…up to and including “Bill and Hillary”.
Interesting
Obsolete skills
Brad Kellett has created a list of obsolete skills. Things that we no longer do.
Here are a few examples:
Adjusting the rabbit ears on top of a TV- Be Kind – Rewind
- Change the ribbon in a typewriter
- Darkroom photography skills
- Dialing a rotary phone
- Handcrank a car to start it
- Licking postage stamps
- Mail in the order form of a catalog
- Threading an 8mm film projector
- Proping an airplane propeller to start the engine
- Putting a needle on a vinyl record
- Raising an antenna
- Running a mimeograph machine
- Sending a telegram
- Starting a car with a manual choke
- Testing radio and TV tubes
- Tuning a radio
- Using a fountain pen
- Wearing a girdle
- Wearing nylons
(I added a couple myself)
The baloon project – Berlin
It was a cold and rainy afternoon in Berlin and our last chance to do The Berlin Balloon Project since Luca (http://youtube.com/lucaliveshere one of the co-founders of The Balloon Project was leaving the next day. We strapped more than 30 helium balloons to a video camera and sent it up all by itself over the city some few hundred meters. We then proceeded to chase it down with bikes as the rain slowly brought it back to earth and in friendly hands. (At 4 minutes it crosses over the Berlin Wall on Bernauer Str.)
How evil are you?
I took the test. Here are my results:
I’m so disappointed in myself. I thought surely I’d be a little evil. I think this test is a fraud.
Take the test: How evil are you?
How to tell the number of slices in an orange without cutting it open
This experiment is a simple one, but it will amaze your friends. When you finish, you will also have a good start for a delicious snack.
How many sections are in an orange?