Daily Archives: 06/05/2016

Vans

A few days ago, I had a pretty strange dream. Naturally (Freud), Dream Works had kicked-in, so I only remember a little. My dream involved my second in command and I having to travel to somewhere (I know not where) with haste (I don’t recall why either). We went by car, although I’m sure I had my travel card. Once in the car, I noticed that the passenger front window had been replaced with cardboard; secured with duct tape. And then I realised that the car was blue rather than white. Metallic blue. Somehow I could see the exterior of the car while inside. The blue, metallic, car was suffering from a bad case of corrosion. Really bad. Well, it was an old Ford, so that was understandable. I couldn’t quite make out the model, but it was wedge-shaped.

When I questioned my second in command, she informed me that Daisy, our car, had been exchanged for the rusty metallic blue Ford wedge.

And, minutes later, we were in a very much rustier, white van. Apparently because I’d complained about swapping Daisy for the blue rusty Ford. So we proceeded on our way in a rusty white van. To where, I’ve no idea. Or why.

Rabbit surgery

I’m one of several thousand people left with a deceased Nabaztag, or even worse, the newer Karotz, after the respective servers were turned off.

Help was at hand, sadly not for Karotz owners, when someone kindly developed a Raspberry Pi solution; in effect, a Nabaztag can run as intended from such a device. I tried it, with success. Until my cheap eBay phone charger, that is. Said device exploded, as mentioned at the time, leaving me with a dead Pi and, discovered several hours later, a very dead TV.

Anyway, while on my way to work this morning, I came across a blog which appears to have a Nabaztag\Raspberry Pi\Apple vintage focus.

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Notice the header? Although the Nabaztag has been deceased for some time now, this blog still uses it in both name and graphic.

Better still,the author has attempted to integrate a Raspberry Pi within a Nabaztag II. OK, so it may not have worked, but it makes one wonder if there’s a less ambitious way to achieve the result. Unfortunately, my French isn’t great, so I’m not 100â„… certain what went wrong. I shall investigate.

Garden

A slightly blurry picture of our new front garden.

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It may be small, but it was a bugger to get into the car and transport 200 miles. Even worse was the effort needed to remove it from the car (otherwise known as Daisy).

Our front garden may appear small, but it can’t be lifted by a single person. Or even a married one.