Yesterday afternoon was a sad one. Whist having a snack after a long day of work, I made myself a Milo. My Milo tin has been growing empty recently, a sure sign that I need to go to the supermarket reasonably soon. This meant that I had to do a little bit of extra work [continued...]
Oct 222006
The recent spate of assignments around uni has lead me to some interesting observations on overtired students and their assignments: Sense of Humour: It has struck me that almost anything is funnier after being awake for more than 18 hours. This phenomenon has been well documented throughout the ages, but only recently has it come [continued...]
I have a message for Product Development, Product Improvement, and Idea Generation engineers/scientists everywhere. Sit down and take a load off. Someone’s beaten you to it. The best product ever has been developed and is currently in circulation, and it takes into account all of your fields and puts them to shame. Ladies and gentlemen, [continued...]
I have often been asked why I decided on Mechatronics as a discipline, and to use the immortal words of Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Whilst on my little jaunt down this road they call Mechatronics, [continued...]
Oct 112006
Washing dishes is a chore, there’s no contest there. It sucks. It’s one of those ‘facts of life’ that your parents always told you about, but you never believed because you had this magical machine which washed them for you. You’d put them in dirty, and they’d come out clean. Magic. Well some of us [continued...]
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