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Category: minutiae

trivia and facts

  • Descale Coffee machine

    1. Dissolve 10g of citric acid in a cup of hot water
    2. Add cold water to make the quantity up to a litre.
    3. Replace any water in the tank with the citric acid solution,
    4. Run tank of water through the machine.
    5. Empty any remaining solution from the tank,
    6. flush with clean water, refill and run about a litre of clean water through the machine,

  • What two common words in the english language are the only one’s to have double u’s.

    Vacuum and continuum

  • Train songs

    I’ve always enjoyed train songs, probably because I’ve always enjoyed trains and the best train songs have that rolling train travelling feel to them.

    My favourite train songs are in no particular order:

    1. People get Ready by Curtis Mayfield. A lot of people will say this isn’t a train song but more of a metaphor, but it certainly has that rattling train feel to it.

    2. Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. Though sung by one of the greats of country music, the man in black gives it a great blues treatment.

    3. Downtown Train by Tom Waits. Its had a few covers and one of my favourites is by Everything but The Girl, however the moody Tom Waits version is the best.

    more to come.

  • What the weather lights mean

    The building currently known as the Hitachi Building in central Brisbane has a tower on top of it that has two sets of lights which describe the weather

    What the lights mean

    5 Lower lights:

    WHITE Steady – Fine
    WHITE Half second flashes – Windy
    WHITE 2 second flashes – Clearing

    RED Steady – Rain
    RED Half second flashes – Strong winds & rain
    RED 2 second flashes – Showers

    Four top lights

    Steady – No change
    Falling – Cooler
    Rising – Warmer