Hey Celeste.

This has always been my one biggest faults. It's driven me mad me for years and I now get really annoyed about it. I've always worried too much about what other people think about me and I've spent too much time worrying about decisions I've made, and who I've upset etc etc.

Sounds cheesy, but just try to let go of it and do whatever you feel is right at the time and live with it. It's *your* life. You need to do what makes *you* happy. The only person that will 100% look out for you is yourself, so make the most of the opportunities you have, and do what you see fit with your time here on this tiny speck of dust in the universe.

If there's nothing beyond this life, then I won't care because I made the most of it. If there is, then I don't care either, as I've always lived by solid morals and principles - if I'm to be judged, then I'll do quite well, I think.

Thanks sol

You're welcome. *hugs*

For maximum enjoyment of the following you will have to be a musician and a programming geek as well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQPjUT5B4

Awesome!

Corenfa - one for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA...feature=related

Wow cool

1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Grand National! Genius or what?

Car Expert

Well done CE!

Moien! m?in Name a? Robbie, ech sinn nonz?ng an ech liewen am England. Ech spriechen e w?ineg L?tzebuergesch

*blinks*

I found a receipt for my music lessons at school:


?12.50 for TEN lessons!!!!!



... well it was 1980-something



(That's ?1.25 for a half-hour lesson!!! )

I can still remember going to my piano lessons somewhere around 1960 clutching 5 shillings in payment (25p in today's money)! Mind you, that was in the days when a loaf cost around 9d!

Expensive, then - unless you were paying 2 weeks worth. Mine were 3/6d in 1965.

Anything expensive (a piano, wireless set or furniture) was priced in Guineas in those days. A Guinea was one pound and a shilling, or 105 pence in modern money, and was meant to make anything expensive look a little less so.

My parents bought their first car, a grey secondhand Vauxhall Victor, (Reg No 780 NPK) in about 1964. It had a three speed column change gearbox, which meant it had a bench seat in the front, so I could sit between my mum and dad! I distincly remember that four gallons (18.2 litres) of petrol cost one pound in those days.

SB

My piano lessons in 1953 were 2 shillings or 10p
I recall when I started organ lesson in 1959 it was 5 guineas (?5.25) for 12 lessons (about 44p per lesson)

It's the first day of the easter break and i'm going to uni ...

Hope you have a good day !

My friend has decided that a strangely large proportion of all the bassoonists she knows are called Philip. Hence, she has renamed the bassoon section of our orchestra to Philip 1 (who is actually called that), Philip 2 (me), Philip 3 and Philip 4. Only one is actually male

I've got a sudden craving for an orange

I had that feeling as well. I was reading about practising the art of mindfulness and eating an orange can aid in that. You should eat the orange segment and only when you have finished the segment you move onto another piece. It keeps you in the present and stops you from rushing. I may just give it a go.


My son is off school again today. He got swine flu over the xmas period and ever since gets really bad colds, high temps and fevers at least every 2 to 3 weeks. He has had quite a bit of time off school and his immune system has really taken a battering. I wont be playing any recorders today though as I have him off and the other scallywags bedroom to finish.

Have a fun day whatever you get up too

Helen x

Wow, scary, I just reported what I thought was an unsuitable thread, and it was zapped in less that 30 seconds, that?s efficiency for you!!

Leaving those of us who weren't around at the time with insatiable curiosity.

I wonder if it was the one I tried to click on which then seemed to have disappeared?
The title sounded genuine enough.

Yes I want to know too.

If it is the thread that I think it is, it wanted specific discussion of a named examiner...and it didn't sound like it was going to be a complementary discussion!

Ah - well that would not be on, would it?

Mind you, I didn't read the post (just the title, by which it had gone) but if it hinged on lateness of results I might have some sympathy with the poster.

I have a 100L plastic bag full of paper in my study. Well it was full of paper. it is now full of three cats. Guess where the paper is. I have been telling them all day that it really isn't my fault that it is raining.

I only know one bassonist in France and he is called Philippe

I suppose that proves it then

Does vinegar raise the boiling point of water?

Yes.

That would explain it. I thought it was taking a long time to boil.

Y'know I'm fairly sure I saw a correlation for adjusting the heat capacity of water according to the proportions of ions in it... so then, providing you had a handy ion detector of some sort, you could work out exactly how much faster your potatoes would cook when you added salt and so on...

Unfortunately I was looking for how oxygen solubility in water was affected by the presence of other molecules and didn't have time to look into this more carefully. Not that I am sad enough to have done so. Honest.

Does adding salt to potatoes make them cook faster?

Yes (Queue tamsin for the science bit.)

Is that why my pasta always takes longer to cook than the packets say?

Is it because salt water boils at a higher temperature so things in it cook faster?

But wouldn't you have to add an obscene amount of salt for this to make an appreciable difference?

Nope, just the usual sprinkle will do it. It's impurities in the water (I think, LONG time since I graduated!!) that make it boil faster, not at a higher temperature. Oh and it stops it foaming so much too.

Erm you can't tell I'm avoiding writing program notes, can you???

Oh my... what have I started?!

Look, when I've finished this project, and don't have 20,000-odd calculations from the horrifically unhelpful British Standard on pressure vessel design, I'll look into the optimum salt loading to a saucepan for faster cooking potatoes which don't taste disgusting...

Oddly enough, I don't actually know why adding ions (this is, salt) elevates the boiling temperature of water slightly, off the top of my head. I guess it must act as a anti-surfactant of sorts, which makes the bubbles form less easily, so supressing boiling... once it starts boiling the liquid temperature stays essentially constant... so if you can make it boil at a higher temperature, the potatoes sit in hotter water, and cook faster, like turning up the oven...

... and I really shouldn't be thinking about this too hard. Funny how ANYTHING is more interesting that pressure vessel design. Honestly, if I'd wanted to do mechanical design, I'd have done mechanical engineering!!

*determines to stop procrastinating*

So according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling-point_elevation

lilly763 is right, you would have to add a stupid amount of salt to the water.

I shall continue adding salt to my potato boiling water because it makes it taste nicer.

LOL I did "use" my chem eng degree for 6 years doing mechanical design of pressure vessels!
Procrastinating with you LOL

I think I started it with my vinegar comment.

Back to your project Miss. You're nearly there, even if it doesn't seem like it, and once the project's done you'll have lots of freedom.

We do seem to have at least three lady Chem Engineers on the forums (Flobiano also),
Im afraid I'm a class below, just a plain old chemist !

Found the solution to my fat cat: http://www.da-bird.co.uk/

really works. she's been trying to kill it for the last half hour and is now completely crashed out.

Gosh, I really love that Cravendale advert, the cats with thumbs, I chuckle every time it comes on - saddo,

Nah, pure science > engineering

But now I'm curious about the salt thing... I've never been a chemistry person Physics and math are much more my thing

Great! I'm so glad you've found a toy your cat enjoys playing with.

Thanks... I thought that the toy must be overrated, it's just a bunch of feathers on a small fishing rod but somehow, it flaps around looking eerily like a bird got loose in a room.