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Thursday 19 December 2013

What's This? Posting During Pub Quiz?

Well, No, Not Quite
     In fact not at all.  Due to the fact that Darling Daughter (Sally)
The article in question!
is nineteen, we have been, together with our entourage, to have an Indian at the Copper Pot as a birthday celebration.  Unfortunately for our pub quiz partners, this meant missing the quiz  (sad face).  However, it was a very nice meal (happy face).

Too Much Of A Good Thing
     That's not all.  Today our team had a Christmas dinner at Prezzo's in the Printworks.  Another very nice meal.  Afterwards Conrad ate the packed lunch he'd made the night before, having completely forgotten about the Christmas meal.  In between this he was filling-up on various biscuits and chocolates that staff and managers had provided, so whether I would have had any room for several pints and at least half a dozen sandwiches is a moot point.
     A little of what you fancy does you good, except Conrad has definitely overdone the "little" part of it.

Conrad is ready for his ethics
Keep Watching The Skies!
     Which is exactly what ESA's "Gaia" satellite will be doing for the next half-decade.  For details see Auntie BEEB: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25426424

Imagine the data analysis resulting from metrics about a billion stars. I anticipate the sheer amount of information means that public volunteers will be sourced to analyse the information, or be allowed to carry out their own projects with it.
     Excellent news!  - as long as they don't discover a certain bunch of tardy starships loitering about Alpha Centauri on a vector for Earth ...
Damn!  Do you think they know the truth about me?

Time to go!




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