We spent the whole day at the Cape Town Sevens at the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town.
It was great entertainment, England won, and then the mardy Cape Town crowd deserted the Cape Town Stadium before the presentation of the trophy.
We stayed to watch. Then we had a look at the inside of a parking garage for a while.
Many photos (not of the garage). Tomorrow.
…if you want to end up going to Norway.
Herewith the latest from Bergen’s Alan Walker (you may remember him from such posts as Faded Restrung), Alone:
A message sent from Alan’s laptop attracts “Walkers” from all over the world to Norway, where they gather on a hillside just to the south of Bergen city centre (you’ll have noted the Brann Stadion as the video begins).
What happens next is unclear, but what we do know is that there’s some amazing Norwegian scenery involved, backed up with an uncomplicated but catchy tune, and no small degree of positivity in the song’s message.
Decent.
Here’s the @sheffunilife twitter account. It’s one of those that get passed from person to person each week, allowing for a different perspective of life at Sheffield University:
This week: Ian Wraith, Electronics Technician
@TUoSEEE.
TUoSEEE being The University of Sheffield Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department.
And his account of some odd electrical noise problems:
Noise issues can cause us real problems with parts of the dept researching very small signals.
Here’s the tale:
Oops! But beagle-eyed readers will recognise this artifact-based-erroneous-results-in-scientific-experimentation phenomenon from another time… Remember those Peryton Problems, when we were forced to ask: Just where do perytons come from?
Exactly.
Just for reference, we do occasionally get this sort of thing in the microbiology lab as well, but it’s mainly associated with someone sneezing while inoculating a plate.
None of your tram or microwave problems here.
Corporate nonsense, isn’t it?
Keep it simple, stupid. Just say what you mean. It’s a meeting, you’re not “touching base”. You wrote someone an email, you didn’t “reach out” to them. You finished that report, you didn’t “close the loop”.
I’m instantly wary of people using management speak. They’re trying to hide something, whether it’s their innate stupidity, a lack of self-confidence, or some bad news. That’s why I was suspicious when I saw this update from the Cape Wheel at the V&A Waterfront:
u wot m8?
“Restructuring your ticket options”? Those options being an adult ticket or a child ticket. That looks very similar to what’s currently on offer. That’s not “restructuring”, that’s “applying a non-varying approach”.
What has changed then, as beagle-eyed readers will already have noticed, is the price. Here’s where we stand currently:
And “focussing in on the paramount datum”:
We learn then that basically, “restructuring our ticket options” actually means increasing the prices for a ride by an impressive 20%.
As an aside, inflation in South Africa is currently running at 6.4%.
So that’s a pretty hefty restructuring.
In the spirit of these linguistically disguised augmentations, I’ve just told Mrs 6000 that I’m going to be “restructuring my alcohol consumption options” over the summer holidays. The beverages of choice will remain wine, beer and brandy, so I guess that – like the Cape Wheel’s ticketing options – some other parameter variable (see comments below) of the alcohol consumption will have to change.
I wonder what that could be.
If you sell a range of 4 different sorts of pens, you will be able to demonstrate their capabilities fairly easily. Pop them in your pocket and you can take them most anywhere to show off just how good they are at… at… well, at writing stuff.
It’s more difficult when you’re selling passenger aircraft, including the Big Bird itself, the A380. But you still need to show potential buyers what they are buying. So Airbus slipped their metaphorical pens in their metaphorical pockets and gave us this:
The modern Airbus family includes the A320neo, A330-200, A350-900 and A380 aircraft, all of which the pilots flung around the skies above Toulouse.
And the airborne shots are impressive, but I actually really enjoyed watching them on the runway. The A320neo isn’t actually small, but you wouldn’t believe that when you see it with its big brothers.
5½ minutes of impressive flying and plenty of informative commentary. iLike.