Follow up:

Rob’s frozen pipes

Topics for discussion:

Robot vacuum cleaners

How to measure household electrical use

https://www.amazon.com/P3-P4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU

Kearny’s car repairs

What’s been good this fortnight:

Rob - Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises

Dave - Super Bowl 53

Kearny - http://www.girlgeniusonline.com

Follow up:

* New Horizons Camera

* Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Reconnaissance_Imager

* Kearny’s light bulbs

Topics for discussion:

* Polar Vortex

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/atlanta-snow-storm-102839

* Pipe warming technology

What’s been good this fortnight:

* First Man (2018)

* Ferrite Recording Studio

https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/

Follow up:

* Presto Pizzazz plus

* Ultima Thule flyby

Topics for discussion:

* Virgin Galactic

* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

What’s been good this fortnight:

* Lucifer on Netflix

* Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

* Drugs

Follow up:

* Kearny’s Bright light bulbs

* Watt vs lumens

Topics for discussion:

* Presto Pizzazz plus

* Dawn probe and Kepler probe go dark

* Soyuz abort post mortem

* Ultima Thule flyby

* Barnards star

* NASA concerned about culture of “inappropriateness” at SpaceX

What’s been good this fortnight:

* Apple Pencil

* Dextromethorphan HBr

* Gate City Brewing : Ex-pat dark beer

Topics for discussion:

* Failure of Soyuz launch

Nerdy Recommendations:

* Maniac

* Ant Man and the Wasp

* Good Omens

* ZZ Top - Afterburner 1985

* Jonathan Coulton

* Deadpool 2

* Anti-Duracell batteries

* Garbage - Band

* Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy

Topics for discussion:

* “SpaceX says its BFR will fly someone around the Moon”

*https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/spacex-says-its-bfr-will-fly-someone-around-the-moon-we-have-questions

* Japanese probe

* Long March 5

* Sony’s walled garden cracks open: Cross-console play comes to PS4

*https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/sonys-walled-garden-cracks-open-cross-console-play-comes-to-ps4/

* iPhone XS impressions

* Maniacs on Netflix

Topics for discussion:

Stratolaunch

K on Flo

New Horizons → Ultima Thule

Planet 9

Rob’s New Computer

World of Warcraft

What’s been good this fortnight:

Rob - Spider-Man for PS4

Dave - Weed Death

Kearny - Treadmill

Follow up:

* Consumer Reports rating system

* Kearny update report on new tablet

Topics for discussion:

* Tablets are cool, right?

* Security!

* Treadmills

What’s been good this fortnight.

* Blizzard Has Multiple Diablo Projects in the Works

*http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/08/blizzard-has-multiple-diablo-projects-in-the-works

* https://kotaku.com/blizzard-says-multiple-diablo-projects-are-in-the-works-1828196034 “One of them, we believe, is Diablo III Switch.”

* New topic crews for starliner and dragon

* SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight (Monday)Mission success would open the door to the third flight of a Falcon 9 rocket.

* https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/tonight-spacex-to-reuse-its-first-block-5-variant-of-the-falcon-9/

* “In the lab with Xbox’s new Adaptive Controller, which may change gaming forever“

* https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/xbox-adaptive-controller-a-bold-answer-to-the-tricky-world-of-accessible-gaming/

* Microsoft blog post about it: https://news.microsoft.com/stories/xbox-adaptive-controller/

* Favorite tech review websites

* The Wirecutter [https://thewirecutter.com/]

* Consumer reports [https://www.consumerreports.org/]

* Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/]

What’s been good this fortnight:

* Rob -  Scotts 20-Inch Classic Push Reel Lawn Mower

* https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004RA3E/\

* Dave - Man in the High Castle

* Kearny - Incredibles II

Follow up: Webb Telescope follow-up Orbital mechanics

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