Scribbles and Photos

Sunken Wreck II (Tasmania) This last weekend, I had the good fortune to attend my very f irst robotics competition to watch my niece's team compete in the Rebound Rumble.  They didn't do so well (sorry K!).  But, I was struck by a couple of things -- although the teams are competing, there is more of a friendly rivalry here than, well, hmm, how to put this?  A high school football league in any state  (but then again, football is a sport where some pro teams pay a bonus for inflicting injury and so maybe that is not a a fair comparison). These teams actually help each other out in the pit (this is where robots go between competitions) and the game always has a cooperation element built into it where individual teams have to work together to achieve a common goal.  The teams compete in alliances of three teams and within the game there is a game where opposing alliances can cooperate to earn more points.  This is all pretty good if you ask me.  E...

Droplets (Shakespeare's Garden) Today is World Water Day, following close on the heels of March 21st which was World Forestry Day, World Sleep Day, and International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- all wrapped into one day.  Although yesterday, the only day I saw commemorated was World Forestry Day.  Most notably by Google which used its street view technology to immerse us in the landscape of the Amazon River.  Pretty cool stuff.  I would have enjoyed celebrating World Sleep Day though -- I think a collective postprandial nap around the world around 2:00 pm in each time zone would be just the right thing to celebrate that day. Leaf Boat (Conservatory Garden) I was curious about the World Days and so set off to investigate this on the Web.  It took a lot of trial and error to find an article on Hub Pages about world important days with an actual list.  Tomorrow is World Meteorological Day -- it makes sense to have a run of d...