Dumbbells!

            It is turning into quite an eventful Monday, and not in a good way, so today’s blog post will be rather brief. In fact I may have posted this link before, I haven’t time to check.

Dumbbell exercises

            Flies and Presses are very good exercises for building up the chest and it is worth emphasising that you do not need an exercise bench to do these. It is in fact easier and safer to just lie on the floor with your knees bent and your soles on the floor.

 

            A special hello today to Gabriel in Brazil! See you soon!

First Copy Sold

            Just looked at my receipts  and noticed someone brought a copy of Survival Weapons: Optimizing Your Arsenal at the end of August. That is actually the first copy sold that I am aware of, so I hope you are enjoying it.

 

 

Life Hacks and Split rings.

            Like any modern male my house contains a multitude of electrical items. Television, satellite box, video game consoles, DVD player, computer, backup hard drive.. the list goes on and on. Several times I have pondered the idea that electrical plug should be made with those little windows so you can slide a label into them and know what you are unplugging. One day it occurred to me that I already have numerous pots of acrylic model paints and that a simpler solution would be to simply paint names on the plugs. And so I did. Each plug is now clearly labelled and readily identified.

            I mention this since recently someone sent me a link to this page of “Life hacks”.

            Some of them are frivolous, others are genius. The wooden spoon across a pot doesn’t work in my experience. You are better off using a wider pot.

            One “Hack” I particularly liked was this one.

            I seem to have had a problem with cheap zippers that will not stay up recently, even though my lean and mean program means I am losing weight. The trick to this is the split ring goes over the button before you button up your pants. The split ring also will make it easier to work your zipper if your fingers are numb or gloved. Apart from the social benefits of  having a zipper that stays up when you want it to this a useful thing if you are in places where leeches might seek your tender flesh!

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The Books

The Scientist and the Egg.

            Science is one of humanity's greatest inventions. When most people talk about science, however they mean technology, industry, business or academia. While many of these things use science and its products, they are not in themselves science.

            Science is, in fact, a mechanism for finding the most likely correct answer, based on the data available. The cornerstones of science are observation and experimentation, with contributions from other things such as reasoning and logic.

            The other day a colleague of mine posed a question to a class of students:- “When you cook an egg, why doesn’t it always turn out the same way?” A simple question, but it was gratifying to see the whole class puzzling over this. If boiling an egg is a simple task, why can the result be so variable. One answer is that apparently simple thing often involve more variables than you have considered. What are the variables for cooking an egg or any other job you attempt? A thought I will leave you with for today.