There is an amusing and illustrative infographic on the BBC website, thus:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
It allows you to input your daily commute data and works out how long it would take to reach the gas giant planets of the Solar System. I would take over one and a half thousand years to reach Jupiter, and thirty seven thousand years to reach Voyager's current location.
Bit long for a daily drive to work.
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| My car. Not insured beyond Earth's atmosphere. |
Verisimilitude
I beg your indulgence, dear reader, this is another little rant about language.
"Verisimilitude" - meaning that something possesses the quality of truthfulness or reality. Really? It sounds like a variety of multi-legged creature! "Sir, there's a verisimilitude on your shoulder" works for me (the original was "Sir, there's a multi-legged creature on your shoulder"*). B & Q probably stock bottles of "Verisimilitude Vapouriser - one nibble and they're kibble!" and starving students in attics lay traps to catch legions of verisimilitudes. Which they mash and put in a pie.
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| A multi-legged creature? It looks like his shoulder's grown another head! |
Velvet Whoopee Pies
Do I detect a theme here? Hmmm. Maybe not. Okay, I've baked the pie part of these. I've also made the filling, which is chilling in the fridge at present. Tomorrow I shall have to get up early enough to warm the filling before spreading it on the pies, making sure that it divides up into 11, as I have 22 pies to match. The tricky bit will be matching the pies, which are all slightly different in shape and size.
Right. I now have to go iron a shirt for work tomorrow. O! the rock and roll lifestyle what Conrad doth lead.
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