#random learning

[jackalgirl]

Squirrel!

I'm learning Morse Code (why not) using the free site morsefree.com which is actually super cool.

Something must be happening because I popped my coffee in the microwave to heat up my coffee: the machine gave me four short beeps to let me know it was done and I immediately thought, "h".

[universejunction]

How Many Muscles In the Human Body?

A slightly tongue-in-cheek tally of our many muscles.

There are about 700 named skeletal muscles in the human body, including roughly 400 that no one cares about except specialists. There is just one important cardiac muscle. And there are literally countless smooth muscles (which do the work of the autonomic nervous system, mostly squeezing and squishing stuff in tubes).

[familyhomeschooler]

(via Fragment Learning Online-Random Learning Brain Recall | Family Homeschooler)

[nibsandink]

When I talk to people about birds, one misunderstanding comes up again and again, one thing that everyone seems to get wrong. Not dumb people, either. Dumb people get a lot of things wrong. These people think of themselves as smart people, and by and large, they are. Theyre just...

I knew that birds slept in many different places (I've had a few nasty shocks when I've strayed too close to our wisteria bushes in the evening,) but every video embedded in this article is totally hypnotic, especially the murmuration.  Also, I'm now very jealous that I can't turn off half of my brain at any given time.  On the plus side, I also can't be eaten by an owl, so I guess it's a bit of a trade-off.

[scrawberryshawtkake-blog]

I was really curious about whether or not Egyptians or Libyans consider themselves "African" because the countries are obviously within the continent; from what I read, most of them actually find it offensive to be called African because they aren't black-skinned, and they consider Black Africans as being at a much lower social status. They also think of their countries as separate from Africa. I think this is really interesting since I've always just considered myself as an American or a Southerner or white, but I never really thought about actually feeling separate from the rest of the North American continent.

[akirabook-blog-blog]

Random Learning Random #2: Sensitive

Semalem gue panik karena beberapa hal, oke jujur aja deh karena kerjaan kantor. Yah alhamdulillahnya begitu dibawa tidur dan bangun paginya, semua kembali menjadi positif, gw menyadari emang nggak seharusnya gue panik.

Karena mengejar datang pagi, alhasil memilih ngojek deh hari ini. Ketemu tukang ojek langganan, dan di penghujung mendekati kantor, doi memulai percakapan mengenai jam pulang kerja gue, dan gue menimpali sekedarnya.

Lalu di akhir percakapan doi berkata, "Ya, tapi masih punya pekerjaan nggak pa-pa lah, ya, mbak... saya dulunya juga kerja di kantor, terus setelah nggak lagi sekarang nunggu-nunggu nggak dapet-dapet"

(sunyi)

"Oh... gitu, Pak"

Lalu gue diem aja.

Lalu gue turun di tempat biasa, deket tukang bubur langganan gue.

Lalu gue menatap abang bubur tersebut, Bapak-bapak, kerja bikin dan jualan bubur.

Lalu gue diem lagi, kali ini berpikir, merenung memikirkan doi.

Lalu abang bubur itu salah ngasih gue bubur yang pakai sambel *sementara gue pesen yang tanpa sambel* Damn!

Tapi pas dicoba, ternyata lebih enak pake sambel.

[akirabook-blog-blog]

Random Very Random #1: I Screwed Up and I am Doing Stupid

"Hidup itu harus seimbang" kata orang yang menjalankan hidupnya dengan memilih bertahan pada prinsipnya, yang berarti kalau keseimbangan itu ibarat papan titian jalan, maka orang ini berada di salah satu sisinya, memberikan berat yang ekstrem sehingga papannya condong alias tidak seimbang.

Mungkin memang orang yang berprinsip itu, yang hidupnya justru menjalankan hidup dengan berat sebelah itu berkata "Hidup itu harus seimbang" karena sesungguhnya itulah yang dia damba. Karena faktanya ia tidak menjalankan perkataannya sendiri, berarti itu adalah dambaan dia.

Dan sebaliknya, mungkin orang yang menjalankan hidupnya dengan seimbang, berada di tengah-tengah papan titian jalan tanpa memilih sisi secara ekstrem, seseorang yang ibarat istilah 'in between' dia selalu bisa melihat dua sisi, mungkin ia mendamba agar hidupnya bisa lebih berprinsip?

[kkayane]

This is my blog that Elena mentioned in class. It is an on-going project that may take beautiful turns in the future. I never really thought about it before, but it relates to my Thesis work.