Think of it as idle curiosity for a mind unbridled.

Quote from: Last Hussar on Yesterday at 07:30:26 PMBecause I do my best to turn off all cookies, I get some weird adverts.

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This isn't a joke by me - an ad for this really has popped onto my Bing.

Its because you spend so much time trying to reinvent the wheel.
Looking for metric versions of angles.
Trying to write your own rules when there are perfectly suitable sets available.

As you go round In circles all the time, they obviously thought you needed a centrifuge to help.

Finished Dark Agent by Neal Ascher, very good hard sci-fi. Nice twist with some of the more obscure characters getting the limelight.
Started Circe by Madeline Millar. Goid retelling of Greek Myths from her viewpoint.

I wonder how much Hamilton's observations during the Russo-Japanese war may have influenced him when he was planning his Gallipoli campaign some 10 years later?

Different campaign circumstances but some similarities.....Japanese had to move a lot of troops to the Korean peninsula and there were some heavily fortified Russian areas such as Port Arthur which required beseiging in order to take them.

hardly an impulse purchase

I forget what they cost - but I think we only had 2 in the whole department 

What I don't understand is why they are doing advertisements on Bing. Surely it's the sort of thing you go looking for, not pick up because you saw it on a sponsor segment.

That brings back memories!

100k rpm 

special balanced test tubes in a large steel block

very carefully measuring (by weight) into each tube

run for hours 

separate stuff from liquids - usually of some biological origins

not something you have in your garage

Because I do my best to turn off all cookies, I get some weird adverts.

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This isn't a joke by me - an ad for this really has popped onto my Bing.

Finished volume I and II of "General Sir Ian Hamilton's A Staff-Officer's Scrap-Book During the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.  Hamilton was sent by the War Office to observe the Japanese army and actions.  He was there from March 1904 until February 1905.

Very interesting observations on Japanese commanders, soldiers, equipment, the Russians, tactics and weather.  Many of the Japanese commanders and staff officers had attended military training with the French and Germans and somewhat spoke those languages.  This enabled Hamilton to somewhat converse with them but he did have an official translator assigned to him.

The maps are very good and the descriptions of combats interesting.  He was able to observe some and then get more information from commanders and staffs afterwards.  The sketch-book is really notes from his diaries while he was there. He did send official reports to the Home Office but these are not included.

Hamilton's writing is very interesting and entertaining.  A quick read that I thoroughly enjoyed.  Makes me want to do this period but in a smaller scale, which, unfortunately, are no longer available fro Irregular.  I know Pendraken has this period, but we will see if I can hold off.  Painting15mm Napoleonics from my stockpile at the moment.

Currently at a trainstationat Cefalù, waiting fir a train to Palermo, don't don't tempt me!