{"id":2323,"date":"2011-11-22T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2011-11-23T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T13:56:28","slug":"math-and-science-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2011\/11\/math-and-science-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Math and Science Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, 19 November 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, Owen and I went to the U of M campus for their Math and Science Family Fun Fair<\/a>. We went along with one of Owen’s classmates and that classmate’s dad. The four of us had an enjoyable time.<\/p>\n

The Math portion of the fair was a bit slight – there was only one table dedicated to strictly math topics, including one woman who would ‘magically’ guess your birthday if you told her which cards had your number on it. Owen wasn’t very impressed. Another guy demonstrated the use of secret codes. Owen wasn’t impressed at all.<\/p>\n

The other demonstrations were far more intriguing, however. There was a demonstration of gravity’s effect on orbiting bodies, color spectra, persistence of vision, optical illusions, chemistry (where the boys had the opportunity to mix two chemicals to produce ‘artwork’ made of foam), and ROBOTICS!<\/p>\n

Owen loved the robots; he drove them around the floor and, for some reason, thought that the best thing you could tell a robot to do was to hit daddy in the shins.<\/p>\n

We also attended a program on physics. The hosts blew themselves across the stage using a fire extinguisher. They also collapsed a steel drum using temperature differences, and did the ol’ pull a tablecloth out from under a table setting trick.<\/p>\n

Owen and his buddy also got to try their hand at one student’s Gridlock Game. In fact, I think Owen would still be playing it right now if I hadn’t convinced him that the student gave me a card with the web address on it and we could go home and play it anytime so let’s go look at other stuff.<\/p>\n

Go play the Gridlock Game HERE<\/a>. It is<\/em> fun.<\/p>\n

Sunday, 20 November 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Besides farting around with a frustrating new garage door opener, and buying plywood to nail up in the garage, I’d have to say the highlight of my home-improvement day was replacing an electrical outlet.<\/p>\n

Oh, don’t get me wrong, the outlet was not broken or cracked in any way, and the electricity was properly connected to it…it’s just that, there was this one weird shaped outlet. Instead of two typical ‘surprised’ looking outlets:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Above: Two typical ‘surprised’ looking outlets.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, instead of that, this particular outlet had one surprised face, and one ‘angry’ face. Here’s a picture of it:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What’s with that? Has anyone ever seen this before? I haven’t. Not even in Europe, where they do everything weird.<\/p>\n

Please let me know if you’ve<\/p>\n

A) ever seen this type of outlet before<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

B) what type of appliance gets plugged into it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I replaced it with the ho-hum typical model today. So now the value of our home just went up by 0.00001%. Yay for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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