Mineral oil computer fish tank cooling systems

While buying a phone today I got chatting and found out about this option for upgrading your home built computer:

Images of computers bathed in mineral oil

YouTube video of the

So today was a good day for all sorts of reasons. And it hasn't finished yet.

Day 1 of post-home-ed-era. I need a better phrase, because once in the home ed world, forever changed.

Brownian motion

T and H walking around the room debating the effects of adding more RAM to a computer. Talking, walking and thinking seem to be linked.

"I have a theory..." starts another round of discussion.

Soldering

We will work out how to do this tonight, all being well. I have a light soldering iron, some flux and solder. T has lots of components he wants to put together and good enough eyesight that he can see what he is doing with all those tiny wires. Also the love of electronics which pushes him on to work on such things.

Learning New Spellings

As an adult I am having to face the fact that English is shifting and growing as I breathe.

Here are the spellings I had to get right, ie get wrong then Google to check how to get them right, just in the past few minutes.

LEDs
IDE adaptor
Bluetooth
ThinkPad

Here are the ones I actually knew already:

10Gb, pronounced gig, ie gigabyte
USB hub
Compact Flash drive

T has a shopping list so I offered to write it down there and then as I have a pen and A4 pad. He is recovering from the lurgy so is at home and doing lots of computery stuff.