Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

Ooh, Master Boot Record's new album's out? <goes to get>

"The primes are sacred. The totient function is sacred. All things should be encrypted."

's been a while, but a youth spent on Tolkien texts didn't let me down!

 

A friend for my Olight S20 Baton:


The Olight S2R Baton. Rechargeable, unlike the S20, with a new LED and lens system, 1,020 lumen peak output (dropping to 500 lumen after a couple of minutes so it doesn't asplode in your hand), steps down to 0.5 lumen 'moonlight' mode which it can maintain for 60 days of continuous use, strobe, and a shiny new feature: three or nine minute timer mode. Neato!

 

Big fish, little fish, cardboard box!

I'll tell you what I really like for everyday carry purposes: the Nitecore SENS Mini. Teeny-tiny bloody thing, which means special batteries, but you turn it on with a twist of the top cap MagLite-style and can control the brightness through three levels by motion. Seriously: point it at the ceiling when you turn it on, and it'll be at its dimmest while you're pointing it at your feet, medium while you're pointing it at the road ahead, and brightest when you're pointing it off into the distance. Super clever. (You can also lock the brightness by switching it on while pointing in a given direction.) I have, however, since replaced it on my keyring with a Nitecore Thumb which has the advantages of being rechargeable and featuring an adjustable head that lets you clip the body to your clothes or hat and use it hands-free. Not as robust-feeling, though, and doesn't have the clever auto-brightness function.

Still works! It occasionally decides it doesn't want a plug to go into it, or come out of it afterwards, but a bit of brute force typically convinces it otherwise and nothing's shattered yet.

 

I have one of those too! It's what I use when I'm going to need something with a narrow focus. Nowt wrong with the P7.2!

 

On the plus side, free lunch!

 

Aha! It is illegal for Tangster to take the bird, but it is not illegal for him to eat the bird providing someone else picks it up for him.

(For those playing along at home: you're not allowed to take an animal you've hit with your car because to allow same would create a loophole in the poaching laws and you'd end up with poachers driving silent electric 4x4s through fields and scooping up whatever they hit, but if you come across an animal which has been hit by a car then you're free to take what has become at that point waste. Which, yes, does mean that there's a loophole for poachers driving two 4x4s through fields and scooping up each others' kills...)

 

Ooh, that's an interesting interpretation of 'take,' that one. I wonder how far you have to travel before "stuck in bumper" becomes "taken" - I mean, obviously driving home and investigating the problem there ("whoops, ne'er mind, stick it in the pot") is well out...