Chicken cannon

Since the word on the street is that all accommodations between Saint John NB to Truro NS are booked for the weekend of August 1st which is not only the long weekend due to civic holiday but also The Eagles et al concert on Magnetic Hill I was particularly pleased to find two nights in residence at the Universite de Moncton for those dates. Now that our (likely only) summer vacation is arranged I’m all set. And of course we still have the rain suits purchased for the open air Rolling Stones concert two years back.

Also since this is Nurses Week and we’re all celebrating…I’m sure that nurses reading something called Parkinson’s Law would be thinking of severe palsy (or shaking) however not so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law

Now I’m not into watching TV in general or reality shows in particular but this new soon to be aired program sounds promising. Apparently the rich and famous are temporarily sent to the street and at the end of the show give a large amount of their own money to a deserving recipient Works on a couple of levels from the sounds.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080513/entertainment/entertainment_millionaire_col

A friend forwarded the link for this test to show your real age (related to your various lifestyle habits, health history and genetics) and said that she and her husband were going to live to a ridiculously old age but perhaps because they had lied heavily:

http://www.oprah.com/health/lifestages/realage/health_real_main.jhtml

I found that I was 8.2 years younger than my stated age (not a bad thing) with too high a BMI (as if I wasn’t aware of that – I do have mirrors in this house) and needed more social interaction and more time to myself. Now THAT is a test I approve of. Now I just have to make a plan for those extra years. It has led me to reconsider this weekend’s travel writing workshop, which I’ve been waffling on. Hmm.

Off to work for a team meeting, which because of the later start time, is the reason for a morning posting in addition to the fact that I was having major internet problems on dialup last night. Always slow but honestly 8 minutes for webmail to load is very frustrating! I leave you with a smile, as that’s always a good thing:

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)

Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high-speed trains. Arrangements were made and a gun was sent to the American engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.

The horrified engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the
windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions

Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo

'Defrost the chicken.'