Lay On, Macduff
Quote of the moment:
[accent=Brummie]"If I get my mum to bring me my bike, you have to buy me tinsel things for the end of the handlebars. Pink and silver, please."[/accent] - Ruth, from K8 (who did buy me chips last night. W00tage)
Another low-alcohol night tonight, chatting into the wee hours in one of the upstairs girls flats, to compensate for "Pub Golf" with the Civ Eng Soc last night. I downed everything in one, but fortunately it was only a 9 hole course, otherwise I might still be asleep. As it was I had to have a reverse breakfast before my one lecture of the day, which was fortunately just revising A-level pure maths. After that it was back to bed until 5pm. My Friday timetable is le awesome.
Yesterday morning I had my first "Engineering Fluid Mechanics" lecture, as well as the second in the afternoon. Genius scheduling: all three hours of it in one day. It's apparently been failed more than all the others put together, and the average percentage until two years ago was in the low forties. Last year it soared to a peak of 51%. Ouch.
The lecturer spent all three hours today giving a general non-mathematical introduction, talking Cardiff Bay for most of the two hour afternoon lecture. Apparently there are 11 million Welsh sheep and 3 million Welsh people. Sheep also produce 4 times the waste of humans and when there's a storm all the water from the mountains is full of nasties. The same thing happens when the Millenium Stadium has a big event and the sewer system can't cope at half time. Having a barrage stopping the water reaching the sea is therefore a slight problem.
He also mentioned that to produce 1kg of beef takes 44,000 litres of water. A litre is 1dm^3, right? So the Felsted pool contains about 250x100x15=375,000 litres, or 400,000 to a reasonable degree of accuracy. So all the water in the pool would only get you 9kg of beef, or 36 steaks. Hmmm. Doesn't actually sound so bad considered like that. A chicken producing 1.5 times the waste of a human sounds worse, but I reckon that includes soiled bedding.
Tomorrow(today) should be fun: Rowing induction from 12 onwards, predicted to end around 4 o'clock, followed by Fencing (3.30 til 5.30) if I have the time and/or energy left.
...And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
[accent=Brummie]"If I get my mum to bring me my bike, you have to buy me tinsel things for the end of the handlebars. Pink and silver, please."[/accent] - Ruth, from K8 (who did buy me chips last night. W00tage)
Another low-alcohol night tonight, chatting into the wee hours in one of the upstairs girls flats, to compensate for "Pub Golf" with the Civ Eng Soc last night. I downed everything in one, but fortunately it was only a 9 hole course, otherwise I might still be asleep. As it was I had to have a reverse breakfast before my one lecture of the day, which was fortunately just revising A-level pure maths. After that it was back to bed until 5pm. My Friday timetable is le awesome.
Yesterday morning I had my first "Engineering Fluid Mechanics" lecture, as well as the second in the afternoon. Genius scheduling: all three hours of it in one day. It's apparently been failed more than all the others put together, and the average percentage until two years ago was in the low forties. Last year it soared to a peak of 51%. Ouch.
The lecturer spent all three hours today giving a general non-mathematical introduction, talking Cardiff Bay for most of the two hour afternoon lecture. Apparently there are 11 million Welsh sheep and 3 million Welsh people. Sheep also produce 4 times the waste of humans and when there's a storm all the water from the mountains is full of nasties. The same thing happens when the Millenium Stadium has a big event and the sewer system can't cope at half time. Having a barrage stopping the water reaching the sea is therefore a slight problem.
He also mentioned that to produce 1kg of beef takes 44,000 litres of water. A litre is 1dm^3, right? So the Felsted pool contains about 250x100x15=375,000 litres, or 400,000 to a reasonable degree of accuracy. So all the water in the pool would only get you 9kg of beef, or 36 steaks. Hmmm. Doesn't actually sound so bad considered like that. A chicken producing 1.5 times the waste of a human sounds worse, but I reckon that includes soiled bedding.
Tomorrow(today) should be fun: Rowing induction from 12 onwards, predicted to end around 4 o'clock, followed by Fencing (3.30 til 5.30) if I have the time and/or energy left.
...And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
1 comment:
"I had to have a reverse breakfast"
Perhaps that was too subtley phrased for you.
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