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[phinnia]

My girlfriend is a geek and I think that's hot. <3 She sends me links about Cassini moonlets and a guy building a baby planet. Moonlets and planetlets. Mmmmm.

(My internet wife is an engineer and that is also hot. I love them both to bits.)

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I read an article about this a few days ago and I want to go to Strasbourg to see the real thing now: the Strasbourg astronomical clock. It's all gears and mechanics and it's accurate up to the year 9999. Including Easter. The guy built an algorithm out of gears to calculate Easter. And it's accurate. I would love to be there at the start of a new year to see it all change ...

And a different kind of engineering: Home for Alzheimer's patients in Germany builds fake bus stop outside its doors. Their reasoning is fascinating. (seen in several places on my flist.)

Comments

[purridot.livejournal.com]

Gee, we should have stopped in to see it when we were in Strasbourg!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i love that article about the bus stop. that's a really smart idea. and the baby planet magnetic test is fascinating. science is neat.

[gramina.livejournal.com]

Now, see, that's what a consistent national public transit system will get you! In the US, every city's bus stop signs are different. Still, putting a bus shelter out there -- those often look alike -- might be a useful idea. The Alzheimer's Association (http://www.alz.org) runs a "Safe Return" program to help identify people once they're found wandering or lost, but it does no good at all for the "stuck outside overnight in the cold" part of the problem.

It's an issue I actually care about (http://gramina.livejournal.com/276332.html), as I think you know.

Other links also cool!

[gizmometer.livejournal.com]

can i has one? can i? has one? an astronomical clock (I LIKE CLOCKS, could you tell?) though i'd take a) geeks b) internet wives c) moonlets and/or d) planetlets.

I LOVE the fake bus stop. it's so smart, and so kind. rather than keeping people restrained (did you know that having all th siderails up on a bed = restraints?) or something.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I will TOTALLY be your internet wife. <3 <3

[gizmometer.livejournal.com]

woooo!