Thursday, June 25, 2009

Crop circles in Aussie


The Australians of Tasmania have finally solved the great mystery of the crop circle in their poppy fields. The accused are wallabies, who have been found eating the poppy heads (or narcotic seed pods actually), thus getting high, and hopping round in random circles. Many people believe crop circles that mysteriously appear in fields around the world are created by aliens. There has been 17 thefts resulting in 2280 poppy heads stolen throughout the financial year. Stolen from the poppy farms that are considered some of the safest in the world. Here are some quotes:
Attorney-General Lara Giddings said "the drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations".
Poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids said "livestock which ate the poppies were known to "act weird" -- including deer and sheep in the state's highlands".
Mr Rockliff said "There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles".
Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the medicine market. Farmers grow the crop supplying the market with about 50 percent of the world's raw material for morphine and related opiates.
Weird, huh.
Quote of the day: Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again. - Mike Myers

Monday, June 22, 2009

Hahaha very funny cats...






























NB: I did not make these images, nor do I accept any responsibilty for any claims to ownership.
Quote of the day: In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. - Peter Drucker

These are rather random...




















NB: I did not make these images, nor do I accept any responsibilty for any claims to ownership.
Quote of the day: My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. - Benjamin Disraeli

Hahaha this is really funny...

Did I read that sign right?
TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW
In a Laundromat:
AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT
In a London department store:
BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS
In an office:
WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN
In an office:
AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD
Outside a secondhand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?
Notice in health food shop window:
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS
Spotted in a safari park: (I sure hope so)
ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR
Seen during a conference:
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR
Notice in a farmer's field:
THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.
Message on a leaflet: IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET LESSONS
On a repair shop door:
WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)
Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread the stupidity and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle). We all need a good laugh.
Quote of the day: There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

More about SlideShare

I just went back on my SlideShare account, and I had had a LOT of views. Considering that those two PowerPoints have only been on there a week, together they have had 270 views!!!
The PowerPoint that Kris the architect showed us has now got around 193 views, and the one about the traits of a successful learner has 77!!!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Values

We are doing the DARE (Drugs & Alcohol Resistance Education) program in class at the moment, and today we learnt about bullying, but also the values that you will need in life.
The first one was Hard Work.
The second one was Knowledge.
And the third one was Attitude.
We started off by doing this strange activity.
You get all the letters of the alphabet, and you assign them a number, "A" is 1, "B" is 2, and so on:
A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9 J=10 K=11 L=12 M=13 N=14 O=15 P=16 Q=17 R=18 S=19 T=20 U=21 V=22 W=23 X=24 Y=25 Z=26
Next you spelt out the word on a bit of paper, and gave the letters their numbers.
For example: CAT= C (3), A (1), T (20), so the total sum of all the numbers is 24.
Now for the actual virtues:
H (8), A (1), R (18), D (4), W (23), O (15), R (18), K (11), total sum (98).
K (11), N (14), O (15), W (23), L (12), E (5), D (4), G (7), E (5), total sum (96).
A (1), T (20), T (20), I (9), T (20), U (21), D (4), E (5), total sum (100).

The overall message was that, although you need all these skills, knowledge will only get you 96 percent of the way through life, hard work 98 percent of the way, but attitude will get you 100 percent of the way through life! ! !

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Successful Learner PPT

I was recently referred to a site called "SlideShare". This is what the SlideShare website says: "Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar". I am enjoying using it and already have two uploads and gaining. You will notice a widget on the side of my blog showing all my SlideShare uploads. Anyway, back to business. Earlier in the year I wrote a post about the traits of a successful learner, and I mentioned that I didn't know how to upload the PowerPoint I made to Blogger, so this seemed like the perfect solution. To see the earlier post, click here. So here is my PowerPoint [Please note that the actual PowerPoint had a short but inspiring clip in it. To see the clip, click here]: