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I am exhausted. Today was a very long conference filled day followed by a very long baseball game at Fenway Park. My labmate, who is a bit of a baseball freak, in a moment of sheer brilliance, bought us STANDING ROOM ONLY tickets for the game. And so we stood. For >3 hours. My feet hurt. At…
Today was the first full day of APS in Boston. Well, sort of. The main APS program began this evening, but starting last night and continuing through the rest of today was the pre-conference APS-STP (Society for the Teaching of Psychology) Teaching Institute, which I attended, and during which I…
December 15th. Officially. Fire away. Via - via - via (read thos "vias" for more information about what it all means).
Ebay is made for things like this.
Very nice implementation of that one.
Box with big red button and LCD display.
Display reads "Press to Start"
You press it.
As soon as the button is down, display changes to read "Release button to detonate".
Up until TSA I had thought seriously about building one of these (without the advertised ending natch). I don't think they would get the joke these days.
As soon as I pressed the Post button I realized this could be a very simple purely mechanical box. I guess I just detonated my own comment.
geee, I don't know, I can picture George Bush finding this endlessly fascinating in his retirement!
Then there is the "Little Jiffy Fuse-Blower"; a box so labeled in big bold letters with a heavy-duty cord and plug for the nearest wall socket and containing a high current capacity switch that puts a dead short across the line when thrown. I'm told that engineers are particularly vulnerable to this one.
The Ultimate Machine, going back to at least Claude Shannon.
I'm still partial to the Buna-b. Simplicity is a virtue.
http://www.samueljohnson.com/bunab/index.html
It's a Feynman time machine! It ends up in a stuck superimposed state.