Whitey Grandad

Just say that you thought it was somebody you knew.

Don't forget loudspeakers on the main bus, you could hear the machine thinking. Are you old enough to remember when they were called 'electronic brains'?

I like the way that he sent the keeper the wrong way.

Luxury! The oldest I've worked on was an Elliott 803. The program was run through three passes on five-hole punched tape.

At least I don't go on about Hoddle.

Agreed. Try saying that to a 62 year old retired woman whose seat has just gone up 72% and see what happens to you.

He is soooooo last season. The next one is a whole new ball game.

Which date is it likely to be?

Not only that, I believe that the proper procedure is to hand in your season ticket temporarily to the club who will then produce a printed copy.

What, at those prices?

At home we have a policy of 'shred & burn'. I've heard that the American army have shown an interest.

That doesn't reduce the cost. They would have to be sold to friends/family/work colleagues.

And if that expectation fails to materialise? High prices give rise to high hopes.

Don't ask me, I was a teenager in the sixties and it's all been downhill since then.

Is it worth having?

You'd be surprised what you do need sometimes, and what other information these documents can provide. Scanning to pdf is a sensible approach. That way you get rid of the stuff but can still access it. I'm still going through all my business records from 1978 and there is some fascinating info in there, some of which has been helpful with present customers.

MY apologies if it has been posted before but, Number 37!

I was thinking a Cassegrain for personal observation and astrophotography. I know I shan't use it much but it's always been a fantasy of mine. The trouble is the bigger the telescope the better the imaging but the less likely you are to cart it off somewhere and start observing. We have a caravan and in a couple of years time I'm hoping to be able to nip over to northern France and sit outside for a bit.

I fear that's the problem. It's put a big dampener on the whole summer.

How's the Swan at Mansbridge these days?

One of the large Meades probably. I'd like to link it to an imager and a PC. The trouble is the light polution in Chandlers Ford. Mind you, you can see Vegas form a hundred miles away at night, but at least the air is clearer there.

A lot of aircraft from the Spanish Air Force were used in the film 'Battle of Britain'. You can tell that the 109s have Merlins because the cowlings are different. The Daimler-Benz engines were used inverted. The book by Bob Stanford-Tuck 'Fly for your life' is a good read in which he describes flying a captured Me109 and compares it to his Spitfire.

I can't quit get my head round it. That photo has a field of view equivalent to a tennis ball at the other end of a football field so you can just imagine how many galaxies there are out there. The estimate is that there are 7 x 10 to the power 22 stars in the universe. That's 7 with 22 zeroes after it, although I don't know who counted them.

You see.... I told you it wasn't just me!

Here's another thought. In any one of those galaxies, how many football clubs are there on average? What's football like if every player has three feet and two heads?