Admiral Draper's Really Really Boring and Totally Pointless Snippets of Information
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Midlands
Posts: 186
Have had many MRI scans on various parts of the anatomy. One was for a research project and I was invited back into the control room to see the results and discuss the different imaging techniques used, fascinating stuff. I can confirm that they were all very noisy. It is amusing to be told that music can be piped into the headset to help pass the time – all very well against the background tick but completely useless when it starts up.
Some years ago we were trying out a loan aircraft at Sherwood Flying club and at one point I was jammed in the back with a club member I hadn’t met before. Turns out he was the man who invented/developed the MRI system at Nottingham University. I only found this out later so didn’t get the chance to talk to him about it.
Some years ago we were trying out a loan aircraft at Sherwood Flying club and at one point I was jammed in the back with a club member I hadn’t met before. Turns out he was the man who invented/developed the MRI system at Nottingham University. I only found this out later so didn’t get the chance to talk to him about it.
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Great South East, tired and retired
Posts: 3,220
Check this out for some advertising horsefeathers:
So, see if I read this correctly: a time signal is sent from a satellite to activate the night repair to synchronize with the other stuff the ladies trowel onto their faces, it penetrates their brains to stop Alzheimers and aging caused by the internet?
Gotta get me some...
Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex 30ml. Now with Chronolux™ Power Signal Technology, this deep- and fast-penetrating hydrating serum reduces the look of multiple signs of aging caused by the environmental assaults of modern life.
Gotta get me some...
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: apogee
Age: 66
Posts: 60
Next year they will have improved it again.
Did a 21:00 supply replenishment run and picked up two punnets of blackberries for $5. First one was very good indeed.
Don't usually see them much around here at anytime much less December. Thx Mex.
Did a 21:00 supply replenishment run and picked up two punnets of blackberries for $5. First one was very good indeed.
Don't usually see them much around here at anytime much less December. Thx Mex.
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: East Sussex
Posts: 180
Originally Posted by meadowrun
Next year they will have improved it again.
Did a 21:00 supply replenishment run and picked up two punnets of blackberries for $5. First one was very good indeed.
Don't usually see them much around here at anytime much less December. Thx Mex.
Did a 21:00 supply replenishment run and picked up two punnets of blackberries for $5. First one was very good indeed.
Don't usually see them much around here at anytime much less December. Thx Mex.
still got flowers blooming in my garden, had runner beans in November 
Bluey
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 354
Sometimes I wonder if our postal service has any real idea where parcels actually are. I received this email this morning ...
Sorry we missed you. Australia Post tried to deliver your package today but didn't want to leave it unattended. Please look for a notice of attempted delivery or contact Australia Post for the next steps.
The parcel was delivered ten days ago!
Sorry we missed you. Australia Post tried to deliver your package today but didn't want to leave it unattended. Please look for a notice of attempted delivery or contact Australia Post for the next steps.
The parcel was delivered ten days ago!
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 57
Posts: 7,624
Perhaps they will deliver it again... hope it was something nice! My Amazon deliveries are always supposed to be two or three days after purchase as I'm tight and go for free delivery. I always get notification they are out for delivery when I'm out - two days early! Mustn't complain...
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: back out to Grasse
Posts: 304
Originally Posted by BlueDiamond
Sometimes I wonder if our postal service has any real idea where parcels actually are. I received this email this morning ...
Sorry we missed you. Australia Post tried to deliver your package today but didn't want to leave it unattended. Please look for a notice of attempted delivery or contact Australia Post for the next steps.
The parcel was delivered ten days ago!
Sorry we missed you. Australia Post tried to deliver your package today but didn't want to leave it unattended. Please look for a notice of attempted delivery or contact Australia Post for the next steps.
The parcel was delivered ten days ago!
We over here are experiencing email scams where the scammers try to get you to arrange another delivery by calling a number. Naturally this number is premium rate and you will have already been billed £350 for calling, before you realise you have been scammed.
IG
Bluey
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 354
Thank you for that info Imagegear ... I haven't heard of that particular scam being around here yet (although it will make an appearance sooner or later I imagine). If the parcel had really not been delivered, I would have been alerted to something wrong by the fact that there was no card ... Australia Post will always leave a card. My next step would have been to call, but absolutely not by clicking on any link in the email ... therein lies danger as we know! I've just checked that email again and it actually came from Amazon itself but even so, caution would have been exercised before taking action ... and while Amazon has one of my email addresses, Australia Post doesn't, so another note of caution there.
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Great South East, tired and retired
Posts: 3,220
Some substantial rain over the last few days made me pump several inches of water out of my pool - three times.
Now the chlorinator is squawking "Low Salt!", but there is more rain falling, so it will have to wait. Not gonna dump in more salt just to pump it overboard again.
Now the chlorinator is squawking "Low Salt!", but there is more rain falling, so it will have to wait. Not gonna dump in more salt just to pump it overboard again.
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: back out to Grasse
Posts: 304
While the kids were small, we had a large pool. Living on the Highveldt, we often had quite violent Thunder and Lightning storms in the Summer afternoons.
What happened to the colour of the pool, and where the chemicals disappeared to, I will never know. Eventually, one just had to accept a no-swimming ban until the chemicals stabilised and changed the colour back from pink/green/orange or milky to its usual azure blue.
Not cheap to run either.
IG
What happened to the colour of the pool, and where the chemicals disappeared to, I will never know. Eventually, one just had to accept a no-swimming ban until the chemicals stabilised and changed the colour back from pink/green/orange or milky to its usual azure blue.
Not cheap to run either.
IG
Cunning Artificer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The spiritual home of DeHavilland
Age: 73
Posts: 3,122
Missus B is getting quite good at shopping. She returned from ASDA today with two bottles of 12 year old Aberlour at £25 each. I might even let her have a dram at Xmas.
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 57
Posts: 7,624
I think the RAF have retired them... 
Apparently, yes, it's the Geminids Meteor Shower tonight... when I dripped in through the front door after my afternoon walk it was 10/10ths of drizzly clag, though the Police EC135 was tooling around underneath it.
Apparently, yes, it's the Geminids Meteor Shower tonight... when I dripped in through the front door after my afternoon walk it was 10/10ths of drizzly clag, though the Police EC135 was tooling around underneath it.
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: back out to Grasse
Posts: 304
The first of two meteor showers this month peaked over the weekend, with up to 120 Geminid meteors shooting across the sky every hour on Sunday night.
The peak coincided with December’s new moon, meaning the night’s sky will be especially dark for sky gazers to enjoy the spectacle.
The meteors burning through the Earth’s atmosphere, commonly referred to as “shooting stars”, will be visible until 16 December but will be at their most prolific on the night of 13 December and early morning of 14 December.
The best time to watch them is generally at around 2am, when the sky is at its darkest.
IG
The peak coincided with December’s new moon, meaning the night’s sky will be especially dark for sky gazers to enjoy the spectacle.
The meteors burning through the Earth’s atmosphere, commonly referred to as “shooting stars”, will be visible until 16 December but will be at their most prolific on the night of 13 December and early morning of 14 December.
The best time to watch them is generally at around 2am, when the sky is at its darkest.
IG
Thought police antagonist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Where I always have been...firmly in the real world
Posts: 64
Originally Posted by Imagegear
The best time to watch them is generally at around 2am, when the sky is at its darkest.
IG
