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BenBeukema
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Name: Ben
Country: Canada
Metro: Abbotsford
Birthday: 4/13/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Church, Family, Friends, Sports,Technology "i love technology, but not as much as you you see, always and forever"
Expertise: Automation and Instrumentation
Occupation: Instrumentation Technologist
Industry: Gas Plant Design
Message: message me
MSN: ben_beukema@hotmail.com
Member Since:
3/12/2006
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| Did you Know???Hey all, I haven't posted on xanga in a long time so I thought I'd give you something interesting to read. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2". On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....) Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." The original name for butterfly was flutterby. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing! The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave! | | |
| I'm Ready For It!!Yesterday I went to Rick VanderHorst and Keith Wildeboer's house. Since the sun was nicely shining through the thinly set clouds, we were able to be outside for the first in a while without getting wet. I must say I am definitely ready for the sunny days of spring and summer ahead. It was so nice, we hacked the soccer ball around for a while, played around with bows and arrows, I got to rip around on Keith's dirt bike, and then we had a fire when it began to get dark. It was a really enjoyable and relaxing Sunday evening. Thanks Keith, Rick, Justin, Dave, Glenn, Shawn, Kevin, Tom, Su, Cori-Lynn, Rob, Eric, and Bret | | |
| I Hate WetSo I finally got around to fixing the dent in my bumper a couple weeks back. The replaced the bumper nicely new and painted. Now the car looked good again. Little did i know, something was very wrong beneath the panelling. I didn't notice anything right away, it took about a week or so. The windows in my car would get wet on the inside after i would leave my car sitting for a while. I thought that it maybe had to do with a combination of melted snow from my shoes, heat and the cold air from outside. I thought that because i had some snow melt on the floor in my car, it was evapourating from the heat inside my car, then condensating on the windows due to the cold outside. So i didn't worry and just waited a little longer to have my windows warm up and dry from the heater. Then as the snow outside melted and the rain began to fall once again, i noticed that the windows were getting really wet now. So i reached down to feel the ground to see if maybe it was still quite wet from the melted snow off my shoes. It was completely soaked. As i pressed down on the carpet, a pool of water formed where my finger cratered the foam under the carpet. Quite worried by now, i opened my trunk and looked under the mat at the spare tire. The spare tire was completely drowned under 6 or 7 inches of water. Oh great, apparently my trunk was leaking. The water had spilled over from where the spare tire is, under my back seat and into my carpets. So i took everything out of the trunk, took all the panels off, took out the back seat in the car and looked for the leak. I found it almost instantly. Apparently the guys who fixed my car forget to put a big rubber grommet back in the floor of my trunk. It was located right above the wheel well. Everytime i would drive, the tires would kick up the water right through the vacant hole and into my trunk. Since i didn't notice it right away, a great deal of water managed to work it's way into my trunk, and then consequently into the car. I drained the water out of the trunk, put the grommet back in place and took it to a car wash to vacuum as much water out as i could. Now i'm just waiting for everything else to dry before i can put it back together again. What a pain the butt, all due to a 1.25" hole that was not filled by it's grommet. | | |
| Nice to Be Home!well, i've come home from Nicaragua. the last part of the trip was not so fun though. on the friday before i left i got quite ill. i started vomitting everything up to a sip of water, i had diarrhea, and then i started getting a really bad fever. with a ton of tylenol the fever went away, but my guts were still killing me. i stayed in bed all saturday and all of sunday. then nathan said he was worried that i would get dehydrated so he took me to the local nurse. she prescribed a drug and nathan picked it up for me. i swallowed it with only one sip of water, but it was brutal on my stomache. i started to vomit again because of the pill, but i knew i needed it so i just swallowed it back down. this happened about 25 times. the next morning i was able to get out of bed and drink but i had no appetite. then the next day the plane ride was horrible. i somehow was seated away from the rest of the team in a middle seat with a rather large man in the isle seat. it sucked because i had the runs. then on top of it the lady sitting beside me spilled all my apple juice all over my seat soaking my butt. i probably spent most of the way home from houston to vancouver in the bathroom. i then proceeded to take the rest of the week off to recover. we are so blessed here. now back at home we have the amazing snow storm. what a difference in climate. from over 30 deg C, to below zero and snow. | | |
| Nicaragua 2just arrived in nicaragua last night. it's so warm here. i think it's almost warmer than it ever gets in the valley. we went to church this morning, and then got a little tour of the city. we're at kim and nathan's for lunch and then we're off to the beach for the afternoon. tomorrow the work begins and it looks like we have our work cut out for us. they're pretty easy going here though so breaks shouldn't be to big of a problem. we have a few guards where we are staying. the one we had last night's name is mario. there isn't any hot water so showers are quite cold but quite refreshing. the girls found a few gecko's in their bed before they slept. anyway enough of random sentences that don't make much sense. see you later | | |
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