I have nothing to say in today’s blog really. I know that might come as something of a shock. Considering how everything else i have written to date has been of vital importance and needed to be said.
Sorry. Just playin’ with ya.
I might actually be a bit upset because Mr Rudd is not my prime minister any more. I liked him. I liked that he worked so hard and was smart. I don’t think that is really what people want in a leader. They all want a Beeblebrox. Deep down. Someone able to make you feel good about things even when you know it is all going to hell. Not that i care that much but the news is full of the story. Starting to annoy now.
Also my dad has developed an obsession to a hand held poker playing game. Thing. A thing with lots of very annoying beeps. As he is half deaf (with the hearing aid that cost a fortune and he never wears to prove it) he can’t hear all the annoying beeps. I only bring it up cause he keeps coming out to keep me company as he plays it. It was getting on mum’s nerves.
I might very well explode soon.
On the plus side the “S” key of my laptop has spontaneously fixed itself. I have no idea why or how. All i know is that the stuff i have been writing has been a lot less stressful the last few days. YOU typing stuff with the “s” key gone!!!
Also i am now the proud owner of wireless broadband. I bit the bullet and went shopping last night. It turns out if i had gone to post office and bought it instead i would have got $100 free usage time with my purchase. This was told to me when i went to buy a recharge thingy by the lady at the counter this arvo. She actually looked smug and told me “well, you should have come here first”. Luckily they are still the nicest serving people. And i pay all my bills there. And buy a stamp sometimes.
I do like the speed though. It is not as good as the old uni access. Different days now though!
So, a mixed bag for the week. Also the broadband is going to help with my porn downloads.
I am going to leave it up to you to decide if i am joking.
On that bomb shell i shall leave you to your own thoughts....
PS...the blog site wants me to "revamp" my page. i might. if i get a few lonely minutes *grin*
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Not enough fish?!
Not enough fish
Apparently
There is a big media thing at the moment that says we are eating all the fish and soon there wont be enough. I am not sure how to take this. I would like to know who i saying it and see their numbers. I had friends at uni who studied with the CSIRO and fisheries tas etc. Mostly squid people. I am not talking some weird hybrid people....rather scientists who studied squid. Squid are all kinds of awesome. *pause* That is so not the point. The point is that i had to listen to many talks about fish population, fish management, fish poaching etc.
I find it annoying that they say such things to Australians. I am SURE there are countries out there eating a LOT more fish on a daily basis than us (as a nation). It reminds me of the whole “don’t wear fir/leather” stuff. For two reasons:
1. Aside from the cruelty aspect i am not sure that it isn’t better to have one fir/leather coat and keep it for many years than buy synthetic coats every time fashion changes. I mean environmentally. Kinda. I am not sure on this cause there are plenty of nasty things used in fir/leather manufacture. And i really don’t want to wear dead animals myself. But does that make me just “precious” rather than an anti-cruelty person?
2. When i went to live in South Korea the people there ALL had fir/leather coats. They bought new ones every year. Considering the population difference i couldn’t help thinking that it was a waste of time telling the few people in Aussie land who even wanted to buy fir/leather coats to stop.
I usually wear wool (but now you have to find out the musling status). I do have leather shoes though....so animals still died. Some people don’t even want to wear wool cause the sheep are “kept”. If i knew that the synthetic materials were “clean and green” and could be recycled i wouldn’t worry so much. God i am worrier...cause now i am thinking about how if we all wore mass produced synthetic materials we would put master crafts men out work. And what if some disaster happened and none of the machines worked and we didn’t know how to even knit?
What to believe and when to do something? Sometimes it is hard to figure out logically. Like recycling plastics. I think the old system of glass bottles for milk was better. And you got it delivered to your door! Now you have to go to the shops and pay some one to come and take the rubbish away (and probably put in landfill).
Yeah. I WAS nearly hyperventilating. I must stop.
And to those that asked the “s” key is still stuck-ish. It is really annoying. *sigh* i am going to have to buy a keyboard for the thing now. Life is full of pain.
*grin*
Apparently
There is a big media thing at the moment that says we are eating all the fish and soon there wont be enough. I am not sure how to take this. I would like to know who i saying it and see their numbers. I had friends at uni who studied with the CSIRO and fisheries tas etc. Mostly squid people. I am not talking some weird hybrid people....rather scientists who studied squid. Squid are all kinds of awesome. *pause* That is so not the point. The point is that i had to listen to many talks about fish population, fish management, fish poaching etc.
I find it annoying that they say such things to Australians. I am SURE there are countries out there eating a LOT more fish on a daily basis than us (as a nation). It reminds me of the whole “don’t wear fir/leather” stuff. For two reasons:
1. Aside from the cruelty aspect i am not sure that it isn’t better to have one fir/leather coat and keep it for many years than buy synthetic coats every time fashion changes. I mean environmentally. Kinda. I am not sure on this cause there are plenty of nasty things used in fir/leather manufacture. And i really don’t want to wear dead animals myself. But does that make me just “precious” rather than an anti-cruelty person?
2. When i went to live in South Korea the people there ALL had fir/leather coats. They bought new ones every year. Considering the population difference i couldn’t help thinking that it was a waste of time telling the few people in Aussie land who even wanted to buy fir/leather coats to stop.
I usually wear wool (but now you have to find out the musling status). I do have leather shoes though....so animals still died. Some people don’t even want to wear wool cause the sheep are “kept”. If i knew that the synthetic materials were “clean and green” and could be recycled i wouldn’t worry so much. God i am worrier...cause now i am thinking about how if we all wore mass produced synthetic materials we would put master crafts men out work. And what if some disaster happened and none of the machines worked and we didn’t know how to even knit?
What to believe and when to do something? Sometimes it is hard to figure out logically. Like recycling plastics. I think the old system of glass bottles for milk was better. And you got it delivered to your door! Now you have to go to the shops and pay some one to come and take the rubbish away (and probably put in landfill).
Yeah. I WAS nearly hyperventilating. I must stop.
And to those that asked the “s” key is still stuck-ish. It is really annoying. *sigh* i am going to have to buy a keyboard for the thing now. Life is full of pain.
*grin*
Thursday, June 10, 2010
a blog about nothing much...it IS holidays!!!
Week two of my holidays and i am finally getting the hang of it. It involves a lot of lounging around in clothing that you would never been seen dead in and watching daytime. When i say clothes you wouldn’t be seen dead in i mean you, not me. I wear the bloomin’ things to the shops and all *grin*
I really, really don’t give a shit what people think of me these days. My da thinks this is the most likely reason i am still single. I still like to believe that i will find someone in spite of my flaws. I know it is foolishness. Seriously i have some ugly clothes. And Ugg boots. Now i come to think about it i could be a bogan girlfriend on my looks alone.
I have not been writing very much. It is winter and i am cold and my hands hurt a lot. Aside from those perfectly good excuses i am on HOLIDAY and i really do need a bit of a rest. Plus i got me an e-book reader. I am in love with it. It is a cheap one but i love lying around reading stuff on it. I had an optometrist opt. the other day and took it with me. I get now why they have been invented. You no longer have to talk to other people or read crappy, old magazines.
This morning i was showing Maree (12) a cut on my foot. Looking at it, then back to what she was doing she said to me “i feel your great loss and hope you will soon recover”. Cheeky little bugger. I like it.
Oh hang on. The “s” key on my laptop has gone stupid. This could be a problem. I swear it was not the key i spilt lemonade on. *pause* not that i had any drinks near my computer. Oh crap they’re on to me. i wonder how i’m gonna fix this? Well, i do have the rest of the week off so i guess that gives me something to do.
Running away now before my big mouth get me into more trouble.
oh. also this blog seems to not have been about anything....not that they are usually planned.
that sticky "s" key is actually going to be a problem.....
I really, really don’t give a shit what people think of me these days. My da thinks this is the most likely reason i am still single. I still like to believe that i will find someone in spite of my flaws. I know it is foolishness. Seriously i have some ugly clothes. And Ugg boots. Now i come to think about it i could be a bogan girlfriend on my looks alone.
I have not been writing very much. It is winter and i am cold and my hands hurt a lot. Aside from those perfectly good excuses i am on HOLIDAY and i really do need a bit of a rest. Plus i got me an e-book reader. I am in love with it. It is a cheap one but i love lying around reading stuff on it. I had an optometrist opt. the other day and took it with me. I get now why they have been invented. You no longer have to talk to other people or read crappy, old magazines.
This morning i was showing Maree (12) a cut on my foot. Looking at it, then back to what she was doing she said to me “i feel your great loss and hope you will soon recover”. Cheeky little bugger. I like it.
Oh hang on. The “s” key on my laptop has gone stupid. This could be a problem. I swear it was not the key i spilt lemonade on. *pause* not that i had any drinks near my computer. Oh crap they’re on to me. i wonder how i’m gonna fix this? Well, i do have the rest of the week off so i guess that gives me something to do.
Running away now before my big mouth get me into more trouble.
oh. also this blog seems to not have been about anything....not that they are usually planned.
that sticky "s" key is actually going to be a problem.....
Saturday, June 5, 2010
stuff and climate change, again.
Well i have had a good week of rest, writing and a lot of reading. I also, finally, got me an e-reader. I am most pleased. I spent all last night putting my favourite stuff on it. Then reading it for ten minutes in bed before falling asleep. It was great except for the crick neck i had when i woke up. That’s nothing really. Slept in worse places and gotten worse cricks.
Just watching Erin (2) try to entice the cat to play dollies with her. I think she is facing a losing battle there. I got distracted into building some Bratz doll stage thing when i walked through the lounge. She kept telling me i was doing it wrong. She is like 2 and couldn’t get any of it to work herself so i do think it was fair criticism. I have escaped now and so can write my blog.
I would like to say that i have been really busy this week and didn’t have time but that would be a lie. I just didn’t have anything to say. No, i take that back, i always have something to say. In this case my hands were so tired from writing i just couldn’t do it anymore. my fingers hurt!
Oh GOD...hang on...apparently the Kitty Cat is being a little recalcitrant. I will have to mount a rescue op.
...
I had a god writing week this week but nothing i can really share cause it wasn’t that kind of writing time. I was also inspired by an article this week in New Scientists (i like the mag, i like that it covers many fields, but even i will admit it is for the populace). It was about some islands NOT getting swamped by rising sea levels. I am NOT going to talk about that article as i know zero about islands and how they function. What i do have an opinion of is he misuse of the term “climate change”.
Now the climate changes all the time. It is what it does. The thing is that it mostly happens so slowly that it doesn’t really impact our daily lives on a scale we would recognise. I am not talking about the people who say “it use to rain more when i was a kid” etc. Human observation is not the best measuring device *grin*. You need data (which you have to explain in detail how you got) and an analysis methodology (which is even trickier to explain, most times). You also need a period of time great enough to remove natural variation so you can see any trends.
I am not a science educator. So i try never to explain my work unless i have to. I am just not that good at it. I am however a firm believer in the pursuit of science. I don’t like it when people get mean about the theories of other people though. Healthy debate is good. I just loath arguing for the sake of it. so i am not the best person sit through nor explain any science arguments!
Just remember that all theories are true for their creator. They might turn out to be mostly crap later but it all helps in acquiring a bigger picture. I had a prof who once said it was a pity that we didn’t have journals for publishing work that didn’t go anywhere, were a bit dodgy or proved something didn’t work. It would help others to not make the same mistakes or make suggest for improvement.
Anyway a cup of tea, a chocolate bickie and my e-reader await. *wave*
Just watching Erin (2) try to entice the cat to play dollies with her. I think she is facing a losing battle there. I got distracted into building some Bratz doll stage thing when i walked through the lounge. She kept telling me i was doing it wrong. She is like 2 and couldn’t get any of it to work herself so i do think it was fair criticism. I have escaped now and so can write my blog.
I would like to say that i have been really busy this week and didn’t have time but that would be a lie. I just didn’t have anything to say. No, i take that back, i always have something to say. In this case my hands were so tired from writing i just couldn’t do it anymore. my fingers hurt!
Oh GOD...hang on...apparently the Kitty Cat is being a little recalcitrant. I will have to mount a rescue op.
...
I had a god writing week this week but nothing i can really share cause it wasn’t that kind of writing time. I was also inspired by an article this week in New Scientists (i like the mag, i like that it covers many fields, but even i will admit it is for the populace). It was about some islands NOT getting swamped by rising sea levels. I am NOT going to talk about that article as i know zero about islands and how they function. What i do have an opinion of is he misuse of the term “climate change”.
Now the climate changes all the time. It is what it does. The thing is that it mostly happens so slowly that it doesn’t really impact our daily lives on a scale we would recognise. I am not talking about the people who say “it use to rain more when i was a kid” etc. Human observation is not the best measuring device *grin*. You need data (which you have to explain in detail how you got) and an analysis methodology (which is even trickier to explain, most times). You also need a period of time great enough to remove natural variation so you can see any trends.
I am not a science educator. So i try never to explain my work unless i have to. I am just not that good at it. I am however a firm believer in the pursuit of science. I don’t like it when people get mean about the theories of other people though. Healthy debate is good. I just loath arguing for the sake of it. so i am not the best person sit through nor explain any science arguments!
Just remember that all theories are true for their creator. They might turn out to be mostly crap later but it all helps in acquiring a bigger picture. I had a prof who once said it was a pity that we didn’t have journals for publishing work that didn’t go anywhere, were a bit dodgy or proved something didn’t work. It would help others to not make the same mistakes or make suggest for improvement.
Anyway a cup of tea, a chocolate bickie and my e-reader await. *wave*
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