blog day again...

I am addicted to this show on the tellie called Cheese Slices (http://cheeseslices.com/)

It is a show all about cheese.

Apart from Master Chef, Gruen Transfer and random programs on SBS or ABC it is like the only program i deliberately watch. I am still not sure about why i love Master Chef so much. I don’t cook and hate food (cause i have so many friggin allergies/intolerances). I don’t really like the judges or the competitors or competitive tv. They keep crying when they CHOSE to be on the tellie and new what it was all about when they signed on. Gee. I do like Gary.

This has nothing to do with the cheese program. I like cheese but i don’t love it. I hardly ever eat it. Still, i LOVE watching the show. It is weird. It is about CHEESE!!!!

*sigh*

BTW this blog site is trying to make me update my layout. I hate that. When there are just too many choices i make the wrong one. You should see me in a shoe store. Sooooo many shoes. None of which go with any outfit/occasion pertaining to me. Still, i have to buy them.
Today we had a PL day. It was good actually. Usually i dislike them because i am just not a group person. Unless it is in relation to research projects. That is different because i like doing them and know what i am talking about.

One of the things that came up in discussion was what is the current LARGE amount of self help books saying to kids today? I think it is telling them from the get go that they are not good enough and need fixing. I say this because we had to identify our strengths and it was really, really difficult. Not so difficult to say what we were crap at!!

Anyway have to go air out this room...i lit a candle to have some nice atmospheric fragrance but i just have a headache and feel a little sick. Rubbish candles. Rubbish nose. Stupid me.

I hope your having a nice day. I just cleaned and tidied and threw things away. Always cheers me up.

*wave*

some musings on volcanos and gifts

I love learning things. Tonight i am watching a tv program about the recent volcano in Iceland. I am much a nerd. I LOVE all the details. Second only to my interest in vulcanology is glaciology and then Egyptology. This program (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/201007/programs/ZX1245A001D2010-07-15T213000.htm)
is really interesting because it is half science and half the study of the implications of a volcano on us (or daily life). The reactions of people to natural disasters are so fascinating. You would think it was all designed to be inconvenient. The thing is that the natural world doesn’t even know we are here. Well i work with sea ice, satellites and computers so i guess i am use to things....oh hang on they are explaining Lidar...i LOVE that someone is doing that!!

I LOVE working with remotely sensed data and understanding what story they have to tell.

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You probably don’t know this little fact about me. it is that i am the only person who can make my mother loose her temper. I am ashamedly proud of that. My mother never raises her voice or gets properly cross. I do it all the time. Even on my own. With just my own company. You should just hear me go off at myself. I once made her so cross she threw a vacuum cleaner at me. The wheel fell off. I may have then laughed. I am SURE this did nothing to calm anyone’s temper.

I am not sure i am suppose to mention the vacuum cleaner incident. No i take that back. I KNOW i am not allowed to bring it up. Not like she ever reads this blog.

*pause*

So if you know my mum please don’t bring it up.

*nod*

I was thinking about this because i have been trying to figure out what skills i have that are unique and worthy. Apart from being the one person who can piss my mother off (without even really trying). Another skill is an ability to converse with shop keepers and people waiting in queues with me. Yeah i know. I can’t figure that one out either.

Why can’t i have some amazing and cool gift?

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so i think i am going to make a list of things i like doing and find something new to do. See. Decision made. I am SURE things are going to be better now

*grin*

a bit of a ramble

Ever had guests that try your patience by using all the hot water, eat all your food and get up way, way too early in the morning? I have. They are just about one sleep away from leaving. I MISS them already! I know. It is soooo weird.

All the added people has meant that i have been relegated to my bedroom for some quiet. I have been watching a lot of DVD’s. Two reasons....kids tv today is terrible....and the new digital tv service is CRAP when it rains or snows. It is the middle of winter. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out how i am faring with that. The only saving grace is that most tv programs are terrible.

So i have been watching Stargate Atlantis (my FAVOURITE show). I was watching (mostly listening) to a commentary and it was talking about the B.L.U.’s. This stands for Blink Light Unit’s. They sit around and look like computers busy doing things. This got me thinking and remembering. In real life big and powerful computer systems do not have blinking lights. They are not necessary and besides lights require power and produce heat. A computer system does not need either. However people expect lots of blinking lights. It shows that something is going on.

You might think that it is just tv people messing with us. Not true. I have a story about an old department of mine and the near disastrous lack of blinking lights. They got a big, cool new computer system and decided to put a glass wall thing in so people could look at it. It takes a special type of person to want to look at boxes just sitting there with cords coming out of them.

Turns out that the people paying for the computer system (and the window thingy) are not those type of people. To solve the problem “things” were constructed to give the impression of blinking lights which indicated money well spent. They didn’t cost much money themselves (because that would have been really difficult to explain in a audit).but they did the trick.
Not that my old system admin needed the blinking lights to know when the computer was being used. It use to vibrate and make noises. Turns out if you have to sit with the thing day in, day out you kinda get a feeling for the machine. Apparently you could eventually figure out precisely who was using the machine to do what. Like, maybe, when i have stuff running!

I know. Some of us computer people are soooo geeky.

And yes. I AM the person that commentaries were invented for *grin*

bye *wave*