What a cool centerpiece for a colleague’s baby shower.
All those rolled up and tiered diapers and baby toys.
Creative and fun-looking and the couple having the baby gets to keep all the goodies and put them to good use hopefully.
Nice to celebrate even with smelly diapers to be. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
That’s a cool way to point something out.
Sort of unexpected sticking out of the wall like that.
But effective use of visualization.
The floating hand. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So I learned that this is called a Van de Graaff Generator.
It generates very high voltage electricity.
The guy setting it up asks me:
Do you have a pacemaker?
I respond in the negative and ask what’s the danger zone on this thing.
He says:
You probably wouldn’t want to get within 10 feet of this!
Good to know. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
(Please note that blog is not to be taken as medical advice.)
Awesome presentation on Interplanetary Travel by Charlie Kuehmann, VP Materials Engineering at SpaceX and Tesla.
Interplanetary travel and colonization is one of the most exciting possibilities for mankind.
It’s all just beginning (we’ve only been in orbit for about 50 years).
One of the keys Charlie mentioned at SpaceX and Telsa is how quickly we learn.
It’s okay to fail, as long as we learn quickly and progress from it.
The progress with reusable rockets at SpaceX is impressive.
Can’t wait for more to come soon. 😉
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal)
This is a beautiful set of nested brass weights from France.
It dates back to 1852!
The weights range from 1 gram to 500 grams.
These are weights, but also a form of art.
It is located at the NIST Museum.
There is something comforting about weights, measures, and standards.
It puts an organized construct unto our universe and creates some objective scientific reality to our world.
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Thought this was a pretty stunning puzzle of The Atom.
With sections for: composition, atomic model, thermonuclear fusion, periodic table, radioactivity, positron emission tomography, fission of uranium, nuclear reactor, and atomic scientists.
Wow that’s a lot of information for a Puzzle and one very nicely designed at that.
Congrats on putting this 1,000 piece beauty together.
These things make me realize how very much I still have to learn–and in this case, it starts with all these small things. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Thought this was a pretty stunning puzzle of The Atom.
With sections for: composition, atomic model, thermonuclear fusion, periodic table, radioactivity, positron emission tomography, fission of uranium, nuclear reactor, and atomic scientists.
Wow that’s a lot of information for a Puzzle and one very nicely designed at that.
Congrats on putting this 1,000 piece beauty together.
These things make me realize how very much I still have to learn–and in this case, it starts with all these small things. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
I just think this is such an amazing tree (at work).
It’s like a cave.
You go in through the overhanging branches.
And there is a whole seating area with tables, chairs, benches underneath the shade of this lovely tree.
It’s like the tree was created for giving shade to people.
What miraculous creations G-d has made for us.
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So this was a little surprising.
In the courtyard (next to the cafeteria) at work, there is a nice seating area open during the Spring/Summer seasons.
Pretty trees, flowers, and a pond.
In the pond, next to the water lilies, there was a what?
Alligator.
Not a full alligator.
But someone put an alligator’s head in to make things interesting.
It’s nice at work when people are normal and have a sense of humor.
An Alligator Govie that’s what it is. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Really impressed today going back to work after the 5-week Federal government shutdown…
And who is at the front gate, in the dark and freezing cold welcoming every single person back?
The director of the agency!
And not only that, but he is handing out morning donuts to the crew.
This was a truly spectacular display of leadership.
I’ve seen this only one other time in my 30-year career and that was at the Secret Service, where the director stood behind the dessert table at the agency holiday party serving out the ice cream.
Humility and giving are what true leadership is all about.
I am proud to serve under such leaders as these. 😉
(Source Photo–not from today–by Andy Blumenthal)
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