Tiny details in Disney and Pixar films.
Why Japanese baggage handlers are brilliant.
Internet highlights – w/c 1st April 2018
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Still Me – by Jojo Moyes
5 04 2018Two years ago I read Me Before You, swiftly followed by After You, and said I’d happily read a third if it was ever written – good news, it has been!
Louisa has just arrived in New York to be a live-in assistant for a wealthy lady in society. It’s a huge lifestyle adjustment, alongside trying to manage a long distance relationship.
It’s a combination of warm fuzzy moments one minute, and heartbreaking ones the next. Predictable in places, some of the major plot points I saw coming a mile off, but there are surprises too. With 50 pages to go before the end I had NO idea how it was going to tie together!
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April Fools Round-Up 2018
1 04 2018Bit later than normal due to Easter Sunday taking priority, but here we go, a pretty strong year this year! Enjoy!
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Internet highlights – w/c 25th March 2018
31 03 2018
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How not to be wrong, the hidden maths of everyday life – by Jordan Ellenberg
30 03 2018Over 2 months on a book isn’t going to help at all with my 30 books in a year, but I promise it was a good book!
It’s full of interesting thoughts on lotteries, perspective, statistics, music, correlation, voting systems, sports, all sorts! Complicated in places, but he always starts a section at a level we can all understand, and at some points I just had to just read the words to get to the point I understood the next bit, but it’s all written in a way that makes it fairly easy to read!
That all said, it was lovely to delve back into the world of maths, stretching my brain, seeing what I could remember, and enjoying some of the common sense that is shared.
As with any book of this sort it is of course full of gems, so here are some I particularly enjoyed:
- “Dividing one number by another is mere computation; figuring out what you should divide by what is mathematics.”
- “Improbable things happen a lot.”
- “The natural logarithm is the one you always use if you’re a mathematician or if you have e fingers.”
- “Mathematics as currently practised is a delicate interplay between monastic contemplation and blowing stuff up with dynamite.”
- “In real life, mathematicians are a pretty ordinary bunch, no madder than the average.”
- “I’ve found that in moments of emotional extremity there is nothing like a math[sic] problem to quiet the complaints the rest of the psyche serves up.”
- “I encourage you to write directly in the book, if it’s not borrowed from the library or displayed on a screen.”
- “An inelegant axiom is like a stain in the corner of the floor; it doesn’t get in your way, per se, but it’s maddening, and one spends an inordinate amount of time scrubbing and scouring and trying to make the surface nice and clean.”
- “Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person.”
- “[The stereotype is that mathematicians are] determined to compute everything to as many decimal places as possible. It isn’t so. We want to compute everything to as many decimal places as necessary.”
- “Mathematics, the extension of common sense by other means.”
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Internet highlights – w/c 18th March 2018
24 03 2018
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Internet highlights – w/c 11th March 2018
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Internet highlights – w/c 4th March 2018
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Internet highlights – w/c 25th February 2018
3 03 2018
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Brain Freeze – by Tom Fletcher
28 02 2018I just read a book in under half an hour!
Yes, it’s for children.
Yes, it cost Ā£1 new.
Yes, it’s only 86 pages, some of which are only pictures.
But that’s not the point!
I started the other book I’m reading over a month ago and am only halfway through, and so was getting frustrated with my lack of progress. Generally I refuse to start another book while I have one on the go, but as mentioned, this one was tiny, so when I saw it in tesco, I picked it up – it looked like fun! As well as being by Tom from McFly!
It’s a very sweet and very clever little book – Izzy’s Grandpa was an Ice Cream Man, he passed away a year ago and so she eats ice cream every day to remember him. One night, she hasn’t been able to have ice cream and worries she’s forgetting him, so she sneaks out to his old van, and finds it can do so much more than just produce icecream – it can travel in time!
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