Would you like Marmite on that?

Posted on March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1869, Food, Life, marmite, Memory, minor question, Question, ThinkingLeave a comment

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

I hate marmite. I ate it once when I was a child and I never ate it again. Its a minor hate, it wouldn’t hurt me to eat it, but that’s how I feel about it. So if you asked me if I’d like Marmite on something I would not thank you.

This is why I took so long to answer this prompt. I don’t think I have a real question that I would hate to be asked? I guess there will be something but I haven’t come across it yet. I must lead a sheltered life.

Thinking of a question I would hate to be asked made me realise how lucky I am not to be in a situation where I would need to answer it. I think I will leave this here as I’m starting to waffle!

Bones named

Posted on February 6, 2023February 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Biology, bones, Hand, Human, Human biology, Life, Memory, mnemonic, Question, TwitterLeave a comment

Someone on twitter asked ‘what do you know for certain?’ so I had a think about it and came up with something I remember from my human biology class.

The names of the bones of the hand, scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezius, capitate, hamate. The mnemonic to remember it is : Spanish ladies take pills that they can hop. I guess it worked because I still remember them!

can anyone tell me?

Posted on August 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged alfornio, Cooking, Food, gas oven, Heat, King prawn, linguini, meatballs, Microwave, Question, ScienceLeave a comment

As an experiment I cooked a portion of meatballs alfornio in the oven ( gas mark 7, 35 minutes) and king prawn linguini (5 minutes in the microwave). Both were cooked at the same time but I put the microwave food in when the oven food was almost cooked, so they were both piping hot.

My question to the scientific minded out there is, which used the most energy? My guess is the gas oven cooked meal. But I don’t know? What is the ratio between the two? If I want to save money, which is the best? Answers please…..

Jetpack powered?

Posted on July 14, 2022July 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Jetpack, Life, Poem, Poetry, Question, Why?, WordPress4 Comments

What does Jetpack powered mean

And why do I have to have it on my screen?

It keeps popping up on my page.

I’m not exactly in a rage.

But I am perplexed

Am I supposed to be impressed?

Is it a subtle advert

To prove that I can assert

My posts will be speedy

And not leave me needy

With WordPress

More or less.

Masked

Posted on April 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carbon Dioxide, Caution, Concern, Covid, Life, Mask, Opinion, Question, Science, Talking, Thinking4 Comments

I was just stopped in the street by a woman who said ‘you know there’s no one around?’ I looked about me and said ‘yes I can see that’. Then she said ‘so you don’t need a mask’ I looked at her. Why tell me this when I had just forgotten to take it off, but why did it matter to her? Then she said ‘it might make it difficult for you to breathe with carbon Dioxide building up behind it.’

Oh I really wanted to say something, like ‘oh dear, so many people collapsing after wearing a mask for more than five minutes!’ or ‘ they are permiable to air, they just stop viruses’. But I bit my lip under my mask and said ‘no I’m OK. I’m used to wearing a mask at night, I have sleep aponea’. ‘Oh that OK then’ she said. I said ‘goodnight’ and walked off. But then called back ‘I’m still cautious about covid’. Perhaps people belive it’s over? But it’s my choice to wear a mask.

Time travel

Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dr Who, Fun, Interesting, New scientist, Question, Relative dimensions, Space, Space and time, Tardis, Time, Time travellingLeave a comment

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A Dalek at Froghall a few years ago… That’s another story…

I was reading the New Scientists back page last week and there was a question about time travel. Where would you go to in the past or future? Something along those lines. The answer one person gave is that as the planet moves through space, if you travelled six months forwards or backwards for example, when you rematerialised Earth would be at the other side of its orbit. Difficult unless you are in a vessel with an airlock. They went on to explain that as the sun is also moving through the milky way galaxy, its planets spiral around it in its wake, so where Earth was a year ago is far behind where it is now.

I realised from reading that, that your time machine would have to move in space as well as time. In something like the T. A. R. D. I. S. This is a time machine in the Sci fi series Dr Who. It means “Time and relative dimensions in space”. In other words it can travel in space as well as time.

Considering the show was first broadcast in the 1960’s that’s pretty clever. Working out you need to be able to find the Earth’s coordinates in time and space. Mind you they were closer in time to Einstein so they might have had more of an idea about it than we do…..

Mallaband-Brown

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