Chris Robbins
@grallator.bsky.social
Physicist and mathematician. Modelling, simulation and software.
UK - more like 29 deg F!
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
UK - more like 29 deg F!
The line “No one wants the fat ones” is obviously not accurate!
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The line “No one wants the fat ones” is obviously not accurate!
I think the end of the world coincides with the mass uptake of social media rather than AI 😉
June 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I think the end of the world coincides with the mass uptake of social media rather than AI 😉
Compiler - by which I mean assembler of course - D’oh. Too many years using compilers I guess…
May 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Compiler - by which I mean assembler of course - D’oh. Too many years using compilers I guess…
“Write structured programs” 🤔 defproc didn’t stop people writing spaghetti code but it pleased the O/A level computer studies exam boards/teachers. 😁.
Anyway BBC because (a) 6502 and (b) built in compiler
Anyway BBC because (a) 6502 and (b) built in compiler
May 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Write structured programs” 🤔 defproc didn’t stop people writing spaghetti code but it pleased the O/A level computer studies exam boards/teachers. 😁.
Anyway BBC because (a) 6502 and (b) built in compiler
Anyway BBC because (a) 6502 and (b) built in compiler
Does that let you become invisible for no more than 15 mins every day? (Testing your 70’s tv scify here😁…)
May 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Does that let you become invisible for no more than 15 mins every day? (Testing your 70’s tv scify here😁…)
Fantastic sounding machine. Was the Fortran compiled? Also love the plastic page bounding - had several commodore user guides with these and they always fell apart.
April 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Fantastic sounding machine. Was the Fortran compiled? Also love the plastic page bounding - had several commodore user guides with these and they always fell apart.
You’ve got to do the water going down the plug hole rotation direction thing!
February 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
You’ve got to do the water going down the plug hole rotation direction thing!
True! But moot point for Maxwell - we’ll never know 😉
January 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
True! But moot point for Maxwell - we’ll never know 😉
I don’t know, but he did have a great intellect
January 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I don’t know, but he did have a great intellect
Maxwell was far too young when he died. Given a few more years he’d have surely come up with a version of special relativity
January 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Maxwell was far too young when he died. Given a few more years he’d have surely come up with a version of special relativity
Watch those capacitors if that thing is 30+ old!
January 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Watch those capacitors if that thing is 30+ old!
Great image - love making and seeing these sort of BW photos, especially taken in winter.
December 24, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Great image - love making and seeing these sort of BW photos, especially taken in winter.
Buy British 😉!
a few planes are flying in the night sky near a planet
ALT: a few planes are flying in the night sky near a planet
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Buy British 😉!
Did you know that if you keep a tin of beans near a warm light source for a bit over 15 years it eventually explodes and sprays beans all over your home office (and dinosaurs within)?
December 22, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Did you know that if you keep a tin of beans near a warm light source for a bit over 15 years it eventually explodes and sprays beans all over your home office (and dinosaurs within)?
You’re right. The back arches drop lower on those early versions and I think it threw me
December 13, 2024 at 4:12 PM
You’re right. The back arches drop lower on those early versions and I think it threw me
Looks like the front springs don’t match the back 🤔
December 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Looks like the front springs don’t match the back 🤔
The scale is logarithmic
December 12, 2024 at 7:13 AM
The scale is logarithmic
I only go in there with my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
December 5, 2024 at 8:00 PM
I only go in there with my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
Found the planning department
December 5, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Found the planning department