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Limerick

In the land of unbelievableness

Who will help me with my excel macros today,
I want to evaluate markov chains if I may,
I will maybe now ask,
The ones who now have the task,
Of telling us how IT works or so they say.
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Lessons

October 7th – October 12th (a fine week for lessons)

Wednesday

Kori Bustard and the Great Bustard both are about equal in weight and are the worlds heaviest flying birds.

Thursday

I learnt how to make and use custom brushes in GIMP, wish I had learnt earlier!

Friday

Camel spiders (solifugae) are not spiders but are 10 legged arachnids.

Saturday

The slowest speed of light recorded is 40mph through -272 C sodium.

Sunday

I learnt how to tell a hygenic hawker stall from a more dodgy one.

Monday

An open comedo is the technical name for a blackhead.

Tuesday

The proper name for The Gherkin in London is the RE Swiss building. Also Emile Heskey has the middle name Ivanhoe.

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Limerick

The James Joyce of Toy Town

Apparantly according to the site “I Write Like” my style is James Joyce. However I analysed a few limericks which have come up as having the style of Stephen King for some and Daniel Defoe for ones about cricket. I look forward to reading some of Stephen Kings limericks and Daniel Defoes limericks… I think they may go something like this

The child was not quite alright in his head,
And he would have strange dark dreams when in bed,
As his wardrobe would rattle,
You could hear running cattle,
As they were chased by some dogs who once were dead.
~
The man woke up and exclaimed “Oh heck”,
As he was on an island after the ship wreck,
If only he had a man Friday,
Before he sailed who could say,
“Have you got your razor? Should you not check?”

Unfortunately my stephen King limerick apparantly accoriding to the site, the style of Charles Dickens, whereas the Daniel Defoe one apparantly is Stephen King like. I thought Dickens be more of this sort…

The poor downtrodden starving little orphans,
Had no friends family or fans,
Society was to blame,
It really was a shame,
That they had no mother, father uncles, or grans.
~

Apparantly this is more James Fenimoore Cooper than Dickens though, so if that was your first thought when reading it well done.

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Lessons

First October Lessons

Friday

The Ostrich has the largest eyes of any land animal.

Saturday

The Chinese Salamandar is the worlds biggest Amphibian, and can be 6 foot in length.

Sunday

Nigella Lawson supports Chelsea.

Monday

Mr Tickle was the first Mr Man character, and probably the one most likely to be sacked for inappropiate behaviour in the work place. Mr Nosey I would be wary of too.

Tuesday

The first true cuckoo clock was made in 1738.

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New Year Resolutions 2010

The Dancing Otter just in time!

Dancing Otter
He dances well but you must be careful when you meet Mr Otter, For this aquatic mammal can at his worst be a sneaky little plotter.
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Lessons New Year Resolutions 2010

Some Final September Lessons (20th – 30th September)

Due to the realignment of posting due to possible quiz issues, here is a mega posting of lessons learnt at the end of September…

Monday

Al Capone was called Alphonse

Tuesday

There are 2618 toilets in the new Wembley.

Wednesday

A hydrogen atom doubled in size 120 times would cover the visible universe. An A4 sheet of paper only requires to be doubled 90 times. Charlie Chaplin once came 3rd in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

Thursday

The deathcap is the most common cause of fungus poisoning and destroys the liver and kidneys.

Friday

The root of the deadly nightshade is the most toxic, yet rabbits can eat deadly nightshade without any problems.

Saturday

Three members of the Capulet household are named in Romeo and Juliet but are not characters in the play.

Sunday

Ed is younger than David Milliband, I never really took an interest in the Labour leadership…

Monday

I learnt that if a network has vertices IABCDO order 1,3,3,3,3,1 such that the adjacency matrix is (010000)(101100)(010110)(011010)(001011)(000000), and the start is at I. If left and right are chosen at random the probability of exiting at O rather than I is 3/5

Tuesday

Around the world in 80 days won an Oscar.

Wednesday

I learnt that page 11 on the AQA formula books is where you will find the binomial distribution formula if you have not learnt it!

Thursday

I learnt what a picoscope looks like. Tomorrow I may try to find out what one does, or measures!

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Limerick New Year Resolutions 2010

The Otter

When the sun is replaced in the sky by the moon,
And 12 hours have passed since it was noon,
It is starting to get late,
Wouldn’t it be great,
If we could just see that otter arrive soon.
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Limerick

Is Ed The Red Under The Bed?

Whatever the political persuasion it is good to have a strong opposition party. To celebrate the new labour party leader I decided against a painted plate and opted for limerick instead…

So its the Milliband who is known as Ed,
Who is now UK’s most senior red,
As he tries to avoid schism
Within british socialism
Lets hope that his party’s well led
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Limerick

Flowing Ants

These ants will steadily through tunnels go,
Hoping they dont reach their destination too slow
They would go faster but,
They find that the minimum cut,
Matches their maximum possible flow.
~
Flowing Ants
Ants flowing towards their sweet reward.
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Limerick

The Hedgehogs of Königsberg

These spikey animals seem exceedingly cheery,
As they run distances that would make you weary,
But they would think it would be nice,
Not to cross a bridge twice,
But they have not yet studied much graph theory.
~
The Hedgehogs of Königsberg.
The Hedgehogs of Königsberg for fun try to run over each bridge once and once only while they are out jogging.