Remember this post, where I talked about the pitch drop experiment? Well, it's dropped. Thanks to Pip for pointing it out in the comments, and you can read about it here or just stare at the gif below for far too long.
I've done better than I even had to in everything like reading and maths and writing and also I was helpful and also I didn't have to go to the thinking corner more than three times all year.
And wedding invitations! Time and place blacked out for obvious reasons, but we will tell you when it's going to happen. Just...not yet.
They were both red initially and I was concerned it looked to much like blood. Sherlock thinks they don't look nearly enough like blood and at once point suggested they should actually be blood (no). They are our actual fingerprints though. I really like how they came out. And they've got magnets on the back so you can stick them to the fridge. Or anything else metal you would like to stick them to.
The t-shirt making went well, and we watched Sherlock get his platinum award for...well, this is his comment from L's blog; I'll let him describe it:
He really has done amazingly well this year, and I'm so proud of him.
53 comments:
It should have been blooooooooooooood
SHERLOCK
I don't want blooooooooood on our wedding invitations.
what a lovely thing to get an award for Sherlock, well done you :-D
I like the invites John they are really very you two :-)
Those are lovely invites! I love the idea of using your fingerprints.
Congratulations on your award, Sherlock!
CUTE CUTENESS! Aw, I want one! We made our own, too, but they were not nearly so adorable.
I hope your heat wave breaks soon, but it's somehow comforting to think that you guys are surviving it too. It's been brutal in my neighborhood this week.
Congrats to Sherlock for being generally amazing to a platinum degree!
Thanks, guys. It was L's idea - I love them too. :)
HA! Fingerprints are AWESOME...and so appropriate! :)
(Blood would have been exciting and unique...but it would have been a lot harder to see that they were two different fingerprints, whereas with two different colors it's obvious.)
And I gave Sherlock three cheers on L's blog, but it's a really great award, so YAY YAY YAY!
Great idea for unique invitations - blood might have given the wrong impression.
And well done Sherlock on your award.
Sherlock also wanted DNA samples included in the invites. Going a bit far, I thought?
I'm surprised he hasn't insisted that people provide a DNA sample when they accept the invitation so that they can be checked off on the day.
DNA samples would certainly be the ultimate in individualized invites! (But not nearly as attractive for frig ornaments as the fingerprints... :))
dunno, those DNA pictures you can get are quite pretty.
I pity anyone who doesn't RSVP. Between Sherlock and Mycroft they don't stand a chance!
He said earlier we should get a fingerprint kit and fingerprint all the guests as they come in...
well...it would be a unique memento of the day..
but he also said he wanted a jelly taller than him, a bubble cannon, and glitter to fall from the ceiling....
I don't want glitter to fall from the ceiling, but at the same time I'd like to see everyone's faces when glitter fell from the ceiling...
This is a bit off topic, but I saw this and immediately thought of Sherlock.
http://www.dogheirs.com/elleng/posts/3613-labrador-retriever-takes-care-of-bees-in-beekeeper-suit
I am reminded of a wedding I attended that was to have a gentle confetti/glitter fall during the first dance. The confetti/glitter was in a balloon over the the center of the dance floor. The best man was given, I kid you not, a pea-shooter (blowgun) and little darts. He took three shots, walked around the dance floor to pick up the darts, took three more shots...
Those invitations are both apt and awesome!
Sherlock, congratulations on earning your platinum award. Well done indeed!
I am secretly in favour of all of Sherlock's ideas for your wedding, although I fear Mycroft would have a haemorrhage in the part of his brain dealing with taste if you went with those ideas, so perhaps not!
AWWWWWWWWWWW!!
Those invitations are beautiful. And Sherlock, I'm with you on the idea of fingerprinting the guests... beats the traditional guest book, anyway.
(And congratulations on the PLATINUM award... I am impressed but not surprised!)
Is it birthday party day today guys? I hope all goes well if it is and that you all have fun today even if it isn't :-)
It is! Thankfully it's a little cooler, for the kids to be out in too.
first birthday parties are such wonderfully special things :-D
I hope Jess appreciates your artistic efforts.
Happy Birthday to Jess! I hope she's having fun playing with Sherlock, and vice versa!
Sherlock definitely finds her more interesting now she can interact more. But he keeps needing to be reminded she's a little human, not an experiment!
Impromptu footy match. Toddlers running rings around adults. And stealing the ball. Dogs on their side too
There's nothing better than a bit of footy on a Saturday afternoon :-)
But baby experiments are fun! You just have to remember that they're mostly observation, not measurement, and that you get the best results when the baby thinks it's all just a game to play and you keep the experiment short.
One of the ones we like to do with toddlers is repeating motions (like clapping to a simple rhythm or sticking out your tongue and touching your nose at the same time) and counting how many repetitions it takes before the baby tries to do it. It has to be a really simple motion for the baby to actually get it right, but even when they're just trying the result is usually lots of giggles.
We're back at Nicky's.
She has one of those inflatable 'pools'. Which is handy, as the dogs are in the paddling pool...so the kids have taken over the next size up. Leaving us adults high and dry.
Well...dry-ish. We have Pimms and Mojitos! Sherlock, unfortunately, likes mojitos...
how lovely :-) it sounds like you're making the most of the not quite so hot sun :-)
Mmmmmmmojitos. Perfect summer drink :-)
They are good! And Sherlock can detect when we give him 'not real' ones...which is slightly problematic. Although swiftly dealt with by Super Nanny.
Can we have a swimming pool in a skip outside our house PLEASE
I don't think that would work out well, Sherlock...
...you two can argue that on the way home in the car tomorrow :)
I feel sure we will!
why does the pitch funnel bob up and down on your blog? it's been bothering me since you posted it. (I know you probably don't know...)
I think they must've moved it up to make the drop more obvious. It just doesn't make sense any other way.
Hmm. I think poltergeist.
I really hope it's that.
they can start a whole new experiment, based around the ongoing pitch experiment.
Wouldn't that be terrible for a scientist, to find out your experiment was haunted?
I imagine it would play havoc with your results and findings.
I sort of feel cheated if they moved the pitch funnel and broke the stringy bit of pitch.
A bit, yeah. It didn't exactly drop entirely on its own.
I'm sure Mycroft frowned upon it (basically how I gauge how bad something is.)
Have you rated his frowns the way you two rated my glares?
Yes.
And Sherlock's mini-glares.
What do you think poltergeists would score on his frown scale?
Actual poltergeists? Or me mentioning them?
Actual ones, I think would get a minus one. Me mentioning them messing with scientific results and data and stuff? Probably a 2.
Sounds about right.
I think it bobbed up because the weight of the pitch drop wasn't keeping it down anymore. I hadn't noticed that until you pointed it out!
Pip, how heavy d'you suppose pitch is? I'd never considered it... nor had I really considered the funnel in scale.
But the clamp on the arm moves. I don't think it 'bobbed', I think they moved it. And I'm not happy! :) The weight of the pitch could have made the angle move, but not the whole clamp - unless there's some other force pulling it upward.
I think it dropped but left so long a tail that they needed to move the clamp up to get it fully separated, it was certainly after it dropped as far as I can see. The 'bobbing' effect is just the gif repeating isn't it, they only moved the clamp up I would say,and honestly for something that moves that slowly they cold have bobbed it up and down for a year with no effect!
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