Observations on the world and its inhabitants
We have all been there. You are halfway through typing “I hope this email finds you well” for the fourteenth time since breakfast, and for a split second, you actually forget how to spell “well.” Like wut! It happens to people. Or perhaps you are staring at a blinking cursor, trying to remember if your ...
As usual, when ‘they say’ I can’t do it – I do it anyway. Oh yes. I’ve been exploring how to toast bread without a toaster for about 2 years. I’ve cracked it! I along with most people are conditioned to believe we need a specific appliance for every single task in the kitchen. Want ...
“What!” you exclaim. 😂 I’ll explain. I read from internet sources that it’s not a good idea to keep eggs in trays on fridge doors. The warning is about the temperature of eggs fluctuating and going too high, so that they aren’t cooled enough to prolong shelf life. In fact some sources say it’s dangerous. ...
Well, I’m on a roll from the last post on eggs in the microwave. I had mentioned that boiling rice or anything on a stove is not very energy efficient. What a surprise I had! This exploration actually ended up showing that a gas hob uses approximately 2.55 times more actual energy but still cheaper, ...
So, you all scoffed. You sneered. You laughed, pointed fingers and snorted with derision about the many failures in my quest to conquer the impossible: microwaving an egg without it exploding like a miniature culinary grenade. “It can’t be done!” you declared, between guffaws. You sneered, “You’ll end up with scrambled egg on the ceiling!” ...
I just received learned opinion from a group of high IQ doctors that using AI to summarise articles and present findings is “low effort”. This means that anybody who cannot or does use AI for such purposes, is a “high effort” person! Some people may to believe that low effort is simply laziness. However, low ...
I show what it costs to wash some clothes in a my washing machine.
Well, something is up! As some may not know, I bought a Bluetti Powerbank several months ago before this post. At that time many had a good laugh whilst going, “You’re crazy – the lights won’t go out!” Now there is a shortage of these on Amazon.co.uk and at direct outlets such as Poweroak. But ...
A couple days ago, someone suggested that I get out over the bank holiday weekend to a local restaurant. Calm down – they weren’t inviting me out or hinting at an invitation. They suggested I get a nice steak. I said, “No way. The restaurant would charge me about £20 for the same meal I ...
Obviously not. So why the title of this post? It is about the energy density of human beings compared to the Sun. ‘Hotter’ is of course loose terminology, but it makes it easier to appreciate. As some will not have seen or heard in Prof Cox’s series that he said that the average human being ...
If your name is Rip van Winkle, you would not know that there is an energy crisis on over the last couple months. That was brewing for over a year but the war in Ukraine made it more prominent. It would have happened anyway but that’s a different story. I’ve seen my diesel bill jump ...
In conversations with people, I often hear the following kinds of statements: I’m just not motivated to do [blah blah]. I know I need to do it. It is the right thing to do but I don’t have the discipline. I’m not organised. Maybe as time catches up I’ll find the energy. I’m a creative ...
Did I say ‘controlling the world?’ I did NOT! I said ‘your world’. What does ‘your world’ mean? I mean the probabilities of events that are happening now and preparing for probabilities of events likely to happen in the future. Some fool needs an example. It is this simple: if you don’t top up your ...
Captain Walker
Captain Walker
