Well this evening (… well yesterday evening and this morning) have shown how its possible to have a truly enjoyable time without having to drink any alcoholic bevarages. Of course some people reading this would think this to be a fairly obvious fact, but you have to understand that after four crazy student years it can be quite easy to loose sight of this fact.
Of course even though I remained sober this evening, I still had to walk home, being banned from driving and all.
A popular saying for this situation goes along these lines: ‘if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime’
A rather obvious oversight to this saying is that the length of the time and the gravity of the crime are rarely something that people properly consider. Especially if your judgement is slightly clouded by alcohol. Well its something for you to think about, I’m off to bed.
When I first set out building this website I had the idea of writing an article called ‘newbie to blogging superhero’ with all the steps needed to get from not even having a host server to having a blog. I mentioned this idea to Denyerec and he advised me to keep a journal of everything I did to make writing the article easier. Sage advice that I was too lazy to follow, but then when I was hacking my way through a .php file I realised that I was never at the newbie stage. Having spent four years at uni being trained as a Master of Engineering and then spending another year working in my current job, well my familiarity with a large number of programming languages means I have quite a massive advantage over a proper newbie.
So my lazyness turned out to be an advantage 🙂
Just goes to show, being slack can sometimes save wasted effort (not often but hey)
A plain danish pastry is NOT worth 75p
Infact they pretty much suck full stop.
Woo, I’m pretty excited, couple of mates gonna be coming down this evening, staying over, then we’ll be road tripping it down to Plymouth. Last time I did a road trip like this it was the most fun I’ve ever had on a journey so I’m pretty psyched !
Also work seems to be picking up, was going through a bit of a slow patch.
Upside: less boredom
Downside: less blogging?
We’ll see
The reason that we can’t put metal in the microwave is similar to why its a bad idea to run a microwave with nothing in it. If there is fat or water molocules to absorb and transform the microwave energy to heat energy then there’s no problems. However, if there is no absorbtion then the amount of radiation energy builds up in the microwave until it reaches a point where sparks can occur. This of course is a bad thing.
Source: Ask a scientist
During my searches for this info I also found Unwise Microwave experiments 😀 most of the things on there are just silly, but one piece of information was not only startling but also something I think that everyone should know (assuming its true).
If you heat water for a few minutes in the microwave, it is capable of actually reaching temeratures above 100 degrees C.
‘How?’ you ask?
Well its a bit difficult to explain but I’ll give it a go (much better explination on that site).
Water can only change to steam at a liquid/gas surface, in normal boiling (with an element or on a hob) the temperature is so extreme near these heat sources that seed-bubbles are created and they rise up through the water. In a microwave however, the water is in effect heating itself (by absorbing the microwave radiation) and so there is no localised hotspot for these seed-bubbles to be created. True there will be some micro-bubbles due to the un-even surfaces of the container that holds the water, but this will not be enough to cool the water (as with normal boiling).
Now, you have your superheated water and you take it out of the microwave, you add your sugar and…. KA-POW (not in a good way) with the introduction of all those micro-bubbles (and generation sites) the water will immediately equalise and rapidly cool by changing to steam. This is a pretty explosive reaction and will send boiling water all over the place, burning anyone nearby.
Not good !
So the advice is be damn careful and if you must re-heat coffee or boil water in the microwave, do it for less than a minute.
This post will be two smaller posts joined together, value for money that ;).
Firstly, I think I’m gonna take a leaf from Matilda’s blog in that I’ll be refering to friends by nicknames (those that want it anyway). So if you have a good nickname for yourself then email me (if you don’t have my address you don’t know me well enough for a nickname). Ravishing red head is already taken, and I’m guessing that Pete will stick with Pete, and Denyerec will stick with either Denyer or Denyerec.
Now onto less important things.
This morning I woke from a really surreal and strange dream, if you’ve ever woken up from a dream and thought that was damn weird, and then immediately forgotten most of it then you’ll know what I mean.
I was getting on quite well with a monkey, could have been a talking money, not sure. I definately saw myself in the third person on more than one occasion, there may well have been a luxury flat involved too.
Reading this I can imagine you thinking that I’m brainsick or mentally unhinged, well you’d be wrong. Its when you dream about walking down to the local shop, buying your favorite snack and then walking back… thats when you have to worry about your mental health because there’s clearly something wrong.
Blimey, I’ve just finished possibly one of the biggest meals I’ve had – not of course counting the expanding pasta incident (I may tell you one day). Anyway, put it this way, this was the first time in my life that I’ve had to loosen my belt after finishing a meal (really!).
But I’m straying from my title, today (or was it yesterday?) I logged onto my online credit card thingie to pay off the remainder of my bill only to find that when I thought I’d paid off only part of my bill I had actually paid it off in full!!
So that was a great and good supprise, I will be in less debt than I thought by the end of the month.
Well I have now returned to Guildford, a pretty uneventful journey with only one moment of excitement. This happened while waiting to board my connecting train at Reading, a lady was getting off the train with a child in a pushchair. Somehow she managed to get the front wheel stuck under the train (I’m not entirely sure how) so being the normal person I am I lept to her aid and with a bit of a struggle managed to get it free.
Yeah ok not amazingly exciting but she seemed to be pretty grateful. Made me wonder if people should automatically help people with pushchairs in awkward stuations, help make the world a better place and all that 🙂
Something to think about anyway.
Well I’m back home in lovely Plymouth right now, and have just finished watching Bend it like Beckham… I was hoping to have an interesting and insightful review of it for my blog, but it was not to be…
Its just a nice film.
Which leads me rather disjointedly to my next pondering, what is blog worthy and what is not? Read the rest of this entry »
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