Comments on: Odd Encounter http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/ A conquest for an expanded World View, and the Ultimate Free Lunch Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Michael http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-623 Michael Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:47:39 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-623 Oh well, just go here... <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/c123.html" rel="nofollow">Centrifugal Force</a> Oh well, just go here…

Centrifugal Force

]]> By: Michael http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-622 Michael Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:46:45 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-622 Hmm, the image didn't appear. Hopefully this works... [img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png"]Centrifugal Force[/img] Hmm, the image didn’t appear.

Hopefully this works…

[img src=”http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png”]Centrifugal Force[/img]

]]> By: Michael http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-621 Michael Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:45:21 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-621 I saw this comic today and I just had to share it with you Mechanics types. I love it. :-D I saw this comic today and I just had to share it with you Mechanics types.

I love it. :-D

]]> By: Dave http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-620 Dave Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:20:18 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-620 and on that editors note... it annoys me that since IR laws where mentioned, anything that has a whisper of negative to do with anything in this country is soley attributed to John Winston Howard, rather his party. I'm sure he isn't the sole brains trust behind every wile scheme in this country. (otherwise we're all in serious trouble) and secondly people who voted him in can't complain, people who voted another party suffer and people from other countries, well let's just say we didn't vote in Helen Clark ;) (i think it was based on her all natural NZ good looks and peronality!) and on that editors note… it annoys me that since IR laws where mentioned, anything that has a whisper of negative to do with anything in this country is soley attributed to John Winston Howard, rather his party. I’m sure he isn’t the sole brains trust behind every wile scheme in this country. (otherwise we’re all in serious trouble) and secondly people who voted him in can’t complain, people who voted another party suffer and people from other countries, well let’s just say we didn’t vote in Helen Clark ;) (i think it was based on her all natural NZ good looks and peronality!)

]]> By: Dave http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-619 Dave Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:06:59 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-619 I'm lucky enough to work in coles and i'm gonna let you all in on a little secret about the grocery department people... they look either at their trolleys or the ground out of fear of making contact with whatever freak of human nautre/loneliness that walks in off the street. i was brow bashed today by a lovely old lady that in the course of an hour 1) mistook me for her grandson on several occasions 2) was extremely distraught with the lack of brands of gelatine, not jelly but gelatine, we had in stock and 3) spoke to me at length about the difference between boxes, tubs, bags and jars. it was freakin great! ;) well lets see how much of your time and money your willing to have wasted when you spend the bestpart of an hour wandering around suburbia with a taxi driver who has no idea where he is and is not at all impressed that i demanded the meter to be restarted when he found his way back... nor, i assume, would be too pleased with an "strayan" citizen assuming that it is still the 50s in reguards to womens rights or baby heads are acceptable gifts. I’m lucky enough to work in coles and i’m gonna let you all in on a little secret about the grocery department people… they look either at their trolleys or the ground out of fear of making contact with whatever freak of human nautre/loneliness that walks in off the street. i was brow bashed today by a lovely old lady that in the course of an hour 1) mistook me for her grandson on several occasions 2) was extremely distraught with the lack of brands of gelatine, not jelly but gelatine, we had in stock and 3) spoke to me at length about the difference between boxes, tubs, bags and jars.

it was freakin great! ;)

well lets see how much of your time and money your willing to have wasted when you spend the bestpart of an hour wandering around suburbia with a taxi driver who has no idea where he is and is not at all impressed that i demanded the meter to be restarted when he found his way back… nor, i assume, would be too pleased with an “strayan” citizen assuming that it is still the 50s in reguards to womens rights or baby heads are acceptable gifts.

]]> By: GeM http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-618 GeM Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:30:17 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-618 Mary, our local homeless person, gave me a lecture on politics last night between drinking beers and smoking cigarettes inside the laudromat. For some reason, I think it's the random conversations you are going to remember years from now. On that editor's note, our lovely government have interesting policies w regard to english testing for Permanent Residency applications. A friend of mine was suprised to find out that her VCE English score (which happened to be better than her Chinese VCE score!) didn't count when it came to PR : that she'd have to sit another English test, generally accepted to be easier. Seems like a waste of time and administration costs to me. Mary, our local homeless person, gave me a lecture on politics last night between drinking beers and smoking cigarettes inside the laudromat. For some reason, I think it’s the random conversations you are going to remember years from now.

On that editor’s note, our lovely government have interesting policies w regard to english testing for Permanent Residency applications. A friend of mine was suprised to find out that her VCE English score (which happened to be better than her Chinese VCE score!) didn’t count when it came to PR : that she’d have to sit another English test, generally accepted to be easier. Seems like a waste of time and administration costs to me.

]]> By: Will http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-617 Will Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:23:10 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/12/12/odd-encounter/#comment-617 [Editor's Note] Yeah that's right, I'm the editor as well, but just thought I'd add a little comment to say that it also appears that John Howard is aiming to more <a href="http://news.google.com/?ncl=1111900406&hl=en" rel="nofollow">accurately test</a> those people wanting to become Australian Citizens. I'm not entirely sure how, but he seems determined. [Editor’s Note] Yeah that’s right, I’m the editor as well, but just thought I’d add a little comment to say that it also appears that John Howard is aiming to more accurately test those people wanting to become Australian Citizens. I’m not entirely sure how, but he seems determined.

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