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Sunday, January 31st, 2010

as previously mentioned (http://blodgett.doof.me.uk/2009/11/28/clarifications/) blodgett will now inform you about science, in particular the little particulars. the following diagram is provided for your instruction; it is suggested you have this open in separate tab for reference whilst studying the accompanying notes.
(if you have no tabs, hie thee to a decent browser: http://browsehappy.com/browsers/)

science

notes:
step 0: acquire a scientist. note the scientist wears its special lab hat for safety.

step 1: bubble some science goop in a beaker. do NOT attempt to inhale conical flask.

step 2: science has created the sugar cube! we will examine it with a magnifying glass (pipe optional).

step 3: we see that the sugar cube is made up of cubular Sucrose atoms (symbol Su, atomic number 222). this gives the sugar cube its distinctive shape, and the snazzy bits holding the Su atoms together are what make it crunchy. note also that there is a lot of empty space in cube, this is why it dissolves well in tea.

step 4: turn the magnifying glass up to 4. here we see an isolated Sucrose atom. it is perpetually grumpy, the cause of which is not having round corners. it is further aggravated by the bouncing sub-particulates in its Insides (not shown here).

step 5: zooming in further, we see the essential components of all atoms, called Quirks (chemical symbol Q+/–, in red and blue), carefully held within the confines of the atom by GLUONS (symbol GLUUU, seen in yellow). they are round and happy, and this is why life is good. their distinctive bouncing behaviour was the direct inspiration for the trampoline. (true story.)

and that is all for today’s science lesson. you now know everything there is to know about small particles. success!

Insects II: the Lesser Spotted Crudweasel

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

blodgett continues its series on insects that you didn’t know about because blodgett only just made them up!

Today, we examine the only species of Crudweasel in existence. It has a single off-centre spot on its back and a funny-shape patch on its tail – no more spots are forthcoming. The Crudweasel is very small, and lives in tiny burrows in the walls of buildings. It used to have teeth but they fell out, so now it comes out only at night from embarrassment, and eats dirt. This combination of factors means the Crudweasel is rarely seen even when one is searching for it.

It is entirely illiterate, and samples potential food items directly rather than reading the labels. The Crudweasel is however a sociable insect, and enjoys regular Crudweasel gatherings. Its hobbies are tennis and knitting, and the more adventurous members of the species have been known to experiment with papercrafts and board games.

Pictured below: a rare sight of the Crudweasel sampling a potential meal of dirt (dark brown angular variety)

Figure 1: Crudweasel

Figure 1: Crudweasel

rainrainrain

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

it not raining here at the moment!

sun is hup

sun is hup

apparently it rains in other places though
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8487473.stm

egg

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

We turn now our attention to matters of History! blodgett invites you to study the personage of BALTHASAR EGGENBERGER, 15th century resident of Australia, founding member of the legendary House of Eggenberg, and cunning and mickle crafty inventor of the egg and spoon race.
In his later years, he was known for his devotion to feeding poor people, and many an impoverished life was saved by the sight of Lord Eggenberg flying down out of the clouds to deliver a nutritious meal of eggs and after-dinner mints.

Look, here he is now!

eggenspooner

another good deed

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Further Informations for the Interested Reader:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_Eggenberger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Eggenberg

decorations

Monday, December 21st, 2009

blodgett helped!
http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/12/20/christmas-cakesniffer/

alarming

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

went in search of comestibles today and did see a notice.

alarming

hmm. why nobody reassure it?! blodgett feels one cannot get the staff these days.

alarming!

think it calmed down eventually.

blodgett learns a word

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

blodgett has a rug, and noticed yesterday that the label identified its constituents in many languages (see photo).

wolle

wolle

in particular, blodgett noticed that the german is ‘Baumwolle’. this was temporarily quite confusing, as blodgett had heretofore believed that the word Baum in german meant Sheep. (because, it looks a bit like fat sheeps.) blodgett was picturing this

cottonsheep

cottonsheep

but rug made of cotton wolle, not sheep wolle! so this was wrong. blodgett looks up the word Baum. Baum means Tree!
so blodgett sees now this

cottontree

cottontree

much better

washwash

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

when friend nick’s washwash was raining on the inside (http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/11/15/washing-machine-woes/), blodgett did draw an illustration. it was brought to blodgett’s attention recently that perhaps this should be more generally disseminated.

blodgett display it ici:

washwash

washwash

as we can see, the problem is caused by the cloud inside the machine. it may be solved by turning the dial to the ‘sun’ programme.

blodgett’s own cloud

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

blodgett sign up and did receive this in its mailbox:

cloudmail

cloudmail

a personal cloud! blodgett does like this idea

personal cloud!

first foray

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

at suggestion of friend nick, blodgett have generated a gif of its skyboat pictures that will probably not make sense unless comments are heeded
(http://blodgett.doof.me.uk/2009/10/20/sky-boat/#comments).

is here…
http://blodgett.doof.me.uk/real/skyboat.gif

blodgett used imagemagick. was very simple:
convert -delay 250 -size 1089×569 -page +0+0 skyboat.png -page +0+0 christmasskyboat.png -loop 0 skyboat.gif

which means:
convert images into gif, display each for 2.5 seconds, gif size will be 1089×569, images to use are first skyboat then christmasskyboat, each drawn at zero horizontal and vertical offset, loop forever, write output to a file ‘skyboat.gif’.

ta da! :)