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diving helmet pioneer

i see a lot of london blue plaques in my daily wanderage but i don’t want to overburden you with boring things so i usually don’t take their photos.
i was impressed by this one on Denmark Street (aka Tin Pan Alley). I was down there earlier looking at Telecasters. Above ‘Rockers’ guitar shops (claiming to beat the price on any Fender) was this sign informing us that Augustus Siebe, pioneer of the Diving Helmet lived and worked here.
with the volume of guitar widdling in the music shop i could have done with a diving helmet myself.
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another man who could do with wearing a helmet is telco john who just came back from lunch with a trendy-boy haircut:
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blue on yellow

can you see ? there’s a teeny blue box drawn on this big yellow checked box.
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abandoned printer with manual

this printer was dumped near a chemist shop. i was particularly pleased to see they had thoughtfully left the manual, power cable and one of those funny old fashioned printer connection cables you don’t see any more in these days of USB printers.
that kind of thing makes things so much easier for the casual technojunk recycler.
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Uninteruptable Power Supply

here is an uninteruptable power supply i saw outside an office this morning.
i guess someone interuppted it by throwing it out their front door.
these things are good, but they’re not magic.
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maths

i was intrigued to see these dumped fence panels down the little path i cut through to get to the train station in the morning.
i like how the front panel has slipped down and made a nice shape which i’m sure can be described mathematically. but i can’t remember what it’s called.
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signs at work

i went to a conference this morning and one chap gave a presentation which included some doctored street signs. here is one for you.
he also showed a picture of a weener van which was good !
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mr x(mas)

i took this photo a month or so back but thought it time to post it as our thoughts turn to christmas.
christmas work is seasonal for Mr Xmas.
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what we can learn from milk cartons

we can learn a lot from milk cartons. look at how these two get on together, despite being different shapes and colours and having a different approach to things.
makes you think doesn’t it.
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