18 September 2009
I’m in! I’ll be competing in the National Bible Bee in Washington, D.C., 4–6 November. I’ll have to be studying a lot—there are around 1500 verses to have memorized. I’ve done somewhat less than half of them. So until then, I am taking an official eight-week blogging break. Comments are more than welcome; e-mail if [...]
10 September 2009
In two days, on September 12, is the local competition of the National Bible Bee. I’ve studied quite a bit during the summer, including on walks with Apple’s iPod shuffle—I had recorded most of the Bible memory passages myself.
2 September 2009
I mean ‘incredible’ literally. Squares A and B are the same colour! Go ahead and check it with a graphics-editing program, or by printing and cutting out each square.
1 September 2009
The theremin is an instrument that you don’t touch. Really.
It’s an electic instrument, invented in 1920 by the Russian inventor Léon Theremin (born Лев Сергеевич Термен Lev Sergeyevich Termen) when he was twenty-four. He was a scientist, working on proximity sensors, when he got the idea for a musical instrument. A vertical antenna affects pitch—the closer an object is to it, the higher the pitch. A looped antenna affects volume—the closer an object is to it, the softer the volume. The only time you touch it is when you don’t want it to make a sound. […]
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