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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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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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News…

Since some of the things I learnt this week are in a pub quiz on the following Tuesday I have had to change the date of posting them. Also there is only 4 more days to go till this months dancing animal (which is rumoured to be an otter) needs to be posted otherwise that resolution will fail…

The suspense is immense.

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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.
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Flowing Ants
Ants flowing towards their sweet reward.
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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.
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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.
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A Week of Fine Lessons

Monday

I learnt that Aristophanes and that he wrote a play called “The Birds” but more excitingly invented the phrase “Cloud Cuckoo Land”

Tuesday

I came across the name parallelepiped for the first time, I am amazed I have not come across it earlier…

Wednesday

I found out there is a Zilna in South Africa, so best to type Zilina correctly if you are trying to google the place in Slovakia…

Thursday

There is a Buckminster Fuller Institute. Not sure exactly what they do but they do seem to be the authority on the Worlds largest Geodesic Dome which they say is Fantasy Entertainment Complex: Kyosho Isle Japan, 710 ft (216 m).

Friday

Universal studios in Singapore has the tallest duelling roller coasters in the world (at this time 17th September 20110).

Saturday

When a team has a free hit in cricket the field has to stay the same (or at least it does in the pro40 tournament).

Sunday

There are 22 000 members of the MCC worldwide. (18 000 are entitled to watch every match at Lords).

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Review of Somerset’s Cricket Season

In the twenty 20 cup Somerset came second,
And in the County Championship they also came second,
Then to great applause
They made the final at Lords
And there in the pro40 cup Somerset came second.
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Hamster Cricket
Gareth the Hamster left hand batsman and leg-spinner
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Severn bore (part 2)

I find mediums, alternative medicine, general  pagan beliefs both tedious but also a sort of tax on the gullible…

There was a young charlatan from Chepstow,
Who would con people wherever they’d go,
They claimed to be a medium,
Which is fake and such tedium,
And con gullible people at their show.
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The Severn Bore (part 1)

Local news mentioned the Severn Bore,
A thing I assumed might make me snore,
But then I saw it was a wave,
Which was surfed by the brave,
Then I was interested in finding out more.