Posts by Lester Haines

US alliance strengthens LOHAN imaging arsenal

Re: Composites radio transparent??

Actually, that does look rather good, in a "prang it and you're dead" sort of way. "Airframe Kit only $48,490!" Bargain!

Potato in SPAAAAACE: LOHAN chap cooks up stratospud with Heston Blumenthal

Re: Re: In case you missed it elsewhere . . .

No, you're thinking of the Marinara Trough. The Marinara Trench is where the leftovers from the Trough get dumped.

Spain clamps down on drones

I don't know yet - watch this space.

The amazing .uk domain: Less .co and loads more whalesong

Re: Protection racket

Yup, that's about the size of it.

El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse crawls towards finish line

Well, since I started on Monday morning, I think it's only right to end with breakfast on Saturday. It is tempting, though to crack a beer at midnight.

Re: Should have started sunday afternoon

Indeed. The weather's nice here, so I'll have to hold that appointment with the bar terrace until tomorrow afternoon.

Classified LOHAN payload is four-eyed beast

Re: I love the sight of the pink bondage tape

That's Anthony Stirk's pink gaffer tape. It's a regular feature on flights. Quite what he does with it in the privacy of his own home I know not.

Re: GoPro3

Bunch of arse, tbh. Grounded for the LOHAN flight, and we have new kit incoming. Watch this space...

El Reg posse prepares for quid-a-day nosh challenge

Re: Nice one!

Good man. Thanks for your support. I could go a takeaway right now, but will have to hold out for a simple bacon sarnie tomorrow morning.

Quid-a-day Reg nosh posse chap faces starvation diet

Re: Re: you may not starve as much as you think @Neil Barnes

There's no way I'll get through the whole lot - I've got a 1kg bag left for tonight and tomorrow, and plenty of stew.

Re: Re: you may not starve as much as you think

Actually, I've just had a d'oh moment here. Due to hunger-provoked brain malfunction, I did the calculation on 2kg of cooked rice. I actually have 2kg of dried, which is indeed 7,000 Calories.

If I ate the whole lot then, I'd be on 2,190 Calories per day, by my new reckoning*. Still not enough to fuel heavy digging.

*Do not trust this figure either, I'm feeling rather weary.

Re: you may not starve as much as you think

Interestingly, I looked at about ten different websites for the rice value, and as you point out the dried and cooked values are way different. I prefer my rice cooked, so that the figure I used.

The Reg Quid-a-Day Nosh challenge: What's the point, exactly?

Re: Re: For what it's worth...

That's terrible. We can only hope that one day no one has to suffer.

Re: For what it's worth...

Yup, both malaria and dengue can eff right off to extinction.

The quid-a-day nosh challenge: Anyone fancy this fungus I found?

Re: You have worn me down

Trust me, I am simultaneously working on rocket science and foraging. I bet Wernher von Braun never managed to get further than NASA's "Expat German Rocketeers Canteen" to pick up a bratwurst bun and sauerkraut.

Marauding quid-a-day nosh hack menaces teepee hippie villages

Re: Re: Is it foraging still if......

No wild garlic hereabouts at the moment, but ground elder yes. I will investigate tomorrow.

Re: Surplus of rice

Good call on the rice cakes. I should have one egg surplus by Friday, so I'll give that a go.

I'm not suffering much hunger, due to the rice glut, but it's a tad monotonous.

I don't really have anything against lentils. Well, not much anyway.

Re: Re: Is it foraging still if......

Although my experimental instincts tell me that I should indeed eat the grass (and god alone knows, it needs cutting), I'm actually going to pass on this one and let the donkeys do it.

Re: Drinks

I'm on tea and water. Don't think anyone else has an additional beverage.

Re: I know I'll get downvoted but...

Very clever. A bowl of rice and chick pea stew to the reader who correctly identifies the song which best sums up the attitude of this post.

Re: What to do with leftovers?

Spookily, that's exactly what's going to happen this lunchtime. Sorted.

Re: celebratory full English breakfast with extra black pudding

Yes. Exactly.

LOHAN spaceplane's budget minicam punches well above its weight

Re: Re: Better cheap HD cameras available

Fair enough. The camera looks like it has legs, as it were.

However, we're on the cusp of acquiring some new HD camera kit at the bargain basement price of £0. Watch this space for details...

Re: Better cheap HD cameras available

Actually it's 70 quid, without a case or a full range of mounting bits. The DBcam comes with the full monty, and we know it works.

Re: Pixelation...

Yes, a couple of people have suggested it. I don't think we'd have the time/budget to test it at altitude, though.

Re: Pixelation...

Redacted kit piece imminent.

Microsoft forms 'Special Projects' black ops team

Re: SPG?

Quite so, and named in honour of the Met's finest.

A real pot-boiler kicks off Reg man's quid-a-day nosh challenge

Re: Free food

I've already given the bone back - after boiling all the nourishment out of it. How does that work ethically in terms of the challenge? Can I suck someone's banana, as long as I don't chew on it?

A fair point about freebies, though. If we can accept them, then there's nothing stopping someone popping round with a kebab and a six-pack of beer.

Ah, beer, forbidden nectar of the gods...

I will. He's fluttering around somewhere down below.

Re: fecking labels that you are meant to remove

I'm with you. Ten years in the label-removing Gulag living on a bowl of rice and dissolved super-strength adhesive a day and then up against the wall.

Re: Re: um...

Yeah, they coat the thing in wax before shipping to stop it rusting. And someone thought it was a really bright idea to put a really sticky label inside the pan, rather than on the bottom, for example.

Re: What's the point?

We've been over all this last year. It's about raising awareness and trying to raise a few quid so some poor soul doesn't catch malaria.

And no, no offence taken.

Re: Re: Fry me a river

Good man. Yes, perhaps some egg variety is in order. Watch this space.

Re: um...

Cheers. Not stainless steel - just steel (cast iron also needs treatment). The first snap of the pot makes it look like stainless, but that's simply the application of a scouring pad before treatment.

Re: Next year's challenge

Yup. I think Neil Barnes has got the most plausible long-term diet, having applied quite a lot of thinking to his cunning diet plan.

Re: Dogs

I'm bloody tempted.

Re: Fry me a river

Yeah, I was pretty chuffed with those. Give me a couple of days and I simply won't care any more ;-)

Thanks for not mentioning it, or bacon sarnies, and so forth.

LOHAN and the amazing technicolor spaceplane

Re: Looking good

Excellent.

Re: hopefully not like it's namesake

To answer your questions: yes, no, yes, yes and no, but not necessarily in that order.

Tooled-up Ryobi girl takes nine-inch grinder to Asus beach babe

Re: Re: Ms-matched

That was completely on the fly. I'd be surprised if it hasn't popped up somewhere before, though.

Re: Ms-matched

Zebra Winger.

Re: Re: Just wondering ..

Quite so. It's the pliers versus side-cutters polemic all over again.

So, just how do you say 'the mutt's nuts' in French?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Spanish

Yup, that's exactly the translation.

Re: Eggs and balls

They do indeed.

Re: Japanese

I just did a Google image search on that. It appears to be the correct phrase.

Re: And in Italian...

So, "testiculi canis est"?

Re: Re: Spanish

My absolute fave is "perroflauta" (crusty). For our non-Spanish-speaking readers, this translates as "dogflute", in honour of crusties alleged penchant for hanging around with dogs on string, playing flutes to beg cash.

http://projetbabel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17858

Re: Re: Spanish

Well, round my way they say "mucho ruido, pocas nueces", meaning "gobs off a lot, but doesn't back it up". You get the picture.

Re: How about in Thai?

Beautiful.