I’ve been thinking about having an ‘outdoor office’ at the new house, by running an armoured power run up the fence to the top of the garden.
Maybe this isn’t the best idea after all…
Add some wood to make a rain shelter for it, and you’ve got a power station out in your garden for £80. Or I could buy £100 of armoured cable and pretend I’d got an electrician to install it. Even if we ignore the geekiness, I think we all know which one is more likely…
Take two tired people, one long boring road complete with averaging speed cameras, a Tom Lehrer CD, and way to much spare time…
I present to you, The Periodic Table, as arranged by Thomas Andrew Lehrer…

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Strange… I would have gone for Comic Sans MS. Or Brush Script…
Over the years I’ve spent too many hours playing with AutoCAD to not be cynical about new and exciting CAD systems.

Laptop Stand
But I’ve finally gotten around to trying out Google’s Sketchup, and I have to say, I’m impressed.
I have just two complaints so far… firstly that the rectangle drawing tool seems to go off in an random direction (which is probably because I haven’t found the right toggle) and secondly that you can’t control in which direction the textures are applied.
I’m now desperately looking for things to draw.
The first victim? Some thoughts for a collapse laptop stand…