Howdy do.
Howdy do.
Where is wi-fi on the electromagnetic spectrum?
So Space. How should it be made?
With the current materials, chess pieces and glass pieces, setup is a mess. I plan to use discs. They could be wood or plastic. There is also the issue of how to mark runners.
Wood
:-) This has good size, shape and heft. It is available and known. I've even done spray painting discs before.
:-( This would require buying a set of troublesome sprays and involve a sequence of tasks to make it. Could the colours be chipped off, even after being sealed? I'm not sure if wood discs are the best for
mixing them up.
Plastic
:-) Head to the nearby dollar store, or make an online order, then you've got cute little translucent pieces with the colours already there. These are ideal for mixing up the pieces.
:-( Are the right pieces available? The dollar store didn't have a yellow colour. Size is a question mark. Is a certain height required so they are easy to pick up? Gluing two together is a no.
Note that I've had experience with COLOUR Dice, where a letter is written on a cube, it's covered by scotch tape, and the deal is sealed with nail polish. You don't even notice it's there.
However, writing on plastic cubes doesnt work so well.
For marking the runners
Drilled holes are simple and decisive. No fussing over colours. Nothing is going to come off; it's a hole.
Stickers can be slapped on and sealed up with nail polish. However, shape and colour have to be sorted out. Stickers might not be as flush as scotch tape. If it sticks out that won't work. They could in theory come off.
Cubes (think dice) are an option.
:-) Cubes in the right colours are available.
:-| I don't know how good they would be for mixing up.
:-( I just want to use discs instead.
But enough speculation. I got plastic discs from the dollar store and drilled them.
Q: When did the Altoids mints brand begin?
A: 1780s
Q: Many people in the treasure hunt community have one thing in common. What is it?
A: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
That came as a surprise to me. I got it from this. Two and a half minutes. Interesting.
There's also this excitable North Dakotan. Siblings Ema and Jam on Treasure Hunt With Us have their yapathon.
I don't have ADHD, but I've been around it. I've heard it described as a Ferrari engine with ten-speed bicycle brakes. I can't say that I love ADHD. One can be put off by their behaviour when they don't focus on the needs of other people*, even with good intentions. But that's because they can't focus, because of the way their brains are wired, not their fault. ADHD people (some people will yell at you for saying that) actually are capable of focusing, especially if something interests them. They're good under time pressure.
So it's not their fault; it's the way their brains are wired. But when someone also has the inevitable other personality foibles, where does ADHD end and ..
* I just picked up a text from a daughter, "instead of sending me reels can u please answer me".
Q: What do they call Starbucks in Russia?
A: Tsarbucks
Every Russian Region in 17 Minutes
Anything interesting there?
Let's start with the Tunguska event, when an extraterrestrial object made a very powerful explosion over Siberia in 1908. That was here in Krasnoyarsk Krai, here in the video.
And speaking of Krasnoyarsk Krai (not to be confused with Krasnodar Krai), there's the Otyken musical group. Reminds me of muppets. The Chulym people are in
southern Siberia. The language is almost completely extinct.
Shaman word origin.
Sakha is here in the video. Free Sakha Republic from Anna from Ukraine. I haven't watched it yet.
Pleistocene Park is where a Russian guy made "a major initiative to restore high productive grazing ecosystems in the Arctic, similar to the mammoth steppe ecosystem". Have you ever wondered how herds of big animals fed themselves during the Ice Age? If they ever manage to make mammoths again, that's where they could go, but note that this is not what the park is trying to do. The project is located here.
Yakutsk (map) is apparently the coldest city in the world.
Denisova cave is in Altai Krai. The cave is here, while Altai Krai is here in the video.
Denisova cave has evidence of many layers of use by modern humans, possibly Neanderthals, as well as Denisovans, one of those mysterious hominims.
Tuva is here in the video. It was apparently a sort of country during the interwar period (1921-1944). Learn something new every day.
Sergei Shoigu was born in Tuva, and had a Tuvan father. Simon Whistler on the Places channel has a
Russia's Most Dangerous Region video showing the grim side of the place. However, it's kind of interesting. You can see the
wikipedia entry, at least the Miscellaneous section at the bottom.
Kakassia, here in the video, is where we get our friend the game tobit.
Irkutsk is here in the video. Irkutsk and Yakutsk (Sakha) are stuck in my brain because of the old game Risk.
Lake Baikal straddles Irkutsk and Buryatia. Its a remarkable place in more than one way. How did the seals gete there? I'm sure China would like all that fresh water.
Buryatia is here in the video. Check it out.
Russia took Outer Manchuria from China in 1858-'60.
"Deluxe in French is de luxe, of luxury. It's pronounced like this. Some raison d'être too."
In my day luxury was pronounced luxury. Now many people pronounce it lug jury. That sounds both inelegant and wrong. Not high standards.
