It’s still half-term, so time for another random “what can I do with the kids that’s vaguely science-y and only needs stuff that we have around the house”.
We made an evaporograph.
No, I’d never heard of it before, either.
But it was pretty cool which is why I’m blogging it myself instead of leaving Grace to write it up 😉
I didn’t really know what a voicebox was beyond knowing that Ned on South Park used one.
But it’s half-term week, so Grace and I tried to make our own out of straws, tape and a balloon. And it sort of worked!
Here’s how it worked…
A few years ago, I wrote a post about how you can make a font based on a sample of your own handwriting.
I did it to help Grace, at the time aged three, to make a font of her writing as part of a present for Amy.
Graham suggested doing this every year, and as it turns out, that is what I ended up doing.
It’ll be a nice thing to have when she’s older – a record of what her writing used to be like. And it’s fascinating to see how her handwriting develops year-on-year.
We’ve got a few of them now, so time to share how it looks so far.
I’ve gotten into a habit of using this space to record when I change jobs. It’s kind of useful – for example, a quick search here is an easy way for me to check when I left the WebSphere Process Server team.
With that fairly flimsy excuse out of the way, this is a post to say that I’m moving again!
For the last few years, I’ve been working as an Emerging Technologies Specialist. I’ve explained what that means before, but essentially we try out emerging technologies to solve customer problems, as one of the ways to inform the development of future IBM software products. My projects are typically short-term, rapid prototyping.
It’s meant that I’ve got to try out some very cool technologies including some fascinating things from our Research labs. But the most inspiring thing I’ve seen come out of Research for many years has been IBM Watson.
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me…
Last Saturday was our wedding anniversary, so to celebrate I took Amy to London for Secret Cinema.
I wanted to share what we thought, but as the current Secret Cinema is still going, I’ll try and do it without giving away any specifics which would spoil it for people who haven’t been yet!
If you want a real review, reviews of previous Secret Cinemas are good for getting the idea
In a nutshell, Secret Cinema is going to watch a film, without knowing what film you’re going to watch or where you will be watching it. But that doesn’t really explain why it’s so much fun…
