Hmm. I think I'll stick with the free stuff for now.
19 May 2006
We don't need oxygen...
Not only are JJ72 wrong about not needing oxygen (QED by D. Blaine), a Japanese Spar-a-like chain of shops suggests that a measly 21% isn't enough by planning to sell compressed 95% oxygen in cans. One can will apparently last about 70 seconds (or 35 x 2s bursts as they are marketing it).
Hmm. I think I'll stick with the free stuff for now.
Hmm. I think I'll stick with the free stuff for now.
18 May 2006
On a mat o' poetry
Want an interesting comparative study in language or just a way to waste ten minutes listening to kids make animal and vehicle noises? Try onomatopoeic library Bzzzpeek [needs sound]. The British ones are quite amusing ('giddy up' from a Princess Anne sound-a-like) and some of the foreign ones are baffling - do goats in Hungary really say 'Mars Bar'?
17 May 2006
Port-foiled
Hello
Last Friday saw the hand in of my portfolio, the sum total of my 5 years of medical school. It was a momentous occasion, but one that passed with a great deal of not-sleeping. I blame the weekend of vomiting and diarrhoea that I had enjoyed the Saturday and Sunday before, but others might blame my lack of foresight and laziness. Unfortunately it isn't as simple as writing a lot of guff, I now have to justify the guff in an oral exam next week.
Of course in the midst of this we found out that the rent on our current flat does not end at the end of July (as we expected after we wrote a very polite letter much earlier in the year asking for this extension) but rather in 3 weeks time - scrabbling around for flats has never been so much fun. We may well have found one, but justifying earnings when all I have to prove that I will have a job in August is a rather vague letter of acceptance. Well, we shall see, we shall see (anyone got any nice watertight cardboard boxes?)
Musically, I've acquired a nice shiny pile of CDs including the lovely 'The Swell Season' from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (who I saw live in Lisburn last summer) and a couple which I've been meaning to get for a while including Elbow 'Leaders of the Free World', Sparklehorse, 'It's A Wonderful Life' (thanks Stephen), and the Flaming Lips 'At War with the Mystics' and very recently, Grandaddy's departing album 'Just Like the Fambly Cat' all of which are proving great in a similar vocal style, save for Elbow.
For the next week I shall be attempting to prepare for my oral exam, but who knows what form that preparation will take? If only my favourite bands would sing about something more useful...hmm but I guess that would be pretty dull.
Bleep bleep.
Last Friday saw the hand in of my portfolio, the sum total of my 5 years of medical school. It was a momentous occasion, but one that passed with a great deal of not-sleeping. I blame the weekend of vomiting and diarrhoea that I had enjoyed the Saturday and Sunday before, but others might blame my lack of foresight and laziness. Unfortunately it isn't as simple as writing a lot of guff, I now have to justify the guff in an oral exam next week.
Of course in the midst of this we found out that the rent on our current flat does not end at the end of July (as we expected after we wrote a very polite letter much earlier in the year asking for this extension) but rather in 3 weeks time - scrabbling around for flats has never been so much fun. We may well have found one, but justifying earnings when all I have to prove that I will have a job in August is a rather vague letter of acceptance. Well, we shall see, we shall see (anyone got any nice watertight cardboard boxes?)
Musically, I've acquired a nice shiny pile of CDs including the lovely 'The Swell Season' from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (who I saw live in Lisburn last summer) and a couple which I've been meaning to get for a while including Elbow 'Leaders of the Free World', Sparklehorse, 'It's A Wonderful Life' (thanks Stephen), and the Flaming Lips 'At War with the Mystics' and very recently, Grandaddy's departing album 'Just Like the Fambly Cat' all of which are proving great in a similar vocal style, save for Elbow.
For the next week I shall be attempting to prepare for my oral exam, but who knows what form that preparation will take? If only my favourite bands would sing about something more useful...hmm but I guess that would be pretty dull.
Bleep bleep.
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