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Protect Your Banana

Published on November 20, 2006 0 Comments Tags: , , . Post made from or about Home .

Given the price of bananas in Australia these days, I think we all need to take steps to “protect your banana”. Thankfully, BananaGuard (UK) sells their BananaGuards in packs of 10, and you can even choose your own colours.

They also offer suggestions of other things you can protect with your BananaGuard: Photo by Darwin Bell

  • Grapes & any other small soft fruits
  • Cherry Tomatoes
  • 6 Cream Eggs (Useful for posting to Australia)
  • Toothpaste & Toothbrush whilst Trekking

Of course, if you’re thinking of some other “personal” uses of a BananaGuard, make sure you read their BananaGuard FAQ, which states:

Q: “Where do the Batteries go?”
A: The Banana Guard was designed for its intended purpose only as a device to prevent banana trauma during transport. It does have other uses but battery operation is not one of them. No responsibility is accepted for any injury received or inflicted (or self inflicted) owing to the improper use of a Banana Guard.

Consider yourself warned.

43 Things to Procrastinate With

Published on November 17, 2006 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , . Post made from or about Home .

It’s exam time again, and guess what that means? Yes! You got it! Time to post to my blog! What? I should be studying? What are you, my mother? Oh… well, you’re allowed to tell me off then… the rest of you, keep quiet.

Study So, what’s this post about? Well, partly about a new site that I’ve discovered, called 43things, and how great it is to procrastinate on. On one level, 43things is a “todo” list for your life. Think about all the things you’ve always wanted to do, put them on 43things, then check them off, get reminders, talk to other people who are trying to do the same thing, … it’s great! Of course, the problem with a site like this is it gives you too many ideas of things TO do.

Have a look at my 43things list (which currently only has 8 things), for example - sure, I’ve got some great long term plans like live in a foreign country and finish my degree (hopefully not TOO long-term with the second one). Then, I also have some good short-term goals like go back to the gym and finish my exams (only 1 more to go).

Then, we have the one which sparked both the picture in this post, the post itself, and (with any luck) plenty of time spent doing non-study related things (mostly after my final exam, of course). Anyway, the picture in this post will hopefully be the first of many to come, since I’ve taken on the challenge of taking a photo every day. I can’t guarantee I’ll post a new photo on this site each day, so I might post them up in batches, but I’m definitely going to try to take at least one decent photo each day for the immediate future.

Feel free to check back to my A Photo A Day album if you want to see how well I keep up with my goal.

Oh, and feel free to check out 43 things for yourself, if you’d like there’s:

Men spend six months ogling women

Published on October 30, 2006 2 Comments Tags: , , . Post made from or about Home .

I always knew I was above average:

The average British male spends six months of his life ogling women, a new study reveals. The first thing the average bloke will look at is the breasts before working down to the bottom and then the legs.

Men Ogling Women

From ananova.com