Miriam Parkinson

Hello and welcome to the new and improved blue edition of Miriam’s blog. I decided that given 90% of my audience is in all likelihood male and pink can be a little bit of a shock to the system if you’re not really expecting it I might try a nice calming blue for a while.

And you’d better like it because due to minor issues with templates and modifications that I’ve made and other ickiness I had to go through and change every colour and http reference from rose to blue by hand because just shoving my modifications into the blue template turned it into a jumbled mess.

This just in: The google spellcheck doesn’t think that ickiness is a word… Shame on them!!!

Although I have two stat counters running atm and they don’t seem to agree with each other.

I’ve been thinking about ‘loss of control’ type accidents recently and I have a theory. I believe that most people have absolutely no idea what to do if they lose control and begin to skid.
Skidding isn’t something that just happens to people who speed. Anyone can misjudge their speed going into a corner, drive over ice/oil/gravel on the road or make an ill-advised avoidance maneuver when an animal appears on the road in front of you.
All of these situations can quickly become fatal especially if the driver then panics and does the wrong thing or simply doesn’t know how to save the situation.
Firstly here’s what not to do:

1. brake.
2. make any dramatic movements with the wheel.

Both of these actions can put you well out of reach of any possibility of regaining control over the car. Unfortunately these also happen to be exactly what the average driver would do if they lost control of the car.
So, in my opinion more people need to do advanced driver courses in order to learn exactly what to do in the case of a skid because it is anti-instinctual and almost impossible to learn without practicing it in a safe situation. The only problem with this is that most people will not find the time/money do to this. So I have two aims.

1. Education: people need to be aware of this problem and to stop using speed as a scapegoat for every road fatality.
2. Legislation: I believe that an advanced driver course should be a legal requirement to advance from Ls to Ps. Motorcyclists have to do a pre-Ls course so there is no reason why this shouldn’t be possible.

Whilst I don’t know how far I can take this myself I will do what I can to collect evidence to present to the appropriate officials in the hope that I can do something to improve the situation.

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That is so not cool! I was number one goddammit!!!!

Now I’m third

When you type ‘Miriam Parkinson’ into google you get my comments on his blog.
That’ll teach me not to take part in discussions!

I’m the sixth hit on google for “miriam from there’s something about miriam tranny pictures”
wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!!!!!!!!!!!

eww!!!

But funny

That sure is one tasty looking muesli bar… Why doesn’t mine look like that!

Holidays just started. Although I do admit to not being the worlds biggest fan of holidays. I’m already excited about next semester starting and just want to get stuck into it.
Still I might as well use the holidays as an opportunity to work as much as possible (around 20hrs a week) and save up some money for gadget shopping.

On my wish list:
hard cover for T5
stylus pack for T5
2GB SD card
512MB SD card

I’m bored so I decided to upload the full-length non mushed up sound version of Peter and I playing knuckles.

CBS’s Without a Trace, recently had a scene depicting a teen-sex orgy. This is a rather tame teen sex orgy with not so much as a naked breast shown. So whats all the fuss about you ask?? Well surprise surprise PTC and the American Family Association decide that they don’t approve of teen sex orgies and start a campaign against it and 4,211 people wrote in to complain, so CBS are whacked with a whopping great big fine… Only problem is… None of them actually saw the show. They just see the words ‘teen sex orgy’ and go ‘ooh that sounds naughty… let’s complain about it!’ Of the complainants only 2 claimed to have seen it and one of those had just made up a load of bollocks.

I’m in the newspaper. Not for anything I did, no, but as a body double for a 3rd year robotics student by the name of Hayley Fogg.
You see I made friends with some 3rd years during orientation week this year, doing student panels. Then a couple of weeks ago they had a presentation of robotics projects for some national competition and I was hanging around to watch that. Then my friends were asked to do a ‘team shot’ for a newspaper but two of them had already left so they asked Brad and me to fill in because, well I was a girl, and Brad was… well Brad.
So here is my random 5 minutes of fame as…. someone else…