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▶17 December · 03:21 UTCReal-time app example. Cloudy here, so the system is generating less than half of what it can do in full sun. Right now I have a washing machine and clothes dryer running, as we…▶17 December · 03:23 UTCReal-time app example. Cloudy here, so the system is generating less than half of what it can do in full sun. Right now I have a washing machine and clothes dryer running, as we…▶17 December · 03:52 UTCLast solar post, just as a comparison. Cloud gone, so system close to full generation. Over 9kW going back to the grid, so could run another 3 houses just off the surplus. (That…▶24 December · 02:39 UTCThis was the view under the Eglinton Bridge during the Bathurst floods.▶27 December · 07:56 UTCMRI of people kissing. The tongues get your attention at first, but watch the hearts too. They’re obviously not married.▶27 December · 20:45 UTCMy latest entry in the cat v dog wars.▶1 November · 08:51 UTCWyangala Dam. Bathurst has a major flood warning too.▶26 November · 03:43 UTCSeattle airport earlier today.▶27 November · 20:11 UTCWhen your girlfriend really doesn’t like AC/DC. ‘Headbanger’ another possible caption.▶1 October · 08:25 UTCBrendan is one of the leading pandemic authorities in the world. We need to listen a lot more to people like him. He’s 100% right that ‘Australians think it’s over’. And they th…▶23 October · 09:17 UTCHow to make a steel wheel for a train.▶7 September · 19:45 UTCThere’s a border collie over the back fence who will chase drops of water sprayed into the air with a hose. Not a breed if you want a quiet life, limitless enthusiasm :)▶7 August · 03:45 UTCA Commonwealth Games highlight. Go England.▶10 August · 08:46 UTCOlivia jamming with ABBA.▶11 August · 21:03 UTCOne way they mass produce pasta.▶12 August · 21:35 UTCThe next Gene Kelly.▶18 August · 21:09 UTCAnti-vax roid rage. This anti-vaxer apparently stopped a car carrying a doctor who administered Covid vaccines, and this is what he did. The bodybuilding community is a hotbed o…▶23 August · 07:35 UTCThis looks like flame. But it’s actually water vapour, lit by LED lights.▶26 August · 09:52 UTCBoys.▶18 July · 09:31 UTCSo, ask yourself what Scotty’s plan for leadership of Australia was longer term. Quite something.▶20 July · 19:45 UTCIt’s nearly always the same people trying to make out Covid isn’t a problem, that have regaled us about how climate change isn’t a problem either, for years. It’s time to have z…▶1 June · 10:09 UTCThat look on Brian May’s face at the end here, which says ‘yes people, he really did just sing that note.’▶5 June · 02:02 UTCEdward and the others in the Royal Box not really digging the new political Duran Duran lyrics.▶30 June · 09:22 UTCTo be unwavering, unflinching, and uncompromising is rare, but not impossible. To be an outsider and those things, nothing is harder. To not care one tiny bit what anybody else…▶5 May · 10:47 UTCPlease spend 30 seconds on this? And share.▶7 May · 06:08 UTCMen are very simple creatures.▶14 May · 23:12 UTCLol. Also more proof of my theory that much of the Australian accent happened because of our encounters with aborigines. So much of what we call the aussie way of life I think w…▶15 May · 00:00 UTCI’d always assumed funky cool came out of the US in the 1960s/70s. American woodcocks may beg to differ.▶22 May · 21:19 UTCThe secret sauce of Lithgow for those who don’t live here, is that it’s one of the few places where the entire town is a community. Most larger and newer towns are fractured now…▶9 April · 09:34 UTCPauline is paid over 200 thousand dollars a year. Your pets are smarter.▶14 April · 07:54 UTCThis guy does instructional guitar videos on YouTube, and is charming. It made me think about how times change. I figured out this beautiful Fleetwood Mac song on guitar, by ear…▶30 April · 09:01 UTCNo need to say ‘eat your greens’ to a beaver. (Love their ‘hands’.)▶17 March · 08:55 UTCCheck out the chuckle near the start when he talks about how QR codes became just a con job, to dupe people into going out again. And how sending kids to school had nothing to d…▶28 March · 19:29 UTCCell gets ripped to bits by another micro-organism.▶13 February · 20:16 UTC‘Sharing your personal life’.▶19 February · 04:50 UTCI remember doing a bit of welding. Not like this though.