Wednesday 6 June 2012

The Venus Fly Trap Transit and the cup of tea


I missed that whole Venus thing, maybe I’ll catch it next time around, although I might be getting a bit rickety by then. I think the trick is not to know about it because telling everyone that it is a once in a life time opportunity to see a black dot drift across the sun is a little unfair. I am not sure that I am worse off as a result of not seeing it, but I was able to recreate the whole even in the house last night anyway.

By shining a small directional bedside light into the top of a mug of tea from the correct height created a disk of light on the ceiling of about seven inches across that looked like the sun I was then able to watch a small black dot move across this disk just like Venus would. On closer inspection it turned out the small black dot was in fact a spider not Venus. Although he is now called Venus so it was sort of Venus.


This too  was a unique event only witnessed by myself, well I did point this out to mum but she said IDIOT, that  seemed very harsh on a small spider who is called Venus or to give him his full name (I think he is a pedigree spider and they always have long names) Venus Fly Von  Trap. So called because of his diet and the fact he has several brothers and sisters who will insist on running up hills singing ‘The hills are alive with the sound of buzzing’     

I don’t know how but I got roped into helping with the filing, no not the bars of Benny Neckbenders cell that’s tomorrow night but it is very secret…………AH, sorry Benny mum has said IDIOT again. No it was paper filing all to do with the Napoleon Beelzebub’s Very Strange Curiosity Shop, it appears that even the Devil has to do a tax return although Mr Beelzebub apparently lives in a tax Haven (HAH HAHAHHAH HHAH HAHah hah hhaha hah ah hhah hah ahahha ha h ha)

And we saw the sun this morning for a while but then someone somewhere must of tried to have a jubilee street party because it suddenly poured down and has been wet since. Why is it, it rains on school holidays and is sunny when we all go back to school, this seems rather unfair to me.

OK that’s it I am off to do a bit of work on the Cultural Olympian and make flames for his torch. I have decided to make some small things after this as they are structurally much easier to deal with.   



.

11 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hello Mr M&#;lu, that is the coolest name I have ever seen but I am not sure how to pronounce it......

      If anyone says 'IT' I will not be happy.

      Delete
  2. As an organic chemist, I once had a tarantula spider named n-Heptane.

    ReplyDelete
  3. With the spider having eight legs, you would have thought I might have chose 2,2,4-trimethylpentane, better known as Isooctane "oct = 8" - but I simply used nheptane "hepta = 7" because that just happened to be what was wrote on the outside of the glass container my boss gave me.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Was your spider the result of a mad experiment that went horribly wrong where you turned an innocent unsuspecting young assistant in your chemistry work into a huge spider. which then caused chaos and havoc as they tried to reap their revenge. Only finally subdued by using a world wide wed and bluebottles (the flies not blue bottles).

      And the subsequent film 'The return of the curse of N-Heptane'.......

      A cool name for a spider though, but not an unsuspecting assistant called Frank turned into a spider against there will. You chemists really should not do things like this it gives science a bad name, although I will admit it is a great way to make a living. I wish I was allowed to turn people into spiders.

      Delete
    2. ActuaLLy I just had a tarantula appear on my driveway, which I captured. That was several years a go. Another one appeared on my driveway, only our north driveway this time, and this tarantula was already deceased, or at least v-e-r-y v-e-r-y mo-tion-less.

      I am at the end of a day of mourning and embarassment. I am very close to disowning a sibling.

      Delete
    3. Disowning a sibling is not so good unless it is a tarantula, they are not very sociable critters.

      Delete
  4. I missed the venus thingy too, but you can catch some pretty cool videos of it online

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Funnily enough it is possible to do the same with the queens jubilee. I wonder if people ever confuse the two.

      Delete
  5. Watching the whole spectacle, was a momentous occasion. We saw lots of dark clouds, which then dispersed to show some much lighter clouds.

    As we glared towards the night sky for nigh on 20 minutes, we then realised we were looking in the wrong direction and had to change course, whereupon we saw lots of dark clouds, which then dispersed to show some much lighter clouds.

    And a good time was had by all.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I rather like looking at clowds although not at night. they are very underestimated things. I think my other blog has more stuff on clowds than this one.

      the good news though is you will not have to do this again for 105 years

      Delete