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@m0les@aus.social
2026-05-05 15:31:16

Went to a tour of the University House restoration progress with Peter Kanowski today. Looking really good. Soft open of cellar bar and kitchen in June/July. Public opening on 14/15 August.
#canberra #anu

University House's main dining hall with Leanard French's mural "Regeneration" at the far end.
The new kitchen facilities with lots of shiny new stainless steel equipment and benches all over the place. In the foreground are a new 4-burner induction cook top and a gigantic motorised bratt pan.
The Scarth Room with all its dark Queensland walnut paneling restored, including removing the white paint on the ceiling panels giving a darker and "more authentically oxbridge" feel to the room.
Boffins Restaurant with both the restored original parquetry floor (foreground) and new extension (right/rear). All the new updates have been given mid-century styling and fabrics including a "bricklaying" arrangement of wooden boxes separating the dining area from the bar and access corridor behind.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-28 22:41:13

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Miles Davis:
🎵 Directions (Live at the Cellar Door)
#MilesDavis
open.spotify.com/track/27IrCAs

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-26 17:21:15

I fear that our egg supply is bound to shortly change from "go see if the neighbors need any eggs" to "series production of mayonnaise for the cellar"

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-12 09:44:57

The ancient Middle-East had a solution for surviving the heat without chillers: windcatchers (and the related solar chimneys). Such things should be employed for first-tier cooling where possible to reduce energy demand, leaving chillers to take up the slack (until we figure out how to get infinity gigawatts of free power into every house, at which point we should just capture all the excess heat from running chillers and use the Seebeck effect to convert it into electricity to power a giant…

Windcatcher diagram. A tall tower with slats at its highest point is used to induce negative pressure into a system, drawing in hot air from another location into an underground channel. In this channel the air passes over a cool water supply, thereby chilling the air by imparting a portion of the air's heat into the water. The chilled air then enters a large plenum space serving as a refrigerator, cooled living area, or whatever.
Solar chimney diagram. The function of the system is the same as the wind catcher, except that rather than relying on wind to create airflow, convection of air in a chimney heated by the Sun creates a constant updraft which draws hot air through the system and cools it.
Windcatchers at Aghazadeh Mansion in Abarkooh, Iran
Windcatcher at an آب انبار "ab anbar" (water cellar) in Iran