Hey, you! » Educational http://oldsillybear.com You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:23:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 creativity http://oldsillybear.com/2011/10/13/creativity/ http://oldsillybear.com/2011/10/13/creativity/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:18:13 +0000 Ben http://oldsillybear.com/?p=5362 This is pretty cool

Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

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Anyway, here is a really cool story about a truck that gives out ice pops and solar information for free

I feel this sort of thing is important. I once sat in on a college presentation (to a journalism class) by an oil company lobbyist who convinced most of the students that the best use, ever, for solar power was highway signs in the middle of nowhere that needed a yellow flashing light. I’m not making this up, they were writing his bullshit down as fast as he could spit it up.

Ice pops created with sun power

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Where’s Wall-E (this is a link to the big version)

I found Eve before Wall-E

How many can you name?

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That’s how we like it.

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Matt Damon on non-financial motivation The link is an excellent article and video, but if you’re in a hurry here is just the video (it’s only a minute):

Click here to view the embedded video.

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my kids would not need the directions

]]> http://oldsillybear.com/2011/07/26/told-you-i-was-being-too-serious/feed/ 0 Unconscious Mutterings week 434 http://oldsillybear.com/2011/05/23/unconscious-mutterings-week-434/ http://oldsillybear.com/2011/05/23/unconscious-mutterings-week-434/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 19:04:33 +0000 Ben http://oldsillybear.com/?p=4941 I’ve been doing this a while, and used to elaborate a bit more when I started. This is a game some of us play; once a week new words are posted over at LunaNina. The idea is to post the first thing that comes to mind.

There isn’t a right or wrong, nobody is grading this, it isn’t some hidden meaning about your life. Unless, you know, it is. Or something.

Anyway.

Here’s week #434. You are welcome to share your words in the comments if you like :-) Follow the tag at the end if you want to see other times I’ve played, follow this link if you want to get some words for yourself or see other people that play. Easy enough?

  1. International :: banking
  2. Witnesses :: protection
  3. Rising :: flood waters
  4. Two years ago :: I was 44
  5. Sausage :: fest
  6. Physically :: capable
  7. Approached :: rejected
  8. Mole :: skin
  9. Collar :: chain
  10. Encased :: laminated
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As ever, go see the original here and support xkcd any way you like.

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]]> http://oldsillybear.com/2011/04/29/i-have-much-to-learn/feed/ 0 It keeps me up at night http://oldsillybear.com/2011/04/07/it-keeps-me-up-at-night/ http://oldsillybear.com/2011/04/07/it-keeps-me-up-at-night/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:10:37 +0000 Ben http://oldsillybear.com/?p=4867 At 1:30 this morning I made a list of all of the devices in my house that use Wifi.

For your enjoyment, and alphabetized for your convenience:

  1. ipod touch
  2. kindle
  3. laptop
  4. netbook
  5. nook
  6. printer
  7. ps3
  8. wii
  9. xbox360

Now, why the fuck I was awake at 1:30 would be a different story, but making this mental list I guess finally did the trick because next thing I knew it was 3:15 and the dog was sticking her big wet nose in my back to tell me she needed to go out.

(BTW, the one I couldn’t remember for the longest time was the printer)

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