Category: Miscellaneous babble

Well, the epoxy job I did on my old Dyson vacuum cleaner didn’t last quite as long as I thought it would.

Maybe I didn’t use enough epoxy, although I think if I made the epoxy layer much thicker, things like the hose and bin wouldn’t have snapped back into place as easily.

I think rather than trying to slather on more epoxy, it’s time to retire this Dyson. It’s done an excellent job over the past 10 years. Mostly likely it will be replaced with a Dyson Animal Ball 2, which has only a slightly smaller bin capacity than my DC15 (2.0 liter vs 2.5 liter for the DC15), and significantly larger bin than the other newer model Dysons that I’ve seen.

Dyson tear down to come.

My pile of reading for the summer.

One of the radiologists leaving the department set out his collection of journals (Radiology and Radiographics) for anyone to grab, presumably because he didn’t want to move them (I wouldn’t want to either).

I decided to grab them because I figured they’d be interesting to flip through, and it’s always good for diagnostic medical physicists to know what’s going on with the clinical side of things.

Even though I can look at all the articles in these journals online, I find sitting down with a journal and flipping through it so much more satisfying.

It’s unlikely I’ll keep all of them. I’ll spend some of my evenings going through two or three issues at a time and keep the ones with interesting articles for later reference.

The last Radio Shack in the Charleston area is closing (well technically there is one more, but it’s a franchise store and I have no idea if it’s going to keep the Radio Shack name).

I happened to be in the area and stopped by to check and saw the signs. Not sure when their final day is, but judging from how picked over their inventory was, I’d guess it’s pretty soon.

All their component bin inventory was hanging up on the shelves, and was listed for $1/package. Not quite as good a deal as the $0.15/package I got when the Radio Shack near me closed out. Most of the other inventory was listed at 70-90% off.

There wasn’t much left in the store, but I did find a few things that I thought were good deals at $1/package. Picked up the rest of the SMA edge connectors and DPDT mini toggle switches. Also picked up a heat sink and a few BNC barrel and T adapters for 90% off. The batteries were marked down a fair bit and at 2 for 1 also, so I picked up a few N cells to use in my HP 28S.