Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Love the happy portrait, Herbert! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 18 Mar 2015, at 02:12, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > The Computer History Museum went slightly nuts last Saturday. In the U.S., > we write March 14, 2015 as 3/14/15, which are the first nine digits of pi. > So, they decided to celebrate Pi Day, something that appears once a > century. Alas, in Europe, where it would be written 14/3/15, you guys are > out of luck. If April had 31 days, you too could have a Pi Day, but alas, > that is not to be. Because the next three digits of Pi are 926, they also > decided to delay the usual 9 AM opening to 9:26 on that day. > > The Computer History Museum has also become heavily involved in what is > called K12 education (roughly 6 to 17 year olds). They hold special tours > and workshops for school groups. > > A big push for the older kids has been the appearance of the Raspberry Pi, > a credit card size computer running Linux and having available compilers > for at least a half dozen programming languages. They are made in the UK. > The first model cost under $20; the second (presumably more memory and > faster processor) under $100. The user supplies a keyboard and monitor. > > So the Museum was mobbed by kids of various sizes and shapes. It was a mob > scene and hard to photograph, though I saw one guy with an SLR and a most > lethal looking lens in action. I managed to get a couple of nice shots > with my unobtrusive Lumix LX5. The first is two young girls working on > some problem: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010688.jpg.html > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010688.jpg.html> > > the second is happiness at having solved it: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010690.jpg.html > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010690.jpg.html> > > > > > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >