Industrie, Prosperitie, an' all that good Stuff
I wrote this while waiting for one of my econ classes to start;
It's not completely finished but it's got the core structure there. I actually tried to write sheet music for it, too, that might get posted later. Although you can barely tell, it uses my new snare drum, you see I've actually made my own snare drum from scratch. It actually sounds very much like a snare drum, and is just as loud as a snare drum, although rolls are a little difficult and it's impossible to carry around marching like a professionally made one. I like it, and hope to have a song with lots of snare in it. Of course, you kinda need more than just snare to make a song, but it'll come.
In a purely non-sequiteur, holy crap the spider in my room is getting big. It's got to be the size of a coke bottle leg to leg and a nickel body sizewise. Now I know how elligirl feels...
Anyway. I've actually been not that bad, productivitywise lately. I don't like the water essay, it feels too rushed, under high tempuratures and low sleep. And the music definitely could use work. But things are coming along.
I tried to make a battery from tin foil, a few coffee can lids, vinegar, a yogurt container, a glass bottle and some wire, but if it has any voltage coming out of it, it's indetectable. I did however get a cpu fan working with batteries as a voltage source. the fan claims to need 12V, but for cooling a human being I find 3-4 is fine; I'm going to try to mount it to something and use it as a battery powered hand-fan if I can.
As for the snare drum, I find the material that milk comes in, the paper-ish jugs that you can still get at the organic food store are a perfect skin-substitute, for the body I used a coffee can(open on both sides), and some random scrap metal(an old pie plate) for the snare part. Twine to bind it; this I could probably improve on.
Edit: indeed, my battery did produce voltage. Experiment Success! It wasn't much, can't remember but a fraction of a volt; but in any case, if I were suddenly transported to pre-industrial ages(or post-apocalyptic times) assuming I could lay my hands on fairly raw materials, I could definitely build a battery; the foundation for the electric age(along with the electric generator/motor).
It's not completely finished but it's got the core structure there. I actually tried to write sheet music for it, too, that might get posted later. Although you can barely tell, it uses my new snare drum, you see I've actually made my own snare drum from scratch. It actually sounds very much like a snare drum, and is just as loud as a snare drum, although rolls are a little difficult and it's impossible to carry around marching like a professionally made one. I like it, and hope to have a song with lots of snare in it. Of course, you kinda need more than just snare to make a song, but it'll come.
In a purely non-sequiteur, holy crap the spider in my room is getting big. It's got to be the size of a coke bottle leg to leg and a nickel body sizewise. Now I know how elligirl feels...
Anyway. I've actually been not that bad, productivitywise lately. I don't like the water essay, it feels too rushed, under high tempuratures and low sleep. And the music definitely could use work. But things are coming along.
I tried to make a battery from tin foil, a few coffee can lids, vinegar, a yogurt container, a glass bottle and some wire, but if it has any voltage coming out of it, it's indetectable. I did however get a cpu fan working with batteries as a voltage source. the fan claims to need 12V, but for cooling a human being I find 3-4 is fine; I'm going to try to mount it to something and use it as a battery powered hand-fan if I can.
As for the snare drum, I find the material that milk comes in, the paper-ish jugs that you can still get at the organic food store are a perfect skin-substitute, for the body I used a coffee can(open on both sides), and some random scrap metal(an old pie plate) for the snare part. Twine to bind it; this I could probably improve on.
Edit: indeed, my battery did produce voltage. Experiment Success! It wasn't much, can't remember but a fraction of a volt; but in any case, if I were suddenly transported to pre-industrial ages(or post-apocalyptic times) assuming I could lay my hands on fairly raw materials, I could definitely build a battery; the foundation for the electric age(along with the electric generator/motor).