We forgot to charge the beagle before this afternoon’s loadshedding.
There’s not much we can do about it now until the power returns, but hopefully this will serve as a warning to other beagle owners in South Africa to not make the same silly mistake.
And no, I’m not going to tell you where the plug goes.
#ChargeYourBeagle
I love this shot of an airliner and vapour trail, but taken looking down, rather than looking up:
Fellow Traveller by Alexander Gerst
Alexander, in case you hadn’t worked it out, is one of the astronauts on board the International Space Station, and that plane is flying at about 2% of the altitude he and his colleagues are at. And probably a good deal slower as well.
Yes. Whatsapp is now available for your desktop (on Chrome, anyway). You can write message on your phone or your PC and everything is all automatically synced across all your devices.
Look Mum! I’m doing it now!
There are a few niggles – you have to have your phone connected to the internet while you’re using it (but let’s face it, we all do that anyway) and also:
Unfortunately for now, we will not be able to provide web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations.
…but it works and installing it is easier than it seems.
Here’s how to do it on an Android phone.
1. Download the latest Whatsapp update from the Play Store.
2. Restart the Whatsapp app (Settings > Apps > Whatsapp > Force Stop)
3. Go to https://web.whatsapp.com/ on your computer.
4. Open Whatsapp and select WHATSAPP WEB from your phone’s Whatsapp menu.
5. Scan QR code on your computer screen.
And boom. You’re done.
And yes, blue ticks still apply. Now there really is no escape.
This is a bit complicated – so much so that I don’t really understand exactly what’s going on (although we’ve done zoetropes and Finonacci sprials on the blog before). All I know is that it’s all to do with the spinning, the lighting and your eyes and mind playing tricks on you.
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Here we go:
These are 3D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º – the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers.
Hmm. It’s not that much clearer, is it? Still, the great thing about complicated stuff is that you don’t always have to understand exactly what’s going on to enjoy what you’re seeing.
I was just looking at the news headline this morning and I saw this:
BEAGLE FOUND INTACT ON MARS
It turns out that they were talking about a space probe, but it has given me an idea as to how to stop my garden getting repeatedly dug up.
Now, I just need to find some rockets.