Month: June 2006

I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST!! WOOHOO!!
Sorry about that, I got carried away!

I got six minors, its not brilliant, but it is a pass, and much better than what i got on my mock (a fail with 11 minors and one serious).

The day didn’t start out too well, as one of the rear indicators was broken, and my driving instructor drove away from the house, and found a garage on southmead road.

The two show me, tell me questions I had were, where is the brake fluid, and turn on the indicators.

I got no minors in the two manoeuvres, turn in the road, and left reverse.
a minor on control, gears, one on moving off safely, two for mirrors for change of direction, and one for change of speed, and one minor for use of speed.

WooHoo, time to get a car 😀

Its not a bomb!

Would you believe it, but that unexploded World War 2 bomb that some builders found 11 meters down is actually just some reinforced concrete.

Part of Broadmead was closed from Wednesday to Friday, causing traffic problems, and it was just a piece of concrete. 😆

Here is the links to the original story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/5060770.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/5065968.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/5065480.stm

The strange behaviour of customers…

I was on the checkouts queue-busting today, and I started chatting to a customer who was buying a load of apples.

He said that he fills balloons up with the apple seeds, and then blows them up with helium, and then lets them go.
Then when they reach 15,000 feet the balloon pops and spreads the seeds.

I let him ramble on as he was saying he is responsible for something like 80,000 odd apple trees, and that there is about 12 seeds per apple, and how one night he left the helium on by accident, and how he has started to make cider out of the apples. blah, blah, blah.

That got me thinking. What are his chances that the balloons pop? That the seeds are spread over land? or water? and how many of them actually germinate?

If two thirds of the Earth is water, then about 25,000 apple seeds reach terra-firma.
Lets round that down to 20,000 to account for balloons not bursting.
At worst 1% of the apple seeds will germinate, at best 100% will germinate.

So if 50% actually germinate then that is 10,000 new apple trees. Only a 1 in 8, or 12.5% success rate.

Poor bloke….

And then I stumbled across this site: http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/gardening/seedballs.shtml