Mike's World (brain farts and other adventures)According to legend a great banquet for the animals was held by god. The rat deceived the cat telling the cat that the banquet would be the day after. the cat overslept, missed the banquet and a place in the zodiac. However the tiger is part of the zodiac representing the cat family, although cats have been trying to sneak into the zodiac ever since…
People born in the year of the tiger are rare, and may find their genitals are useful for chinese medicine.
Wednesday
There used to be a football team called Blackburn Olympic, who have won an FA Cup
Thursday
Today I learnt that the place where some of my dad’s weirder Singapore photos were taken still exists under the name Haw Par Villa rather than Tiger Balm Gardens.
Friday
I learnt how to make chilli jam without pectin.
Saturday
Cats can let out a claw at a time, although I probably would have thought this I witnessed it.
Sunday
GIMP can be used to create GIF animations after downloading an addin.
Monday
I found an even more general proof of the inability of hexagons to create a ball like polyhedron without the help of 12 pentagons.
Tuesday
Trombone is french for paper clip.
Wednesday
Syphilis was known as the f4ench disease in Germany and Poland, the Italian disease in French. basically named after the nation whose travelloers spread it to a country.
Monday
Tony Harrison is not only the name of a tentacled shaman in The Mighty Boosh but is also the name of a playwright and poet.
Tuesday
Chelsea’s 6-0 win at Wigan was only the second top flight english football game with no corners (the first being Newcastle 0-0 Portsmouth in 1931-32).
Wednesday
I learnt how to add youtube videos to our VLE system
Thursday
I learnt how to amend the settings of our VLE in order to use yesterdays lesson.
Friday
I learnt to identify 3 types of edible fungus and made a soup from some of them
Saturday
I learnt a recipe for mushroom pate.
Sunday
The Duckworth Lewis system will sometimes mean a side batting second in a one day cricket game may have a larger target to chase than the first team scored. For example today Surrey needed 292 to beath Somerset’s 290 as the innings had been reduced to 36 overs when Somerset were batting. This meant Somerset had been treating the first part of the innings as if it were a 40 over match not a 36 over match. This needed correcting and resulted in an extra run for the revised target.
Monday
Moles and Gerbils have pups.
Tuesday
Cats are injected in the back of the neck.
Monday
Einstein found E=mc^2 by guesswork, not by experiment.
Tuesday
I found that I like Old Amsterdam cheese.
Wednesday
A 8 week old kitten has a stomach the size of a walnut.
Thursday
I learnt how to assemble an office chair.
Friday
There is no native toads in Madagascar
Saturday
The scoville scale for chillis was created in 1902
Sunday
A donkey is stronger than a horse of the same size.