Found on a colleague’s desk.

Does it work? You decide…

How Lord of the Rings should have ended:

Two (normal size) chocolate bars of your choice to the first person to tell me what tune this short sample reminds me of.

I can’t offer any idea of date, genre, artist or anything else - but every time I hear it, it sparks a dim, distant memory which I can’t grasp.

Please help!

Note, you don’t get any points in the unlikely event you suggest Kurumi Narasu Aozora by Oranges and Lemons because that’s the source of the sample.

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Update: The prize has been won!

You may have heard of Mieskuoro Huutajat, the Finnish Male Shouting Choir… well now the Finns have done it again; The Helsinki Complaints Choir

As part of my plan to climb Mount Fuji, I’m currently doing the same elevation at the gym, just to get some idea of the scale.

Well, after nearly three weeks elapsed time and 1h 17m of walking time, I’ve made it up the first 500 metres. That’s 1/3 of the climb done, and 762 calories expended. The treadmill doesn’t go to the necessary incline, so I’ve walked 5.2km in ground distance to complete 30% of the height despite the fact the real trail is only about 6.3km long.

At this point, we’ve made it as far as the 7th Station rest stop. At this point, there’s still some greenery on the ground - we’re not quite up onto the plain rock slopes yet.

The treadmill doesn’t simulate the volcanic rock surface, the wind and rain, nor the thin air due to altitude. All that fun is to come with the real thing.

I just posted this advice on another site, but thought I’d share here… it’s worked quite well for me for nearly all consumer electronic goods in the past…

Q: Which digital SLR camera should I buy?

A1: The Simple Answer

The best one you can afford without too much financial hardship.

A2: The More Involved Answer

Really… they’re all pretty good – you’ll often see bias between Canon or Nikon, but I’d recommend, you get an idea of a budget, and a wishlist of features together. Check out prices of relevant cameras on the ‘net.

Then take that info (budget in your head, features written down) to a shop and hold their cameras. Look for one that feels right in your hands. Can you reach the controls? Does it do everything you want it to do? (They mostly will – as I said… they’re all pretty good).

Don’t let the shop assistant pressurise you, and go away for a coffee while you decide.

While you’re sipping your coffee, work out whether you want to pay the extra to have it from the shop (with local advice and service if anything goes wrong) or whether you’d prefer the discount of the net.

Buy your camera.

Enjoy!

Found by Sarah

Haha… good on ya, Bill Morgan…

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he “discovered” them. The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.

Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.

Full story here

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