Category: Assorted Hammers

Excuses, excuses

I know, I know. There you were on Friday, waiting for a review, and nothing happened. Disappointment is part of life. Deal with it.

But seriously, I had a nice follow-up post to Wednesday’s math problem all lined up, but it’s a long weekend over here, and the wife was released early from school, and there were DVDs and snuggling under blankets in the freezing weather and good red wine…you get the picture. I’m also taking a short break from reviews. I’m finally making progress with my academic reading with the result that I’m not reading much fiction at present and I want to spread out the reviews I have lined up a little so I don’t run out of them before my reading catches up.

ostrich — Say what now? (Photo credit: I am marlon)

Yesterday was more of the same and today’s no good either: My dear old mum is turning sixty this week and my sister and her husband have come up for the celebrations. The wife and I are on our way to me mum’s now for an early birthday dinner consisting of ostrich neck and oxtail stew and whatever my sister decided to whip up to complement that. (Have you ever eaten ostrich? It’s yummy. Almost indistinguishable from beef, except that it has almost no fat, thus the few pieces of oxtail in the stew – it runs the risk of being too dry without it.)

Tomorrow is Youth Day in South Africa. I wrote a post about it last year, so tomorrow will be business as usual with the next Song Title Challenge.

Also happening this week is me and the missus’s (man, that’s a lot of s’s) fifth wedding anniversary, but more on that later.

In the meantime, see if you can solve this riddle. After you’ve selected your answer in the poll, click the link to see what I believe is the correct answer.

Oh, and happy Father’s Day to all the dad’s out there. Have a great one.

Only for geniuses...If:        2 = 6
           3 = 12
           4 = 20
           5 = 30
           6 = 42
Then:      9 = ?

Select an answer here:

When logic takes a leave of absence

There’s this math puzzle doing the rounds on Facebook. Perhaps you’ve seen it.

It usually starts with the statement that only geniuses can solve it or that ninety percent of people get it wrong. Then the following:

If:        2 = 6
           3 = 12
           4 = 20
           5 = 30
           6 = 42
Then:      9 = ?

Quickly see if you can work out the answer. Write it down on a piece of paper, then click on Page 2 below:

Pages: 1 2 3

May The Force be with you

The interwebs inform me that today is International Star Wars Day.

Normally, I’d make something of a day like this (if you don’t believe me, just check out my post on last year’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day), but I spent all of today driving and frankly, my brain is mush. So, I’ll make a big thing of the day next year.

But for now, don’t give in to the dark side, join me in pondering what to get a wookie for Christmas if he already owns a comb, when going through automatic doors, pretend you’re using the force to open them (unless you can actually, you know, use the force), and don’t you dare leave any snide comments about ewoks – they rock!

Go check out the wife’s cool pic of Yoda, enjoy The PianoGuys’s own take on lightsaber duels, and…

Update:

I just had to share this as well. I somehow keep managing to pick my favourite characters with these things. Click the image to take the quiz yourself.

A tale of two birthdays

Today is South Africa’s birthday (well, one of them anyway, depending on which history book you read). On this day, twenty years ago, South Africa went to the polls for our first democratic elections. Symbolically, it was the moment the people of SA attained freedom from oppression, thus it’s name: Freedom Day.

Today is also my niece’s first birthday. As she is the first grandchild in the family, it’s a pretty big deal (which probably means I’ll have to suffer through being congratulated again for something which is in no way my fault). Continue reading “A tale of two birthdays” →

The wife’s blogging milestone

The wife just published her 100th post, and unlike the rest of us she did not rely on Google to provide her the appropriate picture to mark this milestone. Go congratulate her, why don’t you?