Technically Brunette

I just thought i’d inform everyone that there is a little mouse (or maybe two) who are stocking up for the winter to come with MY FOOD. Now we have known that mice can get in (along with the draft) through this massive gap under our front door for a little while now, we even came home from a weekend away to find this cute yet rather fat mouse stuck in our puppy’s food bag. Clearly we did as any one would in this situation and ensured that all benches where kept clean, washing up was done and open food was put away in containers, cupboards, fridge etc. We decided against using traps as i just know i’ll be woken up on night by a loud “SNAP” when my innocent little puppy is trying to get a mid-night snack, definitely not a nice thought at all.

So as it happened keeping the kitchen clean worked a treat (well until my 21st but that’s another blog), the mice started to learn that there was no food and i soon learnt that if i need to leave something out on the bench i need to put it in a container. So what’s the problem?

The problem is that i made a very bad miss-judgement, see i assumed that if an item of food hadn’t already been opened (IE it was still sealed) then it would be quite safe to leave out… WRRRROOOOONNNNGGG

Now i would have no issues if this little fluff-ball decided to eat my bread, nuts, coffee beans or even my jelly lollies i’d just deal with it. However there is one thing that i will not tolerate, just one, and that’s him touching my chocolate! Who would of thought that a mouse would have such a sweet tooth, to burrow through my 400g Cadbery Dairy Milk Chocolate. Not I. But that litte basted did it, my poor chocolate.

So here’s a warning to all mice out there I’m not happy and I’m not afraid to stomp you flat.

OH MY GOD!!! Is it just me or is reality TV really been Over Over Over ….. Over Done!!! I mean honestly if they come up with another lock-em in and watch them series or even a become a super model or super star series my head will honestly implode.

Why cant they at-least come up with something slightly more interesting, it cant be that hard. They could just paint a wall and film watching it dry. How about they try something a little more risque, like a surprise coo, where a coo is held and conveniently televised and just as a mass “execution”of all the pollies is about top happen the executioner pulls a cord and instead of releasing the guillotine it releases balloons and streamers and everyone yells surprise.

Twisted yes but also interesting…

Well last night was the event of the century, that’s right it was my 21st. It was much more sedate then i had imagined in-fact due to an evil dose of the lurgy i had a grand total of 3 sips of beer!!! It was really funny actually i had gone to the chemist earlier that evening specifically asking for something that had no Sudoethadrene in it so i could drink, to which they gave me some non drowsy antihistamines. It wasn’t till about 11 that i woke up to the fact that i felt so crook that i wasn’t actually drinking anyway meaning i should have got the good stuff so i could enjoy my night. So off i went in search of a late night chemist and some drugs which would bring me relief, luckily Canterbury chemist was open till 1am, so sure enough i went and got my fix and headed back to the party.

I must say i felt so much better but it was funny to be so sober as you really notice when people have drunk too much and what effects alcohol have on different people, it was really quite interesting.

In summery i did have a great night and i’d like to thank all that came. I would also like to send a whopping big thank you to MRS Philbo for cooking me the most Fab cake ever (see below) and darling Stu for a very Stu, yet surprisingly romantic speech.

xxx

TELP

Well as they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But out of curiosity what do you do if you’ve run out of bread, milk eggs, basically everything but cereal?

Unfortunately, like most students who take on to, much i haven’t had the time to actually go to the shops and replenish which has led to a tinsy-winsy problem. I am left with my All bran, Vita Bricks, about two thimbles worth of Soy milk, and coffee. My dilemma? Well i need my cereal and although i like my late for breakfast i’ll settle for a white coffee.

So how did i manage this dilemma? Did i go up to the shops or to the BP next door? No way, that was far to ambitious for 8:30 on a Sunday morning. Instead i made my latte and TIPED it over my cereal… It seemed like an awesome idea at the time, in-fact i was proud that i managed to for-fill the imposable.

The problem? Well for those of you who eat All-Bran (60% of your daily fibre intake!) you will understand that you need to eat it before it goes soggy, otherwise it tastes as though you are eating wet cardboard (YUMO). So unfortunately at the instant you ad the steaming hot latte to the All-Bran the heat of the latte causes the cereal to turn to smush in record time, leaving my with a chunky - lumpy latte in a bowl.

My ratting on this student survival tip? I give it two and a half donky farts:

I would like to extend an apology to every one who reads my blog… Ok let me rephrase that… I would like to extend an apology to all of those lovely robots who have the time of day to frequent and sometimes even spam my blog as i have not really given it any time at all.

But guess what my torturous robotic friends, I am back! Between catching every bug under the sun (and i am not talking about my poor computer who has recently been dumped by Norton) and the attempting to catch up on the month of uni missed my liofe has gradually frayed not only at the ends but everywhere until it became this knotted mess. Like every knot i am now required to go through the tedious and painful process of untangling this matted mess, I started today with the house.

As everyone would be aware (possably excluding my belovered spam robots) when your health goes to shit along with your work your house seems to follow rapidly… well mine most definatly did. So i have dedicated today to getting my house back into order.

Once the house is bearable my next step is to make myself up a daily time table which will hopefully assist me in never getting back into this mess again. This time table will cover everything from work, cleaning, exercise and bogging.

And then comes the most important thing… MY HEALTH… over the past 6 months my cholesterol levels have crept up and my waist line has crept out and I’m sick of it!!! So Cardio twice a day and a VERRRY healthy meal plan for me.

Hopefully all these changes will result in my life getting back into shape….

Attention all, Google is advertising a free in-home wireless broadband service, known as TiSP.

I sugest everyone look at this site and look at it closely…

http://www.google.com/tisp/

Wen you get to the intro page press the  “Get started with Google TiSP” and enjoy.

Ok here is a little film clip I’d like you all to watch, something that will eventually happen (Only in America).

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hmmmmm technicalities have never been so hot.

ATT Cheese Eating Wombat: Do NOT EVER turn out like one of those lawyers that look like they’re Law&Order try hards…

Toodles

One thing that has always astounded me is the fact that people are continuously going on about the shortage of women in technical degrees and jobs. However at the same time people don’t seem to be targeting the core problem, which is how girls are brought up.

From a young age we are shaping our kids in a number of ways, not just by what we say and how we act but also with the toys we provide them.  For example even though it is 2007 we are till traditionally giving girls dolls and home wear sets, and boys cars and action figures.

 Even the big break through of creating “Lego for Girls” is a great disappointment as it is marketed as a dolls set, in a bight pink box:

What on earth is wrong with giving your little girl a traditional Lego set? Why does it need to be pink and some how involve dolls? The only reason girls like pink, fairies, dolls, princesses etc is because they are surrounded with them at birth and it is traditionally assumed that that is what they will like.

I mean I have nothing particularly against dolls, rather the sort of dolls we are promoting to children (Anorexic, flawless , beauty queens who own every possession desirable). Where are the Engineering barbies? The Mechanic Barbies? The Road Work Barbies? Where are the barbies who aren’t afraid to get dirty?

They don’t exist! and until we provide our girls with a “Balanced” view on play time and life we will continue to have a server lack of females in technical degrees.

Today marks the 75th birthday of the Sydney Harbour bridge and they are expecting more then 500,000 people to flood the bridge to celebrate.

Now maybe i have just spent way to much time in dynamics and mechanics lecture but this has got me wondering about the load limit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Now i do understand that this figure of 500,000 people will be the total figure of people walking the length of the bridge through out the course of the entire day rather then having the whole lot on there at once, however i want to know how many people we would need to have on the bridge for it to break.

To begin my quest i had to find out a few facts about the bridge, so here they are:

Length of arch span	503 metres
Height of top of arch	134 metres about mean sea level
Height to top of aircraft beacon	141 metres above mean sea level
Width of deck	49 metres
Clearance for Shipping	49 metres
Height of Pylons	89 metre above mean sea level
Base of each abutment tower	68 metres across and 48 metres long (two pylons rest on each abutment tower)
Total length of bridge	1149 metres including approach spans
Bearing Pins	Each of the four pins measures 4.2 metres long and 368 millimetres in diameter
Thrust on bearings	Under maximum load approximately 20,000 tonnes on each bearing
Number of rivets	Approximately 6,000,000
Largest rivet	Weighed 3.5 kilograms and was 395 millimetres long
Longest Hanger	58.8 metres
Shortest Hanger	7.3 metres
Total weight of steelwork	52,800 tonnes including arch and mild steel approach spans
Weight of arch	39,000 tonnes
Rock excavated for foundations	122,000 cubic metres
Concrete used for bridge	95,000 cubic metres
Granite facing used on pylons & piers	17,000 cubic metres
Allowance for deck expansion	420 millimetres
Allowance for arch expansion	The arch may rise or fall 18 centimetres due to heating or cooling
Number of panels in arch	28, each 18.28 metres wide
Record tonnage erected	589 tonnes of steelwork was erected on the arch in one day on 26 November 1929
Paint required	272,000 litres of paint were required to give the Bridge its initial three coats.

(Figures obtained from http://www.sydneyharbourbridge.info/)

From further research i found that when building the bridge the foundations on either side were willing to take 4 bearings each (correct me if this is wrong).

(This is an image of one of the Thrust Bearings)

So if each bearing can take a maximum of 20, 000 tonnes we are talking alot of people to make this bridge crack. We are also talking alot of math to work this out…

TBC

If i am serving you and not only ague with me regarding a clearly priced item, but you are bluntly rude, don’t say please and walk all over me like you are better then me i will shove a staple gun up your arse and staple a few tips regarding your manners, written on brightly coloured post-its, all through out your insides.

Got it?…