Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Telsa Tunes
Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song:
not sure if it is musical by design, but the I like the idea of building one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-Tesla-Coil/
Thursday, 12 April 2012
"stay away from me you stupid plumber"
over heard while they playing Nintendo DS 2-player-link-up-thing on New Super Mario Bros.:
"stay away from me you stupid plumber"
Monday, 20 February 2012
on the purpose of education
To get the most out of the words of Noam Chomsky on the purpose of education from this video you really should view it, but the notes below -- taken while watching through the video (and hitting pause a lot), which are mostly direct quotation, but not 100% accurate nor complete -- might be helpful to some (it helps me to have a text-searchable reference to this sort of information, and it helps me to internalise ideas by transcribing and rereading...), please do bare in mind that typed text is a poor shadow of the spoken word and so much meaning is found in the way that words are said, so here's the video:
http://blip.tv/learning-without-frontiers/noam-chomsky-the-purpose-of-education-5925460
http://blip.tv/learning-without-frontiers/noam-chomsky-the-purpose-of-education-5925460
Monday, 7 November 2011
Carrots of the Parribean
Getting the first syllables of two words the wrong way round can conjure comic images. Apparently, our lad was not the first to say "Carrots of the Parribean" . . .
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Friday, 1 October 2010
o r d i d t h e y al l c o e x i s t i n a t i m e - r e v e r s e d universe?
Bryan Chapman, 'Thinking aloud. Flying kites I'
Phys. Educ. [28*] (1993). Printed in the UK
IOP Publishing Ltd
[* the 8 is blurred; might be a 3]
http://ej.iop.org/links/q34/qkn0bAfgKrsJWvtghmQuvQ/pe930209.pdf
accessed 04/10/2005
quote
end quote
Phys. Educ. [28*] (1993). Printed in the UK
IOP Publishing Ltd
[* the 8 is blurred; might be a 3]
http://ej.iop.org/links/q34/qkn0bAfgKrsJWvtghmQuvQ/pe930209.pdf
accessed 04/10/2005
quote
What is meant by understanding anyhow?
[...]
For example, do we ‘understand’ fields in the same sense that we believe them to be physically real, or do we ‘understand’ them as abstractions? (Are abstractions real?)
[...]
Do we ever ‘understand’ or do we, in reality, use language to create ourselves an illusion of understanding? All we can really be confident about is that, when we do mathematics, we get answers that (a) agree with observations and (b) lead to verifiable predictions.
[...]
it is salutary to reflect on the extent to which enculturation – indoctrination – is what education is about.
end quote
balancing
I had been been sitting here for quite some time before noticing this scene which, for lack of a better expression, made my heart stop:
I'd like to think that he did not actually climb up, but you never know...
He might bring up the subject of the ballon in the morning, or he might not.
Either way I won't mention it until he does.
edit: he did bring it up the next evening; saying something about not being able to reach it by standing on the chair, and about not standing on the other chair on top of it.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)