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Tis the season of gift wrapping and ribbon curling and I thought I'd do some research on how to get the best curls in your ribbons.
First, the sharper the blade the better the curls. Second, the more tension that you apply to the ribbon the better, but only up to a certain point. Once you get a good curl going, you don't get any benefit from any extra tension. Thirdly I assumed that if you do it very fast you get tight curls, but it was actually the opposite. "My goodness, you must tell us why" As the ribbon is pulled between the blade and your thumb, the molecules that make up the ribbon get rearranged into a new configuration. Because they have to go around a bigger curve, the molecules on the side of the ribbon closest to your thumb are stretched more than those next to the metal blade. Makes sense, right? I mean 'DUH!' But, if you pull the ribbon through too rapidly, the molecules don't have time to settle into their new stretched-out configuration. Instead, they elastically slip back to their original configuration, and the amount of curl is less. So pull the ribbon through fairly slowly to get a better curl. Why I don't write poetry
Christmas only happens on Earth And our Earth is like a ball. God takes credit for creating the moon And the moon is like a ball. Ra’s birthday is the 25th of December And the Sun is like a ball. Balls can always be given as presents And a ball is literally a ball. Baubles adorn the Christmas tree And a bauble is a ball. Baby Jesus had at least one eye And an eyeball is a ball. This year buy earings and a necklace too Adorn them with some balls Maybe pictures of your favourite sports And put those balls to the wall Snowballs, or beachballs, boxing day cricketballs Rumballs and melon-balls for all Ask Santa what gift he’ll give his wife You can bet she’ll be unwrapping his balls. Christmas is a time for giving And Christmas is a time of balls So, this Christmas I say ‘Balls to you’, ‘Balls to everyone. Balls to us all.’ Walking to work this morning it occurred to me that the graphics seemed a bit grainier than usual. Reminded me of those ridiculous found footage movies. My money is on giant robots from the moon to swoop down and destroy us all.
Today I learned that the dude who invented the calendar that we've been using for approximately last 1500 years miscalculated some dates by six years and we should actually be in 2019 by now, not 2013. He also decided not to give a year zero and started his calendar at 1 AD. Think his name was Dionysius Exiguus. It's worth looking into. I also learned that the Earth and Moon orbit a central point called the barycentre which is the centre of mass in the Earth/Moon system. Due to the Earth being 80 times the mass of the moon the Moon appears to orbit the Earth because the barycentre is located within the Earth's crust. Spinout... Click HERE for a world beyond your sight
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