Broken Glass

[Nerdy post warning]

I hoard beautiful things. From craft stores and daily life.

Yesterday we went to a welder's shop as the roll cage of the racecar needs to be relocated. There were 8 vehicles or so and one of them looked like Mater in the Pixar movie - Cars.

In front of the Mater there stood a broken windshield. My first face-to-face encounter with broken glass. I'd say the lines looked 3-dimensional (even though in maths line is considered 1-dimensional). It was so beautiful. The refraction reminded me of crystals/diamond but in broken glass there's something more than that. I believe that broken glass could be a great photography project (note to self).

Here's a web picture of broken glass from Google search.

Greek letters

It is awesome we have so many cultures and languages on this planet. I've always found Greek alphabets mysterious and elegant. Whether standalone or in a mathematical expressions. What a lovely font to use as most of the alphabets resemble English! Imagine receiving a "Happy Birthday" card in Greek letters!

For lazy folks like me who don't wanna google up how to use Greek in MS Word :
Found this website - for typing greek with a normal US keyboard. After typing that in you can copy the greek letters into wordpad/MSWord and adjust size, color etc.

http://www.typegreek.com/

1% of improvement does matter!

Found this on livehacker. Worth reading for crafters as we're on our own and there're so many things that we could optimize, in order to reach our goal.
http://www.lifehacker.co.in/work/The-Value-of-Marginal-Gains/articleshow/29825208.cms

Quote: He explained it as the "1 percent margin for improvement in everything you do." His belief was that if you improved every area related to cycling by just 1 percent, then those small gainswould add up to remarkable improvement. They started by optimizing the things you might expect: the nutrition of riders, their weekly training program, the ergonomics of the bike seat, and the weight of the tires.

Note to self :
- Spend less time on social media
- Lift weights. Healthy body healthy mind.
- Be time-efficient when using computer for any work. Web-browsing could suck up time.
- Work on having a more organized workplace. (It's challenging but do-able)
- Plan ahead for the agenda of the day. Every morning. Make a list.
- Keep writing this blog. Persist!!!