Because I always wanted badges

For some reason many of the badges on this site made me think of Chris. ...and I think I'll leave it to you to find out what these all mean. I may not quite qualify for "I blog about science" but I put it there anyway.

time is an illusion

I was just thinking about time-zones and daylight savings & how to find out what time it is somewhere now you need to find an online map. Then my mind moved to how people used to determined the day from when dawn was. Then I thought, since we know the rotation of the earth round the sun, we can work out dawn for all longitudes and latitudes, so we should now be able to make clocks where we just type in our long and lat and then it could give us our day based on dawn and sunset D:0:00 would be dawn, D:1:00 would be one hour after dawn N:0:00 would be sunset, and so on...the number of hours etc for each would vary over the year, but you could always start work x hours after sunrise and work for y hours. No more need for daylight saving.
Since we have online maps telling us the what time it is everywhere else, we could still use these to tell us whether we could contact people easily. Or even better, instead of standard clocks, we'd have plasma display screens showing us our daylight time with a list down the side of other places we were interested in for quick reference.

This can't be an original idea, off to google.

regrets

I bought an oil painting...it needed framing...it was big

I regret the framing cost for matting the painting like a tryptich and putting it behind glass was $170 more than just framing it. As it is, its costing twice what I paid for it to frame it - not unusual.

I regret that doing this would also have increased the weight to in excess of 20kg, requiring hanging on a wall stud rather than just plaster...as well as increasing the size to something that wouldn't fit on any eligable wall in my home.

....beacause it looked so very, very cool.

Double matting; thin strip of chocolate brown covered by top wide strip of cream coffee colour, in a dark wood frame, three tall strips of faces with lots of primary colour over creams and browns....sigh

At least I got the names of the matting colours so when I am rich and buy a home of my own with plenty of sturdy presentation walls, I can spend the $500 to reframe it.

I'll put in a shot of the standard oil-painting framing when I get it back.

heh...

I'd play this too.

In other news, the people I have coffee with in the morning didn't turn up, so I had to use my own coffee machine..Its been so long I don't know if the beans I had in a moccona jar were decaf or not. I guess my level of alertness today will tell me. On an up side, my office now smells of coffee...grinders do that

The big Wetter

or should that be the bigger wet? The causeway to the vet school is now under by 6 inches.

The Big Wet

8 inches of rain last night.
My feet are damp.
I forgot to bring in my camera.

I'll have to borrow the department one. Theres a really cool cluster of bright yellow mushrooms with red centres over near the micro building. They look quite Fairylandish. I'd probably die in agonised convulsions if I tried to eat them. I've also taken photos of the rushing creek. Nice department 10megapixel camera.

There is a walk bridge across the normally (but not anymore) dry creek

And if you thought that was flooded...try the main causeway we drive over to get in. It was over this morning. But possibly the weirdest bit was the electrical cable access cover that was on quite high ground...bubbling water through the leverage holes

Edited because I got hold of the camera.