What I Learnt Today

It is not surprising that luggage sometimes gets lost.

It is amazing that any suitcase ever makes it on to the correct plane.

Heathrow, for example, has 30 miles of conveyor belts and 2.8 miles of tunnels.

This video follows one bag’s journey at Amsterdam’s Schiphzl Airport. (Welcome home Ollie and Rose)

This must be how Sulley and Mike felt chasing Boo’s door.

What I Learnt On 13th January in other years

13th January 2011 My Blackberry Is Not Working!

Seen in Little Nonya restaurant , Lismore, tonight.

What I Learnt On 12th January in other years

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12th January 2011 Presentation Zen

David Bowie always seemed to know what he was doing, even though nobody else did.

He released his last video on Thursday.

It is appropriately called ‘Lazarus‘.

Look up here, I’m in heaven
I’ve got scars that can’t be seen
I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen
Everybody knows me now

Look up here, man, I’m in danger
I’ve got nothing left to lose
I’m so high it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cell phone down below

Ain’t that just like me

By the time I got to New York
I was living like a king
Then I used up all my money
I was looking for your ass

This way or no way
You know, I’ll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now ain’t that just like me

Oh I’ll be free
Just like that bluebird
Oh I’ll be free
Ain’t that just like me

Rosi will be especially sad today.

What I Learnt On 11th January in other years

11th January 2011 Plan B – You always needs a Backup Plan

What do you know? Ollie cleaned out the ‘sport box’ today and found all of these, with another couple under the tree at deep fine leg of the Mirrambeena Cricket Ground.

What I Learnt On 10th January in other years

10th January 2011 Saving a wet mobile phone or iPod

My phone vibrates in my thigh pocket, and reflexly I reach down to answer. But my phone isn’t there. Or if it is there, it isn’t ringing.

This has been happening to me frequently over the last few weeks. It is more common when I am ‘on call’, or if I am expecting a call.

I’m glad to know that at least I’m not the only one going crazy.

Research by Professor Michelle Drouin at Indiana University found that 89% of the 290 undergraduates that she surveyed had experienced what is known as ‘Phantom Vibration Syndrome’

I wonder if women and men have a different experience of phantom vibration syndrome as they tend to carry their phone in different places?

In the best medical tradition of having a fancy name for a simple problem, I hereby propose that the specific phantom vibration syndrome that occurs in the thigh be known by the greek name ‘Meraesthesia Aphonia’.

mer– related to thigh, as in meralgia paraesthetica, which is pain from pinching of the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh

-aesthesia meaning sensation (such as paraesthesia or anaesthesia)

aphonia meaning loss of voice. In this case, meaning absence of phone.

Are you also suffering from a case of Meraesthesia Aphonia?

What I Learnt On 9th January in other years

9th January 2012 TUAW Best of 2011 Awards

9th January 2011 Winning the Infinity Blade