Further to Matheous-2's question. We are told that the 'shooting stars' that we may have seen recently (the Perseid Meteor Shower) are meteors, and that they can be as small as a grain of sand. So how...
I'm sure I told my HDD to series record The Game, but it hasn't recorded the last episode and it's too late for catchup, and it's not so important that I want to buy a boxed set, if one is available....
This should obviously be spoken, rather than written: If a feller met a feller in a field of fitches, could a feller tell a feller where a feller itches? How many fs in that? Btw 'feller' is the way...
I'm sure I told my HDD to series record The Game, but it hasn't recorded the last episode and it's too late for catchup, and it's not so important that I want to buy a boxed set, if one is available....
I've googled, of course, and found this on pbs.org: CS, which stands for 0-chlorobenzalmalononitrile ... which makes no sense as there is no S in the chemical name. I also found that it was discovered...
When I was young, many years ago, and I was complaining about something or perhaps if I had hurt myself and was crying, my Dad would often say, "There were men in the war who had their heads blown off...
This episode had Rich Hall introducing Mark Watson and Andrew Maxwell. Who was the young woman in the audience at the end of the show clapping with her hands high and wearing a white dress? I'm sure...
I have read that a Spanish man, Antonio Canseco (1838-1917) patented a watch (or clock) mechanism that worked without weights. The illustration I have seen shows a watch. Everything I have seen is in...
I set my 'black box' Sony hard disk recorder to record the last few episodes of Fargo. It recorded the episodes up to June 15, but it didn't record the last episode on June 22. Any ideas why not? I've...
Gness had the same problem as I did-- crackly phones. I hope he/she might see this. My son-in-law came round. He seems to know a lot about phones and he has some test equipment. He found there was a...
I have three wireless phones and one really old handset that is connected to the phone line directly. Everything has worked fine for years. But about a week ago the three wireless phone started to get...
I have a Kelloggs Raisin Splitz quartz clock with alarm function. It's been in the loft for years. Obviously it's blank. I undid the back (held on by four of the smallest screws in the world!) to see...
I have a Kelloggs Raisin Splitz quartz clock with alarm function. It's been in the loft for years. Obviously it's blank. I undid the back (held on by four of the smallest screws in the world!) to see...
One of the lights in our house was operated by a dimmer switch that is about twice as wide a normal light switch (14 cm rather than 8 cm). The dimmer unit has recently burned out. The unit must be 30...
My Hinari digital microwave oven has suddenly stopped working. There is power to it, as the clock and time set digits show. When I set the timer and press 'start' the seconds count down, but there is...
I bought a Sony HDD and an LG flat screen TV (I don't know if it's LED or LCD without going to look at the manual) about a year ago. After a couple of months or so, the HDD went wrong and it was...
The felt on my garden shed has come adrift, but it's mostly intact. I have some roofing felt to re-cover the roof, but what i would like to know is, Should I put the new felt over the old, or should I...
I have several very old - 50+ years - black and white film negatives 6 cm X 9 cm. They are curled up very tightly into cylinders 2 cm in diameter. Any ideas on how I might get them flat so I could...