Showing posts with label geology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geology. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 May 2026

sequestering carbon, several books at a time CLX

 The latest batch:


A friend was having a clearout, so we got a few old classic computer books.  And the ZWO SeeStar User Guide should help us make better use of that telescope.

Wednesday, 16 April 2025

sequestering carbon, several books at a time CL

The latest batch:


 

The company who I have been with for over 40 years for insuring house contents is no longer insuring house contents.  So we are looking for a new insurer.  

We have a lot of books (no!)  This causes issues: everyone who is quoting wants to insure them as "antiques", in danger of being stolen.  No, there are a lot of individually not very valuable books (some are indeed old, but not that old, and not rare).  No-one is going to steal these: it would take forever, and they have very little resale value.  We can't be the only ones in this situation, surely?


Monday, 23 December 2024

sequestering carbon, several books at a time CXLVII

The latest batch before the Christmas presents drop (which means I'm up-to-date on databasing, for a day or so at least!):



Sunday, 4 August 2024

sequestering carbon, several books at a time CXLI

While the birthday presents were accumulating, other books not slated to be birthday presents were also accumulating.  Here's that batch:


No, the 43 Visions for Complexity book isn't upside-down.  It just has the title on the spine running upwards, rather than downwards.  I know this is more traditional in other languages, but it makes the bookshelf annoyingly inconsistent when it's done in English-language books.