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Feb. 10th, 2020 08:47 pmTeaching coding (or at least the idea of using sequential procedures to accomplish a task) to five year olds. It looks kind of like a modern version of LOGOS ("Tell the Turtle...") except you control a robotic bee, which is cool. Bees are a very appropriate choice for making them follow paths and do dances to output data. Someone had fun inventing this.
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One of the good things about getting old is that you never run out of see-through plastic pill bottles. These things were valuable when I was younger. They're great for storing small parts, etc. Now I have a lifetime supply, and can offer them to my younger friends as well.
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If we were smart, we'd use the plague of locusts currently infesting east Africa as force multipliers. They're eating Boko Haram's crops along with everyone else's. Establish government-controlled feeding camps where the good people can come, and if the jihadists want to eat, they can surrender.
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Some piece of priceless "art" apparently exploded at a touch, or perhaps even just a vibration. Sources vary as to whether a beer can was placed on, or near, the thing for a picture. Looking at the wreckage, though, the glass didn't just break, but actually exploded into coarse sand. There are no "before" pics, but I'm gonna guess she heat-formed the glass, then didn't bother annealing it to relieve the tensions.
Also, if the thing was so pretentiously empty-minded that even an art critic wanted to mock it, it's probably more interesting in it's exploded state anyway.
Update: Now with 'before' picture!
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One of the good things about getting old is that you never run out of see-through plastic pill bottles. These things were valuable when I was younger. They're great for storing small parts, etc. Now I have a lifetime supply, and can offer them to my younger friends as well.
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If we were smart, we'd use the plague of locusts currently infesting east Africa as force multipliers. They're eating Boko Haram's crops along with everyone else's. Establish government-controlled feeding camps where the good people can come, and if the jihadists want to eat, they can surrender.
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Some piece of priceless "art" apparently exploded at a touch, or perhaps even just a vibration. Sources vary as to whether a beer can was placed on, or near, the thing for a picture. Looking at the wreckage, though, the glass didn't just break, but actually exploded into coarse sand. There are no "before" pics, but I'm gonna guess she heat-formed the glass, then didn't bother annealing it to relieve the tensions.
Also, if the thing was so pretentiously empty-minded that even an art critic wanted to mock it, it's probably more interesting in it's exploded state anyway.
Update: Now with 'before' picture!
