My Daily Banana
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| Computer Banana |
Photo of the
day:
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| Wir sind uns einig, jetzt kommt blödsin! (We both have the same thoughts, let's be mischievous) |
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| And it came. |
Selfie of the Week:
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| A reflection in the rain |
Word of the day:
Digit
Comes from 10
digits (ancient Latin digiti means fingers) 10 itself consists of two digits
the 1 and the 0. The year 2014 consists of four digits the 2 and the 0, the 1
and the 4.
The decimal
system has (as the word deci proclaims) ten digits 0123456789
The binary
system ( used in the computer world) has two digits 1 and 0
To round it all
up, there is also the hexadecimal system which is based on sixteen digits
0123456789ABCDEF
Name of the day:
Perry
Comes from the
English rock, also the France form of Peter or thirdly in Wales “the son of
Harry”
An alcoholic fizzy drink made of pear-wine
Event of the
day:
12th May 1941
the Z3 fully
automatic computer was presented by its inventor and constructor Conrad Zuse.
The computer filled a room, program and data were saved on punched film. It had
2000 relays built. What does a relay do? Its either on or off, that’s the whole
principle of a computer 1 and 0: 1 is true and 0 is negative.
The Z3 was
destroyed in 1943 during a bomb attack over Berlin. Zuse Company built a
replica of it in the 1960’s, which can be seen in the “Deutsches Museum” in
Munich, Germany.
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| The Zuse Z3, today it would fit into a pocket calculator (a cheap one not a scientific calculator) |
Birthday of the
day:
12th May 1942
Harrow, London,
England
Died 27th
March 2000
In London,
England
Ian Dury
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| Ian looking good |
Punk singer and
songwriter. Founder of the group “The Blockheads”. They brought out such songs
as “What a Waste” and “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”.
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| As a child he suffered from polio and was for the rest of his life disabled. All except for his music!! |
Hit Me With You Rhythm
Stick:
What a Waste:
Died on this
day:
12th May 2001
in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida, United States
Born 18th May 1912
in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Perry Como
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| Every mother's Prince Charming, Perry Como |
One of America’s
most popular singers between the 1945 and the Rock’n’Roll era. He was one of
the causes of Rock’n’Roll, the young were so fed up with listening to their
parents tripe they longed for music that would reflect their lives and along
came “The Pelvis”
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| Every mothers "Devil in Disguise" |
Listen to one of Perry Como's soft listening hits "Don't Let The Sun Get in Your Eyes":
Here’s a soft
version of Elvis’s first parent shocker “That’s All Right Mama”:
Non-Cycle ride
of the day:
It’s hit me. The
cold has been knocking on my door for the past week and now I’ve let it in.,
that’s why I have to take a pause in cycling. If I’m lucky it’ll be gone in a
week, I hope so, otherwise I’m going to have problems with our Challenge.
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| Met me on my walk, I wish it was my backside! |
Today was my
first day without cycling, instead I went for a long walk with Heike (usually
it’s just a short one). It wasn’t bad and we stayed almost dry, it looked like
rain when we set off and we both had our rain dress on: The Gore-Tex shoes, pvc
coated rain over pants, rain jacket and I had my Burberry Wax cloth rain hat.
Reminds me of my Boy Scout days
“Be Prepared!”
The Challenge:
Who carries the
torch this week?
Raymond 96.7 kg
That’s a loss of
1100 grams this last week
Andrea
Fraser
Well done all
three! Is it showing? Has the bulge shrunk?
Bye, see you all
tomorrow. Have a good day
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