Banging on (about) pipes (again).

[hirez]

A while ago, I was jabbering about the pipework that runs under the bit of the Cotswolds I used to call home. Today I steamed up there and went in search of pipe-markers, which were more or less where I expected them to be.



(Crosses the A40 near Andoversford, up over the top past Whittle, skirts the end of West Down and Paradise, past Middle Barn and Cherry Tree Hill, steams past Bela's Knap, crosses the road alongside Humblebee and then sods off in the direction of Sudeley. Which makes perfect sense if you're me, but is otherwise impenetrable. Assume I'm talking about tube stations or bus stops or something.)

That one's a gas line. I think there are others, which leads me to think that this is going to turn into a silly project that requires me to lurk around Charlton Abbotts with a GPS-o-phone. What a personal disaster.

Anyway.

I gave Ma a tiny PC running LXDE on top of Beardian. It's jolly quick, apart from the usual grim quality of HP-supplied internal display cards. This will mean jeering along the lines of 'Linux? My mum can use that..' (Because it's less shit than Windows. Although ask me again if I think it's a good idea after I find a printer to work with it. Mind, I don't think we have win-printers any more.)

(Plot notes: it's about the inability of people to change their behaviours.)

And: Omnom home-made marmalade nom. Even though that meme has passed into commerce and is therefore suspect.

God but it was nice out and I am pleasantly tired after tramping across the ancestral Land-Rover piloting grounds in a t-shirt and a pair of jeans that need pulling in another notch at the waist. What a personal disaster.

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

What *is* the word for a chap who traces out ley lines across the fields ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

"Get orf moi land, you buggering 'ippie!"

Obviously it would be deeply suspect if one discovered that the network of pipes that cross C-A are either a sigil (Good Omens), a summoning thingy (Laundry) or the pictogram for 'Demolish' (Industrail tattoo idea no. 27)

My money's on option two. There's a good stream and several KVA of three-phase in the centre.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying is that we need to spend a day in the sun playing cartographer ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Huzzah. I'll get my fez and triangulating table ready.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

That dirt is...gorgeous. Wait...soil. It's soil, right? Is there a PC term for such things???
;)

That lovely lane makes me want to get in the saddle and go for a leisurely ride.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

Soil. Admittedly, there's only about six inches of it before you hit solid rock on that bit. Well, as solid as limestone ever gets, anyway.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

It is, of course, where the answer loiys.

[reddragdiva]

Most printers work with Leengux now as it uses CUPS and Gutenprint, which Apple now maintain for their own uses.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

s/maintain/make impossible to build from source on non-GNU kit, the bastards/

[reddragdiva]

Apple are pouring resources into bringing LLVM/Clang up to scratch so they can free themselves from gcc, and more than one good compiler would be a nice thing to have.

[aeia.livejournal.com]

Is that the pipeline they did recently, goes right through Cirencester Park? Yell when you're next up this way too. Though as spring is in the air and our garden is a bit bigger than in Bristol I feel lots of BBQ's being arranged for this summer!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That one misses C-A by about 500 metres. Going to inspect the works mostly inspired this particular hunt, though.

Yes.