Pothole smartapp

In the news, I saw a crew man looking for pothole, in deep water.
How about  a pothole smartapp?

Avnet Spartan MicroBoard

FPGA svenand

Avnet Spartan MicroBoard

Sets the Fun in motion

You can use this toy right from the minute you open the package. Each letter has a sound associated with it. My favourite is the Elephant's sound. When you touch the letters a voice sounds out the letter and a sound associated with it. The exploration phase where you are given a sound and asked to guess the letter it sounds like is tough for me, but once the kid learns the letters and sounds through the touch, it will be fun to guess the letters. The music is fun too, with the keys at bottom, your kid will go crazy running the fingers across it. Then there's the famous ' Now you know your ABCs' song. If you do not use the bus for a while, it switches off by itself.

Convenient if you dont use camera too much

The phone fits well into the armband. Its not a great looker. The band has a dizzying pattern. On bare arm it does stay but so does the sweat on the inside of the band. That limits how long you can put it on your arm. Its a great convenience that you can slide the covered phone from the band and carry it around with a minus of covering up the camera. But that is not as inconvenient to bring the phone out of the case to take a picture as much as to take the phone out of a plastic guard to put into the Belkin armband.

Colourful zone

Once assembled, the Spinaroo is a great center for the kid or in reality the kid is the center of it all. The seat with the wheels makes it very convenient to move the baby around, so the baby can give his/her attention to all the toys. Most toys have very intuitive rotary, scroll, slide motions that you dont have to teach your child to perform. Put them in there and you will be surprised to find them on their own.
The height is adjustable.
I have Cheerleadered my baby to pull the string on another toy that produces music. That is a feat.
The feat part with this toy is acquiring batteries that dont seem to be that common. Assembly is sometimes cofusing but that could be me trying to touch the nose, going around the head.

This is not going to hurt even a little bit

I see that many reviewers didnt like the noise but I am here to say its organic. The mixer drum rotates as the truck moves along and makes a noise with tiny bits of pieces moving inside. It works well on and off carpet. It is fun to drag along the truck with its vibrant colours and cute Ricky. With its size, kids will get a real feel of playing with a truck than with a tiny toy car. With the bollard, an enthusiastic parent can mimic the department of transportation realities by dynamically moving it and creating hurdles that your little tot will be challenged with in rerouting his/her journey and getting the cement mix in time to construct the awesome building. Wow, so now you have to come up with an imaginary road and a time limit for the task.
I also like the WOW line with its Lift it Luke, Dexter the digger, Dudley Dump truck, Roll it Riley. Now can I get them all in one?

4/5

Almost hypochondriac

As soon as I opened the package,I was amazed at the size of the doll. I saw the 'Try me' pointing to the stethescope. A gentle press led to a disco throb. The sick baby doubles as a beautiful doll as well as a great baby who knows whats wrong with her and asks the little mommy/doctor leading questions so she can be nursed back to feeling better. I didnt recognise the ear thermometer when I saw it. In that matter, the packaging was good with names of each of the instrument that the little doctor will need to make the baby feel better. I hadnt expected the sick baby's face to go red with fever. Luckily the insert had instructions on how to heal the baby with the medicine. Your little doctor can provide cure on the go with all his/her instruments that fit well into the doctor bag.
The sick baby talks in full sentences and struggles with words like stethescope and tongue depressor. A fun game that will teach the kids about identifying problems and solving them.

Tower of Hanoi

Some time ago I had seen a kid play with stacked cups and I pointed out to the parents that the base of the cups had animals on it. only recently did I learn of the advantages of a stacking cups both as a play and educational toy.
These stacking cups are colourful, made from recycled milk jugs.
Not only do the cups have numbers on them based on their sizes but also add up in volume. Fun and math can go hand in hand when the kid can learn 1+2, 1+3, 1+4, 1+5, 2+3, 2+4 filling water or sand and emptying into bigger cups.

Manual needs a rewrite

I started assembling it thinking it would be intuitive. I followed the instructions. But there was no spray. I did see some dust collect on the walls of the collection tank. It does do something in the way of cleaning. I consulted the manual and there it was spray trigger on the top. Thats the only mention of it in a picture naming the parts of the machine. Wish it was included in the instruction that the spraying needs a manual input. And then just when I was about to give up, HTBK's comment about pulling the handle all the way up for the spray action to happen, it worked like a beauty. Its fun to watch the collection tank pull up the water and it seemed like a flood in then and made me wonder where is the water source.
Coming to the actual job. The stain is turmeric stain from the curry. So a great challenge considering that its mixed with oil. After repeated spray and power, the stain has definitely reduced. The convenience of it is once you press down on the power lever, you dont have to be on it.
Once over the hump of getting it to work, Bissell ReadyClean is easy to work with for stains lighter than curry stains.

3.5/5

Products

Today I came across two products.
Newton Fig thins that tasted great but were very expensive with almost a buck a piece.
Picture hanging strips that are great for light items but dont work well on heavy items without reinforcement with extra product.
What is the measure of the success of a product?

law

Supreme court
cases
analysis
commerce clause
rule of reason
Due process
Class-action suit
Deposition
links

Stability ball exercises

Sometimes morning exercises bring out the goofiest moments. The fit who do work out everyday make it seem like a breeze. There was one in which I had to lift the ball with my feet and lay it down, before I could return it to the ground, plonk! it fell on me.(In hind sight I should have just taken the ball and done the other exercise of the control alternating between hands and feet) All the others which require being on the ball and doing less intense push ups, I cant be still without my hand on the ground to stake it. Not even if i spread myself like an eagle.

Background

When we read something like the summaries of thrillers, like a village maintaining its population, is it possible that later when we come across that, we think we heard of it from someone we know. In the process, if we also alter the perception of the likely person?

Pen Swivelers

When I sit on a chair, I am trying not to fold my legs, but I keep gravitating towards it. If I touch the bottom hold with my toes, I make the arch rest on it. But is that the right position? Have our practices from ancestors been from what is the best position? If that is so, should we not pick the same way eliminating the ones that dont work good?
Just like the debate of the human origin, does culture and its propogation to the new generation face the same question of set ways vs evolving?

The title refers to some students who swivel their pens while working on a problem.

Art and Servility

There are not enough lives in one man to conquer Art, let alone enough men in one world to criticize it.

perhaps the greatest achievement of Man is his ability to die, and his disability to regard it. certainly poetry and paint are no deterrent, nor the high hurdles of the mind over the skulls of his realism. let us say, finally, that truth is not all that matters- often, it is the putting aside of a truth.

past the desk with a face, past coffins filled with the love, past the sparrow sick with dreams

..I was still a poor bet for life, and the razors and the gas pipes and the bridges and Thomas Chatterton's rat poison were still arguing for first shot.

Portions from a wine- stained Notebook, Charles Bukowski.

A romantic idea of following a young poet's death, alters its grotesqueness.

Childhood dreams

Clinging to them, to make them come true, to connect the farthest points of your life, to lengthen it as much as possible.

Nightworks

You must have seen a biker with his other hand managing another bicycle. Now can you imagine cars being driven that way. Recent conversation about alternate set of controls in cars at motor driving school must have something do it.

Recently I had too much of chocolate frosting and cake. As a resultant, I went around piping out something which passed of as a cookie and then walked towards something of a mini garden on a pedestal with sage.

Reading following from Making of African America:

While the motives of forced migrants can be reduced to a function of economic calculus - the market for labor, for example - free migrants have a multitude of reasons for moving beyond that of finding work. The needs of families and kin, the desire to create new societies, and the aspiration for greater political freedom or material prosperity are just some of these.


If a person does not like his environment, he moves. But in the short human life, is there a chance to set the life he wants.
Is giving others the opportunity that they need to get ahead in life, living as many lives that we can scrape in one.

Nomads Hotel

In Forever Venice essay, Cees Nooteboom with his knowledge of the history of the place he is visiting, he makes us want the traveller in us to not just look at the present building and admire but to know what was there before.

When he hears

' At midday the angelus. I still know the Latin words from my schooldays: Angelus domini nunciavit Mariae - the angel of the Lord brought tidings to Mary'

I hear Gayatri Mantra from the school days.

From a memoir

Blackjack leaves
Agapanthus

Madam D' Aulnoy's The Yellow Dwarf

Biro pen

nunchaku

Anita Ward's Ring my Bell

Samson Kambalu, The Jive Talker