Gravity !

I was recently reminded of my own theory of gravity, which basically revolves around the premise that the earths gravitational pull apparently varies at different points on the earths surface.
You see, I believe that the majority of houses have their kitchens built right over that point on a block of land that has the most gravitational pull. Proven, no less, through many years of observation in the numerous dwellings in which i have resided over the years, by the overwhelmingly high number of objects that are sucked out of ones hands into the floor and smashed in the kitchen, as opposed other rooms in ones house!!!...I wonder if there is a business opportunity in surveying blocks of land for gravitational pull, before people build, to advise on where not to put the kitchen? :-)

Damn you Chevy Chase!

Christmas decorating has never been the same since Mr Chase popularised the festooning of one's house with heaps of strings of lights...and once you succumb to your "sprouts" desire to similarly adorn ones own abode you can never go back :-| .
There must be a kickback to the retailers of these lights from the energy companies, y'know ..The more lights you sell, we'll drop your power bill by a few percent this quarter coz we'll make it up with the increased power sales to the punters lighting up their houses!!!
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the fact my "potholes" (small, prepubescent Pitts) get such a kick out of it :-), but frankly I'm tiring of it. Each year has to be bigger and better (apparently)...It seems last year I was confronted by yet another string of lights, glowing reindeer, fibre optic tree every week in the lead up to Christmas. (This year I'm up for more extension cords and power boards by the way). AND this year there are murmurs for extra cut outs for the outside display and I'm considering a DIY to save on $ if pushed!...a bit of creative recycling of left over renovation material ;-)
I sit here trying to relax after a weekend of unknoting strings of lights, testing and replacing dead globes, climbing ladders, testing and replacing more dead globes, fitting cutouts, replacing more dead globes, all whilst trying to complete some of the internal house renovation prior to Saint Nick's arrival,,,and did I mention fixing more dud globes,,,
Roll on New Year! When the reverse procedure has to happen. NOT!...it wouldn't be the first year when the lights have stayed up until the Queens Birthday long weegend! Purely because I don't want to wear out the ladder prematurely, ladders aren't cheap y'know! ;-)
Merry Humbugs to you all!!

Dark side of the moon

Ever pondered the craters in your newly opened jar of Vegemite?......
Perhaps this is what the dark side of the moon looks like....

Thruxton 900

Here is my new mid life crisis transport....

Triumph call it one of their "Modern Classics"

cats vs quick set cement

one of my daily chores is to clean out the cat litter trays....(yes yuck!),,,we have two cats one male one female...I use clumping cat litter and have two trays as "himself" is quite fussy and won't use the tray if "herself" has used it, or he decides his is just too "used" to stand in!...he then chooses to go wherever he feels like.
It's days like these I wonder if I should substitute quick set cement for cat litter in his tray ...kinda like the mafia cement boot idea...
anyone tried it?

beep beep beep

trying to find out what three long beeps on a AMI bios based motherboard means.......

seems to be a lot of other codes i can find but not this one?

@#$%^&*!!!

I'M EXCITED ! (apologies to big Kev)

Ordered my new transport yesterday...a Triumph Thruxton 900, and I can't wait for it to arrive!
I've been a long time Triumph enthusiast, but alas had to sell my last bike (a Kawasaki KLR) when I got married and haven't had the opportunity (read "permission") to get my Triumph until now. Mind you thats not such a bad thing as I would have bought a Bonneville or T100 or Thunderbird etc. until I saw the Thruxton. I must have visited the showroom half a dozen times looking but was finally tempted to a test ride after (a.) Michelle had come around and said yes and (b.) the dealer moved and had the entire Triumph test fleet available to celebrate the opening of his new shop!...so out of retirement came the 'ol leather jacket and brain bucket etc. and off I went.
Nerves got the better of me when I sat on the beast :-| as I was a little unsure of how i would cope with the forward leaning "racing" position after not having riden for ten years, so I elected to ride the T100 first to reassure myself I hadn't forgotten how to ride. :-)
"That was quick" said Kevin, the salesman when I returned to the shop. "Very nice bike" I said , "now I'm ready for the Thruxton". (The T100 was nice to ride but I was still anticipating the racier Thruxton and now I'd proved to myself that I "still had it" I was ready!)
Now,... I was fine until the audience arrived after Kevin cranked over the Thruxton...I mean not only does it look like a slick bike, with the sport exhaust pipes that were fitted to the demo, it sounded bloody unreal!!!
Here we go i thought, I'll probably muff the take off and look a real goose in front of these dudes looking on.....but a deep breath and a cautious left hand I departed the driveway fairly smoothly and thought I gave my departure enough throttle to impress the onlookers with the throaty pipes!...and yes Kevin was right..."just be carefull" he said " you will probably find yourself speeding because you will get carried away listening to the sound from the pipes!"...and right he was!...so impressed was I and so instantly hooked I rode it straight home to get Michelle's reaction. She was understandably nervous, (for reasons I wont go into here, getting her to agree to another bike was a real struggle), but she said "well.... if you really like it, get it".
So I ordered one as soon as I got back to the shop!, "....racing yellow",fly screen and of course sports pipes! ;-)

theory of relativity?

My own theory of relativity relates to the speed at which motorists drive, depending on how far north or south of their home they are...
In my travels for my previous job i have clocked millions of km's around the northern half of NSW Australia, during which time i had noticed a definite trend relating to the speed at which my fellow motorists from interstate travelled on the highways.
As a rule the Queenslanders went faster and the Victorians went slower.

After some time i figured this must be due to the difference in speed that they are used to travelling through space, where they normally live.
ie. a Queenslander living closer to the equator is moving at a faster rate through space as the earth spins than say a Victorian who is closer to the South Pole. The result is that as the Queenslander moves south he subconsciously feels the need to drive faster so that he feels the same relative velocity through space, and vica versa for the Victorian who feels he has to slow down as the effect of the earth moving relatively faster through space makes him subconsciously feel he is going too fast.

STUFF

ever wondered if the room spins the opposite way in the other hemisphere when you're drunk?...

y'know.... like they say the water goes down the plughole a different way depending whether you are north or south of the equator.....and how they reckon your pictures on the wall tilt a different way under the same theory...

hmmmm

Redundant

got a redundancy package the other day after 25 yrs working in IT.
funny word redundancy..
...a lot of IT companies will sell you a system using "raid" storage.
...and usually by the time its delivered to you...you guessed it... its been made redundant by newer technology...
hmmmm

First entry

Good Morning
this my first foray into the world of the "Blog"...
I guess i intend to offload my thoughts and theories, experiences etc to the world here...