366?, Awesomeness
298: What’s it like to spend time playing games?
I’m not a massive gamer, but I have spent a lot of today relaxing and playing two games from my past: Sid Meier’s Railroads! and Sid Meier’s Pirates! Both are games that I have spent many hours playing on over the years, and when I recently rediscovered them on Steam, I had to get hold […]
366?, Awesomeness
287: How long now?
Not long until the half term break – with a bonus day off as polling will be happening next week at school. I intend to work through that day to gain extra time for myself over half term though. It doesn’t seem like too long until it is here, but it feels that it is […]
366?, Awesomeness, Music, Photographs, The Divine Comedy
286: What is it like to see your favourite band?
It is just wonderful. I’ll write more later in the week about it – it’s late and I’m tired.
366?, Awesomeness, Nature
281: What is it like to be a woodpecker?
If I were a woodpecker, would I peck wood? I think I’d probably have to – after all, if I needed to extract bugs from wood, what better way to do that than to bash my head against a tree at around 20 times a second? I’ve never thought about it before, but I bet […]
366?, Awesomeness
275: Why don’t we get more solar eclipses?
If the Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, total solar eclipses would occur every month… however, it isn’t, so we don’t. Despite the belief that solar eclipses are more rare than lunar eclipses, it’s not true: somewhere on Earth approximately two of […]
366?, Awesomeness, History, Music
257: What is the oldest known melody?
My love of music, listening, playing and creating, is a huge part of my life. I’ve never really considered where music was first written down. I assume, perhaps wrongly, that the first rhythms were created by banging things in a percussive way. Recently I came across an article that spoke of the first notated music. […]
