Sunday sundae 110617

There I was trying to define a short ton - a measure of weight used only in the US - and I found myself at the National Institute of Standard and Technology NIST, Fossicking about there I found a recruitment screen for CSI:

• Go on Sherlock: take their forensic fingerprint quiz
• I got a miserable 63% = 5/8 correct.

That's quite enough work for an over-taxed brain on the weekend. There follows some light relief.

• The latest1 million view viral sensation is 12 y.o. Allie Sherlock, from Cork and home educated. She likes to cover Ed Sheeran: Supermarket Flowers etc.
• Allie sings for her Sundae!
• Lego sorter required when bloke buys 2 tonnes of Lego bricks from Ebay.
• I thought it was only Brits who are too embarrassed to sing in public. Somewhere OZer the rainbow they have that problem too. Not everyone; but some people would rather fold their arms than give it socks.
• Must be on an antipodean jag this weekend. I am Australian – Seekers:
• Just 7500kms away East in Samoa they do Amhrán na bhFiann in Gagana faʻa Sāmoa 
• R2AK race to Alaska started on Thursday [haka soundtrack]
• Now to Galway to see some hoofers from the Claddagh: there is a connexion with Ed Sheeran but you're on your own if you want to find it.
• La légion etrangère marches and sings [prev]
• Rainer Hersch riffs on Pachelbel: seems music is like the blogosphere: rechurning the same ideas rather than creating new.
• That might remind you of Axis of Awesome's Four Chords or with better production values or six chords
• Finally on the heart-warming front, Dad tribs his boy and his boy at their wedding