Girl of My Dreams

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Lara Croft doesn't have anything on this babe.

Via Knuckledraggin My Life Away

Update December 2021 replaced missing video.

Puzzle

Caleidoscopio
196 piece jigsaw puzzle

Something about this just appealed to me.

Superheterodyne

The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
Technology Connections
I ran into heterodyne in a post on View From The Porch. Heterodyne is a nice, normal term relating to radio technology, but Tam's post doesn't have anything to do with radios. Is there another definition I am not familiar with? No, her usage is just a clever adaptation.

Diagram of the concept of the heterodyne frequency measurement. a) and b) Signals differing in frequency by 10%, c) Squared sum of signals, d) Beat signal.

While I'm looking up heterodyne I come across superheterodyne which I haven't heard in a coon's age. It used to be the cat's pajamas but evidently cats have quit wearing those kind of pajamas. Anyway I'm looking for an image and I'm not finding much, so I go to YouTube and found this video.

Some words from the video:

Hertz - measure of frequency in cycles per second.

Hert - Funny play on wordz. One cycle per second.

heterodyne - Combine two high-frequency signals to produce a lower frequency. Technical term from radio electronics.

superheterodyne - Same as heterodyne except all of the frequencies are well beyond the audible range, and thus "supersonic", giving rise to the name superheterodyne.

spectra hydromagnetic - a flowery marketing term, possibly derived from hydromagnetic spectra, which is the energy spectrum present around a hydromagnetic device or circuit.

Inspector Koo

Inspector Koo | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]
The Swoon
Korean serial killer murder mystery, except it's not really a mystery because we know who the killer is almost from the beginning. What we don't know is how she is going to be caught.

We have insurance company investigative team looking to uncover evidence of fraud. Sometimes they look at deaths. Was it really an accident, or was it suicide? Sometimes it's a little difficult to tell, so they pull in Inspector Koo to help them out. The inspector is a walking disaster. She's an alcoholic video gamer. Her apartment is waist deep in trash. But when properly motivated she has analytical skills second to none, skills that are apparently lacking in the rest of the team. Or maybe they are just so hide-bound by tradition and manners that they dare not express any but the most conventional opinions. Inspector Koo doesn't care.

All of the lead roles are women. The investigative team's leader is a woman, as is her boss, who we suspect of being an evil s.o.b. The killer is a woman as well. Their underlings are all men. Are there any others? I think I've covered all the major players.

New on Netflix, 12 episodes, one released each week. I think we're about half way through.

Zen Gardens

Here's one:

Zen Cat

Here's another:


Automate Your Mindfulness
SuperfastMatt

War Of Opinions

JMSMITH has a new post up about education and what it means to be a nation:

Fell Doctors and Fell Doctrines

He opens with this quotation:

“When . . . I am told that a war is a war of opinions, I am told that it is the most important of all wars.” - Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796)

Items I had to look up:

Letters on a Regicide Peace

fell adjective Definition of fell (Entry 4 of 5) - from Merriam-Webster

1a: FIERCE, CRUEL, TERRIBLE
b: SINISTER, MALEVOLENTa fell purpose
c: very destructive : DEADLYa fell disease

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (King James Version from Wikipedia)

Johann Caspar Bluntschli

More Pie

Why do calculators get this wrong? (We don't know!)
Stand-up Maths
Sometimes I like Matt Parker and sometimes he's just a little too much. I found this video to be pretty entertaining.

I ran a couple calculations on Google just to verify that this isn't just all horse puckey, and it seems to check out.

11^6 / 13 = 136273.923077

(156158413 / 3600) * 3.14159265359 = 136273.923077

I put up a couple of posts about Farey Additon a couple of years ago.