Iphone 4

Nov 13, 2010

american economy 101 ^{2}

just time for a quickie … back when i was struggling to receive my iphone 4, i was educated by the awkwardly clever mob at xtranormal, refer to the phenomenon that is iphone 4 here. this precise explanation of the economic situation in america, which is bombarding the planet, is truly amazing.

it’s like the simpson’s brilliance, unbelievably insightful commentary from a cartoon character. why can’t so called main stream media present such clarity. keep your money and if needed, spend it wisely, buy shares in goldman sachs.

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By tbaoo Category: featured, politics Tags: american federal reserve, goldman sachs, iphone 4, xtranormal

Oct 17, 2010

wipe backside contaminate iphone 4 ^{12}

i have a delicate appreciation and admiration for those nasty germ’y things, the tiny little buggers you try to remove from your body and when left on your person, react in an uncomplicated yet very unpleasant way. i have been reading the internet, there’s a lot to read of course, but i’ve discovered a ground breaking – death defying, at large and at risk activity, that should be heralded as the lead item in the news, pictures may be better filtered, ( or removed entirely ) rather than upset those sitting down to their dinner.

so what is this devilishly human behaviour that has rankled tbaoo out of his “uber” relaxed couch potato existence, well it’s the daily body grooming ( hopefully ) act of cleaning one’s backside and the habit of touching everything in sight afterwards. now i’m guilty of both of these acts, as we all think we are. the issue is how good are you at removing the tell tale trace of poop that is involved in such a natural process. ( see comment below – my bride insisted that i emphasise the washing of my hands does actually take place !! )

this delicate topic is connected to the rather ugly notion running deep within the bowels of the online news services at the moment, i.e. that all smart screen apple products such as the iphone 4, 3, ipad, ipod and the screens of other so called smart phone / devices might be covered in traces of shit !!

alarmingly enough dear reader, unless you’re a addicted apple shop, phone or computer store browser, it’ll be your faeces smeared over the screen. but if your an addicted browser it’ll be someone else’s shit, or a mixture of the large number of snotty, ass wiping little shits, shit, that were touching the toy before you.

goodness i hear you scream, ( combined with immediate hand washing ) that can’t be true, well i’ve tracked down a remarkable trial of the use of tissue paper, hand washing and of course it’s hint at their use with backside wiping. it’s a study conducted and copyrighted by : © Nuffield Foundation / Biosciences Federation 2009 • Downloaded from Practicalbiology.org
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How good is your toilet paper?

Introduction

This investigation follows the transfer of a harmless microorganism from an agar plate, via toilet paper to our hands. This models the transmission of faecal microbes after using the lavatory, and allows us to assess the efficacy of using toilet paper and of hand washing as part of our daily hygiene regime. You can use this method to evaluate different brands and thicknesses of toilet paper and/ or different types of soap. This is an opportunity to think about the commercial application of an investigation and the social significance of its results.

This practical is based on an investigation called Microbes and personal hygiene published in Practical Microbiology for Secondary Schools © Society for General Microbiology. The original protocol is available here (287 KB).

The purpose of this practical is:

to find out how well toilet paper stops microbes getting on your hands

to show how important it is to wash your hands after using the lavatory

to find out if washing your hands makes a difference.

to see how pathogens can be transmitted

Procedure

SAFETY: Do not open your plates when they are returned to you next lesson.

Investigation

Label the bases of three sterile malt agar plates with your name, the date and A, B or C.
Wash your hands thoroughly using hot water and soap, then dry them on a clean paper towel.
Open one lawn plate of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Wipe the surface lightly with two fingers.
Lift the lid of dish A. Touch the agar surface lightly with the same two fingers. Quickly replace the lid.

Wash your hands thoroughly again.

Wrap your two fingers with one layer of one kind of toilet paper.

Open another lawn plate of yeast. Wipe your fingers over the surface – trying to wipe them in the same way as before.

Wash your hands thoroughly again.

Wrap your two fingers with one layer of one kind of toilet paper.

Open another lawn plate of yeast. Wipe your fingers over the surface – trying to wipe them in the same way as before.

Remove the toilet paper and put it straight into the autoclave bag provided.

Lift the lid of dish B. Touch the agar surface lightly and quickly replace the lid.

Wash your hands thoroughly again.

Wrap your fingers again in the same kind of toilet paper, wipe your wrapped fingers on a third lawn plate of yeast, remove the toilet paper into the autoclave bag, wash your hands thoroughly with the type of soap provided and THEN touch the surface of dish C with your washed fingers.

Tape the lid on the agar plate and give it to your teacher to incubate inverted for 2-3 days at room temperature (20-25ºC).

Examine the agar plate without opening it.

QUESTIONS

What are you expecting to see on your agar plates?

What do you think about the different kinds of toilet paper tested by your class?

Do you always wash your hands after using the lavatory?

Do your agar plates match your predictions?

Has every group got the same result?

If there are differences, are you confident they are because of the different toilet papers?

From your class results, are some toilet papers better than others? Are some soaps better than others?

Imagine you are working for a toilet paper manufacturer to test toilet papers, or working for a health promotion agency. Your investigation would provide important information for your employer. How would you improve this investigation to make the results more reliable? What would you emphasise in your final report?

so there we go, we look, we wipe, we hope, we spread and then we touch .. life is full of such things – we just need to manage our actions, wipe our bottoms and hope that others do the same. if they don’t then maybe we need a hand full of handy wipes like the tv detective monk. remember – touch, wipe then go on living.

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By tbaoo Category: featured, life as i see it Tags: faeces, hand wipes, iphone 4, shit, smart phone technology and dirty hands

Oct 4, 2010

wake up greg two ^{2}

my wife wanted my newly beloved, cherished, worshiped, admired, dribbled over and fingerprint covered iphone 4 to fly this morning. the alarm is the loudest, second world war, american missiles are coming type siren … blarmp, blarmp, blarmp etc, at the loudest setting a human could manage to cope with. now i think it’s great, it powers me out of bed with a vitality normally deserved for a frisky 20 year old, in fact if i was in bed with one, i’d be frisky as well. ( i probably wouldn’t get out of bed, but i’d want to be awake !! )
any-who, the whole alarm nightmare, or indeed wakeup-mare, seemed to be tied to the continuing, yet rather strange thing that is apple and it’s software. the daylight saving change to timezones in australia seems to have upset my alarms setting. it apparently runs off one clock, thinks with another and then ignores the time.

if you set brisbane time, you’d suspect ( stupid boy ) that it will keep that time and allow the alarm to raise hell when it’s asked to. this morning, ( i still can’t find and answer for this ) being set for 06.00 it screamed at 04.00, then once we’d both got back to sleep, ( me nodding off while listening to my brides dismay at this turn of events ) again at 05.00 and then the final insult to my marriage and well being, it failed to go off at the set time of 06.00. nothing, not even a fart, and normally that’s the first thing to get going in the morning.

tbaoo takes great pride in finding out facts for you dear reader. this time though, complete failure, as this is the best i can find, and no clear response from apple:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1021224

it seems that if you undo the repeated action ( i.e. the days you want to wake up ) exactly what you would want from an alarm clock, and then remember to reset it every night prior to going to bed with your sweetheart, “your safe”, you’ll be rudely awakened as you wish, without problems .. i’ll set it and see, stay tuned, listen and look out for my flying iphone 4.

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By tbaoo Category: featured, iphone Tags: alarm problems, daylight saving, in bed with a twenty year old, iphone 4

Sep 22, 2010

greg my iphone ^{0}

guess what dear reader ? i have received, in fact i’ve been “given” a hand delivered note from a courier, advising me that there is something for collection at my local post office .. my eager well trained mind believes that it might be – wait for it !!! my iphone 4. now that’s fantastic news, it’s so fantastic, i can’t say fantastic enough FANTASTIC !!!

i’ve been unusually quite the last few days playing with my bride’s new mobile phone, and as funky as i get with all the features, she continues to remind me, that all she wants is a phone, something to make and receive telephone calls on , how wrong is she? ( she is not the cats’ mother in this case ). her new phone is an lg 540 ( android system ) with enough gadgets to keep me occupied and an optus account to keep me communicating with call centre employees, who have excelled themselves in providing a service but are excruciatingly unable to grasp the nuance gladly provided by tbaoo. the wiping of screens and scrolling effects is odd, and as i know this is my first such phone, i’m getting the frustration out of the way, before the over hyped, maybe unnecessary iphone 4 arrives. you all know that when it arrives i’ll be locked in my room, relaxed and smiling with my new toy, pressing, wiping, scrolling, pinching, expanding, loading, deleting, downloading, calling, browsing and swearing ( no doubt ) as i progress through the features. i will be straight out to the shops to buy a case, screen skin, car mounting bracket, cables and headphones.

that’s of course if this delivery is my new iphone 4, if it’s not, well i’ll be well pissed off and begrudgingly reacting to whatever the parcel happens to be – it could be my record breaking tax return, so i suppose that’ll be ok… i could go out and buy another piece of superfluous technology if it is.

tbaoo as you might know has no real interest in sport, but has snuck this tremendous australian band tism into the post to acknowledge the afl grand final this weekend, st kilda is featured in the clip, does that mean “go st kilda”, well no i don’t really give a shit. it’s a great band and one of the better known songs, big voice now and sing along.

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