Mystery of the broken watch

Sounds interesting, eh? Well, it's about me fixing my own watch that has been broken for three whole years.

I sat there, staring at my broken watch. What if I took it all apart and took out the microchip, I thought. After all, I collected microchips and study them. I jumped off my chair and came back a second later. Puffing and sweating ( I sweat a lot), I took my mini screwdriver and started unscrewing my old watch. After I took it apart, it looked like this: .

The microchip was more complicated than I thought. Have a look at it: . Oh well, I'll just keep it and have a look at it some day, but I still have to put it back into my watch and put it back together (that was my main mission).

The watch has almost been put together. I'm just inserting the screen on the watch and then I've completed my mission. I don't expect it to work, because I know that steam seeped into the watch and blew the connections. When the screen is on the watch and the back cover in screwed on, the most amazing thing happened.

I can't believe it. I just simply can't. Guess what?? THE WATCH CAME BACK TO LIFE!!! It was working when there was 1 x 10 -26 (standard form)% chance. You know, it's hard to believe something that had almost no chance of happening. Here is a picture to be my evidence and to show you all:

I understand if some of you don't believe me. It's just the buttons that won't operate, because I'm no super-brainy technician. It's a huge mystery to me. I can't understand how a watch that has been broken for more than three years can suddenly work again. By the way, the watch's no use now. I can take the microchip out anyday I want, put it in and make the watches buttons operate smoothly again! (just joking)!

:-)

Comments and queries

Feel free to ask or say anything to me on this post. They can be about anything.

Chemistry

First of all, I will give you a little quiz.

1. What does C12H22O11 stands for, and what is it?
2. What do you get if you mix a strip of zinc foil and dilute hydrochloric acid?
3. List the first ten elements of the Periodic Table.

Confusing, and for those who don't know anything about chemistry, doesn't make sense at all, eh? Well, you're lucky to have Marshall (me) as your part time chemistry guide !

Chemistry is a subject about atoms, chemical relationships, chemical reactions and all the other things that might be nonsense to you.

The first thing that you all have to know about chemistry is about the structure of an atom. Atoms are so small that about 10 to the power of 18 carbon atoms in the full stop at the end of the sentence. There a three types of subatomic particle (look in a scientific dictionary):

• Protons (positive charge) - found inside the nucleus.
• Neutrons (neutral) - found inside the nucleus.
• Electrons (negative charge) - arranged in energy levels around the nucleus.

All atoms contain these particles - except the lightest atom, hydrogen, which contains no neutrons.

That is all I'm writing today. Thank you for reading this blog message.

Morse alphabet

Sorry, I forgot to add the morse alphabet to it!
The short and long elements can be formed by souds, marks or pulses, in on, off keying and are commonly known as 'dots' and 'dashes' or 'dits' a 'dahs'.
International morse code is composed of five elements:
1. Short mark, dot or 'dit' (.) - one unit long (not a full stop).
2. Longer mark, dash or 'dah' (-) - three units long.
3. Intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) - one unit long.
4. Short gap (between letters) - three units long.
5. Medium gap (between words) - seven units long.

INTERNATIONAL MORSE CODE

A .- B -... C -.-. D -.. E . F ..-. G --. H .... I .. J .--- K -.- L .-..

M -- N -. O --- P .--. Q --.- R .-. S ... T - U ..- V ...- W.-- X -..-

Y -.-- Z --..

I recommend that you all memorize the morse alphabet like I do. And try post me comments in morse code. Good luck!

Morse code

Hello everybody! For those of you who don't know about morse code, it is a method for transmitting telegraphic information, using long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuationand special characters of a message.