Aquarionics

• 256MB DDR266 SDRAM - 2 SO-DIMMs
• 60GB Ultra ATA drive
• DVD/CD-RW
• Bluetooth Module
• AirPort Extreme Card
• Keyboard & Mac OS
• 1GHz PowerPC G4
• 14-inch TFT display
• Two USB ports
• One FireWire port
• Power Adapter

• Battery

  Subtotal Apple UK store: 1,312.99

  Subtotal Apple USA store: $1,648.00

  $1 = 0.550618 therefore $1,648.00 = 907

  1,312.99 – 907 = 405.99

  Flight from London to New York: 187

  405.99 – 187 = Total saving: 218.99

  Amount of Rhubarb & Custard sweets this would buy:

  P&P @ 3.99
  Sweets @ 1.80/250g

  (218.99 – 3.99) / 1.80 ~= 119

  119 @ 1.80 = 214.20
  P&P @ 3.99 = 218.19

  = 0.80p change

  119 0.25kg = 29 kilograms of Rhubarb & Custard sweets

  Which is ~64 pounds, which is roughly the weight of the average 8 year old.

  Basically, if I were to fly to New York, buy an iBook and fly back again, I’d save enough money to buy the weight of a eight-year old in Rhubarb & Custard boiled sweets.

  Revised later to make the kg -> pounds conversion more obvious, upwardly revise the child (from two, to seven, to eight) based on more accurate data and fix broken links

It seems like only yesterday I was 22.

Oh, yes. Of course.

Being 23 is very much like being 22 so far, only with more cookies and less pasta.

And, of course, the startling knowledge that I am now offically closer to 25 than 20.

‘pologies livejournalers, I asked LJ to start using the RSS2 feed, which – in a drastic break from tradition – they have done.

They’re still using the non-HTML feed, which was the aim of the exercise. Ah well.

The meet, BTW, is because it’s my birthday on Monday.

The Time: 18:30pm GMT.
The Date: Monday, January 26^th
The Place: The Green Man, Euston Road, London, England. (More info here)
The Reason: Guess
The Invite: If you can read this, you’re invited.

leave a comment here if you wish to warn me of your probable presence.