Picture of those annoying, and very itchy stinging nettles!. Whats the cure for stinging nettles. Dock Leaves are the best remedy. I should know, I always used to need to use them when I was a little kid, always playing out and ending up in the stingers! Not on purpose of course. But they can catch a person off-guard. Here is the image so you can identify them.
I believe you can actually eat nettles, but they have to be boiled first to get rid of the sting and most probably impurities as well. Never tried them but I'd imagine they'd taste terrible. You never know, though, they may be nice. A picture is enough for me thanks.
I want to watch this film but haven't been able to track it down yet. I love these old Finnish films made by Aki Kaurismäki. I've got Man Without a Past, The Match Factory Girl and Drifting Clouds. I'll get this one soon. Check out the funny clip from the film below.
I love the old radio scanners. Back in the day there was so much to listen to. Cordless phones and live Police frequencies being right at the top of the list for a lot of people. But now, especially in the UK, most of the radio communications have gone digital, which now leaves the old analogue scanners unable to pick up those signals.
But there's a lot of country's that haven't gone digital just yet, and that's what this post is about. As well as there being new ways to listen to scanner frequencies, such as SDR radio, where you typically need an RTL-SDR receiver dongle. These can be picked up on eBay, but obviously you do need to buy it.
The free alternative is to listen for free online. There are many websites that offer this service, but the one that I use is https://www.broadcastify.com/. You can't listen to the UK Police because their communications are now encrypted. But you can listen to many other countries that are still analogue. I listen to USA mostly. In some of the areas where there is a lot of drama, so there's a lot of action to listen to.
Places like Philadelphia, Chicago (Districts 10 and 11 which covers, North Lawndale, South Lawndale, and the Lower West Side; 11th District - Harrison: Serving West Garfield Park, East Garfield Park, and the southern half of Humboldt Park), New Jersey, Detroit and many more. You can listen directly to Chicago Districts 10 and 11 here (Link removed due to Broadcastify removing the feed).
How do you like my camera skills. I'm just testing an old canon camera I got my hands on. A 5mp Powershot S2. I think this was shot in super macro mode, but it look more like your average macro. It seems to be a good oldie digital camera. The only thing that's really annoying is that it takes AA batteries. 4 of them to be exact.
I've got rechargeables in it but they run out so fast that it makes the camera unusable for using when out and about. I could buy some new batteries but I've got other digital cameras I can use which run on Lithium Ion batteries, so can't be bothered to buy new rechargeables just incase they're no better than the ones I'm already using. Shame really, because the old Canon seems quite capable. Although in this day and age Smartphones can definitely beat it. But still. Might post some better pics soon.
Seen this camera for sale on eBay UK. It was going cheap and came with all leads and accessories, so I thought I'd buy it. I like older digital cameras as I find them to be cheap but still very capable. This one was a Samsung Digimax 530. And as soon as I received it I was met with a broken screen. The silly sausage of a seller sent the item in its original box but with no wrapping to stop the camera from moving around while in transport.
I reported the problem to the seller and they gave me a refund. They also let me keep the camera, although it is of absolutely no use with a broken LCD screen. Waste of time. I really wanted to mess about with this camera as well. I'd seen some sample images on Flickr and they looked really good. But more than likely had been edited / enhanced to death. This camera is not worth repairing as it would cost too much for a replacement screen. More than I paid for the camera. And to be honest, I doubt there would be any for sale anyway. Actually I just looked and they are for sale. But like I said, they are more to buy than what I paid for the camera.
