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I have to write an essay comparing and contrasting molecular interactions of 2 different nucleic acid binding proteins for next monday, i also have to start making notes from my Macromolecules lectures, and i have to revise chemistry and biology for the mid semesters tests that are a week on tuesday. Then i have to go into Woolworths tomorrow for training.

*Despairs*

Training videos suck.

I work at Wickes (The DIY shop thingy store) and their training video was really gay and long and cheesy.

"Lets imagine the customers journey through the store!"

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For ideas and information you might find some stuff on the distributed computing projects websites, like grid.org and find-a-drug.co.uk.

A simpler way of explaining the map thing is to bear in mind that the world is spherical and that you can't curl a rectangle around it properly.

:¬)

Cheer up cookie!
At least your still cool.

Yeah, but i hate working on tills.

Ah that's not so bad then, sounds like they cut down the videos massively. Plus it's not so bad if you're not a temp.

Belldandy wrote:
> Ha ha !
>
> Woolworths training=4 hours of crappy videos which bear no
> resemblance to actual job. At least for me anyway. Plus the knowledge
> you're being paid less than everyone else yet will be stuck with the
> crappiest jobs (unless you get lucky like I did :D ) there is, at the
> busiest time of the year, and you get no staff discount. However you
> will get ample oppurtunity to laugh at the idiocy of the average
> shopper at Christmas time.

The videos took 1.5 hours to watch, then i had a bit of till training, im not a christmas temp though so i do get a couple of perks.

Apparently it's something to do with the mercator projection ( the one most commonly seen everywhere) was created in such a way that it distorts the size of countries the further North/South you go the more distorted in size they become. Which means not all countries on that map are as big as they appear. Why ? Mercator designed the map for ship navigation, hence it was created with that in mind, not to be the de facto map 400 years on...

Then there is the Robinson projection, which again distorts certain things to create a visually attractive map. Noticeably Africa and South America are larger, and the Western nations smaller.

Supposedly the Peters projection is the true one because all the countries are in true scale with each other http://www.oxfordcarto.com/publish/peters.htm Oh look, Africa is the massive, so is South America, the UK just faded to a smaller pinhead, Europe's a small corner and the USA is in the next corner. And Greenland just shrank.

Belldandy wrote:
> Oh yes, I found out that the world map as seen in most books is wrong
> as well.

Why's that?

*Hopes I don't get the plague*