I'm on a Tiny Little Low

Because after recently rediscovering doctor who, I went to the video store and they didn't have the next half of series one.

Severely disappointing.

Switzerland Seems Like a Nice Place to Visit.

*Jaw drops*

Sorry I know you're sick of these but...

I read approximately 200 pages of my book yesterday - and that is why babysitting is so good. But it is odd, reading so much in one day. I have in my time read a 600 page book in less than 48 hours, and the amount of time you read through in the book compared to the time you've actually lived makes for a weird contrast. Yesterday, for example, Harry went from seeing the Dark Mark to hearing about the Yule Ball, which is like over three months, in a few hours. Weird.

I forgot how much I like the fourth book. Humour starts to really kick in in this one, and we get given another character to hate. However, I've always wanted to know how Dumbledore's joke ends...

'I am not joking Mr. Weasley, though, now you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll. a hag and a leprechaun who all go into a bar-'

I like walking, but I would enjoy it so much more, I feel, if I could just have a chunk of land that wasn't in a city. That was .... just a little like the lake district. Even a much, much smaller version.

I don't know, sometimes, I'd just like to be able to go walk amongst nature without all the buildings, and sit and enjoy it.

I was wasting time today, avoiding maths study, by reading tumblrs. One had this, oh Harry Potter Wand Test link which I followed and did. I scored zero for the emotional scale. So thank you test, for simply confirming my long held suspicions that I actually do have no emotion whatsoever.

On the plus side, 0% was higher than 2% of the people that took the test. Go figure.

Things I have learnt from Physics this Week

1. If you walk off the roof of this building you will hit the ground.
I did have my doubts about this one. Lucky they were dispelled before I tested them out.

2. If you throw your books on the floor and take your clothes out of the wardrobe and put them on the floor, your room is disordered.
Oooh, that's another word for messy. I knew there must be one.

Thanks for those two lessons Rodney. I guess this proves physics does have real-world applications.

So this [Foyle's War] is pretty much the best tv show. Well, it's my favourite anyway. I watched the series final today and it was fantastic. Sam finally got her man, there was an epic plot and there's some hope for another series.

Point of the story? An hour and a half of these guys today made me happy. That's all.

My bedroom is about 2 metres, or less, from the kid-next-door's room. Some Saturdays her brother jumps up and down in the window calling: 'Hello?! Hello, is anyone there?!' One Saturday, when he could clearly see me, I said 'hello' back but he kept asking if anyone was there. I was a little confused.

Maybe I should wave as well next time...

A Leaf in Repose

Adventure of the Day

I couldn't spell privileged about half an hour ago, so I used chrome's wonderful built in spell checker and got it corrected. Then I looked up at the post I was replying to, which also used privileged. And I thought 'Oh, he must've had to use spell check too, because it's spelt the same way as mine now is.'

I can't even begin to try and explain this awful attempt at logic.

That awkward moment when both persons are trying to decide if the other recognises them, before one dives in with a tentative wave.

Just happened.

Love it.

It's funny how I had no posts between July and the 4th November last year . . .

Just thought I'd share that passing thought with you.

Which is another funny thing. I think something along those lines and then think, hmm I want to tell someone that. But of course, no one really cares, so the best place to put it is my blog where if a post looks boring, people don't have to read it.

Quite like this one, in fact.

Angular Momentum

It's funny too, because I'm meant to *really* get this comic as I studied angular momentum last week. Unfortunately I didn't take anything in, but the cartoon is still more than moderately amusing.

I do not look 'down'. This is contemplative perplexity.

-Frasier Crane, Frasier - Series 10

I loved this phrase as soon as I heard it. :)

Easter

So I had an excellent easter. I hope you did as well. I spent it getting my head full of God's word, so I hope some of that decides to stick around and make itself useful. And as I couldn't do this on Easter Sunday, I'm going to say it now, because it is no less true: Christ is risen, He is risen indeed! One of the speakers over the weekend taught us to say that in Russian, but...mimicking sounds is quite different to transcribing them in a foreign alphabet. I would like to say more about my excellent Easter weekend and everything I learnt, but there's way too much to say in a blog post which I'm using to put off writing a history essay.

The reason I'm actually writing is because I saw a quote on my wall and I thought "I should blog that," but I couldn't just blog another (science) quote after easter, so you got my well-wishes as well. And here is the lovely little quote by the brilliant Mr Niels Bohr (by-the-by I heard a reference to Bohr on tv(?) the other day, but it was along the lines of I'm not just a Niels Bohr, and I though '!!'. just a Niels Bohr? the man was pretty intelligent.)

"One must never be satisfied with doing what one can; rather, one must always do what one really cannot" - Niels Bohr

Two Weeks Later

When does the word 'concise' stop being correctly applied simply through relativity and start being just the wrong word to use? Today I found 'The McGraw Hill Concise Encyclopaedia of Science' - or something along those lines. However, the encyclopaedia had:

a)two volumes on the shelf

b)about 4000 pages in each volume

c)very large surface areas

I wouldn't have called that concise. But apparently it had been adapted from the McGraw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science. I.e not concise. So in other words, concise is a relative term meaning, 2 volumes long instead of 10. But surely there's a point where concise just doesn't really apply. If you cut it from 20 volumes to 10 it's shorter, but if the entries are still quite long its not concise. Right?

My point? Food for word-thoughts. Love it

Ever Thought...

About how online chatting is so different to real life chatting? I usually don't try to have three real life conversations at once and write a blog post. I don't usually abandon a real life conversation fro 2-3 minutes to finish a chore I forgot about without telling you. There are a few more differences but I'm talking to three people so I have to make this quick - think about it.

I found this on my phone, and I don't know when or where I took it, but i like it anyway. :)

Found in the Hatch Daily New Summary

Flatulence from cows and sheep is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2 from cars. Ruminants expend 50 percent more GHG than the world's transportation sector.

The good news: kangaroo stomach gas has no methane component.

Resolution: Replace cows and sheep with kangaroos

This made me laugh. So I thought I'd share it.