So, finally made it to Hong Kong! Leaving Melbourne we managed to get our flight delayed by 2 hours because some fellow in Adelaide brought sand onto the plane, but someone identified it as a ‘mysterious powder’ so it had to be closely examined. Nice one. Then once we were on the plane, an incoming [continued...]
While celebrating the end of exams recently, a visitor to my humble abode brought along an apple pie or three to help kick things along. This is all well and good, but what about the means of eating it? Because of the hot nature of apple pie, it’s not the sort of thing one can [continued...]
Jun 202006
Lift manufacture is a curious thing. One would think it’s relatively straight-forward to design a lift: it goes up; then goes down again. Sure there’s a little more to it than that, but it’s the bells and whistles they add that cause me grief. Example: That ping that lifts make when they reach your floor. [continued...]
Jun 182006
God bless Subway stamps. I know they’re just a sneaky scheme to keep you coming back, but it works! I admit that I eat there a little more often than I should, but it’s just because it tastes so good! And I don’t really consider it ‘fast food’ per say. It’s more ‘reasonably-paced food’, and [continued...]
Jun 162006
For the first time in my university career I filled a whole exam booklet with text. Now some of you – those involved in arts and the like – may think that this isn’t a strange thing at all. However let’s reflect for a moment: I do engineering, and I am well acquainted with filling [continued...]
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