Tintin: Boy Reporter
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A juvenile Little Blue Heron makes solving differential equations on the fly look like child's play on Horsepen Bayou.
Adder or Viper - Vipera berus
Crinan Canal - Scotland
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Man I love this series. Except for the really questionable entries that we don't talk about. Sealnoon just informed me that lego now makes the Birthday Boy hair in that earth-orange color and goddamn do I know what I'm gonna scour the earth for now.
Anyways, here's some figs.
Thompson: With a P, as in Pterodactyl.
Thomson: To be precise, "P", as in Psychology.
Tintin: Great Snakes!
Snowy: Arf!
Captain Haddock: Blistering Blue Barnacles!
Professor Calculus: A GOAT? ME!
lemme know what you think!
Do you prefer hands-on experience and discovery or do you rely on your manual?
I knew how to use the camera before I purchased it .. the manual is cool and I definitely refer to it when needed but in my opinion there is nothing like hands on experience and discovering what you can do on your own at times ...
P.S. I HATED math in high school!! Except Algebra because we had a really cool teacher!!
Sometimes. ..sad. ..Sometimes ...proud ..Sometimes. ...frantic. ...Sometimes so bleak...Sometimes. .calculus...Sometimes the thing we see when we close our eyes.
Another year is over for my Calculus students, and FINALLY, I will get a new textbook, one that is easy for students to read.
I know, I know, you are thinking that the sighting of an easy-to-read mathematics textbook, let alone calculus, is rarer than sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. I had some of my students look it over and some wanted to fail the class just so they could use the new textbook next year.
Happy FUTABday, everybody!
"Well, a crazy landscape already, Professor, and now what do you make of that??"
"It looks like 10:10, Tintin."
"Is there a meaning there?"
"Indeed! It is ten minutes past ten o'clock."
"Hm. Okay. I guess I was looking for something a bit more profound. I mean, the clock numbers are weird."
"They tend to ten ten to Tintin."
"You're... just making this up."
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
The Adventures of Tintin
Tintin Standing (Hands on hips)
PVC Figurine 6cm
Moulsinart
The Adventures of Tintin
Professor Calculus The Gardener
PVC Figurine 8cm
Moulsinart
The Adventures of Tintin
Snowy & His Bone
PVC Figurine 6cm
Moulsinart
In habitat near Bitterfontein. Still one of the most attractive species in my opinion. Large plants like these are quite scarce. Most plants observed had 3 to 6 heads.
Yesterday I was treated to a wonderful visit from one of the most sincere people on the planet. Doug was in the area on a family vacation for Spring Break. Well, I shouldn’t say that. They were in the same state as me, but still 80+ miles away to the south. He was nice enough to come up yesterday, through the traffic of LA and let me use/touch/feel some of his awesome equipment. He has quite the collection and is ready for just about any wedding, sunset, barn, kid or anything else. He set up his Alien Bee, let me play with his Singh-Ray filters, his D300 and everything else. He even tried to explain his calculus-like method for photo processing. I used to consider myself somewhat smart, but his technique of layers, multiple-sharpening, and RAW conversions had my head spinning like a broken bobble-head toy.
We finished our meetup with a trek down to the beach in hopes of a cloud-inspired dramatic sunset. We didn’t get it. The wind from earlier in the day blew away our dramatic sunset, but with some crafty techniques, filters, tripods and a splash or 3 from the Pacific, we were blessed with a few good shots. I know his will blow mine away, but it was fun nonetheless.
As we were leaving the beach, in the darkness I saw a long rock moving on the beach. It was inching up the sand like a worm. Coming closer I realized it was a Sea Lion. Not sure if it was hurt, sad, hungry, cold or just bored, but it was very friendly, slithering where ever we went. If I didn’t have a phobia of wild animals, I would have pet him or perhaps tried to sand wrestle him, but instead called Animal Control who eventually told me this behavior was normal, for upto half a day.
I have my weekend free from photographic obligations, so I think I’m going to take advantage of that, and cut my kids hair. Maybe I’ll have a cocktail before I begin.
NOT HDR. I did bracket 3 shots and then manually blended them. I think it has a more realistic look. I was also using a Cokin GND filter for the sky, but don’t think it did much at this point.
Made with Art House Whimsy's Faces of Steampunk 2 and lots of bits and bobs from her other steampunk kits/ my stash. Finished with textures and colour grading.
Fozzie: “I’m here getting my supper with my high school math teacher, Mr. Al Gebraugh, and he told me that the name of my food is mathematically calculated!”
Chef Cal Q. Less: “I used to teach math, but I kneaded the dough. So I became a chef.”
Al: “You remember the formula for calculating the volume of a cylinder? We look at a regular pizza as one big, huge but flat cylinder and apply the volume formula of Volume equals the square of the radius times pi, times the height of the cylinder."
Fozzie: “That’s right! So we let Z equal the radius of our pizza, square it, then multiply it by the height the pizza, which we’ll let the letter ‘a’ represents, then multiply that by pi, which is 3.141592653589,,,”
Al: “Okay, Fozzie! We get the idea. So, once we calculate pi times Z times Z to get the square area of the circle, we then multiply that times ‘a’ to get the total volume of that pizza.”
Fozzie: “And that is how we get the name 'Pizza'! But all this talk is making me hungry!”
I have a Christmas Party on Saturday Evening. Nothing "over the top" so I picked out something festive. You can never go wrong with a Prada bag. Versace is always nice for the holidays too. There is only one issue staring me in the face at the moment, as I look down. It looks to be an advanced calculus problem. How to get the items on the left hand side photo into the corset on the right hand side picture? So I asked my husband for assistance. He took a look and then looked again. Finally he said "Its a problem for NASA or the Russians to solve baby. Modern man hasn't come that far yet." End of discussion, back up went his newspaper.
Where's Howard Hughes when you need him? Can someone answer that for me?
… with a little help from a 35 year-old TI-37 Galaxy Solar calculator. I'd like to see how useful an iPhone or that laptop will be in 2054...
Algebra is very simple compared to its highly abstract mathematical cousin shown here. Alas, this conjures up bad memories of all but hitting a wall taking calculus in college.
Inktober 2020 - I'm definitely not inspired by this list. Or maybe I just don't have/take the time this challenge deserve.
That's what happens when one is acting the goat...
A very international collection of stones (Japan, China, Malaysia, Thailand, USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy) picked up from my travels (and with a little help from my friends).
The absent-minded genius scientist Cuthbert Calculus.
Check out the Album for plenty of Tintin minifigures and vehicles.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
Photographed on the Knersvlakte near Gemsbokrivier (Vanrhynsdorp district, South Africa)
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