I’m back to my normal self now…. how can I tell?
Well I just spent a good few minutes day-dreaming about the lovely sausages I’m having for tea when I get home
Mmmmmm 😀
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I found this list of silly units extremely amusing, mainly because of this one:
The speed of light is 1.80 tera furlongs per fortnight
As you may have noticed there has been less of the prolific blogging recently, this is related to a lack of enthusiasm which in turn is related to a lack of sleep.
The solution?
Simple, I’m going to get an early night tonight 🙂
Well here’s a little story for you. I was walking home from the train station yesterday and went past the ‘local’ indian takeaway. This is the favorite for our house although I’ve only ordered from it once as we don’t have a menu and so I don’t know what they have (ordered a chicken tikka, can’t go wrong ;)).
Well as I was walking past I noticed that there was a plastic container full of menus on the window sill, even though the place was shut. Fantastic I thought and picked one up… then the audacity of the situation struck me, this was a menu for a different indian takeaway !
I was astonished at the cheek of the act, although also quite amused. I may have even chuckled to myself in the middle of the street, while walking home.
I had a dream last night where I was having a chat with Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy). Which is fair enough but it got me to thinking. The majority of what was said by her was probably direct quotes from the show Buffy the Vampier Slayer, but with one important difference.
There was absolutely no background music or noise… for any musician that uses samples this is the holy grail, so to speak, which lead me to thinking…
A sampler powered by a living human brain! Mwahahahah!!
*Rob wanders off to find evil scientist hair*
The blogging absence of the last few days was caused by a trip to Cambridge, a house party and a sudden but temporary urge to get away from technology.
I have now returned to my cosy little house in Guildford feeling tired and slightly ill but actually quite good overall.
There are an awful lot of people getting here searching for information about the Ilford receivership, this made me feel slightly guilty so I decided to find out more information.
The financial times has an article about it, but you have to pay to look at it so I’ve got no idea what it says.
BBC news now has a story about it (after me I might add :D) [link].
For those that really can’t be bothered to follow the link, here is a synopsis:
Ilford is 125 years old, it has debts of over £40 million (mentioned in my last ilford post) The major problem seems to be the film making section of the company which is based in Cheshire. There is a Swiss section of the company which will stay as it is due to being in the profitable market of dyes for inkjet printers.
Black and white film sales have fallen by and average of 11% per year for the last three years.
I was thinking, as I so often do, about some random things (heh, link with site name there, nice) and my thoughts turned to the opticians.
Why I wondered to myself is the eye exam always carried out in a darkened room?
Then sudden inspiration stuck, if the room is well lit, or even bright, then the pupils will contract, making the apature to the eye smaller, thus increasing the eyes Depth of field. This will in turn slightly fudge or hide any sight defects that the person being tested may have.
Ultimately resulting in an incorrect perscription, assuming that corrective lenses are needed.
This I though was quite a neat theory and wanted to check it out to see if I was correct.
Unfortunately as yet I have not been able to find any information on the subject of why sight tests are usually done in a darkened room… so I don’t know if I’m right.
If anyone knows for defiante or has any other ideas, well thats what the comments are for 🙂
I was searching the internet earlier, trying to find out if food cooked in microwaves does actually cool down quicker, and if so why.
I still haven’t managed to find the answer (grrr) but I did come across this rather amusing but also alarming little story:
I don’t want to sound like I know everything in the world or even like I know quite a lot. But you had a question regarding “If a microwave oven door were to open while it was still on, what would happen? Could it hurt you?- JP”
Well ..Having the thought process that I have, kinda how should I put it? …Stupid? or inventive or even in-between. Well, my microwave door did happen to come off. Magic Chef 900-watt microwave. Well, I did my best to try to fix it but the hinge on one side did not attach properly, therefore having a gap between the door and the appliance. Being me (stupid) I wondered if it would burn fast or would it gradually warm up. I slid my finger between…You probably dying to hear what happened… But it didn’t gradually warm up at all. It was instant heat! It didn’t scar me or anything like that, but sure scared the H*** out of me to find out it got so hot so quick. I didn’t get any blisters either. But it just burned like touching something hot on the tip of my finger being that is the only thing I put in. Well you know the old adage, “You learn from your mistakes”, stands true. lol – Anonymous
Well I think I’ll be learning from that mistake too!!!
Acording to the reply on the board this was posted on, if the full 900 watts of power had been availible to the curious finger it would have been roasted quickly. Not a good thing!
Sometimes the question on people’s lips or the title of a poorly scripted American TV show (complete with cheesy canned laughter).
Well Wil Wheaton, otherwise known as Wesley Crusher to all the Star Trek:Next Generation fans has actually done something interesting with life-after-child-acting.
Unlike some people
Row is coming to visit this evening, and I’ve taken the day off tomorrow so we can go to London. A visitor was exactly the incentive I needed to give the house a proper clean, as opposed to a half-hearted wipe every now and then.
Not that the house was anywhere near as bad as houses sometimes got in student days, it only took me an hour or two to get the place ship-shape. It feels much better when the place is clean…
And my parents are visiting this weekend, although I don’t know if they’re going to come to the house at all.
Mental note: I must remember to ask if I can borrow their metronome… I’m thinking my timing needs work for guitar playing 🙂
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