In Broaden Your Physics Background #1 we talked about creating table-top physics demos as a tool for expanding one’s own understanding. In this blog, I will introduce a different method, a very different method. :)
Try explaining different concepts to different entities. Continue reading
I was recently asked by someone what would I suggest that might perhaps maybe help broaden one’s understanding of physics. The “might perhaps maybe” was not part of the question. I’m just stuffing that in there to sow the seeds of uncertainty concerning any specific result that may come from following my hair-brained (or is it hare-brained ala Bugs Bunny) ideas.
I apologize now for the meandering twisty path of my answer. I take the question very serious and thus I feel it is necessary to sneak up on the answer. Continue reading
Either everything is totally significant or nothing is significant at all. Either the events of the game are ripe with meaning or they are just random blips in a cosmic Geiger counter. Continue reading
Let’s look at a scenario.
You’ve discovered through the painful process of experience — again, and again — that your attraction to “bad boys” puts you into relationships that just plain don’t work. One messy breakup after another has led you to the conclusion that “bad boys” are not a good idea.
So you resolve: “No more bad boys for me… I know the signs, I know the results, I am swearing them off… no more… period… that’s that.” Continue reading
First a disclaimer: I have just started working with Google Adwords. It’s been about a week. This blog is my way of:
I have some good friends that are mentoring me through this process. So this blog is like a quiz. Continue reading
this is my take on how to setup Windows 8 in a manner that makes sense to me. I am not normal. I do not have normal needs and drives. When it comes to computers, I approach them as a programmer/developer — not as a consumer. Continue reading
Below is a question asked by a Prosperity Path Orb runner:
I’ve been running the orbs for a few months now and have had some pretty good experiences with them. Now I am just wondering what the next step is. How can I maximize my
time with them? Have you or anyone else come up with a way to increase their effectiveness and so on. Continue reading
I promised to send someone this particular table-top demo. So, I figured, put it on the blog then others can share in the elucidation and/or bewilderment. Also, I think I may release several of my other table-top demos that utilize “overhead projector sheets” or “write-on transparency film” — depending on where you go shopping. Which, by the way, Amazon has several varieties under $25 (for 100) and Staples has a couple types for under $25. There are $50-$80 transparencies out there. So be careful how you shop.
If you know me, and you are familiar with the Just Because Club or the “Any Game Cookbook” then what I’m about to say will come as no surprise: I am not going to tell you what this table-top demo will shop, prove, or demonstrate. Do the demo and find out for yourself.
Here’s the instructions.
1) Draw a maze (a simple maze) on a piece of paper.
2) Trace (as carefully as is reasonable) this maze onto 20 of the transparency sheets. Please use a proper pen that is made for transparencies — so that you can clean them later for reuse.
3) Go through the maze (using a color different from that one used to trace the maze).
4) Go through all 20 traced mazes.
5) Trace the maze onto 20 more of the transparency sheets.
6) Stack the first 20 completed mazes. Pay attention as you stack them. If you have a light table (or can mock up a light table) please use it.
7) Put the stack of “done” mazes to the side, and draw your way through the new mazes. As you finish each maze, place it on the existing stack — 20, 21, 22, 23, … This stack will grow to 40 as you continue. Draw, then stack, then draw, then stack.
If these instructions are not clear, ask. I can use your plea for clarification to help me improve the instructions.
If you have any question or comments (after doing the table-top demo) then ask. I will be happy to engage in a conversation about your results. However, if you ask me any questions about the demo before you have tried it, I will just suggest you try it. So you might as well do that to start with.
Recipe) Before playing any game, vocalize (or sub-vocalize) the following wish: “I wish this to be used for the benefit of all beings everywhere.”
In the appendices of Any Game Cookbook you’ll find a few notes on the subject of sub-vocalizations. Let me just summarize here: Don’t just think the words, use your voice. It doesn’t matter how loud or how soft. Just make sure you are using your voice.
When you use your voice, you will bring the wish from the domain of idle thought into the realm of active intention.
Have you ever eaten a croissant or a butter cookie?
How can a little flour, sugar, a bit of butter, leavening, and a dash of salt be so yummy? I’ve tasted the ingredients: flour is gritty, salt a bit sandy, butter is just greasy on the tongue, and yeast is plain yucky eaten from the package. No way could one predict that these ingredients, properly combined and baked, would be so tasty.
Do yourself a favor and don’t judge the spiritual gaming recipes in this book based on a simple reading of the instructions. That would be like judging a cake from reading its list of ingredients.
Cook up the recipe, and actually give it a try before you dismiss it as “not to your taste.”
Bon appetite.