this reminds me, my uncle used to work for sun microsystems, and i remember him showing me in the late '90s his java ring that could be used to get his favorite coffee from a robot dispenser in his office (link, and link).
Speaking of nerdy, I just taught the binary system to a 10-year old girl I'm tutoring. (Her parents want her to get into the gifted program this school year, so it seemed like a good topic.) I got stuck trying to explain AND and OR using sentences, so I think next I'll try to explain it by drawing simple pictures of computer circuits. Then it's back to fractions.
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Date: 2010-07-24 12:19 am (UTC):D
Date: 2010-07-24 12:24 am (UTC)Re: :D
Date: 2010-07-24 12:43 am (UTC)this reminds me, my uncle used to work for sun microsystems, and i remember him showing me in the late '90s his java ring that could be used to get his favorite coffee from a robot dispenser in his office (link, and link).
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Date: 2010-08-04 10:19 pm (UTC)When we first started a couple of weeks ago, she asked if it was possible to read minds, and wanted to know what hypnosis was. So I showed her:
http://www.i-c-r.org.uk/publications/monographarchive/Monograph17.pdf ("Science and the Paranormal")
http://www.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/articles/uncommon-hypnosis/what-is-hypnosis.html
http://www.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/articles/uncommon-hypnosis/how-hypnosis-works.html
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Date: 2010-07-24 04:01 pm (UTC)Bonnie, thanks again for that gorgeous print! I gave it to my mom for her new house and she absolutely loves it!
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