BBC Neuromancer Radio Play

I read William Gibson's sprawl series, in which Neuromancer is the first of a three part series. Gibson, although the first is credited for creating the word cyberspace. I remember reading this series for the first time while at the university. Being a IT major I remember this series changing the way I looked the world and the world of technology.

"So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics."

Automatic Jack

William Gibson, Neuromancer

There are two one hours segments to this radio play.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

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More BBC Sci-Fi Radio Plays

I Have Completed the Super Structor for Mini Flats

Well all are completed with the exception of the gondola sides which need to painted and weathered. I am waiting on fasteners so that I can attach the bogies and couplers.

I Used Leftovers - to Build a HO Scale Shed

I am often challenged when I see a pile of left-overs from previous modeling sessions. I use the following materials to build this shed: 1mm grey cardstock measuring approximately 4.5 X 4.25 by 7' scale feet, matt-board, small bits of corrugated material, 8 pieces of small sticks for strengthening the interor, and several passes from a dry brush.

It is not one of my better attempts, but it will work stuck behind some structure away from the front of the layout.

Sign Inserts

I opened a long forgotten kit today and out slipped this 4 by 3.75" set of signs. These seem to be geared to "around" the railway tracks for the most part. I will have to remember to add signs to my next industrail or railway project.

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My other signs posts

2025 Japanese Narrow Gauge and Light Railway Models Festival

The video is good, but the real reason I uploaded this post was for the picture of the cool storage tank. Watch the video to find out how they are handeled. By the way, I also thought the locomotive was rad.

Narrow Gauge Around the World, Part 6

Narrow gauge railways from the United States and Chili.

Narrow Gauge Around the World, Part 5

The 5th installment of Peter Crook's Narrow Gauge Around the World. In this installment Peter introduces us to Narrow Gauge railways in the United Kingdom.

Prototype?

I found this template or is it a prototype? I am not sure what type of material I want to use. I could use some of the scribed board here. The width of this piece is a scale ten feet in HO. I dug up three matching windows and I will construct a door for the structure. I have multiple options for roof material.

Decypering the Cyphers

"On the newly exposed face of the pyramid, a series of sixteen characters was pricisely engraved into the smooth stone":

Illustrations from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

"'The engrsving is indeed the Masonic cipher. However, the cleartext is meaningless..' 'It must say something.'"

"'It's a grid-based matrix, so I can run the usual - Vigenere, grilles, trellisers and so forth'".'".

Illustrations from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

"Although there are a few unsolved cyphers: Phaisto Disk, Dorabella Cypher, the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, this cypher might be broken yet."

Text is from the Lost Symbol, Dan Brown.

Puerto Borracho, an On30 Railway

When visting this page, please say hello to the thick hombres. This railway is in On30 narrow gauge, that is a O gauge railway that runs on HO gauge or 1/87 track. The scenery is of Mexico and is fabulous, as are the loco's and train cars.

Puerto Borracho Railway Open House

There are also some shorter videos featuring other scenes of this model railroad.

More Superstructure for the Four Min-Flat Cars

This is the second superstructure for the "four flat cars" (See above) I have completed and the third storage tank I created for this project. I had orignaly created a "metal" constructed storage tank which if you remember, I forgot that the outside dinensions the plastic sheet would increase the overall dimensioins of the tank.Taking the width of the plastic sheet into account I created a second tank. (below)

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After seeing someone create an wood storage tank on Pinterest I created my own wooden storage tank. I can use the former on another flat car.

A water tank or whatever?

My Collection of Model Railways Storage Tanks

Do You Remeber These?

I found the data sheet for these miniature Bottles and Jars. They are available from Scale Structures.

When searching for this page I came across a mention of Bottles and Jars so I am going to create a "Bottles and Jars" label.

In Search of the Mystical

Screenshot from Poldark, a PBS series.

"I penned

It down, until at last it came to be,
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see."

Manly P. Hall

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The Research

• Hermetic
• Rosicrucian
• Kabbaliste
• Alumbradian
• Alumbrados

Data from Dan Browns The Lost Symbol

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Seven hermetic principles

Ancient Hermetic Adage: As above, so below

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Added two contextual links above on 11/08/25 at 1735.

Narrow Gauge Around the World, Part 4

Lst us visit the narrow gauge railways in Java, China and Eritrea with Peter Crook.

Narrow Guage Around the World, Part 3

This is the third in Peter Crook's series, Narrow Guage Around the World. In this episode: Narrow Gauge Railways in Germany, Poland and Romania.