I had some leftover Xmas ham and some tasty heritage tomatoes unused in my fridge so I brought out my electric deli slicer and sliced the ham to 1 mm & the tomatoes to 5 mm. Yesterday the Men's Shed had its monthly BBQ lunch so in addition to the regular hash browns I also cooked up the ham & tomatoes on the sandwich press.
The fellows expressed their delight in the extra bits supplied.
During the 1997-2009 drought that halved the available water supply to this state's capital city & surrounding areas, it was decided to build a reverse-osmosis seawater desalination plant with an 85 km pipeline to connect to the existing water supply infrastructure. Plus on the other sude of the state a windfarm would be built to supply the power needed.
This all happened with significant cost over-runs & much environmental protest. The plant can make 150 gigalitres of water annually, boosting the city's supply by a 25% factor. It was completed in 2012 and has sat idle for four years. The government directed the company to supply 50 gigalitres by Jume 2017 so they planned on firing it up last month & start production at the end of this month.
Didn't quite work that way. A big circuit breaker blew out when it was activated. Spare breakers are available (one would certainly hope so!) but until the investigation into why it blew are finished, the new breaker won't be fitted. Production has been delayed by at least 6 weeks.
In two weeks our Men's Shed group will be doing a coach tour of the desalination plant, followed by lunch at a social club and a visit to a Vietnam Veterans museum on the way back. There might even be time to visit a chocolate factory nearby.
@streakmachine Just been checking Mactracker app. My last iBook was a used 2004 14-inch with 1.33 GHz/1.25 GB RAM & an 80 GB HD. I gave it to a friend as I'd replaced it with a 2009 13-in MBP & he'd helped me a lot with renovations. It's still in use for basic email, internet & photos work. He loves it.
// @jussipekonen
@streakmachine Early MacBook airs used IDE SSDs. A 64 GB one like that would work wonders for such a device. OWC still make such things, I believe.
I can offer some sort of evidence of my assertion. I have a faulty G3 'Pismo" PowerBook which was given to me by a friend. It will not start from it's internal drive, so I bought a Firewire 400 CompactFlash card reader & a cheap, not very fast CF card of 32 GB. I used my G5 PowerMac to install Tiger & OS 9 onto that CF card. It's of greater capacity than the original 20 GB HDD & faster to boot up as well.
// @jussipekonen
@indigo Exactly the same thing can be said of Fartbook: horrid & you can't delete your account.
// @streakmachine
We had the annual home-owners Body Corporate meeting yesterday. It was decided, for the first time since the units were built in 1980, to form a committee of interested owners. One item the cropped up was the overall colour scheme: the seven dwellings are in red brick, with burgundy window trims, cream garage doors & Mission Brown guttering. We resolved to come up with a modern alternative for those owners contemplating renovations.
I suggested rather than relying just on colour swatches from a paint store that we go digital, take photos and use some app to replace various colours as a more representative process. Swatches in isolation are only an indication, not reliable over larger areas.
I have found Pixelmator on my Macs to have an easy & effective colour replacement capability, so I've been practicing with it.
@streakmachine I'm 100% with you re that keyboard. That's one of the reasons I upgraded the 2008 (pre-Unibody) MBP from HDD to SSD: so it would be more responsive & easier/ more fun to use, it also has the same keyboard but with backlighting.
// @jussipekonen
@streakmachine Just realised I have two top-spec Apple laptops in my collection. One is the last 2005 12-inch G4 PowerBook (1.5 GHz/1.25 GB RAM/80 GB HD). The other is my August 2014 MacBook Air that used to belong to Apple (1.7 GHz i7/8 GB RAM/512 GB SSD).
My first iPhone was (briefly) a top-spec unit: a used 32 GB white 3GS that I bought from a friend 8 days before the iPhone 4 came out. Plus the 128 GB iPod Touch I recently bought.
// @jussipekonen