The many ways to eat a banana…

 

A weird thing that I have noticed just recently is that not everybody will peel and eat a banana in the same way.  Which is not really all that weird when I think about it considering the obvious fact that everybody is in fact different.  I eat my bananas by peeling it down (usually in three parts) just far enough to have a couple of mouthfuls and then I peel it down a bit more.  Other people peel it all the way down until there is just a enough room for them to hold it at the bottom so as their hands don’t get sticky.  Both these ways are acceptable to me.  I do think it’s weird when people completely peel there banana and then hold it without the skin making their hands sticky and putting unnecessary germs onto their food .  However I have also seen some very strange individuals who, in order to peel it – instead of just using  a knife to cut off the top or using their hands, bite it!  I find this very strange indeed – banana skin tastes disgusting!  I just don’t understand.

Unlecture: Week 8

One of my questions I had from the readings was whether or not a network had a centre and could we create our own network centres.  This question was answered in the unlecture (no a network does not have a centre).  My next question however is whether or not a network has a boundary.  Does it have a limit beyond which it can no longer be expanded, where it can no longer grow.  Is there a point where the network will link but into itself, becoming a loop?

Wet and Cold

The joy of owning a horse!  When you drive out to meet friends for lunch and you look into the paddock only to realise that your pony has ripped all the straps on its rug, so you have to go  and chase it around the paddock in your good clothes to get it off.  This then makes you late and smell like horse.  Then driving home it starts to poor down with rain and the temperature drops 5 degrees so you have to quickly go home, get changed and get a different rug to put on your horse, you then chase it around the paddock again getting muddy and wet.  Oh dear.

Great Expectations

With all these iphones and smart phones that everybody has it is hard not to be connected.  In fact the expectation is that we are always reachable.  If we get a text message people generally expect a speedy response.  Even Facebook messages, emails, snapchats – thanks to the internet and the fact you can carry it in your pocket virtually every form of communication becomes instantaneous and frequent.  People do not expect to wait a couple of days or even hours for a response, the expectation is that it can almost be immediate.