentioned elsewhere, it's interesting to go outside in the dark and shine a _really_ powerful torch upwards to watch the ash/glass falling downwards. Some of the bits around 1 or 2 mm retroreflect very strongly. -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". |