Archive for October, 2005
Fish Fun. Fair?
A fish lover asks
recently while cleaning out my fish one of them managed to get into the hose which I was using to drain the tank. After capturing it and returning it to the tank it immediately went back into the tube for another ride back into the waste bucket. Am I not providing enough entertainment, is my fish suicidal or just thick?
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time to kill
Tourist to be
I have 5 days to kill in Bueno Aires and want to make sure I make the most of it. What would be the most sensible thing to do with my time. See the city, go to the beach or go to the pampas?
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Anonymous Says:
October 18th, 2005 at 10:28 pmAnother All-Star Blogging Site Opens
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What’s interesting, is that I posted a link to your blog only once from my devicenet rfid blog and found that many of my rfid readers were asking for the URL after I took it down. I guess they do have things in common with your readers. -
October 19th, 2005 at 7:50 amWell, I’d leave the city and head to the country where the interesting features are. If you stay in the city, you may end up like anonymous below and become fixated on money. Before going though, have a look at http://www.worldtravelwatch.com/ which is a handy web site. Remember - cities smell worse then penguins
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October 20th, 2005 at 11:03 amI found this page http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/turismo/home/ to be fairly useful…..
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October 26th, 2005 at 9:37 amHow about learning the Argentinian Tango? Then you could impress lots of people on your return.
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Penguins as pets?
A youthful animal lover from the United States asks
Can I keep a penguin in the bath?
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October 18th, 2005 at 3:24 pmNo. No matter how endearing penguins may appear, they do not make good pets. They are not cuddly, but extremely muscular and require a huge pool to exercise in; a bathtub would not be sufficient. Their flippers and beak can easily cause injury to anyone handling them. Penguins smell really very bad; bad enough to offend you, your friends, relatives and neighbours. Perhaps consider a more conventional pet such as goldfish.
Websites such as http://www.penguinwarehouse.com that purport to sell penguins as pets are amusing hoaxes.
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October 20th, 2005 at 8:49 amI agree with C about the joys of penguins (best from a distance). Maybe you want to consider adopting. http://www.falklandsconservation.com will allow you to adopt a king penguin
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Work like an Italian?
Returning from a recent trip the question has to be asked…..
should the UK start to work in the style of the Italians? They refuse to start work before 9 and even after this tardie time, have to make sure they have had a coffee, a chat and also a preen. Lunch is a 1 1/2hr affair and the end of the day is 6 (if not earlier on a friday). Are we in the UK missing a trick?
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October 18th, 2005 at 3:33 pmhmmm well, I can’t say that I work any harder than the Italians, but you didn’t seem to mention the siestas, which I believe should be made mandatory over here.
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October 19th, 2005 at 8:03 amWell, it is a difficult one, and the hours are not as simple as you say they are - many shops stay open until 7:30 in the evening. However, the italians also like to extend their time away from work by having an incredible number of strikes (see http://www.worldtravelwatch.com/ for travel related strike days).The real issue is whether the UK economy could be sustained at its current level if we adopted this kind of working practice. Incredibly, in 2004, the UK GDP was only slightly greater than in Italy ($ 1,782,000,000,000 vs $ 1,609,000,000,000), despite having similar populations (60,441,457 vs 58,103,033).
However, does the UK really want to become like italy, which is the most corrupt ‘western’ european country(http://ww1.transparency.org/cpi/2005/cpi2005_infocus.html)
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What should I eat?
This from a concerned traveller
It’s a little early for lunch, yet I must commence a journey to Europe. I am flying on a no-frills airline that does not provide complimentary sandwiches. I detest paying for overpriced airline and airport food, and have little food in the house. What should I do?
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October 13th, 2005 at 11:12 amMake some food for your travel companions also
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October 13th, 2005 at 12:26 pmA tricky one. The option is to take your own food, but remember egg or tuna sandwiches may not be a good choice in an enclosed plane cabin. Shame it is within Europe, because in other places you could nip outside the airport and get some great food from street stalls, (but avoid those dodgy meat samosas before a flight). I would suggest a couple of Mars bars, and a couple of bananas and oranges. You can always snack to your hearts content on Italian pastry products (if Italy is perchance your destination) with your coffee in the morning.
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Should I stay or should I go
An edinburgh city dweller asks
I currently live in the centre of the city and have the opportunity to move north up to fife. This will create many issues but also solve many more. In your views would it be common sense to move?
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October 11th, 2005 at 8:04 amCity boy,
An interesting question, but since you do not indicate the importance of the issues in this clash on whether you should stay, or go now, it is difficult to advise. However, if it is an equally weighted thing, I would suggest you should move, because the idea of leaving is obviously playing on your mind, and if you did not want to, you would not be considering it. Common sense dictates you ask yourself a few questions, such as where will i be happier, and which will make all aspects of my life better, but also considering the financial costs - would the prefered option be too expensive. In the end, you might want to toss a coin, and if you feel the answer is wrong, then you know what to do.
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A rubbish question
I live on a very windy street, and my wheelie bin keeps
being blown over at night. I have tried putting bricks in the base, but the
council have complained that they break theri machines. Have you any suggestions
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October 7th, 2005 at 12:33 pmMay I suggest that you recycle more. Now I hope you are already recycling but the more waste you recycle, the less waste that will go into your wheelie bin and the lower the centre of gravity.
Should you wish to keep going the way you are, you may want to consider adding weight to the bottom that will not come out when emptied - wood and screws through the side (make sure they have large heads so as to prevent them ripping through the plastic
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October 7th, 2005 at 12:41 pmThis may become more of a problem with the increase in recycling buckets that the council provides. Distributing the paper, plastic glass, tins and garden waste into different tubs will result in them being lighter, so while recycling is, obviously, the way ahead, it may contribute to the problem, rather than solve it. However, securing weights may be one solution. You may also want to consider only putting the material out when the bucket is heavy enough to stay steady in the winds.
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October 7th, 2005 at 12:42 pmMagnets ! Put a big magnet in the bottom of the bin, and another magnet (poles reveresed) in the ground.
October 20th, 2005 at 8:01 am
First, are you sure it is not a Candiru fish ?
Perhaps you need to simply put a bit of fine mecsh over the end of the suction hose to prevent this happening in future.
October 20th, 2005 at 11:00 am
I think it’s been watching too much Finding Nemo myself