Yep, warning for y'all, this is non-pony blog, you have been warned.

Ok, one thing that's never changed is that I like my gadgets, which is a bit of a bad habit because I've been poor most of my life, and this habit has a habit of making me poorer. I suppose I have gotten a bit better about buying only when I can afford it, or now that's to the ubiquitous of Chinese tech, buying low priced or no-brand products.

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New Particle Gadgeteering blog post: The Sun, the Moon, and Some Family History, which my long-term readers may notice is a recycled Fimfiction post with pony references removed.

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New Particle Gadgeteering blog post: Dark Matter and Alien Life in North Yorkshire describing the Boulby Underground Laboratory. I did write a Fimfiction post on my last trip there in 2015. This gives a more general overview.

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Darkest Abruzzo in which I give another story of working in underground laboratories.

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Catching High Energy Aliens With Cherenkov Light

Cherenkov detectors are awesome.

New Particle Gadgeteering blog post: Preservation of Life in a Nuclear Age, telling a story of a memorable encounter with the late Joseph Rotblat (physicist and peace campaigner) which came back to me this week.

Ferret kindly suggested I should do a post here to notify readers whenever I post something on my new Particle Physics Gadgeteering blog. I am happy to do this, but I fear I run the risk of being seen to be spamming my followers with non-pony-related stuff. So in an effort to make it look vaguely legitimate, I will accompany such announcements with pictures of ponies. I have just posted something on

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New Particle Physics Gadgeteering post: Studying an Eclipse from Deep Underground, which might look like a contrived attempt to attach an eclipse tag to an underground science story, but this is a true report of what I was doing during the 2006 solar eclipse.

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I have a new post on my Particle Gadgeteering blog, which is all about pony fiction. However (before you all rush off to read it) this one is not written for you (although you are still welcome to read and comment of course). This is my attempt to explain what I do on Fimfiction to my fellow science communicators, many of whom have only the haziest idea about what fan fiction is, and whose only knowledge of My Little Pony is vague memories of a plastic toy from thirty year ago. This is

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For anyone interested in my real world adventures and general science stuff, I have now created a non-pony blog. Check out https://particlegadgeteering.wordpress.com/

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Seems a lot of folks are posting holiday fics this year! Well, if all goes well, there just might be a holiday story from your old Uncle Hat Man under the tree this year for the third year in a row. In the meantime, enjoy 2015 and 2016's offerings, especially if you missed them the first time! 🎄

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In the most recent chapter of "The Iron Horse: Everything's Better with Robots!" we see Twilight Sparkle wake up from a nightmare and fly outside to calm herself. She meets Gadget, who also confesses to having a nightmare. The two of them talk, they make up from their earlier fight, and they resolve to try harder to help Turing Test.

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I’ve posted a personal story on my Particle Gadgeteering blog, “3D Dreams: A Tale of a Science Communication Adventure with the Welsh Animation Industry, which didn’t happen”. This might interest anyone curious about animation production. This is also a sort-of prequel to my involvement with Fimfiction as it got me into animations and thinking about ways to mix fiction and science.

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Life, Particle Physics, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, in which I talk about one of the complications of being a non-hoofed creature - specifically the medical condition I live with - and combining it with building particle detectors.

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Dark Matter Detectors and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials.

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Milestones abound! "The Iron Horse" has gone over 800 comments, 34,500 total views, and has gotten to over 200,000 words! Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who's been enjoying the story. Also, from the most recent chapter, here's an unused sketch Green was working on for me. We ended up not using it because it was supposed to be Twilight in the scene with Turing, but I still happen to think Gadget looks pretty cute in it. We might end up properly finishing it at some point.

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Good morning, folks! It's Christmas Day and also the first full day of Hanukkah! Whatever you celebrate, I've got a new story out that I hope you'll all enjoy. It's a side-story/prequel to The Iron Horse about Gadget's first Hearth's Warming away from home while working for Mr. Vanderbull. If you're not familiar with The Iron Horse or Gadget, though, I wrote it so anyone can jump right in and enjoy it.

Best wishes to you all this holiday season.

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Particle Tracking: Joining the Dots in the ATLAS Experiment. More exciting adventures about building particle detectors...

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Hey folks! New story is submitted and new chapter should be ready by tomorrow. But in the meantime, I have a few other treats for you all: preview sketches!

First, Green has been practicing drawing Gadget and just showed me a new design for her. I didn't actually ask him for it, but I do love it and will probably find some use of it soon. It might update the one I have for her in chapter 2.

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Popular Science Books and University Admissions, possibly of interest to anyone in the process of applying to university…

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