Fuddland

• How a Dyson vacuum cleaner works

• The square root of 2,049

• The size of the strawberries I got from Tesco the other day [disturbingly large]

• The length of time between my buying a DVD burner and burning my first DVD [five months: early September–yesterday]

• The amount of marking I’ve got to do [sixty-three Excel spreadsheets]

• My costume for a “Through the Ages” fancy dress party in two weeks

• The average weight of a rabbit

• Whiskey

• The ratio of how often I cut my fingernails to how often I cut my toenails [current estimate is 5:1]

• Mädchen Amick

• Breaking in my new boots [several days of nerve-tingling pain shooting up through my shins, but they’re loosening up nicely now]

• Trees

• The origin of the word “rutting”

• Several others things

• And many more things besides those other things

• And everything else on the planet

#1

Cathy | 2005 / 02 / 11 – 13:51

Weird. I bought my first DVD burner in August, and burned my first DVD on Saturday…

And it’s the same NEC DVD burner as yours, as I recall :-)

#2

David | 2005 / 02 / 11 – 14:15

Re #1: Indeed it is. If ever buying a single blank dual-layer, double-sided DVD doesn’t require remortgaging one’s house, I might even get to use it to it’s fullest capabilities someday. ;)

#3

bsag | 2005 / 02 / 11 – 14:44

> The average weight of a rabbit;

I’m glad I’m not the only one who cares about things like this. Just today I found myself Googling for the percentage of basal metabolic rate consumed by the human brain (20% in case you’re interested - my memory only provided the vague figure ‘a lot’, hence the need for a search). And no, this wasn’t to justify eating a bar of chocolate after reading a particularly difficult journal article…

#4

Kav | 2005 / 02 / 11 – 14:44

“My costume for a “Through the Agesâ€? fancy dress party in two weeks”

have you thought about something with a Nazi feel?
No?
Okay then.

#5

David | 2005 / 02 / 11 – 15:20

Re #3: You and your fancy biology jargon. Just to save others looking it up, the basal metabolic rate is “the turnover of energy in a fasting and resting organism using energy solely to maintain vital cellular activity, respiration, and circulation”, i.e. how much energy we use up by doing just enough to stay alive. [Unless I was the only one in the world who didn’t know the proper name for that process.]

20% just for the brain, you say? Is than an average over the whole population? ;)

#6

David | 2005 / 02 / 11 – 15:22

Re #4: Yeah I considered it, but the fear of a huge media uproar made me think twice. :P

#7

bsag | 2005 / 02 / 11 – 18:28

Re #5: Oops, sorry about the jargon :-) Yes, it is an average, though apparently newborn babies’ brains use 50% of their basal metabolic rate. Can’t think what for though…

#8

Richard | 2005 / 02 / 13 – 21:33

Hang on … Are Charles and Camilla getting married??

#9

David | 2005 / 02 / 14 – 11:15

Re #8: Don’t ask me, I don’t care!

#10

Daisy | 2005 / 02 / 16 – 17:26

Re: your costume for a “Through the Ages� fancy dress party in two weeks.

Just make sure it involves a skirt. Must keep the ladies happy eh? :-0))

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