Yes, my lectures, our course had one of the highest number of lectures in the university: at one point we were looking at 39 hours of lectures, not counting the 2 hours overlap where we were meant to be in two different faculties at the same time, nor the extra hour’s tutorial. We staged a protest walking out of one lecture half way through and into the next one half way through to make the point.
What really rankled was we were sharing accommodation with arts students who had a total of 6 hours total per week. Twenty years on and its still annoying. Ironically, one of the arts students I lived with got kicked out for 6 months for “not attending enough”…he was a good guy and contested that and they let him back in thankfully.
As our course was split between two faculties, it turned out that each faculty thought we were ‘theirs’ and they could load us with the usual 20 or so hours their own students dealt with normally. 2 x20 = 40. Oops.
All of these are OOP, and they represent a lot of time early on in my efforts to be a painter as you can see. Again, the states of the bases give away the early efforts of painting, and they’re pretty basic paint jobs. In time I hope to have repainted all of them. These early figures really hark back to the D&D period of the late seventies to mid ‘eighties, and yes these were painted with RPGs in mind.
Bought week before last this is a hard backed book written by Alexis Wrangel on his father’s leadership in the Russian Civil War.
You can see I used the wrong soil flock on one of the command’s bases ! Too late and it’s not too bad a mistake anyway.
Meanwhile the White Russian cavalry come on apace, and I might be able to finish this mini army off in its entirety by the w/e. Now there’s a novelty !
A film that caught my eye many years ago was Alexander Korda’s version of H G Wells’ “Things to Come” which describes a (then) future second world war and its aftermath.
Here’s someone else’s efforts at war gaming it.
Through a combination of ruthlessness and guile one man rose to become leader in the south of England, and he mounted an attack on the Hill People (I assume that this is a euphemism for the Welsh) to take control of their very important natural resources … coal and oil-bearing shale.
An excellent idea, and one I’ve ahd on the backburner for AVBCW for some time.
They’ve also done a quick montage.
Again, a film inspiring more than one scenario !
And it also features some footage of Vickers Medium Tanks as well.
As with my Dwarf collection, my collection of Orcs & Goblins were formulated on my very first experiences of Citadel miniatures and my ongoing gaming with Byakhee Gav A over the last 25+ years.So when it came up for sale on evil-bay I had to buy it.
Ironically I lent it to gav A whose own copy had gone AWOL at the time, and he then used it to trash Mengil Manhide's unit in a battle against me.
It’s a nice model, but quite small by modern standards and old skool. Which for an orc is no bad thing. the Orc is even equipped with a crossbow !
With limited supplies of petrol, AVBCW in 1938 would have to rely on infantry, bicycles and horse cavalry far more than in WW2.
Miniatures by Great War Miniatures, WW1 Cavalry, but dressed in black !
Now I’m busy with my BoB/RCW White Russian Cavalry at the moment, more later on those, but am rapidly learning how to paint non-fantasy horses. So of coruse I had to buy the new cavalry by Musketeer. Only they come with closed hands for the lancers ! Luckily Byakhee Rich is good with the drill, so I persuaded/coerced/bribed him into drilling all the hands out for the steel pin lances I will need.
I now have enough cavalry for both the BUF and MHC (30 of eash plus commands), and will slowly grind my way through painting them all in time for the Big Game at Evesham in the Autumn.
And he then added a set of magnets for the turret. Which was nice.
So I can now position the turret as I like, and make “bang, bang” noises as befiting my mental age of seven !
I’m trying to stick to a new rule, that I build and paint all the figures I buy, BEFORE I pack them away. This should hopefully encourage me to reduce spending as I already have enough figures, and encourage me to have more painted units.
So last Friday I received a package of Dwarves I’d bought off of evil-bay. I spent some of the time whilst Rich & Anthony were playing painting Antyhony’s troops, and also these new troops of my own.
the 10 hand Gunners had been wiped out easily, but I figure that 15 warriors with standard, musician and champion should last at least one round and hold up the artillery hunting units. twenty is simply a waste of points.
I’ve also written up a stock unit’s stats on my Dwarf spreadsheet so I can add this into any army I have. I also obviously did the 5×3 movement tray at the same time, so I should have my first off the shelf Dwarf unit to play with.
As you can see from the top, I used the green static grass to help pick out the bolt thrower as otherwise its was brown on brown and not very distinguished.
The base is an off cut from one of the GW plastic movement tray sets. The crew are separate as they come with slotta-bases. Crew for weapons for historical stuff rarely do this and have to be glued onto the base, and the wounds received represented by d4s usually.
I’m talking about AGW Deniers here, and Spammers. And what they have in common. Which is quite a lot. A tendency to gum up the internet with incontinent drivel that they post time and again.
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Now spammers aren’t that clever and are simply using scripts and pre-generated messages to bombard many websites in the hope a few get through. Sadly, the 30 didn’t (No Mr Spammer, I expect you to get deleted).
So what’s this got to do with AGW Deniers ?
Quite a lot. The same characters turn up time and again with their often pre-scripted comments designed to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD).
Now, how do you prove that climate change is caused by human activity? Remembering, of course, that (a) the climate has always changed and always will whatever humans do or do not do, and (b) correlation is not causation.
Analysis of infrared spectrum shows that less heat is escaping atmosphere, and that missing heat just happens to be in the same spectrum that c02 absorbs outgoing radiation.
Declining ratio of c13 & c14 isotopes in atmosphere rule out atmospheric C02 & volcanoc action.
100 ppm rise is c02 levels is matched by a drop in atmospheric 02, to be expected from burning fossil fuels.
Co2 levels in oceans show over absorbtion of c02, so that rules out oceanic outgassing.
The planet aborbs as much c02 as it produces, but I’m pretty sure that humans do not absorb the c02 that they produce, therefore any imbalance in c02 has to be caused by the 25 gigatonnes of additional c02 that human activity produces every year, that stays in the atmosphere for decades.
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The hockey stick algorithm produces a hockey stick shape irrespective of the data input.
Which you know perfectly well is simply not the truth. I say ‘perfectly well’ as I have seen you pulled up on this many times before and, your being a frequent visitor to climate change threads, have seen other proponents of the ‘any input numbers make a hockey stick identical to Mann’s’ meme told that they are spouting rubbish.
You know, or should do so, that such ‘random input’ hockey sticks were produced by discarding all outcomes that did NOT produce a hockey stick! The old million monkeys + typewriters scenario.
Here’s a collection of hockey sticks, not just the original that makes skeptics/deniers get itchy pants. Can they all be ‘wrong’ in the same way? Is there perhaps a reason why anti-AGW campaigners haven’t been able to turn the hockey stick upside down using the same data since they claim loudly that the world is really cooling?
So really, the spammers are the hooligans of the internet, and the AGW Deniers are the scientific hooligans. neither has an iota of honesty about their actions and will continue to repeat their actions for their own obscure reasons much to the irritation of the rest of us.
well ok, we know a lot, but it is something we don’t know about, like the sun, nobody’s checked the sun recently have they ?
Look ! Behind you. It’s the pope !
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH ETC!
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEBT ETC!
Just will you free me ?
Will you find me ?
Will you free me ?
Will you free me, free me, free me, free me, free me, free me, free me ?
Jury will you free me ?
How will you find me, find me, find me, find me, find me, find me, find me ?
Oh ETC! ETC! ETC! ETC! ETC! ETC!