Wiki Wiki That's a useless-ass day

Things I was meant to do today:


1) Dissertation work
2) A list of plays my boss has requested
3) An history of a particular hospital from the 1700s


Number of these tasks achieved: Zero

Things I have learnt today:

1) Shanghai, despite not being the capital, is the most highly populated city in China.

2) The psychic octopus has predicted the Spanish will win tonight's football World Cup semi-final.

3) There is a Chilean football player called Waldo Ponce (N.B. This information was also gained along with the fact that hot coffee is the second most painful substance ever to come out of my nose).

4) I like Walnut and Banana cake.

5) The time it takes milky coffee to make me poo is about a third longer than black coffee.

6) A man named Gordon Frost whom I have never met (and, given that he's dead, am never likely to meet) once owned a brewery.

7) As of 15th May 2010 the current squad for Macclesfield Town FC contains eighteen Englishmen, one Jamaican, one Algerian (he must be popular) and one José Veiga of Cape Verde.

8) Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago located in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the central Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa, close to Mauritania and Senegal.

9) An 'archipelago' is a cluster of islands formed tectonically.

10) Steven Spielberg is currently listed as developing a film alluringly entitled Robopocalypse.

11) A waka is either a Maori canoe or a Japanese poem.

12) Wikipedia is four times more likely to prevent any sort of productive output in my day than it is to help produce anything of value or worth.

Here is a picture of an hilarious baby so that you too might find that it has all been worth it: