29th Mar 2012 Fishing Expressions Explained

Personally, I only love fish when I see them happily swimming, or enticingly cooked and presented on my meal table. The sight of fish with a hook or wire in his mouth struggling to get free while gasping for breath pains me terribly, but ... as we human must bear some misfortune in our life, so do fish having to submit to their unfortunate fate.

Here are some fishing expressions I recently learned:

1) Catch and Release: This is a conservation term that happens right before the local Fish and Game Protection Officer stops your boat when you have caught over the limit.

2) Hook: (I) A small curved piece of metal used to catch fish. (ii) A clever advertisement to entice a fisherman to spend his live savings on a new rod and reel. (iii) The punch administered by said fisherman's wife after he spends their life savings.

3) Line: Something you give your colleagues when they ask on Monday how your fishing went over the weekend.

4) Lure: An object that is semi-enticing to fish, but will drive an angler into such a frenzy that he will charge his credit card to the limit before exiting the tackle shop.

5) Reel: A weighty object that causes a rod to sink quickly when dropped overboard.

6) Rod: An attractively painted length of fibreglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

7) School: A grouping in which fish are taught to avoid your £15.99 ($USD30) lures and hold out for bread instead.

8) Tackle: What your last catch did to you as you reeled him in, but just before he wrestled free and jumped back overboard.

9) Tackle Box: A box shaped amazingly like your comprehensive first aid kit. Only a tackle box contains many sharp objects, so that when you reach in the wrong box blindly to get an elastoplasts (band aid), you soon find that you need more than one.

10) Test: (I) The amount of strength a fishing line affords an angler when fighting fish in a specific weight range. (ii) A measure of your creativity in blaming 'that flippin' line' for once again losing the fish.

 

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I have always been fascinated by trees, especially those very old, twisted and snarled ones. In fact I collect them, well, not the trees though I wish I could, but images of them.

29th Mar 2012 The Wonder Of Trees

I have always been fascinated by trees, especially those very old, twisted and snarled ones. In fact I collect them, well, not the trees though I wish I could, but images of them.

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29th Mar 2012 The Robotnaut In Space & The Scary Mineshaft

Orbited at 360 kilometres from the earth is the 1st humanoid robot that has travelled to space. When he got to the International Space Station, the 1st thing he did was to shake hands with Daniel Burbank, the commandant in this complex event. It's also the 1st ever image of a human and a robot shaking hands in Space.

To enable Robernaut 2 to articulate his hand, the controllers on earth activated an information programme that permitted him to move his wrist, so as to extend his right hand & correctly articulate his fingers.

 

The humanoid weighs 150 kilos, and relies on 350 Sensors of all kinds for his movements and tasks assigned to him. He is to stay, to live,so to speak, permanently in the space station. During the initial years, he will carry out simple tasks of maintenance to later perform more risky missions, like exploration of areas that might be dangerous for his human colleagues.

If the mineshaft is big, the fright of the driver of this ill fated car is very much bigger. In fact he was real lucky to live to tell the story. He was just driving peacefully on a motorway and, like sudden lightning, the ground directly blow his car opened up!!

 

The image below were taken in the outskirts of the location, Manchang, in China. The car was practically like hanging by a thread, leaving the driver and all witnesses stunned and speechless, not to say the furiously beating hearts.

 

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