My little corner

The new cymbals

Well here they are as promised earlier in the week. I have snapped some pics of my new cymbals. As I mentioned they sound pretty cool. Anyway here are the pics, as always click on the thumbnails if you would like bigger pics.

The Ride Cymbal        The Hats

The Crash                      The Kit

Well there you go, anyone who is interested can now see my new toy

Today’s useless question is “Why does paper cut” and the answer can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cut. As always a very interesting answer from wikipedia.

I phoned Vodacom today to finally cancel my mom’s cellphone contract. She has only been away for like 4 months and I only get around to cancelling her contract now. The interesting thing is though, the guy tells me that due to a 30 day notice period I will receive 1 more bill in may. Then he tells me but there is a loophole. If I convert the number to pre-paid, which happens immediately, there will be no more bills from them.
Thanks to the kind soul at Vodacom who saved me a couple hundred bucks.

A friend sent me this awesome website tonight, it’s called keepvid.com and allows you to download videos from the most common video sites like You Tube, Google Video and sites like that. I wonder if it works on our local video site www.myvideo.co.za? I will try it and see if it does, that would be interesting. If you are interested in a really hilarious video, you can see it at http://keepvid.com/watch/2 

l8r, JMR

Busy Sunday

Well I don’t have a huge amount to say today as I spent the day (after church) at a little town called cullinan (where the cullinan diamond was found). It was a very nice day and we had a good lunch and then strolled around the little town for a bit. I took quite a few photos so I will post some of them when I get more time later in the week. I also bought some new cymbals for my drum kit on Friday, so I will try and get some photos of them during the week as well. They are really nice cymbals, Sabian Xs20 which are B20 cymbals. They sound pretty awesome.

Well I thought that you need something a bit more substantial so lets look at Useless Question with Really Interesting answers number 2. I watched Barnyard yesterday and seeing the cows walking around with the udders sticking out, reminded me of a question that was bugging a few of us at the office a couple of years ago. How many teats does a cows udder have? The options were 4 or 6. I was convinced it was 6 but wikipedia says that it is 4. Maybe I am confusing the cow with the 6 bottles of milk that gets delivered everyday to many households around the world. So the official answer here is 4.

l8r, JMR

UQWIA - Useless Questions with Interesting Answers

OK two posts in one day. This is a record for me and only on the second day, this will be difficult to beat.

The motivation behind this post is a friend of mine (Afflict)  just sent me this question with answer. The question is “If a child is born on an airplane, what’s his ‘place of birth’ and citizenship?” The answer can be found here http://people.howstuffworks.com/air-birth.htm

l8r, JMR