Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part C

Dove Lake (Wikipedia)

I really liked the story about the lake and the questions. Nakula understandably runs up and drinks because he's so thirsty that he just ignores the voice he's hearing. When Sahadeva did it though, it seemed pretty funny because I can't imagine him not seeing Nakula's corpse sitting there. The part where Arjuna fired an arrow at the voice made me laugh too, then he rained a barrage down on it and the voice persisted. I feel like I could make this into a more humorous thing. I could increase the amount of questions, since 100 doesn't seem like much to reduce someone to start whispering the answers out of exhaustion. I think I could have different characters too, maybe set it in modern day, so at the end the same boon is given (being unrecognizable), but it would actually be somewhat of a curse for the person it was inflicted on, since they have no need to be unrecognizable.

Bibliography: The Mahabharata by R. K. Narayan

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part B

Arjuna (Wikipedia)

So again I think it'd be neat to do something that I had in mind for my storybook, and that is the whole As Shown On TV advertisement idea. I could do it with Gandiva, though the story itself doesn't go into much detail about Gandiva. Looking it up, I realized I already read about it during the start of the semester. It crackles like thunder when shot, has 108 strings (one of which is of celestial origin and indestructible), and comes with an infinite quiver. I think I could advertise it as a multi-tool type product that does everything. I'd have a lumberjack use it to cut down a whole forest, a hunter use it to hunt game, and a home owner to use it for home defense. The demonstrations could show the entire forest being cut down, every bird in every tree flying away simultaneously, and a door to a house being exploded. Or the house being exploded. Either way I'd also put some focus on the inexhaustible quiver being included for free for a limited time. I could say something that you'd see on TV like "The space inside the quiver is expanded to infinity due to our patent-pending wormhole generator inside! It works like this -" At the end I'd include a bunch of warnings to take liability away from the company, as well as no refunds in case the customer isn't deemed worthy enough to use it.

Bibliography: The Mahabharata by R. K. Narayan

Review: Week 6

I watched this video and my favorite one was Jeff dying for a cookie, because I see a lot of people use "literally" in place of "metaphorically". That makes literally no sense. It's gotten to the point where the word's losing its original meaning I'm pretty sure.

OU in the snow (Class Announcements Blog)

I chose this because the campus looks really nice covered in snow, and also because I do not have any recollection of campus being covered in snow at all. Weird.

Wikipedia Trails: From @ to Surimi

I saw a post about @ on the Class Twitter Stream. I was interested in where @ came from, and if it has an actual name.

Aragonese @ Symbol (Wikipedia)

@: It turns out it doesn't have an actual name and it's just called the "At Sign".

Narutomaki (Wikipedia)

Narutomaki: Nickname for the @ symbol. I knew what Narutomaki was, and I enjoy them so I wanted to know what they were made of.

Kamaboko (Wikipedia)

Kamaboko: Narutomaki is a type of Kamaboko, which is a pureed white fish formed into a loaf. Yum.

Surimi (Wikipedia)

Surimi: Kamaboko is a type of cured surimi, which is fish paste!

Learning Challenge: Learning about sleep

Hotel Bed (Wikipedia)

I read this article from The Atlantic.

One of the things that was confirmed that I already knew about was that the reason for why we sleep isn't fully understood and there are a lot of theories. I also knew it was bad for your health to be sleep deprived. What I didn't know that getting 6 hours of sleep a night every night can count as chronic sleep deprivation and can cause serious health problems. One thing that I'm going to try to do is get more sleep than I've been getting recently and seeing if I feel better and healthier throughout the day.

Growth Mindset: Pinterest Cats

Cat Meme (Growth Mindset Blog)

I chose this one because it's funny when cats get scared of harmless stuff. My friend has a cat that gets scared of everything, probably even itself sometimes.

Cat Meme (Growth Mindset Blog)

And I chose this because Skyrim belongs to the Nords!

Tech Tip: Weather Widget

There should be a weather widget on the right sidebar now, though it's kinda big