ION, dag, Sara!
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kinda nuts. I suspect I'm actually a between 10 and 12 now, if you average out the sizes of the pants I have that fit me now. Probably depends a lot on the cut (and some inconsistent sizing.)
sarameg - that is just so excellent!
Sara, I wish I was there to help with the shopping.
I am trying to get all things ready for tomorrow. Breakfast is done (banana bread), lunch for me is done (leftovers), mac's snack is done, mac's school bag is all packed, our dinner is pre-made. Tonight I need to iron clothes for both of us, and I am going to try and get my shower tonight also.
Goal is him asleep in the next 30 minutes and me an hour after that.
For Teppy: Trio of nested Klein bottles
The London Science Museum's image gallery sports this beautiful trio of nested Klein bottles (a Klein bottle is like a Moebius strip extruded into one more dimension): "This is one of a series of glass Klein bottles made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, United Kingdom for the Science Museum, London. It consists of three Klein bottles, one inside another. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions. In the series Alan Bennett made Klein bottles analogous to Mobius strips with odd numbers of twists greater than one."
How can the bottles be nested if none of them has an inside?
I am normally fairly not into stuff like this, but I think I want a Mobius scarf! [link]
Just think if there was a Klein human, with no inside or outside... eww....
I keep meaning to try to knit a Mobius scarf.
Those nested bottles are neat. Now I'm trying to count how many holes they had to make to build it in 3-space, and figure out if it's possible with no holes in 4-space.
My older sister made a fortunatus bag once. It's a mobius strip bag that has no inside or outside.