The Lounge 2

[looker-on]

What happened to you Thomas?
I fractured my wrist in a split second when I fell, all healed now though and I'm back at work.

In post 2,308 I wrote that a few days earlier I'd lost my balance while taking off my trousers and had to cushion the fall with just one hand which could have resulted in a broken wrist quite easily.... It was only the remaining muscle power of my right arm and the wrist of my hand that managed to absorb the fall of 67 kg and prevented it from crashing onto the floor in an uncontrolled way. A short time before my retirement it had been my left arm and hand that did the same when I slipped on an icy patch which put my whole body in a horizontal position before falling down. I took both events as sufficient proof that I was reasonably fit at my age and I can't be suffering from osteoporosis.
Sorry to hear about your accident. How did it happen and how did you cope with just one hand ? How long did it take to heal? Any problems left?

 

[Jessica 🤗]

In post 2,308 I wrote that a few days earlier I'd lost my balance while taking off my trousers and had to cushion the fall with just one hand which could have resulted in a broken wrist quite easily.... It was only the remaining muscle power of my right arm and the wrist of my hand that managed to absorb the fall of 67 kg and prevented it from crashing onto the floor in an uncontrolled way. A short time before my retirement it had been my left arm and hand that did the same when I slipped on an icy patch which put my whole body in a horizontal position before falling down. I took both events as sufficient proof that I was reasonably fit at my age and I can't be suffering from osteoporosis.
Sorry to hear about your accident. How did it happen and how did you cope with just one hand ? How long did it take to heal? Any problems left?

You had a lucky escape then Thomas. It's a normal reaction to put our hands out to break falls, and that's exactly what I did, I slipped on a wet pavement and banged my head too. I fractured my wrist, it's healed now and no permanent damage, I can use it now but it was difficult when I couldn't use it, it took about 10 wks to heal.I did everything with one hand but I managed.

 

[Richie]

Forget everything you thought you knew about keeping time – University of Adelaide scientists have built quantum clocks so accurate they make GPS navigation systems look like a sundial in a thunderstorm.
These cutting-edge optical quantum clocks have been proven to outperform GPS systems by many orders of magnitude during real-world naval exercises in Hawaii, marking a breakthrough that could revolutionize how we navigate in hostile environments.
The clocks were developed by a team led by Professor Andre Luiten, chief innovator and chair of experimental physics at the Institute of Photonics and Advanced Sensing, working alongside colleagues at the Defence Science and Technology Group.

More brilliant innovation by our boffins. Betting if they had a contest to choose the leading nation of the scientific world, Australia w'd be in the top 10.

 

[Richie]

I'm afraid I can't since there hasn't been a single such event and I'd like it to remain that way.

Thomas dont be an outsider, join the group. Then relate events you have read/heard about in Germany whose history goes back many centuries.

 

[Richie]

We aint sitting on our bums twiddling our thumbs.

 

[Jessica 🤗]

I recently watched Victorian Farm, a British TV show which features the presenters living like Victorians on a farm for a year.
Anyway, the female presenter Ruth Goodwin was boiling a pigs head to make brawn
She was using all the 'cheap cuts', like cheeks, brain and eyeballs, then she turned to the camera and said 'if you've eaten sausages or sausage rolls then you've eaten these cheap cuts as that's what goes into sausage meat' !
So guess who no longer has sausage on toast now with brown sauce!

 

[Grier]

I recently watched Victorian Farm, a British TV show which features the presenters living like Victorians on a farm for a year.
Anyway, the female presenter Ruth Goodwin was boiling a pigs head to make brawn
She was using all the 'cheap cuts', like cheeks, brain and eyeballs, then she turned to the camera and said 'if you've eaten sausages or sausage rolls then you've eaten these cheap cuts as that's what goes into sausage meat' !
So guess who no longer has sausage on toast now with brown sauce!

Crikey Jessica, I had a hot dog today!

Still, growing up in Ireland we ate all sorts of offal like:
kidneys, liver, ox tongue, tripe, jellied pigs trotters, sweet meats, hearts, bacon sausages, brains, .... I enjoyed them all except the liver and brains. I wasn't mad about the sliced tongue sandwiches my mum made me for school lunches. New in Australia I explained to my Aussie friends what I was eating. They almost puked.
Same happened when I was a Surveying camp manager because I cooked up some lovely tripe and onions in a white sauce. One Surveyor queried what the nice dish was so I explained that Tripe is the inner lining of a sheep's stomach.
All the meals were chucked in the fire and my boss told me hence forth, we eat well done steak. What a bunch of sissies! My French sister once made me eat raw minced horse flesh. How about raw sliced blow-fish the Japanese eat?

 

[Grier]

We aint sitting on our bums twiddling our thumbs.

And there's more too. Lots of big things happening in most states.
South and Western Australia too. Mining, Steel works, new industries, Defence, ... IT like the Aussie "over the horizon radar" the Canadians bought off us, rare earth processing, ... it goes on like our medical science advancements...

With the US tumbling into chaos countries around the world are working towards 'reliable and fair' trading and defence partners.
In some ways we've been prodded by Trump to look elsewhere than the US, to bring back our industrial bases and make new friends.

"Trump, You're Fired! We're doing just fine by ourselves and have new friends!"

Our Aussie PM Anthony Albanese is off to China for some Panda diplomacy.
Maybe we can work well with China trade wise. No tariffs! No wars!

 

[Jessica 🤗]

Crikey Jessica, I had a hot dog today!

Still, growing up in Ireland we ate all sorts of offal like:
kidneys, liver, ox tongue, tripe, jellied pigs trotters, sweet meats, hearts, bacon sausages, brains, .... I enjoyed them all except the liver and brains. I wasn't mad about the sliced tongue sandwiches my mum made me for school lunches. New in Australia I explained to my Aussie friends what I was eating. They almost puked.
Same happened when I was a Surveying camp manager because I cooked up some lovely tripe and onions in a white sauce. One Surveyor queried what the nice dish was so I explained that Tripe is the inner lining of a sheep's stomach.
All the meals were chucked in the fire and my boss told me hence forth, we eat well done steak. What a bunch of sissies! My French sister once made me eat raw minced horse flesh. How about raw sliced blow-fish the Japanese eat?

My dad loves tripe it has a pattern on it and looks fury!
We used to eat lamb with our Sunday dinner as kids, then we realised it was lambs hearts, so we stopped eating them.
Offal was popular here after the war, and as the saying goes 'the only part of a pig that you can't eat is the squeal'.
I remember having liver with onions, it was nice, but I hardly eat meat at all now.
I couldn't eat raw fish or squid, or frogs legs, duck, pheasant, and certainly not rabbit!
Did your boss allow you to cook the steak?
Did you enjoy your hotdog? They are probably full of cheap cuts of meat!

 

[Richie]

I had a hot dog today!

They are worse than snags mate. I can assure you that the best Sydney butchers dont use those pig ingredients in their snags. The unhealthy side are the artificial preservatives, such as nitites, which many butchers still use to make the meat pinker so more presentable. Nutritions say these are close to carcinogenic, yet inexplicably they are not banned. I tried buying non nitrite free snags but they are something like twice the price of normal unhealthy ones.

 

[looker-on]

Thomas dont be an outsider, join the group. Then relate events you have read/heard about in Germany whose history goes back many centuries.

Craig, I certainly don't want to be an outsider (or wouldn't I be one anyway?) but there seems to be nothing I could use to make a contribution to that topic. Here's my contribution to another one, though.

Maybe my mind went blank on the spooky things because I'd been preoccupied with something else for almost two days. I'm being flooded with pics and videos and wanted to show them comfortably to my MIL on a larger screen which is my telly. Quite unexpectedly this turned out to be a problem since I happen to be having the worst possible combination of devices for that purpose: an old Panasonic TV with Amazon Fire stick and a Google Pixel 7a smartphone. It's a battle between the two giants. Despite intensive online search I haven't found a solution yet as to how I could mirror my small screen to the TV. Finally, I resorted to creating links for several albums on my phone which I sent to my tablet that allows screen mirroring.

My question to you all rather is: What was the last problem that needed solving so that it forced you to get your teeth into? And also: How tenacious are you when you're faced with such or a similar challenge?

 

[Richie]

My question to you all rather is: What was the last problem that needed solving so that it forced you to get your teeth into? And also: How tenacious are you when you're faced with such or a similar challenge?

Cant help you Thomas.

Then my friend I will post some spooky German stories in your place.

 

[looker-on]

Cant help you Thomas.

Then my friend I will post some spooky German stories in your place.

Would you know any?

 

[Grier]

My question to you all rather is: What was the last problem that needed solving so that it forced you to get your teeth into? And also: How tenacious are you when you're faced with such or a similar challenge?

Funny you should ask that Thomas as I've been like you recently with a tough project of my own. My shoulder is healing nicely and I was biting at the bit to get back into the fray of DIY projects.

I finally got around to reorganising my study decommissioning my old computer and all its peripherals. A spider's web of cables was a real task to unravel.
Replacing all that mess with mostly wi-fi connections, a grunty Laptop with blue tooth peripherals and big laser printer connected by wifi, ...
All done now but the dusting gave me a sinus infection. I even disconnected all my dated Ethernet cables.

I'm giving my farmer friend my old tower computer with all its add-ons, games, CDs, manuals, ... and boxes of cables.

I only recently learned myself one can mirror movies, clips, pics to one's smart TV from other devices. I haven't done it yet but good on you Thomas for getting it worked out. There are some IT things I would like to work out but there are so "often" hiccups.

Out with the old ...


... and in with the new.

My new 6 switched outlets power board has USB A and C fast charging slots and is 350j surge protected. An ARLEC at $50 and well worth it. My little fan heater has its own wall power point drawing up to 2kW. ️

 

[Richie]

Would you know any?

I'll find em.

 

[looker-on]

Funny you should ask that Thomas as I've been like you recently with a tough project of my own. My shoulder is healing nicely and I was biting at the bit to get back into the fray of DIY projects.

I finally got around to reorganising my study decommissioning my old computer and all its peripherals. A spider's web of cables was a real task to unravel.
Replacing all that mess with mostly wi-fi connections, a grunty Laptop with blue tooth peripherals and big laser printer connected by wifi, ...
All done now but the dusting gave me a sinus infection. I even disconnected all my dated Ethernet cables.

I'm giving my farmer friend my old tower computer with all its add-ons, games, CDs, manuals, ... and boxes of cables.

I only recently learned myself one can mirror movies, clips, pics to one's smart TV from other devices. I haven't done it yet but good on you Thomas for getting it worked out. There are some IT things I would like to work out but there are so "often" hiccups.

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... and in with the new.
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My new 6 switched outlets power board has USB A and C fast charging slots and is 350j surge protected. An ARLEC at $50 and well worth it. My little fan heater has its own wall power point drawing up to 2kW. ️

Very interesting, Terry. I'll get back to that soon.

 

[Grier]

Craig said in dark mode in case you missed it:

Forget everything you thought you knew about keeping time – University of Adelaide scientists have built quantum clocks so accurate they make GPS navigation systems look like a sundial in a thunderstorm.
These cutting-edge optical quantum clocks have been proven to outperform GPS systems by many orders of magnitude during real-world naval exercises in Hawaii, marking a breakthrough that could revolutionize how we navigate in hostile environments.
The clocks were developed by a team led by Professor Andre Luiten, chief innovator and chair of experimental physics at the Institute of Photonics and Advanced Sensing, working alongside colleagues at the Defence Science and Technology Group.

More brilliant innovation by our boffins. Betting if they had a contest to choose the leading nation of the scientific world, Australia w'd be in the top 10.

Well said Craig, that is an amazing discovery/invention/application of quantum mechanics. Brilliant our Aussies worked thatone out. Let's put megalomania Tariffs on it!
My first career was as an analogue Surveyor doing star and sun observations to find Latitude, Longitude and Direction. That required (then) radio GMT radio signals. Good for about a 20m radius of accuracy. Then came GPS correcting for gravitational time dilutions that Einstein discovered with beautiful Relativity Equations.
Still not perfect even with atomic clocks. What's perfect? With these quantum clocks I'm guessing we could get down to a millimetre of accuracy? Lots of other applications too I bet.

 

[Richie]

Let's put megalomania Tariffs on it!

Touche Terry. Ditto the quantum computer our clever boffins are building too. They are also among world leaders in quantum chip technology.

New Australian quantum breakthrough 'a showstopper'

World-first computing chip over a decade in the making.

ia.acs.org.au

 

[Richie]

Thomas has Germany been following the Carolina Wilga story, missing in remote Western Australia after her van became bogged. Was then found by a local farmer and has spent last five days in hospital recuperating. She is a very lucky girl.

 

[Grier]

Thomas has Germany been following the Carolina Wilga story, missing in remote Western Australia after her van became bogged. Was then found by a local farmer and has spent last five days in hospital recuperating. She is a very lucky girl.

I was following the story closely Craig knowing the perils of the bush.
Thank God Carolina was found. She was a real survivor but should not have left her vehicle. Likewise other things like lacking a satelite radio, no gps, no phone signal, no log of her proposed iteinary, travelling alone, going bush in a 2 wheel drive, getting bogged, ...
Anyway, she gathered her wits and started walking west towards civilisation by using the sun as her guide, and found a back road where she was rescued by a good samaritan.
That's typical of Aussies in the Outback, happy to lend a helping hand and Carolina's plight was all over the media.
Well done tho for Coralina's determination to survive, and she did very well despite losing about 1 kg per day for almost 2 weeks, muddy water to drink, mosquitoes, lost shoe, grubby, dirty, sore, fatigued ... she kept going.
Her story displayed all over the world does serve as a cautionary tale about the Australian Outback. It's beautiful and dangerous. Be prepared.
The State of Western Australia is very, very big! Texas is small in comparison.

Anyone know the sad story of Peter Falconio? A horrible tale in the Outback.